I think you are using a very different version of Blessing than the rest of us. The only thing you said that's correct is that Blessing doesn't do martingale.

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The way I like to use Blessing is to optimize it with MT4's Strategy Tester over a short period of one to three months and then test the results on Demo. I currently have over 100 instances test-trading on Demo accounts. I choose the best performers ...

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I've seen several modified versions of Blessing that added other entry indicators. I haven't seen any that Strategy Tester seemed to like as well as the ones provided in the base EA. It's relatively easy to add new entry indicators to Blessing. But ...

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Forex is a money machine. Just start your EA and money pours out! 12 hours? Some EAs do one trade per week, or less. Most EAs do less than one trade per day. Did you test it in Strategy Tester to find out how it should behave? Welcome to the forum.

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One of the problems with optimizing and using EAs is that trades take time. They can take from a few minutes to a few days. When you optimize an EA you find repeating patterns in the market. When you then start it trading on another account at some ...

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What?

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I agree, there must be strategies that Open price only doesn't serve well. I haven't found them. I've written at least 15 EAs in the last year or so and none of them have shown any negative effects from using OPO and filtering out ticks. Granted, ...

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I select my 'model' from within the EA code, by filtering out the ticks both in testing and in real time trading. One percent difference. Yes, I know it's not intuitive. Many things in trading are not. It's reality. It works. It makes money. Yes, ...

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Actually on open price. But they are almost the same. If you add a switch to your EA to only look at the open price of each bar and compare performance with it on and off you will see the difference is usually less than 1%. Test/trading ticks is a ...

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On the other hand, trading ticks is easily provably a waste of time. Unless you're doing very, very short term trading.

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Ah, time. Yes, it takes time. And things change over time. I don't expect setups to last forever. Some folks like to optimize over years of history. And that does have some validity. You find longer-lasting patterns in the market. But smaller. I ...

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I do sometimes. But demo trading is different. More accurate. More 'real'. The Strategy Tester is not perfect. It's an approximation. It glosses over some things, like spreads. That's why I do a lot of testing and expect only a few winning setups.

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Good point. That's part of why forward testing is so important. At least you have smaller losses when MaxDD is minimized. If losses are small enough you can keep running the same setup into greener trades. Weathering the market disruptions with a ...

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I've had no luck with XAUUSD at all. Must be doing something wrong. My experience with MaxDDPercent settings below about 10% is they often make Blessing more finicky. Below 5% things get a bit more tricky. Often changing to 4% or 6% after optimizing ...

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MT4 occasionally loses (deletes) .ex4 files. Try copying a fresh copy in place. That should fix it.

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A possible workaround is to reset Blessing after opening an external trade. When Blessing restarts it checks for all existing trades with it's magic number. You can reset Blessing by opening Properties and then clicking Okay. I haven't tried this, ...

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I think you mean the same magic number.

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I'm no expert either. If we share experiences here we may all get better and learn new things more quickly. I was a trader, years ago. Not a very good one. Now I'm trying to become a successful robot operator. :-)

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Yes. I think, originally it took a long time to optimize Blessing because they were using ticks and because they thought you needed to use big chunks (years) of history. My guess. So they didn't really optimize individual indicators much. Notice ...

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How many times do I have to say this? Read more of this thread. And forget about tick data. A few months of 'Open prices only' data from YOUR BROKER is all you need or want.

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