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Chandelier EA - A new look
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Author:  Freedom787 [ Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:38 am ]
Post subject:  Chandelier EA - A new look

Edit: Please note, this code has not been prepared for live trading. Error handling and global variables were not implemented for live trading conditions yet. This is still experimental.


Hello everyone.

Bored last week, I was running a few EA's and looking for opportunities. I ran 3-4 different EA's I had downloaded based on the Chandelier Indicator. For those of you not familiar with it, it more or less looks like a fancy SAR indicator. I found that several other people's EA's had good entries, but had a poor trade management system, so I figured it has some potential.

I took the indicator, combined it with Steve's old RSI trend indicator, and used some of Steve's breakeven and jumping stop loss code, and whalah.... we have a new EA with some decent results.

The EA made 20% in 6 months on a couple backtests. All the settings should be self explanatory. Running it on H1, EURUSD ootb ( out of the box )

Looking for ideas on how to make this more profitable. Adding the 240 min time between entries ( 4 hours) , RSI filter, and tight stop loss with a decent run for TP really changed the EA compared to what other people were doing.


Note on how to use:
Place the Indicator in your Empty4 folder -> Experts - > Indicators
(compile the indicator in your editor)
Chandelier example.png
Author:  dietcoke [ Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:59 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Chandelier EA - A new look

Freedom787 wrote:Hello everyone.

Bored last week, I was running a few EA's and looking for opportunities. I ran 3-4 different EA's I had downloaded based on the Chandelier Indicator. For those of you not familiar with it, it more or less looks like a fancy SAR indicator. I found that several other people's EA's had good entries, but had a poor trade management system, so I figured it has some potential.

I took the indicator, combined it with Steve's old RSI trend indicator, and used some of Steve's breakeven and jumping stop loss code, and whalah.... we have a new EA with some decent results.

The EA made 20% in 6 months on a couple backtests. All the settings should be self explanatory. Running it on H1, EURUSD ootb ( out of the box )

Looking for ideas on how to make this more profitable. Adding the 240 min time between entries ( 4 hours) , RSI filter, and tight stop loss with a decent run for TP really changed the EA compared to what other people were doing.

Chandelier example.png

Are you sure you have that the right way round. :?

Most people who test chandelier/SAR systems find it's the entries which are poor and they only add value as a form of sophisticated trailing stop to a more reliable entry.
Author:  mobthehop [ Mon Apr 22, 2013 10:25 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Chandelier EA - A new look

Hi f787, will gibe it a whirl - out of curiosity what exactly is "Steve's old RSI trend indicator"?

Cheers / Mop
Author:  Freedom787 [ Mon Apr 22, 2013 1:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Chandelier EA - A new look

mobthehop wrote:Hi f787, will gibe it a whirl - out of curiosity what exactly is "Steve's old RSI trend indicator"?

Cheers / Mop
It's a look at the RSI, making sure the RSI is beyond the 55 for a buy or below the 45 for a sell and not reversing in direction. I found it in some of his code at FF and it performs nicely in a lot of situations IMHO.
Author:  Freedom787 [ Mon Apr 22, 2013 2:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Chandelier EA - A new look

dietcoke wrote: Are you sure you have that the right way round. :?

Most people who test chandelier/SAR systems find it's the entries which are poor and they only add value as a form of sophisticated trailing stop to a more reliable entry.
Not sure, check it out and let me know what you think. I'm not a big fan of indicators like this in general, but when I watched it chug away, i was impressed that some of the trades were positioned very nicely. Maybe it was dumb luck. Figured I'd share here and see if there's anything worth developing further.

Maybe I"m really just trading the RSI value from the trend filter here.
Author:  ChicagoRob [ Mon Apr 22, 2013 9:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Chandelier EA - A new look

Just loaded the EA and indi into my tester. I'm getting an "OrderReliable_V1_1_4.mqh" error when compiling and the EA won't open. It also won't open on my live account.

Rob
Author:  Freedom787 [ Tue Apr 23, 2013 4:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Chandelier EA - A new look

ChicagoRob wrote:Just loaded the EA and indi into my tester. I'm getting an "OrderReliable_V1_1_4.mqh" error when compiling and the EA won't open. It also won't open on my live account.

Rob
Fixed in post 1, uploaded the wrong version.
Author:  jako [ Tue Apr 23, 2013 6:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Chandelier EA - A new look

Version of page 1 is not working.
Author:  Freedom787 [ Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Chandelier EA - A new look

jako wrote:Version of page 1 is not working.
Just downloaded and tested.. compiles with 0 issues. Make sure to have indicator in the indicator folder.
Author:  ChicagoRob [ Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Chandelier EA - A new look

Backtests are looking pretty good at this point. I'm going to change the settings
around and see if I can improve performance.

One thing I would like to see is a half-close option added to BE. This is pretty
much boiler-plate code in Steve's EAs.

Rob
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