Great response! Thanks a ton for the context, and for the book. Going to read and soak it up. Some targeted responses: I did include a reproducable backtest by the way, with a settings file; it's in the zip. I mentioned this in my post. I did ...

Is $10K -> $1M in 4 years impressive? ( My First EA )

Thanks a lot, Cerugo. I spent many sleepless nights working on this so it's great to hear someone find it valuable. I like your suggestion about using pending orders. I was also thinking about using pending orders, maybe using buy stops and sell ...

Need guidance to improve my Trend Riding EA (attached)

So... this thread had replies restricted. Removed that. Hopefully there will be some replies now

Need guidance to improve my Trend Riding EA (attached)

Looking for guidance to improve my Trend Riding EA (( EDIT: I can post now. Here is the thread I started: url ))

EAbuilder

Thank you for starting this thread, Cerugo! I'm also new to writing EAs and just learned that, as a junior member, I can't ask questions in new threads. Great that I can post here! First, I will answer your question before i post mine. "how to open ...

EAbuilder

@DKRock: When you say this "dates back to a time where I thought this kind of data was important" ... can you elaborate? What data do you think is important now? ( when detecting trend) (I'm a newbie here)

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