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Author:  andydoc [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:02 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Joe. Swing-trade your way to a baby equity millipede
LOL - that works - just means I have to find a new trend as it rightly gets stopped out at the top!
Author:  kenfen [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:05 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Joe. Swing-trade your way to a baby equity millipede
gaheitman wrote:To be safe, you double the estimate....and raise it to the next time period. So if a programmer thinks it will take 2 hours, you plan for 4 days. :lol:
Classic! :lol:
Author:  SteveHopwood [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:09 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Joe. Swing-trade your way to a baby equity millipede
gaheitman wrote:
andydoc wrote:Hi George - you must be beat at your time! Happy to take over when you are too tired as I am now in bed with flu!
Sorry you aren't feeling well. No worries on the tiredness, I trade the European session every day and have adjusted my sleep accordingly.

OK, new update includes a couple of fixes. I now save off the ticket number and reselect it after the call to CountOpenTrades so that the test in the LookForTradingOpportunities() is checking the correct one. I also changed that same test to exit LFTO() if the previous order is not in profit yet. Before it was just not trying to move it to BE, but still went on with the new trade.... :D

The code is still peppered with Alert calls (Print calls don't appear in ST near as I can tell) so we'll need to clean it up at some point.

George
Cheers George. I have commented out the alerts and put this into post 1.

:D
Author:  andydoc [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:20 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Joe. Swing-trade your way to a baby equity millipede
ok I think we need to relook at the strategy - certainly for cable it is throwing huge numbers of faked out fbs. Nice declining equity curve! over 6 months April 2011 =>
Author:  andydoc [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:22 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Joe. Swing-trade your way to a baby equity millipede
It may be a case of filtering the FBs but f so will clearly need to to run it on a number of different charts for any reasonable trade frequency
Author:  andydoc [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Joe. Swing-trade your way to a baby equity millipede
sorry - hold that - just noticed big gap in history - june to sept!
Author:  gaheitman [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:40 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Joe. Swing-trade your way to a baby equity millipede
andydoc wrote:It may be a case of filtering the FBs but f so will clearly need to to run it on a number of different charts for any reasonable trade frequency
There's still some other work to do on the EA as well. We need to look at the move to break even and perhaps only do it when we are a certain number of pips away. Also, we don't strictly follow the rules. We don't do a limit order to get in on the retrace when price is below the 50% point of the previous bar (for sells), so we are exposing ourselves to larger SLs and less profit on those trades. Not sure if it is material, of course, but we'll need to code it to see.
Author:  SteveHopwood [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:41 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Joe. Swing-trade your way to a baby equity millipede
Latest update in post 1.

MinimumStopLoss needed adapting to x digit crims and I added a chart display of its value.

:D
Author:  gaheitman [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Joe. Swing-trade your way to a baby equity millipede
SteveHopwood wrote:Latest update in post 1.

MinimumStopLoss needed adapting to x digit crims and I added a chart display of its value.

:D
Heh, I had that in one of my many versions... :D
Author:  andydoc [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Joe. Swing-trade your way to a baby equity millipede
Ok - just a suggestion
The FBs are getting closed out at BE before the move is established. Perhaps we need to delay the FB modify to BE (and any second trade) until a breach of or close below/above the fast MA? Or cross of the two MAs may be better
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