Paycheck Project Main Thread

Post by **tomele** » Tue Nov 22, 2022 11:37 am

I know the feeling, had it with Slopey Peaky Bob - live.

One of the reasons for the Paycheck Project.

Cheers

Franck · Post by **Franck** » Tue Nov 22, 2022 2:22 pm

Thanks for starting this

I´m using the MT5 backtesting engine for a while now with real tick data for 12+ years. Looking forward to giving this a try and seeing if I can come up with some interesting combinations.

When do you think the simulation-only versions will be ready?

All the best

Post by **tomele** » Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:07 am

CM = Candle and Moving averages
SO = Simulation Only

Cheers

Post by **TableTop** » Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:40 pm

Thanks Thomas - great work and looking forward to trying this out. There is a lot to run at here!

Post by **tomele** » Thu Nov 24, 2022 8:48 pm

Indeed - lots of possibilities to test. This gives me quite some time to think about two cousins of Paycheck - Wagepacket and Baksheesh.

Post by **TableTop** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 6:31 pm

Hi Tomas,

Sorry for the delay - I've been away for a few days and I've been running the tests on an old gaming PC, so no access when not at home. Anyway - attached is one example of a set-up that was profitable over a longer timeframe (6 years or so, maybe 10 - can't remember). There are others, but so far most have failed when I've done a retest with a minor change of settings - I don't know if that is the case with the attached so I've set up some tests to run and see.

Paycheck CM SO_2.set

Regarding combining indicators into one EA...my preference would be to keep things simple, but simple for who? For where we are at the moment, simplicity should be determined by the coder. If rolling everything into a swiss-army-knife makes it easier to code and update then go for it. If the swiss-army-knife approach makes coding/debugging more complex then I'm happy to test out various versions.

Post by **tomele** » Tue Dec 27, 2022 7:29 pm

Hi @all.

The Paycheck family has grown: Wagebag for weekly and Dayswag for daily basket trading are online. The documentation got revised, so download it again. The backtesting documents are unchanged.

I have also combined all threads into this one. No need for us three folks to discuss in separate threads. Paycheck CM and Paycheck L are discontinued. For the time being, Paycheck SO, Wagebag SO and Dayswag SO are the subjects of interest.

Have fun.
Thomas

Post by **TableTop** » Mon Jan 02, 2023 3:24 pm

Great - will take a look this week

Post by **opita** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 8:51 pm

Very interesting project, will do a deep dive this weekend.
Thank you for your efforts.

maddog75 · Post by **maddog75** » Sun Feb 05, 2023 10:25 pm

Hi,

I've been away from this forum for awhile, it feels good to be back! This also represents my first time using the MT5 strategy tester. It's not gone very well..... I'm getting the same message completely filling the journal log:

SendTrade CURRENCYPAIR failed due to invalid BOTH signal

Any ideas what i'm doing wrong?
Thanks,
Bill