Please go over my list again and check everything thoroughly. Trading takes time. MT4 is a beast. Forex is a beast. So many things to go wrong. It may very well become the money machine you're looking for. But you may have many things to learn ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Sorry, that's not one I use. Learn to optimize yourself or find someone to optimize for ICMarkets for you. Using any other data than ICMarkets' data will make you far less money, or may even lose you money.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Stop being so lazy.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

So you have data? Journal doesn't complain about 'no data'? Try a higher timeframe (Period.) Often more good data in higher timeframes. Try different pairs. Set Spread to 30. Try just the last month of data. Or uncheck Use date. Check that data on a ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

What broker are you using?

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Yes, that seems like a good idea. Need to find a good news indicator, preferably with source code.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I know I keep mentioning shorter timeframes and suggesting better results with them. That's not true for every broker. One of my brokers simply doesn't work as well with short timeframes. And different currency pairs have different results too. ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Blessing, like most EAs, isn't very smart. Its a collection of tricks and responses to various price actions that can sometimes produce profitable results. When you optimize Blessing against recent history you are attempting to adapt it to find and ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Why would you change the timeframe on a running EA? Blessing is not designed to deal with such changes and whatever happens at that point is fairly random. There is no 'normal' in that kind of abuse. Set the timeframe before you load the EA and do ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I watch performance. If daily or weekly performance starts to fall off then I think about re-optimizing. My shorter timeframe setups often do multiple trades per day. When that starts to slow down it's usually time for a change ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I'm not sure what you're changing between backtests. MT4 is a little quirky at times. If you're getting inconsistent results you might try restarting MT4. I leave EnableOncePerBar set to true. I most often test with about two months of history. ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Thanks for the response, Emmanuel. I started out with B3Traditional off. It just seemed cleaner not having those orders hanging around. And more in keeping with Blessing's other attempts at not letting the broker know what you're doing ... A few ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Does anyone have opinions, ideas or experiences on Blessing's B3Traditional setting? It turns on and off the use of limit and stop versus market orders. Thanks.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Adding to the conversation on testing with different amounts of history, I'd like to reiterate something I covered some time back in this list. I don't recommend trading a single Blessing instance on a whole account. Two, three, four or more ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Try adjusting your spread.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Sorry if I hurt your feelings. I appreciate your contributions. I spent a lot of time messing with third-party data too. That's why I'm warning others against it. The folks that sell third-party data make money. Those that use it, not so much. At ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Thanks for the report. I'll take a look.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

You seem to be talking about theoretical probabilities. Where you don't know the data or problem very well. My real world experience (including much familiarity with Blessing and my brokers) is that: better than 75% of my solutions (optimizations) ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I've been thinking about adding an option to set lot size for each level manually. Maybe up to five or ten levels. Mostly to see what would show up in backtesting. I have a suspicion there may be very good patterns that Blessing can't currently ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I think it is. But the newer ones have distinct advantages. The EnableOncePerBar feature is hugely important in my opinion. It speeds up and cleans up optimization immensely. It allows you to use Strategy Tester's Open prices only option and forget ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles