Shelley's multi-pair basket trader

[fxozgirl]

hello fxozgirl,

first off, i think your idea of basket trading off the 0.8 on d1 slope is brilliant! this ea would have saved me some coin when my other eas got creamed with the strong trend.
but when we introduce the weekly histogram, it appears on the charts that the entry would be taken much later in the trend rite? since almost without exception, price trends strongly when we get the 0.8 on the daily chart. not using the weekly histogram would get us in much earlier rite?

would appreciate your thoughts on this. thanks!

Sorry Joe, I missed this one...you may be right about getting in, but using the weekly histogram provides extra confirmation of the trend direction.
If the WOH is signalling a different direction to the Slope, than obviously some sort of reversal is occurring, so I would not take the trade.

[fxozgirl]

Also, I just want to mention, that it has only happened a couple of times that the basket has reached the global closure within an hour or 2.

There have been days where is has taken 4 - 6 hrs, overnight (my time) and also a couple of days when trades have remained open for more than 24 hrs.
In all of these cases though, the slope signal has remained +/- 0.8 so I have always let the trades continue to run.

[vivaldi]

A few days ago I did a test on 9 currencies with the TMA principle and with this same indicator. It was in timeframe H4 and during 2 days. The results were not so good. Trades were openend and then closed again, depending on TMA>0.8 or TMA<0.8 and v.v. for shorts. So, a trade was opened and then for example 4 hours later closed for a big pip loss because the trend had changed. No basket approach was done.
Probably, the method is better applicable in timeframe D1 because that is a stronger indication than H4. Also, the basket approach is more helpful than individual currency approaches.

[fxozgirl]

I've just downloaded the EA from post 1 to update my demo, but it doesn't appear to have the new basket pips be/sl thingy!

Has anyone else downloaded the EA and it has these functions?

[kelisa]

Hi Steve or any expert programmers,

After I drop the EA onto the chart, I cant get into its properties. It just wouldnt open. Could it be my Empty4 version issue? Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Kelisa,

Just drag another copy of the ea onto your chart and reset the properties that way.

Peter

Thanks.

[kelisa]

Dixpat, do you have the "10.2 TMA slope v.1.4B 4.30 for EA" indicator in your Indicators folder?

Thanks Gary - I had the indicator that is in the 1st post in this thread

A trap for young players

Dave

Dixpat,
you must have
a) Shelley.mq4 : to expert folder
b) 10.2 TMA slope v.1.4B 4.30 for EA.mq4 : to indicator folder
c) NB 10.2 TMA Slope Display v0.3.mq4 :to indicator folder

Post 1 mentions only 2 files, but actually you need these 3.

Vivaldi

OK, all conditions met:

Awaiting...

[cytek]

Hi Steve or any expert programmers,

After I drop the EA onto the chart, I cant get into its properties. It just wouldnt open. Could it be my Empty4 version issue? Any help would be appreciated.

I'm having the same problem. Sometimes hitting F7 opens the properties window fine, but most times not. I'm running Empty4 build 419. I usually have to remove EA and then re-attach to get back to the properties window.

[cytek]

Right now the EA chooses which TF to take it's TMA Slope reading from (I'm using D1).

I'm wondering if the EA only took trades which were extreme trending (greater than .08 or less than -.08) on BOTH the H4 and D1 if the trades would be any better. Just a thought I wanted to share.

Good point - for some reason I just assumed that was the case, but you're right, it would make them more of an "A trade".

[fx800]

Thanks to Steve for the ea, to Nanningbob for the trading strategy, to Shelley for the particular way of trading and many others who contributed to the development of the NB 10.2.

I set the ea to start trading at London open yesterday , closed all trades at 12.00 hr BST and re-started the ea again at NY open. I observed during the London open and NY open yesterday that profits started rolling in within five minutes after open, then price peaked at about 45 minutes later. On each occasion the profits peaked at 350 pips and then started to retrace.

It is as if a coiled spring is let loose at the session open releasing all that pent up energy.

It would be interesting to see if this is a repeatable pattern. If it is, then you need to trade for only 2 x 50 minutes per day !

Peter

It would be naive to think that the above pattern is repeatable. The market is trending at the moment. There will be periods when it will move sideways.

Peter

Fifty minutes into the London open and the basket is 250 pips in the red.

[spotdespot]

Dixpat,
you must have
a) Shelley.mq4 : to expert folder
b) 10.2 TMA slope v.1.4B 4.30 for EA.mq4 : to indicator folder
c) NB 10.2 TMA Slope Display v0.3.mq4 :to indicator folder

Post 1 mentions only 2 files, but actually you need these 3.

Vivaldi

OK, all conditions met:

Awaiting...

You still have an issue there - notice your slope indicator has all pairs as ranging and you have no status after each pair on the EA display. I suggest, if it didn't trigger, that you put the 10.2 TMA slope v.1.4B 4.30 for EA.mq4 indi on your chart and not the standard one. I thought you only needed it in the folder but if you have both in the indi folder and you have restarted Empty4 then this is all I can suggest.