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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 13, 2010Self-optimizing EA has a primitive backtesting engine in it at best, same one used in Old Dogs with New Tricks Strategy Tester backtest--although not always accurate--is still loads better than the backtesting engine, and thus why I want to have ...
Updating EA Before Next Tick
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 13, 2010You realize that fractals are technically a repainting indicator, right? If a fractal appears in the last two closed bars, there's a possibility it will repaint
Reversal Trade System
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 13, 2010That's a potential possibility, except you can't backtest a script =)
Updating EA Before Next Tick
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 13, 2010That was the problem I had with the EA, I suggest you take 7bit's advice and put the mother function in the start function. The 'error message' you got was a warning, similar to including a function in the EA which is not used.
Updating EA Before Next Tick
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 12, 2010Is there any way I can somehow call the start function during the weekends? I have a small set of self-optimizing EAs which are running just fine inside the init() function. If what you say about the init timeout is true, how can I get the EA to ...
Updating EA Before Next Tick
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 12, 2010If you can call me via skype or the phone number in my profile, I'd love to go over this with you.
Tick Database Version 2
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 12, 2010Pretty much. All you're doing is replacing the start function with a different function (daughter function) and having the init function call the mother function which in turn calls the daughter function in perpetuity.
Updating EA Before Next Tick
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 12, 2010If you know how to zip files using php code, I'd be more than open to implementing it into the system. As it stands, downloads from the repository have been slow at best, and that's probably because metatrader can't take tick data. I've been doing ...
Tick Database Version 2
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 12, 2010Backtesting assumes the following: Constant spread Stoplosses and Takeprofits are always hit at the price Trades are always entered at their price. NO slippage If you didn't write the EA, look for something in the code called "IsTesting()", see what ...
Backtest different from Live test
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 12, 2010Ignore the start() function completely. What the code is doing is it checks for a new tick every 100 miliseconds. You could have the EA do other things and remove the "RefreshTicks" function if you're using some other function. So in the code... ...
Updating EA Before Next Tick
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 10, 2010Best way is to have the EA save what it's doing in a file..preferably every time the start function ends.
get last values after restart
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 9, 2010I suggest you move to a mysql database. There is a MySQL library already set up for mt4 url
Database Help
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 8, 2010They're grouped. I have yet to develop an EA which is profitable on a coin toss, so for now, I'm doing this manually. 1) Toss a coin: Heads long, Tails short 2) Manage the trade as you see fit. If you think the trade is bad, exit. 3) When you exit a ...
Diversified EA Money Management Code
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 8, 2010That's very simplistic, but yes. That applies to a two dimensional model, and assumes you only have two trading systems. I have 34 EAs running across 6 trading styles. So, let's say I have 10 trending EAs, 6 ranging EAs, and 4 breakout EAs. Three ...
Diversified EA Money Management Code
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 7, 2010General rule of thumb, how much of your account do you stand to lose if the market does action X (action Y?) There are times when I have 100% of my account in a trade, but rarely are those trades set in such a way that they are correleated with each ...
Diversified EA Money Management Code
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 6, 2010Risk Reward is calculated based off of the actual profit / loss. When the actual data is not available, the expected profit / loss is used.
The LMD-Multicurrency
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 4, 2010I believe you just created a donchian channel.
Consolidation indicator