gaheitman wrote:

bshoe24 wrote:

SteveHopwood wrote:Version 1c is in post 1, with the code that checks the chart history removed - not much use have a security feature that freezes the platform.

Thanks for finding this, guys. Most helpful.

it'd be great to retain that check somehow to help people who forget to populate their terminal's history but, my thoughts are as it is now when it inits on lots of charts at the same time there is resource contention that increases the odds of a lock ups. maybe some kind of randomization or delay on startup of the function would help with it starting at same time on 20+ charts.

The code could be altered to only call it for the periods needed. If the bot only looks at H4 and D1 data, who cares if M30 is up to date? Also, these TF would be kept up to date if the EA is actively running, so at next restart it shouldn't be such a burden. Theoretically. :>

Also, we should move it out of init(). My experience with the BasketEquity indicator taught me that init() is the root of all evil. In that indi, I now use a DataOK flag and then check the data one period at a time at the beginning of start(). If I find one that doesn't have enough data, I drop out of start() and wait for another tick, knowing that my looking to see if the data is there likely forced the download. Once all my currencies come back clean, I set DataOK to true and get on with the rest of the start().


Steve,

If you want to give something like this a shot in your EA as a replacement, let me know and I can package up some code to drop in.

George

fxozgirl wrote:Steve,

3 trades open this morning, AUDCAD, AUDUSD, NZDUSD with the partclose function immediately closing 2 parts of the AUDUSD trade.

See attached screenshots

expertlog_121105.gif

audusd_121105.gif

garyfritz wrote:Shelley, a few quick questions:

* You're using stoch(7,2,2), right?
Yes

* Do you use exponential or simple MA in your stoch? (simple is the default)
I'm not using a MA in my stoch

* What time is your end of day? Do you think this is critical, i.e. is there behavior around that time that helps your strategy? Or should Gday work fairly independently of EOD time? I'll be running with EOD = 5pm NY time, so there are 5 equal-length D1 bars in the week.
My broker's open is 5pm NY time, so our trades should match providing the feeds from our brokers are similar.
With that being said, I don't think it should make a difference what time a broker is, I would just trade the setups according to each broker feed.

* You have a "stochastic exit" if the fast stoch line crosses back across the slow line. Is that the "stoch of today's close" or the "stoch of tomorrow's open" ?
Stoch at the new open

* Do you (or somebody) have a myfxbook account of your Gday Mk2 trades, so I can compare them to my TS trades?

I'm testing option 2 (OB/OS yesterday, out of OB/OS today, still out of OB/OS at the open tomorrow) and it's looking OK but not as good as the results you guys are reporting. I need to compare against correct trades so I make sure I'm doing this right.
I have 4 Gday demo's running at the moment:
1. Original Gday OB/OS 80/20
2. Gday Mk2, OB/OS 80/20, TradeTrigger 75/25, Option 1 & 2, (standard exit)
3. Gday Mk2, OB/OS 80/20, TradeTrigger 75/25, Option 1 & 2, Candlestick Trailing Stop
4. Gday Mk2, OB/OS 80/20, TradeTrigger 75/25, Option 1 & 2, 'Regular' Trailing Stop

See below for myfxbook links, but our setups are different so trades won't be the same, perhaps someone else who is trading the same setup as you can also set up a myfxbook??

SteveHopwood wrote:

fxozgirl wrote:Steve,

3 trades open this morning, AUDCAD, AUDUSD, NZDUSD with the partclose function immediately closing 2 parts of the AUDUSD trade.

See attached screenshots

expertlog_121105.gif

audusd_121105.gif

I will look into this.

I have the same setup but will not take the trade because I will not sell AUD.

fxozgirl wrote:Shelley, a few quick questions:
* You're using stoch(7,2,2), right?
Yes
* Do you use exponential or simple MA in your stoch? (simple is the default)
I'm not using a MA in my stoch

* Do you (or somebody) have a myfxbook account of your Gday Mk2 trades, so I can compare them to my TS trades?
I'm testing option 2 (OB/OS yesterday, out of OB/OS today, still out of OB/OS at the open tomorrow) and it's looking OK but not as good as the results you guys are reporting. I need to compare against correct trades so I make sure I'm doing this right.
I have 4 Gday demo's running at the moment:
1. Original Gday OB/OS 80/20
2. Gday Mk2, OB/OS 80/20, TradeTrigger 75/25, Option 1 & 2, (standard exit)
3. Gday Mk2, OB/OS 80/20, TradeTrigger 75/25, Option 1 & 2, Candlestick Trailing Stop
4. Gday Mk2, OB/OS 80/20, TradeTrigger 75/25, Option 1 & 2, 'Regular' Trailing Stop
See below for myfxbook links, but our setups are different so trades won't be the same, perhaps someone else who is trading the same setup as you can also set up a myfxbook??

garyfritz wrote:

fxozgirl wrote:Shelley, a few quick questions:
* You're using stoch(7,2,2), right?
Yes
* Do you use exponential or simple MA in your stoch? (simple is the default)
I'm not using a MA in my stoch

Um, yes, I think you are... the 7 is the stoch lookback length, and the 2 and 2 are both smoothing MAs. The "fast%K" stochastic value is (Close - LowestLow) / (HighestHigh - LowestLow) -- but the Empty4 Stochastic indicator doesn't plot that.

The "Fast%D" value is MA(fast%K,len1). "Slow%K" is the same as Fast%D. "Slow%D" is MA(Slow%K,len2). Empty4's indi plots Slow%K and Slow%D.

(Confusing as hell, innit? But that's the way George Lane defined it.)

So you're using two MAs for the "2,2" params. If you didn't know they were there, you probably left them at the Empty4 default -- but I'm not sure what that is, because it remembers whatever you used last. Would you check your Stochastic properties and see what it says for "MA Method" ?

It looks like Steve's EA uses SMA by default but you can change it with the MaMethod input.

* Do you (or somebody) have a myfxbook account of your Gday Mk2 trades, so I can compare them to my TS trades?
I'm testing option 2 (OB/OS yesterday, out of OB/OS today, still out of OB/OS at the open tomorrow) and it's looking OK but not as good as the results you guys are reporting. I need to compare against correct trades so I make sure I'm doing this right.
I have 4 Gday demo's running at the moment:
1. Original Gday OB/OS 80/20
2. Gday Mk2, OB/OS 80/20, TradeTrigger 75/25, Option 1 & 2, (standard exit)
3. Gday Mk2, OB/OS 80/20, TradeTrigger 75/25, Option 1 & 2, Candlestick Trailing Stop
4. Gday Mk2, OB/OS 80/20, TradeTrigger 75/25, Option 1 & 2, 'Regular' Trailing Stop
See below for myfxbook links, but our setups are different so trades won't be the same, perhaps someone else who is trading the same setup as you can also set up a myfxbook??

Humm, OK. I'll see if I can add Option 1 so I can mirror your demo #2.

Thanks Shelley!

fxozgirl wrote:Steve,

3 trades open this morning, AUDCAD, AUDUSD, NZDUSD with the partclose function immediately closing 2 parts of the AUDUSD trade.