You can have a feature that stops a single trader from trading again today when the account shows x profit; that is what I am going to add next.
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Guys, just so you stop talking up a blind alley, you cannot have basket management features in a single trading EA. Imagine the chaos when 28 ea's all try to close all the trades at once. For basket management, you need MPTM or Paul's MPBM.
You can have a feature that stops a single trader from trading again today when the account shows x profit; that is what I am going to add next.

You can have a feature that stops a single trader from trading again today when the account shows x profit; that is what I am going to add next.
Read the effing manual, ok?
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SteveHopwood » Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:10 am wrote:Guys, just so you stop talking up a blind alley, you cannot have basket management features in a single trading EA. Imagine the chaos when 28 ea's all try to close all the trades at once. For basket management, you need MPTM or Paul's MPBM.
You can have a feature that stops a single trader from trading again today when the account shows x profit; that is what I am going to add next.
82% @ 1% at a time using MPTM. No extra coding necessary.
Catch the ebbs and flows 1% at a time..
Be smart. Read the forum boards. The tools are already created.
Cheers
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Hi BT,boldtrader » Wed Dec 10, 2014 2:37 pm wrote:
82% @ 1% at a time using MPTM. No extra coding necessary.
Catch the ebbs and flows 1% at a time..
Be smart. Read the forum boards. The tools are already created.
Cheers
You suggest to close out @1% floating profit?
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28 Global Ea's, Minor problem.
In preparation for a MPBM Global
we, the gang, should run Paul's "exposure indicator" with all the same pairs on different TF's & trade type i.e. Rad, to get a feel for high & low potentials.
Just a thought.
Run all pairs except CHFs thats 21pair= 1 test, 4 types=16 tests, 4 time frames 15,30,60 & 240 =4 tests, totals=64 test not including the different start times that are possible,
unless of course someone has already done it. I've been running it sometimes but not all the time. Paul already has a time for each high & low, as I type, the 21pair went from -58 pip " GMT 14:32" to +184 "GMT 14:56. it just went to +218 at GMT 15:00, OK +387 at GMT 15:10.
See shots with 21pr, H4, trend -TP 70 SL-0, Rad - TP 70, SL-0 & range TP 12 & SL 0 .
Gertje's correct about the wavy, it looks like the most profit but also big draw down? Maybe a lower TF would do it.
I'll run lower TFs with just wavy and exposure.
regards
Ray
In preparation for a MPBM Global
we, the gang, should run Paul's "exposure indicator" with all the same pairs on different TF's & trade type i.e. Rad, to get a feel for high & low potentials.
Just a thought.
Run all pairs except CHFs thats 21pair= 1 test, 4 types=16 tests, 4 time frames 15,30,60 & 240 =4 tests, totals=64 test not including the different start times that are possible,
See shots with 21pr, H4, trend -TP 70 SL-0, Rad - TP 70, SL-0 & range TP 12 & SL 0 .
Gertje's correct about the wavy, it looks like the most profit but also big draw down? Maybe a lower TF would do it.
I'll run lower TFs with just wavy and exposure.
regards
Ray
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V 1u is in post 1. From the updated user guide:

- Daily profit targets: a pattern emerged in our early days trading HGB, of making
hundreds – sometimes thousands – of pips. HGB would continue trading and get
caught by a retrace and give all those pips back. The daily profit targets feature is
intended to avoid this. HGB will stop sending fresh trades until the start of the new
trading day once the trades in your History tab have reached your profit targets. He
will continue to monitor and manage open trades:
- ◦ PercentOfBalanceTarget: suppose you want to stop trading when you have
made 5% of the day's opening balance. 5 would be your input. Your start
balance was $1000, so HGB will knock off for the day when there are $50 profit
showing in your History tab.
◦ CashProfitTarget: HGB will stop for the day once the profit in your History tab
reaches this cash value. Suppose you are happy with $50, then that would be
your input.
◦ Points to note:
- ▪ set the inputs to 0 to cancel this feature.
▪ You can use both PercentOfBalanceTarget and CashProfitTarget.
▪ The trading week begins with Tokyo opening at 10.00 pm :London time (GMT
+ 1), so each new trading day starts at this time. Trading days are not
concerned with clock times, only the times that each market opens and
closes. Do not confuse this with it being day or night where you live. A proper
brokerage such as Global Prime opens its D1 candle at the start of the
trading day. Some of the results of using the stop trading feature will look a
little strange if yours differs from this by more than an hour or two; there is
nothing I can do about it.
Read the effing manual, ok?
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Steve, I just got done re-reading the entire manual for the second time with the various upgrades you've made. I don't know how you could make it easier for us!
Those of you who haven't read it recently, you should read it again! Those of you who haven't read it yet, you should change to a different forum!
For those of you like me that are impatient traders, take a look at what you could have done on the EURUSD Daily chart if you traded on all of the rad and trend red arrows since the end of April, closing only when you see the wavy lines. I may have to switch to the Daily charts and plan for that retirement after all!
Steve, thanks for the forum and everything you do, and especially, thanks for Holy Grail Bob!!
Those of you who haven't read it recently, you should read it again! Those of you who haven't read it yet, you should change to a different forum!
For those of you like me that are impatient traders, take a look at what you could have done on the EURUSD Daily chart if you traded on all of the rad and trend red arrows since the end of April, closing only when you see the wavy lines. I may have to switch to the Daily charts and plan for that retirement after all!
Steve, thanks for the forum and everything you do, and especially, thanks for Holy Grail Bob!!
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cozybooks » Wed Dec 10, 2014 4:27 pm wrote: Those of you who haven't read it recently, you should read it again! Those of you who haven't read it yet, you should change to a different forum!
Read the effing manual, ok?
Afterprime is the official SHF broker. Read about them at https://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=175790#p175790.
I still suffer from OCCD. Good thing, really.
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Afterprime is the official SHF broker. Read about them at https://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=175790#p175790.
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A thought for you guys who make small changes in code to the version you are running.
Endless loops cause problems with all Empty4 versions from about jerrybuild 6 onwards if we forget to turn off Expert Advisors before doing anything, so I have coded HGB to sleep for 5 minutes after it discovers it can knock off for the day (line 4986 Sleep(300000);//5 minutes).
Thing is I have also coded a 5 minute gap between each calling of the function that tests whether it should be asleep, so I suppose it is possible that the Sleep might not overlap the calling gap. You might like to go to line 4979 and change
if (TimeCurrent() >= CalculateTime + 300)
to
if (TimeCurrent() >= CalculateTime + 290)
I don't think this is worth an update - just something to do if you know how.

Endless loops cause problems with all Empty4 versions from about jerrybuild 6 onwards if we forget to turn off Expert Advisors before doing anything, so I have coded HGB to sleep for 5 minutes after it discovers it can knock off for the day (line 4986 Sleep(300000);//5 minutes).
Thing is I have also coded a 5 minute gap between each calling of the function that tests whether it should be asleep, so I suppose it is possible that the Sleep might not overlap the calling gap. You might like to go to line 4979 and change
if (TimeCurrent() >= CalculateTime + 300)
to
if (TimeCurrent() >= CalculateTime + 290)
I don't think this is worth an update - just something to do if you know how.
Read the effing manual, ok?
Afterprime is the official SHF broker. Read about them at https://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=175790#p175790.
I still suffer from OCCD. Good thing, really.
Anyone here feeling generous? My paypal account is always in the market for a tiny donation. pianodoodler@hotmail.com is the account.
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Afterprime is the official SHF broker. Read about them at https://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=175790#p175790.
I still suffer from OCCD. Good thing, really.
Anyone here feeling generous? My paypal account is always in the market for a tiny donation. pianodoodler@hotmail.com is the account.
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Hello all,
I banked today 1200 pips, might be more and I did not notcie
This beast need some one to watch him carefully
No specific settings, just OOTB on H4 chart
I will put MPTM with %10 TP basket closure, let see how this will recycle

I banked today 1200 pips, might be more and I did not notcie
This beast need some one to watch him carefully
No specific settings, just OOTB on H4 chart
I will put MPTM with %10 TP basket closure, let see how this will recycle
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Holy Moses! I'm up over 2100 pips right now and climbing! Nice work Stevie 