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- DaveL replied Jul 2, 2008
Yes, if your management EA is not checking specific magic numbers of the orders, it will apply its management rules to all orders in your account (or of the same pair as the chart on which it is applied, depending on how the management EA is coded). ...
Manage Take Profit EA
- DaveL replied Jul 1, 2008
Thanks, Lux, Yes, you're absolutely right: the term "neural networks" is as broad as the term "indicators." There's an endless variety of methodology & approaches, not just in the coding, but also in preparing the training data set. For a very ...
experience with expert advisors?
- DaveL replied Jul 1, 2008
Hi Onu, You can certainly use any kind of data (whether within or outside of spot FX charts) in a neural net EA, but at least for the purposes of the ATC last year, the neural-net EA was completely self-contained to work with only the chart price ...
experience with expert advisors?
- DaveL replied Jul 1, 2008
Another place to keep an eye on is MetaQuote's Automated Trading Championships (ATC). Every year, they run this comp, and the top EAs perform brilliantly. Last year, someone used a neuro-net EA & blew the rest of the field far, far behind in his ...
experience with expert advisors?
- DaveL replied Jul 1, 2008
If you're an IBFX client, check out their Pattern Recognition System: url
need a programmer to program an alert for double tops and double bottoms
- DaveL replied Jul 1, 2008
Might help to post the scripts in question, so that someone can help examine them for you.
Buy-Sell-Close scripts ?
- DaveL replied Jul 1, 2008
You're welcome, ravster, best of luck!
How to check if order has stopped out?
- DaveL replied Jul 1, 2008
My own experience has been very positive, but of course, I create my own EAs. Some commercial EAs have impressive winning streaks in the right market conditions (e.g. FX AutoPilot). Some use Martingale (e.g. Trade Goose), which requires sufficiently ...
experience with expert advisors?
- DaveL replied Jul 1, 2008
Why not submit two pendings (each w/ 1/2 of the lots of a single, larger order) and then use a smaller TP for the 2nd order.
Using a pending order to partialy close out an order.
- DaveL replied Jul 1, 2008
Thanks, Jody! I can expand the indicator to include these other patterns.
Twin Top Bottom Indicator
- DaveL replied Jun 30, 2008
One possibility is to scan using the history-mode. For example: bool tradeExited=false; int OrderTicketNumber=12345; // whatever your reference order ticket # is for(int trade=OrdersHistoryTotal()-1;trade>=0;trade--) { ...
How to check if order has stopped out?
- DaveL replied Jun 30, 2008
You're very welcome, Jody! Would there happen to be a quick "white-paper" summarizing the key facets of the James16 methodology?
Twin Top Bottom Indicator
- DaveL replied Jun 30, 2008
I forgot to mention: the "offset" parameter is the number of pips above/below the signal bar to paint the arrow.
Twin Top Bottom Indicator
- Twin Top Bottom IndicatorStarted Jun 30, 2008|Platform Tech|10 replies
A FF member requested this indicator: It signals twin top (2 adjacent bars with the same highs) and ...
- DaveL replied Jun 30, 2008
Yes, it is a Flash animation. You might try downloading the video directly, if your browser's doesn't have a Flash player.
Help with init() and deinit() functions
- DaveL replied Jun 30, 2008
This video by Patrick Nouvion is a great intro to MT4 programming.
Help with init() and deinit() functions
- DaveL replied Jun 29, 2008
I've been trading w/ IBFX since 2005 ... they're really top-notch. No major problems. The worst was a horrendous spike (over 100 pips in 1 tick) once in the exotics, which knocked me prematurely out of several trades. Even though they showed that ...
Demo account problems
- DaveL replied Jun 29, 2008
No, there is no way to make a custom indicator "native." ( ... unless you license the source-code from MetaQuotes & alter the guts of MT4.) I use lots of custom indicators in my EAs, and they backtest very quickly. The trick is to make sure your ...
Custom Indicators vs. Technical Indicators