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Author:  laharjaya [ Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:45 am ]
Post subject:  Re: jiva34's BB Stop auto-trader
thanx Steve for inviting me ..
Author:  SteveHopwood [ Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: jiva34's BB Stop auto-trader
jiva34 wrote:Hi Steve,
for moving average we want to confirm entry with cross of bb stop, and slope of ma...
We are not looking for a close above or below ma, just slope....
it doesn't appear that the bot is consulting with aa.....
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/6971/oc3.png
Latest update in post 1.

I uploaded the code with AA turned off by default - no idea why. It is turned on now and there is some screen feedback to show if it is turned off.

Sing out if it still does not work, because that means there is a hole in the code. I am fairly sure that it worked in backtesting to check the code.

:D
Author:  SteveHopwood [ Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: jiva34's BB Stop auto-trader
Sorry. There was a bloop in the AA code. Fixed now, I think.

Update in post 1.

:D
Author:  jiva34 [ Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: jiva34's BB Stop auto-trader
SteveHopwood wrote:Sorry. There was a bloop in the AA code. Fixed now, I think.

Update in post 1.

:D
chomping at the bit here...
to get it going..
the previous upgraded file was still not working, will test this latest upgrade.
:ugeek:
Author:  jiva34 [ Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: jiva34's BB Stop auto-trader
needs something... not opening and closing properly...
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/2811/oc7.png
Author:  SteveHopwood [ Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: jiva34's BB Stop auto-trader
This could easily be me mis-understanding something.

Do me a favour, please, and spell out your trade exit rules in one-syllable words. If you can make them 3-letter words as well, that would be even better. :mrgreen:

Hey, tell you what. When the damn thing does work properly, it is awesome. I think we owe you a few drinks.

:D
Author:  jiva34 [ Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: jiva34's BB Stop auto-trader
SteveHopwood wrote:This could easily be me mis-understanding something.

Do me a favour, please, and spell out your trade exit rules in one-syllable words. If you can make them 3-letter words as well, that would be even better. :mrgreen:

Hey, tell you what. When the damn thing does work properly, it is awesome. I think we owe you a few drinks.

:D
ha ha, noticed you were careful not to say 4 letter words.... :P

Enter long at open 2nd candle after a close above bb stop and aa is up
Enter short at open 2nd candle after a close below bb stop and aa is down

exit long at open 2nd candle after close below bb stop
exit short at open 2nd candle after close above bbstop
(or other options which are available in the shell).
Author:  jiva34 [ Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: jiva34's BB Stop auto-trader
jiva34 wrote:
SteveHopwood wrote:This could easily be me mis-understanding something.

Do me a favour, please, and spell out your trade exit rules in one-syllable words. If you can make them 3-letter words as well, that would be even better. :mrgreen:

Hey, tell you what. When the damn thing does work properly, it is awesome. I think we owe you a few drinks.

:D
ha ha, noticed you were careful not to say 4 letter words.... :P

Enter long at open 2nd candle after a close above bb stop and aa is up
Enter short at open 2nd candle after a close below bb stop and aa is down

exit long at open 2nd candle after close below bb stop
exit short at open 2nd candle after close above bbstop
(or other options which are available in the shell).
I changed the wording a bit since I posted this at first...
Author:  Gamma_gallus [ Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: jiva34's BB Stop auto-trader
Regarding the Indi All Averages, I've found somewhere a newer version with 2 new methods (from the same original author), no clue if that could be useful for you, but better to share it.

The 2 new methods are :

// MA_Method=18: TriMAgen - Triangular Moving Average generalized by J.Ehlers
// MA_Method=19: VWMA - Volume Weighted Moving Average

Thx
Gamma
Author:  gaheitman [ Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: jiva34's BB Stop auto-trader
Hey Steve,

You've probably already seen this, but I have a couple of observations.

In ReadIndicatorValues() you have a "return" statement after testing that SlowUpTrendSignal > -1, which skips the AllAverages test later.

More importantly, perhaps, the exit criteria doesn't use the AllAverages test, so it is possible that even though you have an opposite cross of BBands, if the AA slope doesn't change you set the direction to "none" and then your test in start() doesn't close the open trade.

Does it make sense to add an option to your standard TrendDetectionModule() for UseAATrendDetection() and then handle like you do with the other trend detection options? I'm not sure the AllAverages test has been proven as well as the others in your template, but it might simplify matters. The faster option is probably to just add an AATrend variable and set that separately, but I'm always trying to think in terms of code reuse.

George
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