Do you actually have 600,000 bars in history?

Old Dog with New Tricks

However long it takes for the market to make a new daily high / low

Old Dog with New Tricks

Look at the volume

TPM...Tickes Per Minute?

I don't know.

Old Dog with New Tricks

I am working on a version 2 and gonna go through a very thorough testing phase before ultimately releasing it. I hope to have it out just in time for thanksgiving.

Old Dog with New Tricks

I understand what you're asking. There is an easy, but unstable fix. Look for the string "00:00" in the code and replace that with whatever time you want.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Nothing out of the ordinary. The EA didn't find any settings which would meed the requirements you had set up for this hour.

Old Dog with New Tricks

In theory yes. Not sure how I'm gonna do it.

Old Dog with New Tricks

7 of 20. Yes

Old Dog with New Tricks

If you look closer at the EA's current hour, it was 15. That doesn't match obviously. My guess is the EA got hung somehow.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Nope, nothing wrong. I had a second look and I mistook a different EA for the one I posted here. It should reoptimize daily.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Weekly.

Old Dog with New Tricks

You have to consider context. As a loose example: you can drive your car on both sides of the road, right? But there are only certain places in the world where it's better to drive on the right side, and where it is better to drive on the left.

Question about volume spread analysis

In theory, the EA will continue to reoptimize itself every week starting on the first tick sunday / monday. I always have my servers do a hard restart over the weekend to clear the cache, apply updates to metatrader, the OS, occasionally my EAs and ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

I think Mindsphere meant something which disables the EA during news. I still know that's a bad idea and here's my explanation. The spikes that occur during the news do show up in the backtest that the EA puts itself through. This EA in a roundabout ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

My theory--if it can be called one--states that the perfect trading system for a given time in a certain market is different from a perfect trading system for a different time in the same market. The changes are not necessarily significant, but at ...

Metatrader 5's distributed optimization

If neither of those numbers are moving, the EA generally got stuck somewhere.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Are last tick and cycle count still counting upward?

Old Dog with New Tricks

Isn't there a symbols file in the history folder?

Adding New Symbol on MT4

To disable the Tick Database in this EA, look for this section of code (around line 390) TotalTime = GetTickCount() - StartTime; Rates = "True"; LastTick = 0; TickData(); Replace with this block of code TotalTime = GetTickCount() - StartTime; Rates ...

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