Side Talk: I studded hundreds of trading strategies. I even made-up many on my own, and they looked very profitable at first glance. So, I put them in an EA, and they failed on the long run. Well, I was very disciplined but yet failed.

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Side Talk, You think that you have a successful trading strategy, but trading it manually involves fear and greed, so you fail. I have read books and articles on Trader's Discipline as key to success in trading. But couldn't find a way to guarantee ...

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Here are the test results for the 8 pairs linked to TE for the period 1/1/2014 to 12/4/2014 using M30 and same settings for all pairs as linked to TE: PAIR $ PROFIT/LOSS ====== ======== GBP/USD +3536 EUR/USD -1222 AUD/USD +2177 NZD/USD +1852 USD/JPY ...

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Before moving to Big Candle 5, here is a fix of known issues on Big Candle 4, along with a test on GBP/USD 2014 using same settings linked to Trade Explorer. Impressive Results. The new release includes the following fixes: No multiple trades on ...

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I checked your link, but Nothing much there to compare !. What happened, did you gave up or what? Anyway, I had to check your code to know "your theory". It looks good to me. But different. Thanks for stopping by,

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So what happened with EUR/USD on Thursday: image [1] According to settings a Big Candle appeared, and a Long Trade Taken on Current Candle, and since Candle Size was relatively small, and hence SL is small, a Large position was opened 0.6. If you ...

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Great. Tomorrow is the NFP day, lets see what happens.

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This why I am doing forward testing. Once errors are discovred they can be resolved. I only hope that we discover all of them during this short testing period.

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I will explain what happened with the 3 recent consecutive losses on EUR/USD later on the weekend, and how this should be avoided in final ea version.

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All such cases will be hopefully handled in the Final version.

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With regard to A/U trade I checked the log, and found out that the TP order was not sent by the EA. I ran the strategy tester (attached) and TP was triggered correctly, however the trailing stop was not triggerd. I think this is related to changes ...

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Thank you Magix. I will certainly take a look at FTL.

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I don't know what happened with AUD/USD Trade today. Partail TP was not triggered although Break Even and then Trailing Stop was activated.

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Unfortunately my PC at work which is running the EA was off last night due to power disconnection. I hope that it did not mess any thing. People planning to use auto trading should have an VPS account.

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Thank you ZiC. BC4 is still in the test phase, and I think its better to wait until end of April to evaluate it. As I mentioned before the EA was not working as it is supposed to because of lot size issues related to Minimum Lot set by Broker (which ...

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I got involved in a new project that will take most of my time. I will leave the EA working as is till end of April, and I will try to check the thread from time to time for questions/ideas ... etc.

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I took a look at your TE and noticed that you used small targets. Is this strategy for scalping !. From what I read so far, and since you're trading with the trend, I think you should be looking for larger profit targets. Am I right, or ...

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Starting today I changed the Risk percentage from 1% to 4% on all pairs. This will allow for better position management but comes at Higher Risk.

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Right. For the Final version I am planning to drop ATR and use Average multiplier on a long period (1 year for M30, 2 years for H4 and so on). This amount will be entered as an input parameter by the user in Fixed Pips (i.e. I will let the user do ...

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Although it is still early to judge the EA, I will keep it running until end of April. But I will increase the risk percentage to 3% instead of 1% in order to allow for proper position calculation. At the mean time my plan for the next Final version ...

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