Good show! You might want to create a settable minimum delay between trades to fix the over-trading problem. That's a common feature on multi-pair EAs. You could save the time from the most recent open of each pair, then compare with current time ...

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A good reason to consider opening an offshore account. My offshore account performs much better than my US accounts. (The greater leverage certainly doesn't hurt either.)

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Have you traded stocks. That's where much of the trading-over-the-weekend anxiety comes from. Because stocks, unlike currencies, often go in one direction for a long time. Unlike currencies that usually trade in a (sometimes large) range. Perhaps ...

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There are all kinds of interesting ways we could expand Blessing and make her more complex. Or you can adjust LAF and Multiplier while optimizing to get closer to your desired size and profit potential at the same time. If you're not willing to do ...

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Okay, while Strategy Tester (ST) is a pretty good tool for optimizing Blessing, it's far from perfect. I've seen some EA developers that refuse to use ST at all because of its shortcomings. Fortunately, it works for Blessing reasonably well if you ...

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When you start an EA is very important. Changing the start date by a day can sometimes yield vastly different results. One of the important difficulties with using EAs to trade.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Another thread sounds like a good idea. This one has gotten so long and old that no one seems to read enough of it to be current before they post. Blessing is pretty solid. Multi-pair EAs have amazing possibilities and dimensions. Together they ...

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I didn't just make an assertion. I proved it. I've written quite a few EAs, most with the ability to turn tick filtering on and off. I'm sure there must be some strategies that profit from every tick. I just haven't seen them. Blessing is definitely ...

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Good to see strange and wonderful things being attempted. I have read of others having difficulty with mutli-pair EAs with MT4, finding that trading by timer (every second or so) vs. ticks was necessary, because MT4 supposedly aborts some later ...

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In my experience if you're using #EnableOncePerBar you don't need to care about 'modeling quality'. EOPB causes Blessing to filter out ticks and only open trades on each bar. This also means you don't need data for other timeframes. Works for me, ...

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It's possible that Blessing isn't handling the two-decimal price of Gold properly. Most currencies have more decimals than that. Number of decimals can be a tricky part of programming EAs. I have a setup that optimized okay after setting the spread ...

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Sorry to hear that. Here in the US the best we can do is 1:50. Not the 1:200 the rest of the world enjoys. You need to keep more in your account to safely trade. You'll have to decide how much more. I have one account outside of the US that has ...

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I have 3 brokers. The best timeframe for a particular currency pair is usually specific to the broker too. I really prefer 1 minute and 5 minute timeframes because you get more trades. Sometimes lots more. And a 2-month backtest starts looking like ...

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It's really just a bug fix for the Holiday feature. If you don't use the Holiday feature then .11 or .12 should work just fine. I'm not sure MT5 optimizing buys you much with Blessing. Especially since between one and three months of history seems ...

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Sounds like your MT4 is broken. file

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Sounds like your machine doesn't want to open the file. Try renaming it or compiling it again ...

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I finally fixed the holiday bug, I think. At least it seems to display correctly now. Was a hangover from adapting to latest versions of MT4 and preparing for MT5. Mostly compatibility with "#property strict". If you don't use the Holiday feature ...

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I use FXChoice for metals, US brokers don't support them. My XAUUSD didn't work (I'll try optimizing again ...) XAGUSD (silver) wasn't bad but currencies were better ... Here are some forward tests from that broker: Symbol TF Magic Profit P/Mo EA c7 ...

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Well done. I think it helps to optimize with $1000 account setting, even if you're looking to start smaller. When you're finished optimizing check PortionPC from one to 100 and see what it says about smaller balance. I probably wouldn't go below ...

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I posted a bunch of set files not too long ago. As you will find in some of my earlier posts the set files are fairly broker specific. So learning how to optimize is very helpful. It's especially nice when a setup starts to slow down, since you can ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles