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| Author: | PeterUK [ Wed May 04, 2016 8:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Holy Graily Bob 'n Grid |
acostafulano, There are various posts in this forum which you can try and search, which will explain how you can manage Empty4 efficiently and use less resources. Things that may affect are: - number of EA's you run - number of instances of Empty4 loaded - number of charts you load up - number of indicators you use on your charts, you don't need them loaded on charts when running on VPS - is your VPS didicated or shared - location of your VPS to broker exchange and etc You could even try this cheap VPS (which I'm using for this demo) if you want more resources to forward test: http://my.nodevps.net/?cmd=cart&action=add&id=97 but use something like Beeks, CNS VPS or etc close to the exchange for live trading as low (to near zero) latency is preferable. As I mentioned in my previous post Money/Risk management is important... you set them to your own tolerance level, my tolerance to risk will be much different to yours based on previous experience and change/development of managing my own psychological impact to mannaging loss. When I refer to Money management: I'm referring to lot sizes which will either increase as the balance increases over time or stays constant (and there are other methods out there that are not implemented in HGB'nG)... you pick one that you are comfortable with. When I refer to Risk Management: I'm referring to setting Stop losses, Take Profit targets, Break-even, and jump stops... how you use them is up to you... In this case I use a wide stop loss because I want to give HGB'nG room to work with but not let it blow my account completely and currently on demo the return is greater than the DD and losses due to hitting stop losses. If you have too many options, just pick a starting point, test it to prove that the concept works, make a few changes at a time to see if you can improve it or not (and save backups), also give it time for things to validate/invalidate your current viewpoint/understanding... all this will take time probably weeks/months... Hope this helps in your continual journey to automated trading Regards, Peter
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| Author: | Gertje [ Wed May 04, 2016 8:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Holy Graily Bob 'n Grid |
Thank you for answering. It's helpfull in understanding how the results were achieved. |
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| Author: | SteveHopwood [ Wed May 04, 2016 9:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Holy Graily Bob 'n Grid |
NewGuy pm'd Peter who pm'd me with a teensy display bloop. It does nothing to affect the way the bot works, so I am not uploading a fix. It affects the chart display for anyone using the single moving average filter, so well done to NewGuy for spotting it. Line 779: SM(" MA value: " + DoubleToStr(bFMaVal, Digits) + NL); should be SM(" MA value: " + DoubleToStr(sMaVal, Digits) + NL); |
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| Author: | TonkaTuff [ Wed May 04, 2016 11:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Holy Graily Bob 'n Grid |
Thanks Peter, much appreciated. |
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| Author: | mackaozy [ Thu May 05, 2016 1:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Holy Graily Bob 'n Grid |
HI Peter, I have been lurking for a while on this topic. I have just come across your myfxbook & see there have been various changes along the way. Results are truly amazing. http://www.myfxbook.com/members/PQLTrad ... 1z/1614908 May I ask if your settings above are the settings you used on your mfxbook account? Cheers! |
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| Author: | rollbahn [ Thu May 05, 2016 1:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Holy Graily Bob 'n Grid |
Hi Peter, Firstly I should say a huge thanks to Steve and everyone here. I had never heard of this place but came across it via a random Google search one day a couple of weeks ago and what a find! I have been testing out things with your basic settings and tweaking things a little with Mon/Fri timing and using SAPBTM to take a basket profit at 2% of equity - currently around $30. I have SAPBTM set to TP 3 times in a day and wait 30 minutes between starting again. I am demoing with $1600 at 1:50 on GP and I am also using the $1500 dollop etc so .01 lots. I know I am the type who doesn't like staring at DD for too long and with the highest volitility happening outside business hours here in Australia (mostly while I am asleep or with family) I chose to get in and out quickly and bank the profits. So far it is working very well even with the GBP/JPY going directly against the big HGI buy arrow yesterday. Went to bed with things at -$150 and woke up with my $30 banked for another 2% thanks to the JPY reversals during the US session. I checked the charts and could see some S&R close by and felt comfortable leaving it to work itself out. 2% compounded can turn in to a nice little result if I am patient so that is my aim once I feel comfortable to go live with it. I have to work out my SL setup as I am running with nothing at the moment, which is fine in demo as I work things out but I may use 400 pips to save disaster once live. So thank you for your ideas Peter - it gave me a good starting point and hopefully things continue going well. BTW I am still using version 1w from one of your older posts but I notice you have moved to 1z - is there any isue staying with 1w? I see Steve had posted a few code fixes but I wasn't sure if there were any showstoppers that are going to bite me at the wrong time in 1w. Thanks Jason |
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| Author: | PeterUK [ Thu May 05, 2016 5:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Holy Graily Bob 'n Grid |
mackoazy, The settings supplied with SL@400 reinstated using HGB'nG v1w (including BE and JS) then recently v1z (excluding BE and JS). Regards, Peter
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| Author: | PeterUK [ Thu May 05, 2016 6:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Holy Graily Bob 'n Grid |
Just did a kdiff (nice little program you can download for free http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/)... Mostly additions/improvements to hedging and offsetting code, update if you want to try/use hedging settings... Other than that, some minor code updates: Line 2178 change: return(0); to return(false); and Line 768: http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 79#p139964 Peter |
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| Author: | rollbahn [ Thu May 05, 2016 6:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Holy Graily Bob 'n Grid |
Thanks Peter will check that out now. I use DiffMerge to check on set file changes but hadn't thought to use it for EA's...silly me. I don't use offsetting (trying to stick wiht what's working for now) but the hedging updates would be worthwhile it seems. Appreciate the help. Jason |
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| Author: | mackaozy [ Thu May 05, 2016 9:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Holy Graily Bob 'n Grid |
Thanks Peter! |
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