In metatrader, time is the number of seconds after 00:00:00 January 1, 1970. Adjust accordingly..

How do I specify trading hours for my EA?

Did you read the thread?

4H Box Breakout

Interesting take on system development... It seems you just try to throw as much on the wall as possible and see if it sticks.

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I might be interested.

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smilee89, I received your PMs, I'm not entirely sure how they are relevant. My suggestion, write a guide/manual/ebook/report on your optimization theory.

Effective optimization

And what--pray tell--are your qualifications for knowing how best to optimize an EA? It's most generous of you to provide this service, but at the same time, I'm curious as to your intentions. Are you just looking for a bunch of free EAs? As a test, ...

Effective optimization

How do you backtest triangular arbitrage?

MetaTrader 5 Client Terminal

Based on your strategy, yes there will be that one floating loss. But the martingale component only happens after a closed loss. That is to say, you don't increase your lot size until you've had a loss. Hanover and I have years of experience at ...

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Martingale doesn't have one major loss. It has a string of losses which build on top of each other until--hopefully--one win offsets all previous losses. The string of losses will almost always inevitably result in what many here call the 'death ...

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what datatype is ln_txt[]?

return string value... getting incompatible error

Maybe 5 or 6. Losing weeks tend to come when the overall market moves from trending to ranging or vice versa. Different settings based largely on spread and my personal knowledge with the pair.

Old Dog with New Tricks

The alternative is to rewrite the script so it doesn't try to write the entire file into memory, but rather in chunks.

Metatrader 4 script to convert 10 years of M1 data

Use the history center. Import the 1M data into the history center, then use the period converter to convert the 1M time into whatever you need. Then go back into the history center and export the timeframes you converted.

Metatrader 4 script to convert 10 years of M1 data

How many 1M bars in 10 years? Should be around 3-4million I think. MT4 is capable of handling that.

Metatrader 4 script to convert 10 years of M1 data

The trend that day was down until the FOMC announcement. So I'll ask again. How would the system have fared? A lot of traders I know who were hedging and using martingale went bankrupt that day. They simply couldn't take the hit.

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How would your system fare on march 18, 2009? Price moved almost 100 pips in one minute, and ultimately 250 pips in 15 minutes.

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Mode selection. Input layer is anything I could possibly throw at it. I could put any data as long as I can get it timestamped and match it up with FX data. One particular set of EAs uses 14,000 inputs. Output layer is three things: Buy Sell Do ...

Any good hardware guys here?

MT5 backtester still has a few flaws (0 spread, wrong executions, and unusual swaps). I've written a self-optimizing EA. The problem is it takes me ~120 days to test each and every permutation. I'm working on a distribution method so I can ...

Metatrader 5's distributed optimization

Cost is almost moot for me. I have no qualms dropping 50k to build a bleeding edge computer for my trading--I can write it off as a business expense--the only requirement I have is that it works reliably and pays for itself within a year. Adal, I ...

Any good hardware guys here?

I agree speed is important, but the computing power of the newer gfx cards is rendered moot if the data can't fit in the available RAM.

Any good hardware guys here?