Work it into the start / stop times.

Generic Breakout Version 7 [TD]

Looks like you set SignalsOnly to true. When SignalsOnly is true, the EA won't place a trade. It will only alert you to a trade opportunity.

Generic Breakout Version 7 [TD]

ForexTester has FxOpen Data it seems--it matches the tick database bars that I built. The only reason why I use it is it has 10 years of data. In the past 10 years, we've gone through 3, arguably 4 market shifts. I don't expect the data to be ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

If you want to follow my defaults.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Nope, just adjust pip values accordingly.

Old Dog with New Tricks

How'd you manage -103 pips? Default SL is 200, unless you're on a 4 digit broker?

Old Dog with New Tricks

Okay... what am I missing/supposed to see?

Old Dog with New Tricks

Tools -> History Center -> Import

Old Dog with New Tricks

That's expected. ReverseTrades was set to false, right? The SL is fixed and the TP is being optimized

Old Dog with New Tricks

Can you post a chart corresponding to the open times of those trades? My guess is each new bar was a new daily high, and thus a new signal.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Use the period converter script next time. Simply clicking on other timeframes downloads data from MetaQuotes.

Old Dog with New Tricks

It's good to see you finally have the EA working. Remember, both EAs use the past to try and predict the future. Based on the stats generated by that EA when you ran it, trades are more likely to be profitable in breakouts. To us, of course this ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

MaximumBarShift is basically how many bars a trade should last in the backtester. I originally didn't have any maximum bar shift included, but what ended up happening is there were some trades which were at the absolute highest point of a trend and ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

PM me, seems there may be another system coming.

Old Dog with New Tricks

How many H1 bars do you have in your history center? (F2). And why for that matter is the HiLo SO EA on H1?

Old Dog with New Tricks

As I explained earlier, this self-optimizing EA isn't 'true' optimization, it's a more efficient form of optimization.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Look for Generic Breakout Version 7

EURUSD Breakout EA Help

Strange stuff... TP is -1? Did you use default settings? What I don't get is how some people are having no trouble with this EA and others are...

Old Dog with New Tricks

Quite difficult. There are theoretically infinite round numbers, and only two hilo numbers.

Old Dog with New Tricks

I'm wondering why your start times are in 1970... What does reloading the EA do?

Old Dog with New Tricks