It's a quirk of Blessing's money management, I think. I may look into fixing it at some point, if I can figure it out. For now I'm just using it to make money ... with care. Money management routines on grid trading systems are somewhat tricky, I ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Sorry, that one had an extra http in front for some reason ... url

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

For the rare person that is actually optimizing Blessing I thought I'd mention that I do most of my optimizations with the balance set to $1000. If you're target account is smaller than that you might get a nasty surprise if you set the Strategy ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

MT4 shows connection status at the bottom right of the main window. If there's trouble then check the Journal tab to see if there are error reports. Most times the solution is right there. Checking the Journal tab periodically is good practice.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Many folks, including the manual suggest that Blessing employs the Martingale strategy. IT DOES NOT! Martingale is a much discredited betting strategy from the 1800's that dictates doubling your bet on each loss. Which of course will swallow the ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Here's an article that talks about the differences in price between brokers ... https://vantagepointtrading.com/differences-forex-data-feed-can-affect-performance/ It suggests that differences of 20% are likely to show up on lower time frames. I ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Hint: If you want to know how Blessing works ... test it. Put in various numbers and see how things change. Strategy Tester is your friend. Use it.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

If all I'm given is 'it is not working' then I can't help.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Here's a slightly updated version of Blessing with a new MinMarginPercent feature. If you turn it on then Blessing will stop opening new trades when the Margin Level Percent drops below the level you set. This is nice for testing, to help get an ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Here are some recently optimized set files ... file No guarantees! These still need to be forward tested by you ... The file names look something like this: 201911032-gbpaud-h4-OL.set The OL means it was optimized with Oanda live data. Brokers ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Here are some results from some of my more recent Blessing setups ... file When you use your broker's data you don't need to forward test more than a few days to feel confident about going live. Forex is not the stock market. Every broker provides ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Arrgggg. I suppose if you trade only one-hour (H1) or four-hour (H4) timeframes you can get away with using some other data than YOUR BROKER'S DATA. Otherwise, it is my considered opinion that you are making a mistake. I use three different brokers. ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Have you had the same results with different currency pairs? Perhaps you have a data problem. When I optimize with Open prices only then do a single run with tick data my results are usually within a few pennies of each other.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

My 'optimize-start' set file is not for trading. It's for starting an optimization. Its meant to help with the 'overwhelming options'. It gets your optimization well on its way with one simple operation. You really need to learn how to optimize with ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Here's a set file to getting started with a new optimization. Remove '.txt' from the name, load it up in Strategy Tester, turn on Genetic algorithm and run your first test. This is how I currently start most of my optimizations. It gets things going ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Here's a cleaned up version of Blessing with the input names matching the manual once again. This should be helpful for those that do a lot of testing, and to generally reduce confusion. I hope to add a couple of useful features to Blessing soon, ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

The one you create yourself. Try reading some of the thread and you'll understand.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Blessing is public domain. All posted versions are shareable.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Please don't pollute this list with unrelated stuff.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

A slightly newer version of the manual ... file I notice people referring to Blessing as a Martingale system. The manuals also use this term. Blessing is NOT a Martingale system. Martingale is a thoroughly discredited betting system from the 18th ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles