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- dethl replied Dec 29, 2009
Been playing with a demo account with micro (0.01) lots and watched the euro all day. A trade of mine is currently at 230 pips gained as a result of the spike. I had some other long trades that profited as well but I'm still new so I've been playing ...
- dethl replied Mar 19, 2009
The changes are great, I have no problem with them at all (I'll modify my EA to reflect this). Yes, I do mean by clearing all open positions. My EA that I am talking about is being kept private for now as I am still testing. I don't want to get ...
- dethl replied Mar 19, 2009
Very nice work there. A problem with getting an alert mid-bar is that you have very little time to react. Sure you can turn off the EA but you'll be spending a small amount of time closing any other trades currently active. That time will cost you ...
- dethl replied Mar 19, 2009
You should see the modifications I made to Bob's EA using my code from the indicators. The EA will drop all orders for a pair and then turn around and execute an order to follow the trend.
- dethl replied Mar 18, 2009
I am attaching some custom indicators I made to help me counteract spikes like this. One shows the 1st and 2nd derivatives of the high for each bar and the other shows the low. I use this in conjunction with the modifications I've made to Bob's EA ...
- dethl replied Mar 18, 2009
Bingo, you got it.
- dethl replied Mar 18, 2009
My anti-spike is a combination of the first and second derivative of the high prices for each bar. If the first and second derivative both indicate a fast moving pip increase (the slope and the acceleration of the slope) then after a certain ...
- dethl replied Mar 18, 2009
Looks like it. On another note, my anti-spike protection worked with this pair. No death trade for me or any further buy orders while this spike is going on. EDIT: It's not working for the USDCHF and I know why. Since I'm using the high price it ...
- dethl replied Mar 18, 2009
How's everyone doing this morning? I've got quite a bit of movement on the EURUSD (no surprise with the FOMC meeting), USDCHF, GBPCHF, and EURCAD. Of course with all this movement I'm hoping on a retrace. It's been a bumpy morning.
- dethl replied Mar 17, 2009
Don't get your hopes up too high - the Fed is meeting tomorrow. Investors are probably just unsure what the outcome will be.
- dethl replied Mar 17, 2009
Can't say I've had any problems, and I'm even running MT4 via Wine in Ubuntu Linux (accessing my desktop via VNC).
- dethl replied Mar 16, 2009
I think I left out the EURCHF pair since it was too volatile even with spike protection on the strategy tester. I'd definitely turn off the EA or make sure a trailing stop is going on when big news comes out. I may do that come Wednesday for my USD ...
- dethl replied Mar 16, 2009
Doing some new testing ($75 demo mini account). Trading 8 pairs (might as well be 7 as I don't expect the GBPUSD M1 chart to give me many trades, but I expect that anyway....its too volatile in the higher periods right now even with spike ...
- dethl replied Mar 16, 2009
Just make sure when you open the demo you select the account type as "minis" instead of "standard". EDIT: Fixed a stupid typo. Oops.
- dethl replied Mar 16, 2009
I'm using Interbank FX (IBFX)
- dethl replied Mar 16, 2009
FOMC meeting this Wednesday. Keep an eye out on your USD pairs. EDIT: From url
- dethl replied Mar 15, 2009
EDIT: Never mind, this is going to take quite some time to get it all working as described.
- dethl replied Mar 15, 2009
I'll look into coding something like that later tonight. It's an interesting idea and I'd definitely like to help test it. EDIT: Let me go ahead and see if I can simplify your request to help me better understand. Rather than opening a bigger lot ...
- dethl replied Mar 15, 2009
The bar can be changed as desired but for the most part I've used a 100 to 200 pip bar to prevent a total s/l wipe out in the event of a sudden spike. What happens is that the first derivative notes that the change in the high price (in pips) has ...
- dethl replied Mar 15, 2009
I took my idea for spike protection to a whole new level. I am using the immediate first (slope between current bar and previous bar) and second derivative (slope of the change between the pair of the current/previous bar and the pair of the 2nd ...