Well, many traders feel that the "Holy Grail" is sooo close and it would be a mistake giving it all up after so many months/years of work, acumulated market knowledge, experience and "invested" (i.e. lost) funds. Just before reaching the "finish ...

HELP A BRO!! I Just lost my school fees & house money trading

Be very grateful that you have lost only $1.3k which you can easily make back by taking some shifts at your local McDonald's or Burger King. And BE A MAN, work for your money and don't expect others to fund your gambling habit. It is so lame... A ...

HELP A BRO!! I Just lost my school fees & house money trading

Thanks for the update!

Neural Network DJIA

This is a very educational thread - with excellent inputs from some of the best minds on ForexFactory, incl. @PipMeUp, @Hanover and @FerruFx - about Reverse Martingale a.k.a The BIG HOLY GRAIL I suggest reading only the posts of the above named ...

Help me Invert this EA without affecting the trading Logic

It was 15 in total (12 in the failed BT as shown on the screenshot + 3 which have saved the account).

Autop Dynamic Grid EA - Enhanced version of Auto-Profit 3.0

@Edorenta Unfortunately it was due to a non-retracing trend. image 3 more entry levels and a $10k account would have saved the day from the "death sequence"... which goes with the "general wisdom" that any Martingale with a higher risk than 0.01 ...

Autop Dynamic Grid EA - Enhanced version of Auto-Profit 3.0

2012.01.01 - 2014.05.07 "tick level" (99.9%) backtest on AUD/NZD (without profit reinvestment): The test got stuck on 2014.05.07 data with error message shown below, so no final report is available. image image Resumed test from 2014.05.08 to ...

Autop Dynamic Grid EA - Enhanced version of Auto-Profit 3.0

@Ghostbiker I assume @CurseOne would like to backtest it which is why reverz copying might not be suitable for him.

Help me Invert this EA without affecting the trading Logic

@Matraguna Anyone who has been around on FF for a while knows that - even "tick level" 99.9% - MT4 backtesting has limited use for many reasons (which reasons have been mentioned before), not to mention the fact that open and close prices of each ...

Autop Dynamic Grid EA - Enhanced version of Auto-Profit 3.0

What was the deposit and the max. $ DD...? These data would be needed for calculation of the industry benchmark, i.e. the Calmar Ratio.

Autop Dynamic Grid EA - Enhanced version of Auto-Profit 3.0

The most accurate (tick based) backtests are really slow on M1, however, somewhat faster on M5. Here is an M5 and tick based backtest from 2015.01.04. It might be a start, but still not optimal. Why? I was using fixed 0.01 lot and the max. DD was ...

Autop Dynamic Grid EA - Enhanced version of Auto-Profit 3.0

@sagera In my opinion 0.01 lot/$10k is the highest risk setting for any Martingale to survive long term, so the mentioned $500 deposit is destined to crash. The "only" problems with $10k deposit is that the yearly profit % is very small for the risk ...

Autop Dynamic Grid EA - Enhanced version of Auto-Profit 3.0

Well, I have run multiple experimental sets over the past 24 hours and it was one of the two attached below. Currently I am testing settings with $10k deposit and 20% Equity Stop by which I can simulate multiple small ($2k-$5k) account crashes ...

Autop Dynamic Grid EA - Enhanced version of Auto-Profit 3.0

Exactly! Which also means that anticipating a certain number of "crash events" one should have at least 2-3x "reserve deposit" available to be able to start over.

Autop Dynamic Grid EA - Enhanced version of Auto-Profit 3.0

As the below backtest shows: SHORT - and even medium - TERM results can be very deceiving for stability (i.e. without the crash scenario). The EA was working perfectly (with an experimental parameter set) from January 1st, 2012 for almost 22 months ...

Autop Dynamic Grid EA - Enhanced version of Auto-Profit 3.0

With any Martingale, the "death sequence" is practically unavoidable on an average "retail trader" account. On the other hand, if the EA can produce average 500% (non-reinvested) profit with average 3 total crashes per year, it translates to 200% ...

Autop Dynamic Grid EA - Enhanced version of Auto-Profit 3.0

By using REPAINTING indicators on PAST chart data: ANY KIND OF "MIRACLE" is possible, which is called MIRAGE... And yes, it can be "colourful"...

Profitable Strategy

By using "Open Price Method" the backtest has managed to get through the "OrderModify error 130". Although the results with this method are not too accurate, they are accurate enough to mark when a "Martingale DEATH SEQUENCE" happens.

Autop Dynamic Grid EA - Enhanced version of Auto-Profit 3.0

@Barlam Thanks! In my backtest the balance has almost doubled in the first four months of 2012 (from $3000 to $5400), but the starting lot size is still 0.01. I guess I have to wait for the balance to grow more to see the automatic lot size ...

Autop Dynamic Grid EA - Enhanced version of Auto-Profit 3.0

@Edorenta Thank you for this very promising EA. Currently I am running a "tick level" backtest on M1 EURUSD data from 2012 and the preliminary results of the first 4 months (shown below) look pretty good. (Backtesting this EA on M1 "tick level" is ...

Autop Dynamic Grid EA - Enhanced version of Auto-Profit 3.0