Sir, there are reasons why the EAs here will not take the directions you mention. Your first suggestion assumes that there might be further momentum in one direction, and I'm saying there is no assurance of that and that it's just as reasonable to ...

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Run demo accounts for as long as it takes for you to UNDERSTAND and BE COMFORTABLE with what's going on. It's important that YOU make the decision which EA is best for you. I don't think $200 is a safe amount.

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My first AddSix trades haven't closed yet but I started it late yesterday afternoon so I have more "noise" trades in the stew.

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It was indeed odd that the EA wasn't closing your trades. I couldn't see the root cause from the info you posted. I have to think it was some kind of odd client app issue.

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Here's the thing. In Basket-Add EAs, we were comparing the dollar target against trade PL that was based on bigger lot sizes, whereas the pure Phantom EAs were using a smaller (virtual) lot size, hence the targets weren't getting hit. Code changes ...

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Consider the following groups of pairs: EURCHF, EURJPY, CHFJPY GBPCHF, GBPUSD, USDCHF If you are good at spotting synthetic hedges, you'll see the relationships. Now for an EA that only opens trades on these 6 pairs. The other 8 pairs are just ...

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The big thing to look at is how much does PL change in dollar terms for each tick for a trade of x lots that you have open. Then you can look at the math behind lot sizes, tick values, tick sizes, points, margin, leverage... There are indeed several ...

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No I think he does mean MaxMarginToUse.

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I don't think everyone understands that a 0.01 lot size on a mini account is different from a 0.01 lot size on a standard account, though I'm sure most understand it fully. And how many folks completely understand the exact nuances of managing ...

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But the new tick value code, involving division by 10, could have been wrong and not a generic solution for all brokers and account types (mini and standard). What I was seeing on my 50:1 mini demo could have been different from what someone else ...

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It wouldn't be bad at all to code. I think I even had coded it at one point so I'd have the code sitting in my archives.

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Confirm14 is the refinement. Trouble is, patience is required. People hate that.

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Those with the smaller accounts need to be careful their accounts are not STANDARD accounts. A smaller account like $2,000 should be a mini.

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That would be a good solution if it were important to maintain the open price for the trades. However, if the platform gets restarted and PL is reset, we still open trades based on recent positive action in the phantom trades.

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Since my winning phantom trades had been open a few hours and none of them had profit nowhere near DollarProfitTarget, I thought I needed to multiply PL_Array[i] by 10.0 in the AddIfNeeded function.

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More trades will be added to the new winning pairs. This offsets the losses and eventually tips the account to profit.

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In choppy seas I think your accounts will get pretty beat up with that tactic.

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As frazerd's well notated spreadsheets show us, the 14 initial trades really do hold us back most of the time. They usually contribute negatively, but the add-on trades overcome the initial trades and we reach our profit goal. So having only the ...

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So tazmaan since you have possibly the most experience among us watching the Phantom concept as it is intended to work, do you think it looks better than the EAs that first open the 14 trades and then start adding?

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