Here's a recent setup that's working quite nicely so far. file file I put it on my Oanda account by mistake and it's working well there. That's a surprise. Especially for the 5-minute timeframe.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Hopefully the final product will be an .mq5. Source code is necessary. As a long-time Systems Analyst I've always required it of my contractors. No black boxes. No libraries without source either, if possible. Testing will be a big job.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Yes it should speed up optimization some, and make it better in various ways. Possibly a lot better. Of course, as I've shown many times in this list .15 is way faster than .09. That was the first upgrade. That's what made it usable in my opinion. ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I've written quite a few EAs of various sorts myself. The magic of grid systems still amazes me. Blessing is a wonderful, though messy EA that will let you construct all kinds of systems just by changing parameters. It's common for folks to try ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

If you are willing to use .15 instead of .09 then I am very interested. .09 is old and buggy, and missing a number of hugely important upgrades. I've spent some hours playing with the MQL5 migration once again over the last couple days. It's very ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Way too many setups and pairs to mention. And way too many wild market swings. When the pandemic hit I was going great for a while, actually better than ever. Then as things progressed results really slowed down. Not a good time to measure ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I don't know what happened. fxtrue did some nice work cleaning up some issues on the MT4 version. But his MT5 version was unusable. Parameters used the comments from the code instead of the original names in the manual and it was a bit of a mess. It ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

There's still a lot of work to be done to make Blessing MT5 compatible. There are some libraries out there but I haven't seen one that's very complete. So many functions to support. If anyone knows of a more complete, preferably open source, library ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I don't know. I usually just let Strategy Tester lead the way and select the best settings. Between Strategy Tester and Blessing's magic, things come together. I may have starting guesses for things, but testing finds the sweet spots. If I don't ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Who's odd theory is that? None of the brokers I've looked at have the same data. How many times must I say: This is NOT the Stock Market! The stock market has a Central Authority. There is NO single central authority for Forex. Every broker gets ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Blessing does not use artificial intelligence. It's really not that smart. But if you learn how to use it it can make money. The market changes, and Blessing doesn't really know how to change with it -- other than you re-optimizing it. And, as I've ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Here's the bug-fixed version addressing the divide by zero error reported recently. Sorry I didn't post it sooner, too much going on ... file This is not a high priority fix. It surfaced only rarely in my experience, and with minimal effects on ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Spread varies widely among brokers. There is no 'proper' value. It depends on many things. Watch the market and learn. Strategy Tester doesn't actually provide real spreads, none are included in the data. The number you enter is used to create an ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Try reading more of the list. Set files usually only work well on the brokers they were optimized for, especially lower timeframes. One hour and four hour timeframe setups are more transferable, but still won't work as well as those optimized on ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

It would be helpful to see your set file.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I'll take a look. Thanks.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I've played with hedging a few times with Strategy Tester. It's interesting, but it always seems to mess up the trading system some. I've never had results I really liked. Because of the unsettled markets right now I've shifted back to using stops. ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

To the question of what timeframe to use, I think the 1-hour has some advantages for Blessing. 1. Faster to optimize. 2. Easier to find a good equity curve with many pairs. 3. Possibly the ideal timeframe for quite a few pairs. The time necessary to ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

It's good to see someone working through this. I currently use 3.9.6.14, but I'm biased. I built many of the improvements, because I felt they were necessary. The base version (.9) in the #1 post is very slow and missing important stuff. Version .14 ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Note that the 1-minute timeframe is the noisiest and perhaps the least reliable. I always liked the 1-minute when trading stocks, but that data is usually much more reliable. I mostly use the 5-minute as the lowest timeframe for currencies. Unlike ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles