I have performed hundreds of backtests with mixed pairs.. There is no problem with that. I think the problem has sth to do with iCustom(xx). When I use a tech indicator embedded in mt4 the problem disappears.. Still what I cant explain is that this ...

EA running terribly slow with same Symbol

My main problem is curve fitting. I am trying to create a profitable strategy for long time in algorithmic trading. Real time testing never yielded the rosy picture you obtained in backtesting which you have created unconsciously by neglecting bad ...

Why do you lose money in trading?

The legendary Sidney Bechet.. (as a humble advice) Halim image

What kind of music you hear while you trade?

today my Ea's opened 15 positions and closed 10 positions. among the 15 positions that were opened only 1 of them did not opened properly when I compare with the daily backtesting. And again among the 10 positions that were closed 1 of them did not ...

Mismatch between live forward testing and back testing

Hi, My strategy executes entries according to market volatility and volume change and exits are with SL and profits are again according to (fading) volatility. I have fewest parameters possible to avoid curve fitting. For long and short trades I ...

Curve fitting vs optimization

Hi Hibra68, I am interested in position trading in fx and liked your strategy and approach.. I would like to ask if you could share the outcomes of your trials 3 years ago.. thank you. Halim

Long Term Trades

"execute on bar open" problem: Hi, I have 100 EA's on M1, M5 and H1 charts. all created by myself. they are running on 100 charts on one terminal. They do not close or open positions when they should. They do what they need to do when I restart the ...

I will code your EAs and Indicators for no charge

There may be more important factors in selecting a broker other than leverage like whether it is a dealer(market maker) or performs ECN execution, but after ESMA regulation last year in Europe, leverage became for me the most important one. Which ...

Best Broker?

I have around 60 EA s running on 60 instances simultaneously. Mostly on M1 and M5 timeframe.. for about a couple of months the EA's have been behaving weirdly. That is they were not closing the positions at the time they should have closed.. I ...

Detection of a new bar for an EA in mql4

when I run an EA on EURUSD (for instance) with the command "Print(iHigh("AUDNZD", PERIOD_M5, 1), DBL_MAX_EXP, iLow("AUDNZD", PERIOD_M5, 1), DBL_MAX_EXP)", it prints these values: 1.06810241 for High, 1.06681024 for Low .. However on data window of ...

iHigh iLow iOpen iClose...

I would like to use volume data of a broker at another brokers' terminal (real time on 1M chart).. I have not much experience with DLLs. I can write, modify and use EAs and indicators in MT4. I have read various threads about data exchange between ...

Data Sharing between multiple MT4 terminals