Pluto2, note that in the short term, one account might look more favorable because of when the EA was started. A biggest loser on an EA that was started this morning will be a different biggest loser than on one that was started this evening, and ...

Basket 14 EA System

I don't quite understand your question, getting. EDIT: I guess it wasn't a question, party on! I like your link showing your trades!

Basket 14 EA System

catalin_tm, the EA will use the smallest lot size available with your broker to trade your account. $100 is a very small amount to trade any strategy. I wish you the best luck in any case.

Basket 14 EA System

You have found the root cause of your problem. Probably those values are left over from running the EA on a previous account. Close your chart which will stop the EA. Hit F3 and and edit the global variables so that last flat balance and last flat ...

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islandtrader41, Can you upload a copy of the exact source code (mq4 file) you are using? And if you can, a screen snapshot of the chart you have the EA attached to, showing all of the EA's comments? Screen snapshots are accomplished via Ctl-PrtScn ...

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A very large number of hours went into making these EAs robust and correct. They work for others rock-solid and your problem appears to be unique. The problem almost certainly lies not in the EA's source code, but in some aspect of your MetaTrader ...

Basket 14 EA System

No, the 'm' appendment is 100% known, understood and handled. The EAs handle any kind of mangling of the standard currency symbol strings, and are especially known to work on IBFX accounts.

Basket 14 EA System

Please do not run this EA with other EAs and PLEASE read my FAQ. url

Basket 14 EA System

2.0 lots is not consistent with MaxMarginToUse set at 2.0 and a mini account that has $1,503.91. Sounds like the account is probably a standard account, not a mini. Changing the default lot size from 0.1 to 0.01 will have no effect; that setting is ...

Basket 14 EA System

Thanks for the feedback everyone. In choppy action, you might wonder when the wind will return and fill your sails. All I know is that eventually it will happen. When your patience is rewarded with yet another equity jump, you will start to gain ...

Basket 14 EA System

If you read between the lines of those cheering lower leverage levels, you'll detect this message, "I never figured out how to become a consistently profitable trader, so that means no one else could possibly have figured it out, and 10:1 or 50:1 ...

Thoughts on 50:1 Leverage

The trades can be open longer than that, yet they will come into profit. Luck definitely plays a role in how fast a particular cycle reaches profit, but not in whether the basket will eventually reach profit. It will. I suggest you pursue other ...

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url I want to point out that studying frazerd's posts and notated spreadsheets is a superb way to gain insight into the Basket14 strategy. With his highlights and notations, he clearly shows how the EA trims selected pairs, then later closes the ...

Basket 14 EA System

No but if you can identify a synthetic hedge using a large number of pairs they do offer, the EA can be modified to trade that basket of pairs.

Basket 14 EA System

Those of you who weighed in as doubters might want to follow the Basket14 thread.

Successful Automatic Trading - Like Chasing Bigfoot?

I'm running four different demos, each with a different leverage level. I have a 200:1, a 100:1, a 50:1 and a 10:1. None of these has seen a margin level below 200% and all of them have gone through at least two profit-taking cycles ("legs" as they ...

Basket 14 EA System

The settings look correct to me but I advise trading a demo account of the same type and leverage level as your live account, with those exact settings, before you roll into a live account, just to be sure.

Basket 14 EA System

Explained as recently as post #77, first paragraph.

Basket 14 EA System

I think what needs to be understood by more thread readers is that this strategy intentionally trims the biggest loser and opens an opposite-direction trade on the same pair whenever at least three losing pairs have breached their 24-hour high/low. ...

Basket 14 EA System

In the Basket14 EAs, I do not use the RVI signal line which is where the error was (I had reversed the proper usage of RVI signal and RVI main), so the coding error did not carry over. I simply compare the RVI main values of the two sets of 7 pairs. ...

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