Both the Breakout and CounterTrend Trading Styles have a WinPercent and a SuccessScore. The purpose behind those two parameters is to tell the EA to trade when one trading style's win percent or success score is greater than another style's win ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

I used black box as a generic term. If I can't see the code, I can't be 100% sure what's going on, and thus: black box. I don't mean for it to be derogatory in any way.

SSS EA v1.0 - Auto Trader Bot

The underlying system is hardly complicated at all. The complicated part is teaching the EA when to trade with the underlying system. The damn thing won't listen to my lessons, so I have to write its brain myself. For further clarification The bot ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

Why the blackbox nature of this EA? As for the meaning of SSS Super Simple System Simply Silly System SMA SMA System Any of those three?

SSS EA v1.0 - Auto Trader Bot

I'm not sure if you have heard of the Delta Phenomenon, but I've been using Eureqa to try and model future turning points. I'm currently accurate +/- 5 days, and I'm trying to shrink that figure to a more usable 1 hour window of opportunity. The ...

pattern matching

string BrokerType = "4 Digit"; if(Digits == 3 || Digits == 5) BrokerType = "5 Digit";

Detecting 4 digit vs 5 digit broker

The EA checks bars on a chart, not true history data. At the start of a backtest, there are only a few bars, toward the end of a backtest, there are more bars. The EA recalculates once daily. It's not the most accurate walk-forward, but the stats ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

1) It is impossible for the EA to backtest using the strategy tester because the EA is using the chart history. The backtester only loads the data it needs. So the most recent strategy tester trades would be useful and accurate. What do you mean by ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

WTF — I guess I should've expected this sooner. Last night I detected a decompiled version of this EA hitting my server. To prevent commercialization, I am releasing the source code in its entirety under the FreeBSD license. The license is ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

Code 1, the shift is 0, and Code 2 the shift is 2. This means that the MA is shifted relative to the candles. To demonstrate, look in the standard indicators, add a moving average, and change the shift value to non-zero

MA_Shift in Expert Advisors

Collected data will be posted on RonaldRaygunForex.com eventually. I'm trying to work out bandwidth limits with my host. If someone is willing to host these files, or if anyone knows a way to upload these files via script to a website (rapidshare?), ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

Glad to have you around Steve! If there's anything I can do to help you with development of this concept, let me know.

Old Dog with New Tricks

You're very right Craig. Both are established database systems. I don't think you would notice any major differences between either system until you reach the enterprise level.

MYSQL or PostgreSQL

The reason behind the bulk of your problems was a connection to my webserver url The EA has a time module which syncs off of GMT. The page url didn't exist, and wasn't returning a 404 error, which in turn caused an infinite loop and furthermore ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

MySQL is faster when querying data. Postgre is faster when inserting data. Which is more important to you?

MYSQL or PostgreSQL

You need a server with GMT time to sync off of. Or... You can use TimeLocal() to grab your computer's time, and calculate GMT shift from that.

Question about GMT offset

If you have questions, post them on this thread.

The AshFX System - Version II

OrderCommission()

How to modify the standard trailing stop code for dealing desk to be used for ecn?

It should work the same regardless of Dealing Desk or ECN. The difference is not in how a trade is managed, but how a trade is placed. Dealing desks allow positions to be opened with the stoploss and takeprofit at the same time. ECNs require that a ...

How to modify the standard trailing stop code for dealing desk to be used for ecn?

Not normal, but wait and see what happens.

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