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Author:  SteveHopwood [ Tue Apr 15, 2014 6:36 pm ]
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SERIOUS WARNING
  • Most Forex traders lose all their money.
  • Using the robot posted here in trading Forex does not guarantee success.
  • Trading this robot could lead to serious financial loss.
  • Trading this robot without understanding its underlying trading strategies guarantees traders will lose their money.
  • This is not a set-and-forget ea; there is no such thing and anyone who tries to claim there is, is either stupid or lying. This ea requires frequent manual intervention.
  • At best, a trading robot is only 90% as good as the manual strategy it trades. At best. At worst, it can be much less effective. If the strategy is rubbish, so is the robot.
  • To trade this robot, you have to understand:
    • How to use EA's. Remember to set IsGlobalPrimeOrECNCriminal to 'true' if your crim insists on two-stage order sending.
    • Bob's 10.7.
THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL EA NOT YET BEING USED ON OUR LIVE ACCOUNTS

Attached is Best Bob, the first EA I have created using the shell that Tommaso and I generated. Actually, it is merely the shell renamed, and with a few extra alerts when BB closes a trade, so I can see that the closure code is working properly. I will remove the alerts soon.

What BB does is described in the pdf. I have also attached the .odt file so you coders can keep it for updating when you release an ea of your own.

The attached indi merely has a statement cancelling all alerts - we do not need them with BB running. You do not need the indi on your charts - all the code is subsumed withing BB; it can help to have the indi on the chart so you can see why BB took a trade. I have attached my own template as well. Use it or not as suits you.

Have fun.

:xm:

Matters of general interest
Go here to download and run the script that will fill your platform's missing chart history: http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... f=15&t=254
Read this post:
http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... p?f=6&t=78 Newbie traders, read this for inspiration and warning. Those of you who have suffered losses, read it for inspiration.

Masterly summary of hedging: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread. ... ost4977179

EA coding
I receive may requests to code EA's. Traders, if I code your EA for free, then I will share it here. If you want me to code your EA without sharing, then my fee is $100 payable into my paypal account. I explain why at http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... ?f=15&t=79, at the bottom of the post.

Useful utilities/EA's/scripts
Author:  Eamonn [ Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:10 pm ]
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Hi Steve


Cant wait to take this for a spin !!

Eamonn.
Author:  Dovilo [ Tue Apr 15, 2014 8:43 pm ]
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Impressive piece of work Steve. I will put it to the test right away.

There are so many thingies that I can't decide what to pick :smile:

Bugs (I think) for now:

Spread detect mode runs always when loading EA, even if I have this option set on false. Maybe it's not a bug but a feature :D

CloseTrade() order close failed with error 129: invalid price and BreakEvenStopLoss() stop loss modification failed with error 130: invalid stops. It's always poping out on first trade in the list of trades. But trades are closing it's just a lot of pop-up messages coming out. It can be about what you wrote here:
Actually, it is merely the shell renamed, and with a few extra alerts when BB closes a trade, so I can see that the closure code is working properly.
[wrong]Stoch seems to be calculated strangely. It was far too late on this trade it took on audcad. I don't really know how these numbers I pointed works. Second number is actual stoch's value and first number takes second's value in a time interval I think.[/wrong]

EDIT: Well, this was my mistake, stoch is working good, EA took trade on different TF and first Blue line number takes some time till it refreshes. :oops:
Author:  SteveHopwood [ Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:59 pm ]
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Dovilo » Tue Apr 15, 2014 8:43 pm wrote:Impressive piece of work Steve. I will put it to the test right away.

There are so many thingies that I can't decide what to pick :smile:

Bugs (I think) for now:

Spread detect mode runs always when loading EA, even if I have this option set on false. Maybe it's not a bug but a feature :D
Yep. The option merely tells BB to rerun the initial calculation. It is indeed a feature. I describe it in the user guide. Possibly, If I don't, then work it out for yourself if you value your life here.

Not sure about the rest of the stuff in your post. I will wait to see if strange thingies happen on my platform. They have not done so yet.

:xm:
Author:  Dovilo [ Tue Apr 15, 2014 11:12 pm ]
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SteveHopwood » Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:59 pm wrote: Yep. The option merely tells BB to rerun the initial calculation. It is indeed a feature. I describe it in the user guide. Possibly, If I don't, then work it out for yourself if you value your life here.

Not sure about the rest of the stuff in your post. I will wait to see if strange thingies happen on my platform. They have not done so yet.

:xm:
Actually You did. This is what happens when someone is not reading manual deeply enough :oops:
Author:  SteveHopwood [ Tue Apr 15, 2014 11:22 pm ]
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Dovilo » Tue Apr 15, 2014 11:12 pm wrote:
Actually You did. This is what happens when someone is not reading manual deeply enough :oops:
Never mind. You are not alone. We all do it.

:xm:
Author:  MurphyMan [ Wed Apr 16, 2014 12:51 am ]
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I am also getting a lot of "CloseTrade() order close failed with error 129: invalid price" errors. OOTB except for 0.1 lot size.

Been running for about 1.5 hours now, 26 pairs has opened and closed about 25 trades, and it's about break even.
Author:  Dovilo [ Wed Apr 16, 2014 6:58 am ]
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I I left it for the night, errors stopped at about two o'clock, I have no idea what caused it and why it just stopped. Maybe something about swap? From two o'clock everything is working perfectly good but one thing.

I have set five minutes to confirm yellow flip but it doesn't seem to work. Maybe I did something wrong again :|
Author:  SteveHopwood [ Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:57 pm ]
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Just to let you guys know that I also have had problems with the ea closing trades.

I have no idea why. This code has worked successfully for years, so not a clue why it should suddenly be flakey now. I made some amendments, but they appear not to have helped. Live with it until someone comes up with a solution. I am not going to spend my entire life trying to solve it.

Probably finding an alternative platform to that of Empty4 will be a major part of solving it.

Also, the yellow flip code appears to be working correctly, so I have bumped MinutesToConfirmYellowFlip up to 15.

:xm:
Author:  zada [ Sun Apr 20, 2014 8:48 am ]
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I'm not a coder, so keep in mind with my statement... I have observed some EAs designed for the new builds send 2 orders. 1 for entry followed by 2nd order for modify.
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