Multi 10:4 Trader EA

[fx800]

Hi MrLong,

Thank you very much for your magnificent ea.

A question please : Would the ea manage trades placed manually on the same platform as the ea ?

Cheers,
peter

[McNish]

A long time ago I discovered the data given to us on a demo account is different from their live data feeds, and different from broker to Broker, click on the 4th speed button from the left, the data window will appear, you can compare the brokers prices for MA,s and pivots.

I haven't compared them in recent years, but they were always different, a few months ago I had the same EA loaded on Globle and Alpari none of them took the same trades.

Thanks for the info. But can we assume very similar data feeds on Live a/c with different brokers? Not same but similar, considering two different brokers with same server time? Like FXCM and GP, they are both GMT 0 brokers. Thanks.

[slipshod]

It depends on a few things. If they're honest-to-goodness ECN brokers then the feed will depend on what they get from their liquidity provider(s). If they're market makers, not just passing your trade through but often taking an opposing position and trading against you, then the feed can differ significantly depending on what games they want to play to try and hit your stops or otherwise shake you out.

I've actually been considering switching to forex futures trading at some point, as the price is regulated by a central exchange. Only problem is I'm not rich enough yet to afford the minimum deposit ($100k in Australia at various futures brokers) - and they have different platforms that chances are can't be automated in any way.

[MrLong]

I am getting this message over and over: Order, EURGBP,Short closed by BE function
but no orders have been closed or even look like it applies...
I have closed and restarted but it still goes on....

Hi

I don't know what's happening there, you can turn that function off by changing useAverageBE to false..

Andy

[MrLong]

Hi MrLong,

Thank you very much for your magnificent ea.

A question please : Would the ea manage trades placed manually on the same platform as the ea ?

Cheers,
peter

Only if the magic numbers were the same.

[MrLong]

A long time ago I discovered the data given to us on a demo account is different from their live data feeds, and different from broker to Broker, click on the 4th speed button from the left, the data window will appear, you can compare the brokers prices for MA,s and pivots.

I haven't compared them in recent years, but they were always different, a few months ago I had the same EA loaded on Globle and Alpari none of them took the same trades.

Thanks for the info. But can we assume very similar data feeds on Live a/c with different brokers? Not same but similar, considering two different brokers with same server time? Like FXCM and GP, they are both GMT 0 brokers. Thanks.

I can only speak for Alpari, demo and live different, and a few other brokers I have used are different on live accounts, the company who have the Dealbook platform are also different, you can view where the pivots and MA,s are on each broker, they are different on quite a few.

[fx800]

Hi MrLong,

Thank you very much for your magnificent ea.

A question please : Would the ea manage trades placed manually on the same platform as the ea ?

Cheers,
peter

Only if the magic numbers were the same.

Thanks. I just checked the DropPending buy/sell scripts, and they do not have any magic number. That is why the ea did not manage my manual trades early this morning.

In future, I would manage these using Steve's MPTM.

peter

[MrLong]

It depends on a few things. If they're honest-to-goodness ECN brokers then the feed will depend on what they get from their liquidity provider(s). If they're market makers, not just passing your trade through but often taking an opposing position and trading against you, then the feed can differ significantly depending on what games they want to play to try and hit your stops or otherwise shake you out.

I've actually been considering switching to forex futures trading at some point, as the price is regulated by a central exchange. Only problem is I'm not rich enough yet to afford the minimum deposit ($100k in Australia at various futures brokers) - and they have different platforms that chances are can't be automated in any way.

This is why when developing robots to take trades, we have a trade on one platform and not on the other, if that 240 MA is a pip away from entry and the other platform 2 pips over, then one will enter and one not.

Which leaves the programmer looking for bugs that never were.

On the futures stuff, checkout the cot report, free info every Friday evening, where the
large traders, hedge funds and commercial company's have to disclose what trades they have
open.

Link:
http://www.cftc.gov/marketreports/commi ... /index.htm
There are some indicators and scripts available for Empty4, and simple to use, just update one a week.

Andy

[SWG123]

You could try GridMethod set to 1.

Andy

Nope, that doesn't work either, still not picking up the second trade.

That's why I entered the magic numbers in the comment, to try debug, can you give me a screen shot of the terminal.

Andy

Aha, now we're getting somewhere - magic number doesn't appear in Terminal comments field, but it does show (albeit very briefly) in the mouse hover. Curious ...

terminal.GIF

[MrLong]

In 1.09 just for a separate test is it ok to set basketPercentProfit,trailPercent,trailPercentLevel = 0 and continue test using MPTM EA?

Yes anything to do with the basket stuff, enter 0 to disable.