News will always be a problem. I'm seriously thinking of using this building-up strategy as part of a trend finding trade. To be fair, what I'm doing isn't new, the Turtles are doing it, except that I'm scaling up trades indefinitely.

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My drawdown is 12%...

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I know, that's the part I can't explain, except... The data used. I'm looking through my history files right now.

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Here is my backtest statement. The longest run in a single direction I had was 14 trades before retracing. I'm wondering if various brokers use different backtesting engines.

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keramikus, I think the difference between your grid EA and my grid EA is that each trade is independent of the others. My grid has the trades building up with slightly more dynamic TPs. nvwine, When I run a visual backtest, I see the price move in ...

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Increase the grid spacing?

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What do the comments say? And did you change the lot size from 0?

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EURUSD, (Timeframe doesn't matter because this is based on price movement) I used Jan1 08 to Jun1 08, that's the period where I have solid tick data.

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A little more analysis. Assume trades are won/lost in grid spaces (I used 10 pips). If only one trade is opened before reversing, then it's a 1 grid loss. If two trades are opened before reversing, then it's a 1 grid loss. If three trades are opened ...

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extern string Remark1 = "== Main Settings =="; extern int MagicNumber = 0; extern bool SignalsOnly = False; extern bool Alerts = False; extern bool SignalMail = False; extern bool PlaySounds = False; extern bool EachTickMode = True; extern double ...

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Here is the EA. The system is designed to take regular profits (every x pips), or to take profit at the first opposite tick (When one trade hits the SL). In 6 month backtesting, I go from 10k to 40k, so there's promise in this system.

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Are those parameters global? Or do you need two sets of them? (One for buy, the other for sell)

Need EA to help with backtesting

Ok, I think I'll bring it. My EAs follow the system as posted. If you don't want them to trade for you that's fine, set SignalsOnly to true, and pick whatever signals you want (Mail, Alert, Sound). As a novice trader, I understand that you ...

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HAHAHAHAHAHA I guess the system is so simple to understand and trade that the support group isn't necessary. I have to say though, that picture cracks me up. I need to polish my googling skills.

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I'm busy putting an EA together, so we'll see how it turns out.

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Ok, so here's the system as I understand it: Get the close price Add 5 buystops with TP and SL of 4 pips at 4 pip intervals. Add 5 sellstops with TP and SL of 4 pips at 4 pip intervals. Add/Delete stop orders so that there are always 5 above and 5 ...

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I'm curious, if a field for values in an indicator are blank, what do I put in the trade logic? EMPTY_VALUE doesn't work.

How to get custom indicator values?

Your iCustom should look something like this. iCustom(NULL, 0, "EMA Crossover Signal ", FasterEMA, SlowerEMA, 0, 0); I would edit the indicator to set every non-arrow to 0, like so. I find it easier when setting trade logic.

How to get custom indicator values?

What does it matter to you? Do you need a support group to help you trade? As long as the system works I personally don't care how active the thread is.

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