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- 1ka replied Feb 19, 2009
I ran a quick check following on from Abnormalone's idea of using a Minimum Limit on the IB size. The next series of posts show the effect on EURUSD, the IB Limits are: None, 5, 10 & 15 pips.
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- 1ka replied Feb 19, 2009
These errors mean that your data has missing bits in it. You could go into the History Centre and download new data for that timeframe. When running in visual mode, you can see the trade open, close, SL & TP values. Double click on the trades in the ...
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- 1ka replied Feb 19, 2009
That looks OK to me. The Value is the one that is used. The others are used in optimising and allow you to change the values dynamically during the back-testing.
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- 1ka replied Feb 19, 2009
Yes, the last few weeks haven't been too good for the EA
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- 1ka replied Feb 18, 2009
I'm not sure you can trade when price breaks the body of the IB, as, by definition, the price will be at the open/close of the IB anyway. Probably only the CB is an option.
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- 1ka replied Feb 18, 2009
Thanks for the clarification. I haven't tried this method, it might be worth looking at. I assume that the same rules apply, i.e. only trade when price breaks the outer bars body? We're ignoring the shadows, in other words.
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- 1ka replied Feb 18, 2009
Hi Smilee89, All the tests by the EA associated with this thread use this rule and work off the outer bar unless otherwise stated. They're sprinkled throughout this thread. Alternatively view all the posts by my name. The live forward tests and ...
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- 1ka replied Feb 18, 2009
Hi Smilee89, With the EA, the inside bar High/Low must be totally enclosed by the High/Low of the outside or containing bar. We've got some people who trade when the price breaks the High/Low of the inside bar, and some, from Jim's thread, who trade ...
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- 1ka replied Feb 18, 2009
However, trading Jim's way, you would only take one. I trialled an EA that set up pending limit orders at the IB bounds. It would trade both if price went one way then reversed. Trades expired after a period of time if they weren't hit. Didn't get ...
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- 1ka replied Feb 17, 2009
EA - 20090217 — Today's trades. Closing the EA early today, need to boot into another OS
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- 1ka replied Feb 17, 2009
The idea was that we could limit the maximum potential loss by setting a limit on the maximum size of IB. Works OK, but didn't make a difference on the overall win-ratio as far as I can remember. (Not sure if I actually did a back-to-back ...
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- 1ka replied Feb 17, 2009
Hi Abnormalone, Is this the size of the Inside Bar, not the Outside Bar, since it appears you are using the non-H1H1/Jim method? I might add a MinIBSize parameter into the EA so that you can ignore smaller bars. When I get some time I'll see if I ...
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- 1ka replied Feb 17, 2009
Mainly on 30M. Two are running on 4H using a stochastic oscillator to determine when to trade.
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- 1ka replied Feb 17, 2009
I don't think you did anything wrong, as it all looked fine. Major trend was with you too. Can't see any scheduled news at that time, but maybe something happened? The only comment I have is that it had been consolidating for a while. My 'noob' view ...
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- 1ka replied Feb 17, 2009
The limit applies to the maximum size of the Outside Bar. That's an old setting, maybe from an older version of the EA? The latest EA uses MaxIBSize and is measured in points. The EA is on the first post.
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- 1ka replied Feb 17, 2009
Actually, this chart is cumulative, not just for that week. (Note to self - word next charts posting differently
Inside Bar Trading Revisited) I don't always leave the EA running overnight, so the trades from 10pm to 7am are not proportionately represented.
- 1ka replied Feb 17, 2009
I hand crank my own stats with a mixture of Spreadsheet and Database. A bit clunky but I don't know of another tool
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- 1ka replied Feb 17, 2009
Also the TP will make a difference, number of currencies, times traded, etc. I'm letting the EA 'just run' to collect stats on all the above.
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