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- 1ka replied Jan 21, 2009
Hmm, I'm not sure that the ATR in MetaTrader works correctly. I'd expect to see the ATR average out at higher periods. But in MetaTrader it still seems as susceptible to large bars at higher periods. The yellow line is 140 period. There's a ...
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- 1ka replied Jan 21, 2009
EA - 20090121 — Today's results. Slightly better
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- 1ka replied Jan 21, 2009
EA — Noticed a subtle bug that may stop the EA taking a trade when there's another bar that almost crosses the IB threshold. Posted the first chart after this fix. I'll post an updated EA in the first post. Changed the test code to close an IB ...
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- 1ka replied Jan 21, 2009
The ATR is used to determine the TP. With larger ATR's we average out the size of the bars, so the EA is not affected by any spikes in the bar size, so it will generally TP much sooner. I ran a few tests on EURUSD 30M charts and found that 40 was a ...
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- 1ka replied Jan 21, 2009
Anto, Abnormalone Thanks. Never thought about a minimum set up bar, always assumed the problem was with the big ones
Inside Bar Trading RevisitedI'll post here with a new version if I get time to do this. I'm currently trying to see if the EA should bail out when a trade is ...
- 1ka replied Jan 20, 2009
EA - Results 20090120 — Attached is the graph showing todays results. Lots of ups and downs.
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- 1ka replied Jan 20, 2009
EA - ATR Period — Thought I'd run a quick test to see what effect the ATR period has on the results. Images below are for ATR periods of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 & 60. The EA has been running with an ATR of 20, but some of the higher ATRs seem to ...
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- 1ka replied Jan 20, 2009
Initially it is 1/2 ATR where I take half the lot. This seems to give a reasonable hit rate. Anything bigger and we get more losers. Could go smaller I suppose, maybe have a fixed value?
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- 1ka replied Jan 20, 2009
I haven't tried to incorporate and existing indicator into the EA, they've all been re-coded to fit in the EA. However, here is a snippet of code from another EA I've seen. It reads values directly from an external indicator, which is what you are ...
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- 1ka replied Jan 20, 2009
Fixing the SL to 25 gives the results as below (before/after). I need to look at this further as it doesn't quite give the increase in profit I was hoping for.
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- 1ka replied Jan 20, 2009
EA - IB Breakout — Thanks Anto, Sledgehammer I wonder if the Inner Bar Breakout (UseIBForBreakout=true) is currency sensitive since Sledgehammer lost on EURUSD? Nice overall result though. For me, EURGBP was the big loser yesterday, lots of ...
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- 1ka replied Jan 19, 2009
EA Results 20090119 — Attached is the graph showing todays results. We were doing fine until the evening. Still 0.13 profit
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- 1ka replied Jan 19, 2009
EA - MAE — Following on from Pippo's post about using Maximum Adverse Excursion then here is the analysis from EURUSD on M30 for 2008. Red dots are losing trades, blue dots are winners. The X-Axis shows the maximum profit the trend reached The ...
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- 1ka replied Jan 18, 2009
Hi Rastaman, You only need the EA, it doesn't use indicators, per se. Pick up stuff from here -> url . Drop the EA on any chart, any timeframe. It should 'just work'. We talk about using indicators, such as trend and RSI, but these are coded in ...
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- 1ka replied Jan 18, 2009
Yes, it was something I was planning to do at some point (the list is getting longer and longer
Inside Bar Trading Revisited) It might be worth back-testing the EA over a year and collating the results in a spreadsheet, as you've already done. The longer timeframe will ...
- 1ka replied Jan 18, 2009
EA Change — Quick change to the EA to expose the Magic Number as a parameter. You shouldn't need to worry about this unless you need to run the multiple EA's on the same currency, on different timeframes in the same account. In this case you ...
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- 1ka replied Jan 17, 2009
Whilst I think your set up is OK, just be wary of running the EA in the same MetaTrader instance using multi-timeframes on the same currency. It might be a problem for you if you are using the same Demo account across the three platforms. To be ...
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- 1ka replied Jan 17, 2009
Maybe I should try H1 - Was this using a breakout at the outer range of the IB, or the inner range of the IB (as per the discussion in the previous few posts)? Thanks. p.s. I see you posted a non-standard chart in Jim's 'pure' IB thread - prepare ...
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- 1ka replied Jan 17, 2009
EA - Results — Results for Friday. I was robbed of 13.87. Having stopped the EA it couldn't close 1/2 at 1/2 ATR and never reached TP
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- 1ka replied Jan 17, 2009
EA - Breakout on IB — OK, I lied, I did have 5 minutes to make the change so that it would use the inner bar to begin breakout and set SL. I haven't changed TP, it still uses the 1/2 ATR as the first TP. So, on EURUSD 30M for 2008 we get: ...
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