There is lots about Blessing that I don't fully understand yet. Plenty of things I'm going on faith and from the manual. ForceMarketCond has four states, zero through four: uptrend, downtrend, range and off. I renamed off (3) to automatic in my ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I think you may be making your number too large. It's a 32-bit integer I think. And 2147483647 looks suspiciously like the largest 32-bit integer possible. So if you put in 9999999999999999999999999999 it will change it to the largest int. The ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

file file MaxDDPercent set to 14% (that means 11% or 12% actually worked.) Only five trades on forward testing so far, all winners. Trades 1.6 trades per day so far. Optimized on $1K but tested well down to 10% PortionPC These setups would never ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

file file MaxDDPercent set to 22% Only one trade forward testing so far, a winner. Tune it up and test it yourself. Optimized on $1000 but tested PortionPC down to 5% with good results. Okay for small accounts. Good luck!

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

file file EA Magic# Pair TF SW Hist Date-Range Days NetProf PFact Trds Win AvProf AvLoss Funds b3rf2.1.4 201902071 audjpy m5 od OL 12/1-2/3 64 $14,963.46 2528.61 37 97% 415.82 -5.92 1000 MaxDDPercent set to 50% ... maybe you can tune that up. ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

file FL denotes Forex.com Live data MaxDDPercent set to 20% 98% winners in backtesting. 100% winners in forward testing (9 so far.) Seems to do a couple trades per day. Optimized on $250, should work on larger. As always, this may not work on your ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

file OL denotes Oanda Live data. MaxDDPercent set to 46% ... maybe you can reduce that when you tune it up on your Strategy Tester. Produced 11 winners so far in forward testing.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

This one has been trading well ... only trades every other day ... can't find the report on it :-( file Optimized for $250 portion, so should work on anything larger than that. MaxDDPercent set to 15. 17 winners, 1 loser on forward test so far. No ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I've written 15 different EAs in the last year. I noticed that various folks that hassled with tick data in the past had all switched to Open prices only, and stopped screwing with tick data. So I built a switch into my EAs to trade ticks or to ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I'm finding that tuning for 20% Max draw-down or less is usually achievable. I'm not sure what that will do to the bottom line over time, but seems like a good move. I wait until after things are tuned as best I can get them, then test MaxDD to see ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I look at that graph and I see a ton of promise, not a crash and burn. Almost done. Fix it already! Edit: And stop using tick data! Last century already. :-)

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Thanks for the input, 4xambition. Lots to think about. Please consider less coffee and more sentences and paragraphs when posting in the future. Try separating thoughts with a little more white space. I am especially interested in automated trading. ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

A few quick tips for tuning up existing setups ... 1. Turn off Genetic optimization. 2. Don't tune up on a Demo account. Live is much better. You can copy your whole MT4 to another folder and run that, even on a different computer. Just don't turn ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Yes, I've got the same trade. We're trading repeating patterns found by Blessing and MT4 Strategy Tester. Many trades take days to complete. If you're unlucky enough to start trading in the middle of a pattern you may not do as well. Until the EA ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

You're doing better than I am. I have one winner and one still out. I guess I started on the wrong day.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

I usually back test between one and three months. Been liking one month a lot lately. Too many things to try to find all the good numbers and patterns, but I keep trying. Good to keep a database of all the different setups (set files) you create. ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

To make money with Blessing you must learn to use Strategy Tester.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

You've come to a gun fight with a knife? Say your prayers.

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

For a better and quicker test see how it does on Strategy Tester. If it doesn't work there you'll know right away. And have tools to figure out why. As I keep saying, there's a very good chance that even the best set file may not work as well on ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles

Three hours? Wow! You need to slow down. Get used to waiting. Give it a week and then report. Two days, at least. Things happen slowly in the market. It's a sometimes infuriating truth. When you have something new to try it may take a month before ...

Most Famous Blessing 3.9.6 EA and Setfiles