hi newschool!
Semafor-EA, nice! I also made toughts about coding such an EA...
About news and vol. times: a spread filter is maybe usefull here?
Bye, AT
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but besides this one, now coded by newschool...
there must already been something like it,
because if you google you find also a backtest
of a semafor ea attached to a post on kreslik
but i could not find the post
http://www.kreslik.com/forums/download. ... 972c955a67
there must already been something like it,
because if you google you find also a backtest
of a semafor ea attached to a post on kreslik
but i could not find the post
http://www.kreslik.com/forums/download. ... 972c955a67
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forexbob wrote:but besides this one, now coded by newschool...
there must already been something like it,
because if you google you find also a backtest
of a semafor ea attached to a post on kreslik
but i could not find the post
http://www.kreslik.com/forums/download. ... 972c955a67
I can't find the thread it was posted on, if you got it I could check what he did.
forexbob wrote:*edit: did some backtests and in this i have some trades, but overal not profitable. so my demo testing was probably over a 2 short period.
when time will look further in settings if this can be turned into at least a little profitable. (and in the mean time, just trade manual ...)
The backtesting is very slow , I think it is because of the custom indicators. For me it was positive but not much, like I said I'm having issues with the i-regr center line. And with a H4 timeframe, the gap can be very wide.... Post a screenshot (in PNG format) of the tested chart here.
And btw I only test on E/U for the moment.
at120, good idea, instead of using a custom indicator. What is the spread on E/U you consider too high to trade?
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hi newschool!
Spread, depends on broker of course, but if normal spread is about 0,5-1
pips, (EURUSD) for this I would not set the spread higher than 2. But this is
something we have to figure out, during news events easily...
Have you forward tested it also? (As you know backtesting for an EA should
be done with good tickdatas! nevertheless there is no spread and no costs in
this MT4-BT!)
Time for testing...
Thanks and bye, AT
Spread, depends on broker of course, but if normal spread is about 0,5-1
pips, (EURUSD) for this I would not set the spread higher than 2. But this is
something we have to figure out, during news events easily...
Have you forward tested it also? (As you know backtesting for an EA should
be done with good tickdatas! nevertheless there is no spread and no costs in
this MT4-BT!)
Time for testing...
Thanks and bye, AT
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newschool wrote:I can't find the thread it was posted on, if you got it I could check what he did.
me neither, think i came along it in the NLA thread a time ago.
but i think the ea was not posted, only results.
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newschool wrote: But since it is in beta, I dont really want to share it if you are not a coder, no results are guaranteed...
newschool, I'm interested in your EA more as a learning exercise than as something to trade with, for now, but would love to see the code. I am indeed a coder, software development is my vocation. So if you'd like to share with a developer, I'm available for the picking.
Live demo. Took 2 false entries... but perhaps with a different s/l and a higher gap between trades... because the second entry was quite close!
Still it is going to be positive (I guess).
EDIT ================
With a stop/loss of 15 pips (instead of the tight 10), the second entry is OK in the above chart. Because of this I am using a 25 pips gap between 2 trades. This is to limit multiple false entries close to each other. There is a second setting that can bypass it, when the last entry is at least 2 hours away.
It is located in this line MathAbs(lasttrade - Bid) > 0.0020).
Or download the updated version with external inputs. This is my personnal fourth version hence the name.
Still it is going to be positive (I guess).
EDIT ================
With a stop/loss of 15 pips (instead of the tight 10), the second entry is OK in the above chart. Because of this I am using a 25 pips gap between 2 trades. This is to limit multiple false entries close to each other. There is a second setting that can bypass it, when the last entry is at least 2 hours away.
It is located in this line MathAbs(lasttrade - Bid) > 0.0020).
Or download the updated version with external inputs. This is my personnal fourth version hence the name.
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