SteveHopwood wrote:

kwchau wrote:This is something I like to avoid. In the enclosed chart, a long trade was triggered at the open of the aqua vertical line, almost immediately, price dropped like a rock because of the whipsaw of the NFP release. If we gave it 15 minutes, the trade would not be triggered. I have noted a few occasions of this situation although the fluctuations were not that profound.

I am stopping this now. This looks suspiciously like me chasing the latest whim you want me to code. That whim could be diametrically opposed to the whim you expressed 5 minutes ago. I do not play that game.

I have offered up some pretty useful stuff up here already. Use it or not as you please. I am adding nothing further unless it is to advance the cause of the ea's I have placed in the zip file.

art wrote:I think big news announcements ie nfp the obvious thing to do is just turn off the ea

art wrote:I think big news announcements ie nfp the obvious thing to do is just turn off the ea

kwchau wrote:Hi Steve, I agree totally with you that the EA's you've offered are very useful in helping us to trade Bob's system. I think the request I make above is just some improvement to the Flexible Stoch ea's that might be incorporated into your other Stoch Ea's as well.

Of course, I respect your view that this request does not worth the trouble and decide not to consider it.

Thank you for your kind contribution in helping us !

kwchau

• go to line 559 wich should be ReadIndicatorValues(); Delete this line of code.
• scroll up to line 466 which should be CountOpenTrades();
• replace the ReadIndicatorValues(); above CountOpenTrades();

TicketNo = -1;
   ReadIndicatorValues();
   CountOpenTrades();
   OldOpenTrades = OpenTrades;
   

• CountOpenTrades() iterates through the open orders list and fills the variables that the my ea' what trades are open, their condition, how many etc. It also calls the individual trade management featurs, including the call to LookForTradeClosure() - this examines the indi values and closes the trade if the closure criteria are met.
• ReadIndicatorValues() holds the calls to any indicators used by the EA - in this case Stochastic and Moving Averages. Clearly this function should be called before CountOpenTrades() or some vital variables migh be = 0, which is why the sell trades were closing on a restart.

SteveHopwood wrote:

kwchau wrote:Hi Steve, I agree totally with you that the EA's you've offered are very useful in helping us to trade Bob's system. I think the request I make above is just some improvement to the Flexible Stoch ea's that might be incorporated into your other Stoch Ea's as well.

Of course, I respect your view that this request does not worth the trouble and decide not to consider it.

Thank you for your kind contribution in helping us !

kwchau

Good news. I had a productive bath this morning.

I realised that I had missed the point of what you wanted and that the code amendment is quick and easy to make. The latest versions in post 1 will now compare the close of candle shift 1 with that of candle shift 2 if EveryTickMode is false. If true, it compares <now> with the close of candle shift 1.

Hope this better meets your needs.

95026862 wrote:hey steve, did you add the feature to only open the trade at the close of the next candle along with STO7 20/80 cross ?