teknomage

FXstoney, I would encourage you and others here to try to learn a little bit about MQL4, if possible. Press F4 on your metatrader, open CMv5_teknomahe_FFCal mq4 file and add this line at the top just above the other extern variables:

extern bool EMERGENCYCloseAllNOW = false; //switch to true to close trades instantly!

After this, go down to the start() function and look for the line :

if (totalprofit > MinProfit){

Modify it to:

if (totalprofit > MinProfit || EMERGENCYCloseAllNOW){

and after the entire if condition, add this as well:

if(EMERGENCYCloseAllNOW){

Comment("\n\n\n+++++++ CableRun Emergency Closure ++++++++\n\n All Trades have been closed on user\'s request."

+"\n When you are ready to resume trading, change EMERGENCYCloseAllNOW back to FALSE");

return(0);

}

Hit Compile and try testing it now. If you have any problems with compiling, let me know...

Nice results, Firozfx! Keep 'em comin...

As for me, I've been running 6 different instances of CableRun variations with different settings for each one. Since Oct 12th, using mostly 0.1 lots on GBPUSD alone ona 5 digit broker, I've doubled a demo account from $10k to $21,026 and counting! The worst drawdown experienced during this test period was around -$4k. I'm gonna keep demoing it and see how it goes. One thing i've learnt during this time is to just trust the robot to do its own thing... interfering with it simply reduces its profitability

Well, if it's v5 you're using, then this Session End problem is to be expected.. there was an issue with not adhering to the set timings when TradeAllDay is false... this issue was corrected in my later variants, which is why I stopped using v5 in the first place. If TradeAllDay is true (i.e. it trades all day continuously), then v5 works fine.. so, use at your own discretion..

If you and others here prefer using v5 only, then I will look into it again when i have the time and correct the Trade timing issue...

OK, I'm gonna cave in for now. Here y'all go: this is CableRun v5 with the FFCal news indicator: http://www.4shared.com/file/L1aTVI7L/CMv5_teknomage_FFcal.html

@ tom: i'll check into the problem with tekno2 when i can... but what exactly is wrong with the TP issue when TPmode = 2 ?? If you've got any screenshots or examples, PM me...

No, I dont think so, unless you've got a network issue that prevents you from accessing that page effectively. Test it out for yourself: just copy and paste this link into your browser, and see how fast the page loads up.

One more thing I can think of... did you COMPILE the edited FFCal mq4 after you made the change? :-))

Yes, have checked the sUrl and it's the same. Think it could be to do with a slow link.. Is that a possibility?

@ arconite: Great results! Please share your set file here. And which broker did you run this on?

@ San: I guess he's referring to one of my earlier mods, i.e., CableLarikan_teknomage_v5

David, did you follow the instructions in the post that you replied from? You will keep getting that error unless you edit FFCal.mq4 and change the sURL line as instructed to this line instead:

string sUrl = "http://cloud.forexfactory.com/ffcal_week_this.xml";

Hi Teknomage, I'm getting this alert every few seconds "FFCal Error - Web page download was not complete!"!!

Can you help?

Thanks mate! Yup, that's right,

I'm gonna take a long-needed break for sometime. Looking forward to expat's release next. Ciao for now!

Very nice. I like how all the time details of the news events are displayed on the log chart. To use the news filter one should visit http://www.forexfactory.com/calendar.php and adjust accordingly. I've turned my daylight savings on my computer off and it just makes things simple as GMT and most broker times don't change with daylight savings anyhow. You've out done yourself teknomage... :-bd Off to demo.

One question... trade Fridays... 0=no 1=yes? Is that right?

I finally added the feature, as requested by Tom mainly. Here is the latest version 3, with FFCal News filter and Reverse Trades:

hxxp://[email protected]/file/GG0QchLQ/CM24H_tekno3_FFCalReverseTrade.html

The ReverseTrades parameter has to be changed manually, especially if you see a strong trend developing. When trades are reversed, Stop orders are placed instead of Limit orders. By the way, these are the new parameters:

ReverseTrades: 0 for Normal trading (default) or set to 1, in order for the EA to place reverse trades at your discretion.

AllowOnlyRevTradesDuringNews: Since AvoidNews is true by default, then ANY trading (Normal and Reverse) will be stopped. But if you set this parameter AllowOnlyRevTradesDuringNews to true when AvoidNews is true, then Normal trades will be stopped but ReverseTrades will be allowed during a News release. I added this, so that you can take advantage (with Reverse trades) during the trends that develop after the News.

NewsOffset: Seems to be required for FFCal news filter. Default is 1. I've already explained why, in a previous post #684.

PLEASE test this EA thoroughly before trading it live. Will wait to hear from y'all regarding your experiences. Need I say KUDOS!

Cool approach, peterke! If you could please share your settings for both pairs here, that'd be cool!

The way the EA closes trades depends on the trigger decided by ProfitMode you select. ProfitModes 0 and 1 are based on individual trades (pips & dollar value respectively), while ProfitModes 2 & 3 treat them as a collective basket. I prefer using mode 2 coz the Profit is calculated in pips, and like i mentioned before, this will be independent of the lot value you use...

Hi, now on $14,500 with approx $1,500 open trades, up $4,500 after 7 trading days and various versions and settings. UJ and GU currently aligned to hedge each other so looking good to survive for awhile longer.

 

I think the settings for each pair should be set so that GU opens a new trade every 10 to 15 pips while UJ and USDCHF are around every 5 pips. I'm thinking something like 1/20th of average daily range.

 

Technomage, could you explain simply the logic of closing trades. Does the EA take each trade individually or does it treat them as a basket.

 

tks

 

Peter

Looks like GU tanked again today after the Medium level news. By the way, guys, I've noticed that the FFCal indi seems to be off the mark by an hour (atleast on my system). If you have a similar problem and want to correct it, first drag and drop the FFCal indi itself onto a chart. Change the OffsetHours parameter in FFCal to 1 (or -1). Then, compare the mins displayed by the FFCal indi with the FF calendar at http://www.forexfactory.com/calendar.php (make sure you set the default time zone to GMT instead of EST)

If there's still a discrepancy, adjust OffsetHours until you get it right. Once you determine the correct value for OffsetHours, you will need to edit the code in FFCal and set this value permanently. The original line is : extern int OffsetHours = 0;

In my case, i changed it to : extern int OffsetHours = 1;

Once you're done, hit Compile so that you can make this change permanent. That way, the latest CableRun FFCal mod will work the way it's supposed to.

Note: I noticed that there have been 73 downloads of the latest mod. Where are all these people?? C'mon lurkers!! Even if you dont give kudos, atleast share your demo or testing results!!!

@ peterke: Nice results, mate!

@ tomislav: Sure bud, as soon as I can find a nice stretch of free time, i'll add your request :)

@ pipmaster: I've been demoing my own mods since Oct 12th with 3 instances of CR tekno, one of which is the latest FFCal version I put up. Starting balance was $10k. I'm trading all 3 very carefully and in 7 days, the total profit is sitting at $1312.08 with open trades at only -$29.19

In case y'all are curious, two of the instances are the CableMuruku24H_teknomage version, one with the best preset#3 and the other with Muruku's original settings. The 3rd instance is CableMuruku24H_teknomage2_FFCal with its default settings.

Hi halcyonn, can you please provide more details. Which CR version were you using exactly and were you running it on a 4 or 5 digit broker? If it was one of my two most recent versions, order deletion could've happened due to a few of the parameters itself. Was TradeAllDay set to true or false? What were the other settings you used?

Guys, please remember, we all know this EA is not perfect. All I strove to do was to add safety precautions to be able to take this robot Live. But yes, we do need to iron out this particular issue until we can move forward.

@Stormin_Norman: LOL! good one!

Hey Tom, there is usually a gap between the first Buy and Sell limit orders; the following trades will always be at regular intervals. But in your case, you say that the buy pending order was deleted later on?? I'll look into it, but I wont be able to figure out whats actually going wrong from just these images alone. So, I'll need more details about this. Please do a visual backtest for the same time period (i assume these images were from today morning onwards) and send me the backtest report if possible.

One more thing: please try switching PreventBacktestErrors to false on your demo and let me know if the gaps still appear or not...

http://img98.imageshack.us/i/basketgapteknomageffcal.gif/

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It's happened again on a new demo. Spoke to my broker and he spotted the deleted buy limit pending order. No reason was given as to why it was deleted. I have avoid trade London NY false so it is running. I'm at a loss as to why. The two tekno V5 demos running along side it are working fine opening pending orders and placing them as trades and new pending ordes arriving.. Could it be something to do with ATR? The V5 did it once on Friday trading EURCHF but it happened on a price spike so this is sort of normal from what I've seen. Got to be picky on all details if to be trusted to trade real "mula".

Hey guys, was just trying out the News mod and it looks like FFCal needs to be edited a bit. The news link in the original FFCal seems to be outdated. So, please open FFCal in your MT4 editor and comment out this line by adding two slashes before it like this //:

string sUrl = "http://www.forexfactory.com/ff_calendar_thisweek.xml";

and add this line just below the above line :

string sUrl = "http://cloud.forexfactory.com/ffcal_week_this.xml";

Hit Compile and test the FFCal indi by drag n drop onto a chart from the Customer Indicators section in your metatrader. If it works fine, then the mod will work too ;)