I think a higher timeframe trend option might be helpful. I've seen some impressive systems that trade on the weekly basis. Forex seems to work well in that realm. If we had a good higher trend indicator we could have it control the ForceMarketCond ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Have you read much of the rest of this list? Assuming all settings were the same, different brokers have substantially different data. (How many times have I typed that here?) Read more. Post after.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Please go to Babypips.com and spend some time. It will save you money.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Sounds like a broker issue. What's the spread?

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I'm pretty sure FMC refers to the ForceMarketCond parameter. The 'original' Blessing (.09) contains this comment in the code referring to that parameter which agrees with that version of the manual: // Market condition 0=uptrend 1=downtrend 2=range ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Hikaros, Thanks for your post a few days ago. You covered so many things it was hard to cover them all. The serve even refuses to quote it for a response. :-) Consider covering one thing at a time in the future. 1. The source code is the best source ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

There are all different approaches. I started out trading stocks some years back. Tight stops seemed like the better choice. Forex is different. Some trade Forex without stops. Ignoring pandemics and other such difficulties, pairs tend to trade in ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I don't always understand what Strategy Tester comes up with. But it's smarter than I am, so I go with it. You can set any parameter you like and optimize around it. That works well in many cases. Good to test things though. The Blessing source code ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

The biggest impediment to optimization is time. The genetic optimizer is much faster but skips over many possibilities. Without the genetic option it's all brute force and slow. Optimizing just three parameters at a time can take a few minutes, or ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I don't know everything about Blessing. But I can get you started optimizing well in a hurry, if you pay attention. file That set file has parameter ranges already set and the important optimizable ones already checked. They are in groups, as you ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Don't do that. Grab the optimize start set file I posted and start there. Blessing is a system. It all works together. You don't set the values checked in my set file to specific values. You let Strategy Tester find the best ones. Set the lot size ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

They're all good. I usually start with the ones with the most volatility.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

MaxSpread is self-explanatory. You can't disable it, not with good results. The others are explained numerous times in this thread, once again just recently. There are lots of parameters you probably shouldn't touch often. Try my optimization start ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Here's a video with some important current information about the market and the loss of volatility. Sorry about the cover image. :-) video

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

To post a Strategy Tester report print it to a pdf file. That way nothing gets left out.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

For a quick start on optimizing Blessing try the set file I posted just a few days ago. And if you have time, consider reading more of the list. There's plenty of good stuff there. You can make a profitable setup in five minutes with that set file. ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Possible problem areas from the Blessing_3_v3.9.6.15.mq4 source code: 66 enum tFrame { 67 current = 0, // Current 68 m1 = 1, // M1 69 m5 = 2, // M5 70 m15 = 3, // M15 71 m30 = 4, // M30 72 h1 = 5, // H1 73 h4 = 6, // H4 74 d1 = 7, // Daily 75 w1 = ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

This set file works only on 1-minute and 5-minute timeframes. Fails on all others I tried. file image I'm guessing the problem is more or also with internal timeframe settings for grid calculations, etc. Edit: He did fix a few other problems.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I'm not sure what's so hard. Here's my first attempt, won't run at all. Will take some digging to find out why from this end. image file This guy may have an mt4 to mt5 converter and not much knowledge. He has done the hard part. The previous ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Blessing is not a single setup EA. There's a zillion ways it can be made to behave in response to the thousands of possible combinations of parameter settings. It's thousands of different EAs in one package. And it's not really smart. It just ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles