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Author:  viper77 [ Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Simple Bob
Same here! After applying the latest version this little boy started to open trades like there´s no tomorrow!
33 already closed and 5 currently opened... and with an outstanding demo profit i must add! :mrgreen:
Only enabled MaStack on main trade and CSS disabled, BE at 30+2.

On the other hand, i´m sure you came across these errors as well...
When that i happens i did nothing but reloading EA in the affected pair.
RxCape wrote:Man oh Man !!! Having applied the fix, 18 trades have occurred. Current open profit at 2.5% of account balance.
Author:  RxCape [ Fri Sep 27, 2013 2:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Simple Bob
Yes. I have seen the rogue trade error. If I understand it correctly, this is related to the safety section of the input settings where you set the minutes between trades and minimum minutes between trade open and close. OOTB, they are set to 0 and 1. I will have to research this further.

I also want to investigate the OOTB stop loss setting. I have had a number of trades open and very shortly thereafter retrace to the SL, only to regroup and proceed in the desired direction again. I suppose I will have to apply what little intelligence I can muster to do some analysis :)

Steve: a quick question: Attached is a screenshot of a GBPAUD trade and stack trade. which pretty much closed immediately. First screen shot is 4H chart. second one is the same trade on a 15M chart, third shot is the same trade on a 1M chart. Not sure why its closing so quickly unless the price just retraced to the basket stop inside that 1 minute. I already checked the code for the fix that was applied to BASA and DBASA.

I did search the Experts tab and journal tab for any hints but found nothing.

Thanks,

Tom

4H chart
GBPAUD Simple Bob 4H chart.JPG
15M Chart
GBPAUD Simple Bob 15M chart.JPG
1M Chart
GBPAUD Simple Bob 1M chart.JPG
Author:  matt_32 [ Fri Sep 27, 2013 2:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Simple Bob
I seem to get this error and don't know where it is coming from.
Any ideas ?
Author:  RxCape [ Fri Sep 27, 2013 2:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Simple Bob
Matt:

In my experience, error 130 is usually associated with sending the SL and TP to the broker either with the order, or after the order. I see from your screen that you have set ECN to true. Give it a try as False.
Author:  matt_32 [ Fri Sep 27, 2013 2:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Simple Bob
RxCape wrote:Matt:

In my experience, error 130 is usually associated with sending the SL and TP to the broker either with the order, or after the order. I see from your screen that you have set ECN to true. Give it a try as False.

I will try that !


Thanks a lot


Matt
Author:  viper77 [ Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Simple Bob
Now that you mention ECNCriminal setting i have it disabled but then it will still show as true in chart anyway, strange...
On the other hand i also have latest BASA running in another instance with this setting enabled OOTB and never gave this error so far.

Also EveryTickMode is set to true OOTB, but i don´t think it has anything to do with that 130 invalid stops error.
matt_32 wrote:
RxCape wrote:Matt:

In my experience, error 130 is usually associated with sending the SL and TP to the broker either with the order, or after the order. I see from your screen that you have set ECN to true. Give it a try as False.
Author:  viper77 [ Fri Sep 27, 2013 6:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Simple Bob
Also look at this strange behaviour...
A gbpnzd trade opened and closed in 6 seconds and another beautiful "rogue trading activity" message... Sometimes this boy goes nuts!
Now i put setting MinMinutesBetweenTrades to 1 to see if it does anything good, it came at 0...
Author:  SteveHopwood [ Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Simple Bob
There are people here who need to read any one of the umpteen Shell User Guides I have littered all over this forum.

Or maybe just the BASA user guide, as it covers everything that SB uses apart from the xxx.00 - and anyone unable to understand those is a moron.

I am not going to repeat information that I have repeatedly disseminated all over this forum. Information that guys here are clearly too lazy to read.

This thread is locked until further notice. I have an additional post to add, but will do so tomorrow.

In the meantime, guys: RTFM. It really pisses me off when you cannot be arsed to do so.

Do I really need to spell out what 'RTFM' stands for? If I do, it will become RTFMYFC.

Follow my thoughts in the BASA thread.

:D
Author:  SteveHopwood [ Sat Sep 28, 2013 5:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Simple Bob
Okies, we are back in business.

V 1e is in post 1. The problem of the quick closure of the first stacked pair is solved - details at http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 882#p76882 in the para after fxdaytrader's stuff.

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That basket here that I described last week reached a high point of c. +300. From there, the markets retraced and most of the trades that had reached BE were taken out. Losing trades continued to their SL, so the whole position ended in a substantial loss.

I shall use MPTM next week, to close all trades when the upl reaches 1% of balance.

:D
Author:  SteveHopwood [ Sun Sep 29, 2013 6:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Simple Bob
V 1f is in post 1.

viper77 sent me this earlier:
Hi again... i was wondering in order to increase profitability, if it would be possible for allmighty SimpleBob to also buy/sell 10 pips above/below DP as well in addition to x.000 line, whichever comes first and discard the other (sometimes price is in the middle of both x.000 lines, it goes in our direction and we leave a lot of pips on the table as you can see in these samples.

Also it would be great if we could avoid entering trades when price is within MA240 and MA60 lines when there´s no clear direction yet, that would save some good pips as well...
This reminded me of a section that I forgot to write in the OP. I have added it - here is a copy:

Future development
I have started with a simple structure. If this is immediately successful then great. Features I am considering adding are:
  • Consideration of daily and weekly pivots.
  • Adding the 60 LWMA and not trading unless the market is outside of them.
For now, I want us to see what would have happened had we been using these features, so:
  • V 1f adds the weekly and daily pivots to your charts. SB does nothing with the pivots apart from displaying them. The inputs are:
    • DisplayPivots allows you to turn off the display.
    • CriminalHasSundayCandle and CriminalHasSaturdayCandle: remember to change these to 'true' if necessary.
  • I have put a template into post 1 that will display all the moving averages: 240 and 60 for the trading decision; 21 & 55 for stacking.
So, study what happens this week and how these features would have aided our trading. If they look useful, I can add them to the trading decision.

:D
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