Unimak please give feedback if I'm doing it the way you thinked about the range bar size. I saved the 1 minute data from my broker as a csv file, then load it into open office as a spreadsheet (excel can't handle more than 65535 rows). Then I ...

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seller9: Will you release the u9 version before the starting of the next week? I don't want to change versions in the middle of the week, because that would make the testing results inaccurate.

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Check the GJ at 2012.04.02 12:07 that was the trade the EA missed on the EJ (these two pairs move in a very similar way). Theres something strange on the GJ: there was no trades between monday morning and afternoon,but there was about 5 entry ...

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I've run it all the time. The EJ catched a good trade after the NFP release, that's why the loss is smaller including the NFP trades. Looking back at the chart the problems was: The EA didn't catch the big down move at the beginning of monday, ...

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So this week I've used 6 pip range bars on all the 9 pairs I trade. There were 2 big losses this week: at the beginning of the week, when lots of pairs opened with a relatively big gap, and the NFP release. Before the NFP the overall gain was about ...

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kumetto: There was NFP and some other major news out at 13:30 GMT. I had 6 positions open because I forgot to close them and shut down the EA before the release. All of them was in profit, and all of them were stopped out just before the NFP release ...

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Take a look at my chart with 6 pip range bars (unfortunately I missed the second big move to enter manually, but I catched it on GJ).

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I've closed all my positions at friday just before the market closed. After that I've started the EA again the moment the market opened. I've set it to look for buy and sell signals. I will check the history to see what went wrong, and caused that ...

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I rather be in a 100+ pip move, and have some 10 pip loss in ranging market, than not having losses but miss the big trades. Here's my eu chart about this week with 6 pip range bars, you can see the entry points. There's an open trade with 76 pips ...

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Unfortunately I had much less free time at the weekend than I planned (my 2 months old twin sons are taking care of my free time lol). I only backtested manually the EURUSD pair with 2, 6, 9, 12 pip range bar sizes between 26th and 30th of march ...

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I've made a quick backtesting with 10 pip range bars, and compared the last 2 weeks results with my live forward testing. See the attached screenshots, why I don't trust the MT4 strategy tester's backtesting results. All the settings was the same in ...

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smeden, tradeyguynw: Thanks for your input. I've tried to make this work on my comp, it has OSX on it and I run Windows XP in a virtual machine. I don't know why I cannot make it working. I've tried it on my wife's notebook with Win7 on it, and it ...

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I don't know how can I use range bars in strategy tester

Ichimoku cloud burst ea

Many months of backtesting manually with every range bar size will take ages to complete, but it should be done I will start doing it, but I think I won't do charts about it with arrows and labels, because making the charts take up more time than ...

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Unfortunately yesterday I had to install new hardware into my computer, so I had to stop the EA. Only started again in the middle of the NY session. I don't know what went wrong, or it's just the market, but there was much more lose trades than ...

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Thanks for the tip I let the EA running 24 hours a day on 9 pairs on my demo account. I'm planning to do this for 2-3 weeks, and then review the trades taken by the EA and fine tune the settings. As for money management: I made a very basic ...

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forexripper: Altough you not asked me, but I my earnings this week (3 days) with this EA is about 80 USD with position sizes between 0.02-0.04 lot (that would be around 2000USD if someone use a full lot).

Ichimoku cloud burst ea

There were many trades opened for me by the ea. Before the begining of the NY session there was some bad entries on gbpjpy and urjpy, the price reversed but the ea catched the breakout on the other side of kumo and made some pips to lessen the loss. ...

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You don't have to have a set take profit level. You can open a trade only with stop loss set, and exit it if an opposing signal comes. For example if you base your trades on TDI, and you enter long on an upward cross and exit if the green line ...

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When you use ichimoku as your trading system, the strongest support and resistance levels are the 2 sides of the cloud (kumo). Look on that aussie chart how the price bumped back multiple times from either side of the kumo in the previous uptrend. I ...

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