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Postby SignalBender » Wed May 26, 2010 2:54 am

Blubb,

You seem to have a way with MQL. Nice looking stuff.

I've never seen the Calender set-up the way you have it. I once watched a video (I don't remember where) of a Trader who was using (I think it was CMS VT, not 100% sure) something similar, but in his set-up, the "number" that came through the news feed, was used as a threshold trigger to execute a trade. In his set-ups, he basically had his own syllogisms for what constituted a Long news release -vs- a Short news release. If I can find the video and post it or link it here. Maybe that video was you?

I have a secondary trading system that I play with (have fun with) that uses Economic Indicators, instead of Technical Indicators to yield trade signals. I basically run the TodayFX Economic Indicators through a sort of manual ETL process (extraction, transformation and loading) in Excel, where I have some logic that takes the report data and generates a trade signal. I have not had time to use it much, but ever since I saw your MT4 set-up, I've wondered whether or not MT4 could be made to do the same thing I saw in that video a couple of years ago.

I think it would be fun to build a 100 Economic Trade Signal Engine. In fact, one of the things I used to do was add the Economic trade signal into the Technical signal logic. It was uncanny to often times see the Technical signal come full circle and in-line with the Economic signal. I don't do it anymore because I just have not kept up with the manual ETL process between TodayFX and Excel.

Have you ever automated something like that before in MT4?

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Postby blubbb » Wed May 26, 2010 8:41 pm

Hey,

nope, I never bothered trading the news.

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Postby SignalBender » Wed May 26, 2010 9:27 pm

Ok.

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Postby trueblueTEX » Wed Jun 02, 2010 6:52 pm

Could someone give me a quick explanation on how to use the Visual Order system? (EA's vs scripts, will it work w/ Market orders)?

What I want to do is typically execute a market order Long (green rat) using the Blubb_Script_Long, but I want to be able to raise my SL manually (via mouse) as I watch the trade unfold. I also want to be able to move TP but that's not as important as I usually get out with Blubb_Script_CloseAll.

I have tried using the EA SL-TP_move-by-Mouse but it FAILS to move the SL above the original SL. I can move it all around below that and I can move the TP around all I want but it's the SL that is MOST important.

Of course, if there were a script that I could Hot-Key that would move SL up by X-number of pips (modifiable but it's useless if you have to confirm each time) each time it is executed.... That would be nice as well. :-)

Since SL-TP_move-by-Mouse doesn't work quite right, I wanted to know if the Visual Order system does. But I can't quite figure it out.

Thanks!!

Tex

EDIT: That's bizarre!! I just tried the EA again and got the SL to work correctly.
I have had VERY mixed results running the SL-TP_move-by-Mouse EA!!!
Maybe Visual Orders works better?

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Postby Jalarupa » Wed Jun 02, 2010 7:25 pm

Hey Tex, use the TP and SL scripts located on page one... They are the dogs bollocks and will do exactly that... Hope that helps ;-) I don't know where I would be without Blubbbs scripts... ;-)
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Postby trueblueTEX » Wed Jun 02, 2010 7:37 pm

Jalarupa wrote:Hey Tex, use the TP and SL scripts located on page one... They are the dogs bollocks and will do exactly that... Hope that helps ;-) I don't know where I would be without Blubbbs scripts... ;-)


My question is HOW do you use them. I place a Market Order and then run the SL script it does not change my sl when I move the line.

Do the scripts require an EA to be running? I even tried the SL and TP scripts in conjunction with the Blubb_EA_VisualOrders EA and that just seems to gum up the works more.

Thanks
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Postby blubbb » Wed Jun 02, 2010 7:42 pm

Move the line, then execute the same script again. Line disappears, sl appears/changes.

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Postby trueblueTEX » Wed Jun 02, 2010 7:53 pm

blubbb wrote:Move the line, then execute the same script again. Line disappears, sl appears/changes.


BINGO!!!

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Postby jarnapal » Thu Jun 03, 2010 8:44 pm

Hey blubb.

Can I see more than 11 candles with your custom candle script ?

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Postby blubbb » Thu Jun 03, 2010 9:58 pm

You can move the start and stop lines further to the left.
Or use the attached version and change "PastCandles".

Currently I'm working on a monitoring tool that alerts you if MT4s connection dies. Depending on the broker this happens quite often. I'll add it to the donationals as soon as it is finished.
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