xxl205

These are my current Megadroid Pro N1 (XE 1.2) settings:
 
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_3jAgGdOcEeA/THDhpcChLHI/AAAAAAAAA3k/MLurg_HbTdQ/s800/None.jpg
 
Hit the "thank you" button if this is helpful! ;)
 
(P.S. Please note that, for the JPY pairs (USDJPY and EURJPY) listed above, I *ALSO* have, in *ADDITION* to the settings shown above, the Medium Impact news enabled and set to 600/600 for those pairs.)

Would be off topic, please see the other postings I have made in the regarding threads. I might upload a new EA and settings "out of the box" compilation somewhen on the weekend, but it's busy times at the moment, please forgive me if I delay :)

I've been live with the N1 1.01ee version for 2 days now, and a bunch of 12-14 trades have gone well, no SL hit here. Nearly got a heart attack again whilst sitting at the PC last night, but GBPCHF and GBPUSD recovered their DD's and finally did well. Running it on 8 pairs, skipped the EURJPY and USDJPY. *CHF runs non agressive. Together with Kain and Primeval the nights have given me 25 trades with 3 light loosers. Settings are those from Page 9 of this thread.

(A.) Megadroid Pro N1 - Live Performance Update: Today, the close of 3 full trading days, there have been more than 20 trades, and all 20 trades have closed in profit, with a 21st trade still open that was a close call but appears it will likely close at break-even or a very small profit. Remarkable!
 
(B.) Megadroid Pro N1 - Set Files: I will create and post set files (or email them to dinj to post in a link) over the weekend after this upcoming one. The reason for the delay is that I will be posting 11 set files, and only for Megadroid Pro N1 XE 1.2; this week I have been testing my set files for 1.01ee, and next week I will be running a forward test on set files for XE 1.2; I need to forward test those set files before I post them here. I will probably not post set files for 1.01ee as it is a less robust and older version (although performing remarkably well this week, as my updates have shown).
 
My added contribution to the 10 pairs traded by theozaki will be an 11th pair of EURUSD trading +5, as well as all pairs (for 1.2 XE) trading 1/8 breakeven (at 8 pips profit, move to 1 pip breakeven).
 
(C.) Question re: EURUSD Not Trading: Yes, if you have 10-11 currency pairs trading with the N1 Pro, then there will usually almost always be one or more OTHER pairs trading on days when dinj's news filter mod keeps other pairs from trading. EURUSD has had some high impact news this week and thus has not traded as much. There is rarely high impact news for all pairs on a given day. Be sure, however, that you are using Manual GMT, not auto, I believe (on 1.01ee) that this is necessary. Not certain yet about 1.2 XE, but better to set it manually to be safer than sorry.
 
(D.) Shocker: Definitely a good one to mod, dinj! One thing to check in MT4 is options -> history bars and chart bars -- set both to 5000, and you should see resource usage come under control. This was an expert tip provided awhile ago directly to me by ForexVPS tech support by their in-house MT4 expert. 5000 bars is MORE than enough for any imaginable scenario for both of those settings, but the defaults apparently are WAY too high, and result in excessive RAM/resource usage.
 
P.S. N1 Pro Ideas: Two more ideas I am contemplating, but will probably not test, are: (a.) the impact of using the XE 1.2 forced close option to force close all trades at 8:00 GMT, the European Session open, and (b.) something that would need to be added (dinj or someone else?) a "one trade" option that would make a trade sleep X minutes (e.g. 1440, 720, etc.) after a trade. This could be useful, because often Megadroid will open its most successful trades first, and then as it re-attempts to milk a currency later on in the session, it brings itself into a riskier situation. While my testing over these past few days has not shown a loss as a result of this, I feel that an option to "one trade" like the recent Caliber FX 3.3 mod has, would be useful to reduce risk, even if some profitability was also reduced.

I'm just kidding, there is no new megadroid. It is already awesome as it is, BUT:
 
Even though Megadroid has been for quite some time one of the few robots (if not the only one) that has been REALLY steadly profitable, it still gets the ocasional stoploss, most oftenly caused by NEWS.
 
As I personally believe Megadroid to be the best robot in the present, and as I have wasted loads of time trying to improve mediocre robots, all in vain, I thought about doing it for Megadroid.
 
FIRST of all: Advanced Droid Tactics worked for a while for me, but then it got into a spiral, losing most of my account. I don't know if the new version works steadily, but I'm giving it a break for a while.
 
SECOND: Why would you set the Aggressive mode to True if it's not worth it, or why would you set it to false if it's totally worth it? What about Recovery Mode?
Well, I did an extensive 10 years backtest using constant lot comparing the aggressive function. The results?
105% more profit at only a 7% increase of long term risk. That's all there is to know. In other words, set your Aggressive mode on.
What about Recovery Mode? Recovery mode is a function that doubles the lot size of the trades until all the loss of a past stoploss/loss has been covered. That's in average 4 trades but sometimes it might be up to 14 or even more. Is it worth it? Definitely NOT. Using Recovery Mode is the same as using martingale on Megadroid, but only at one level. As you know, martingale doesn't work because by increasing the risk, it not only increases the profit but also the risk and losses. But is it worth it? Still not. After deep backtesting and analylis, all I can say is:
- If you're using Recovery Mode and are comfortable and happy with the risk you're incurring, then turn it off and increase the lot size by 60% and expect a profit increase between 15 and 30%, while keeping the same risk.
 
THIRD: The news. Not all of the Megadroid losses are caused by news, but some are. There was a time that I turned it off when high impact news were coming, but that just became very botherful, mostly when I had other robots with it. So it was about time someone created a version of Megadroid that could avoid news. As I couldn't find one for a lot of time, I created one myself, and here it is:

http://www.multiupload.com/0LNLY2KEPD
I called it Megadroid N1. N because of the News Filter and 1 because it's the first version of it. But all it is is:
 
There are two versions:
-One is the latest Megadroid v1.21 educated and the other one is Megadroid Pro v1.01ee, both versions from this forum.
 
The new parameters are pretty simple. Either you set it to avoid news or not. If you do, then you can choose if you want to avoid high impact news and/or medium impact news and/or low impact news. Then you set the time in minutes that you don't want to trade since the latest news of a choosen impact and the time in minutes until the next news of a choosen impact. By default I set those values of minutes that you will see as predefined, but make your own judgement, and if you think you know good settings, please suggest them here.
 
This new version gets the news from an indicator that is on that zip file and that you will have to position on your meta trader indicators folder. That indicator is FFCAL, I think it originated on the forexfactory forum and it downloads all the following news from forexfactory calendar aroud every 6 hours. The EA updates its newsfilter state once per minute, so when you first set it up, expect it to take up to 1 minute to be fully working. About the news it avoids, it avoids the news related to the pair you are trading. If you have it on USDCHF, it will avoid news of those two currencies.
 
I also incorporated on it something that tells you if it is not trading because of news. You will notice on the chart, along with all the other useful information, that it says "Not trading! Avoiding news". Once again, this will take up to 1 minute if you set it for the first time or change the EA parameters.
 
What more, I can't backtest it with past news, but I forward tested it a couple times for some minutes to see if it was doing it's job and it seems to be. Give it a try and post your results, if it works alright with you, and any sugestions you might have.

DD has not been over 20% since I am running Kain live. I have to admit sometimes it gets scary, but I try to sleep while it is working, and after a while doing it's job, you learn to trust.
 
What I do with backtests is the following. I run them, watch the curves, check if dd is under 25% and it is only allowed 5-10 SL's a year, the lesser the better, and then give it a go with 0.1 lots. I do not compare BTs number by number, cause it is only 90% accuracy, and a BT from the data we usually can all download from our brokers shows only the entry and exit levels of a candle in the specific timeframe. We'd need tick data to get serious here.
 
I have been sitting in front of my screens for months and compared live accounts with demo. without having exact numbers, I feel that the Alpari demo at least has only 85-90% match with the live accounts. Besides, the spread is so much cheating on the demo, especially at scalping.
 
And with the backtests also there is the spread problem. Ever tried to BT on a weekend ? MT4 takes the valid spread for a pair at the beginning of the test and does not change it during the whole run. Thus you BT 24h of a pair, but you have a wide variety of spreads in that time at live accounts. Next is daylight saving, if you go further ... in my eyes you can never trust a BT.
 
I just want to get a rough view if a EA comes close to being good or if it is martingale etc. Real men, live accounts :)
 
And as I stated in another post, I am ok with a SL. The machine is a magnitude better than my crappy hand trading ... thus the SLs I see as losses in a business with rent, loan costs, machines, cars and all other expenses.
 
Forex is a long term shot, Kain should be a marathon runner ... and is slowly proving it. BT shows around 92+ winners on it, the strategys inbuild are superb to others, why not test it on live and have over 200% return at this very moment in close to 3 months of trading ... can't be this wrong what I am doing here ^^
 
Thanks for listening :)

I am using Tokyo H1 (former Simple H1) from the FF Forum, for GBPUSD only. It has a good performance since I am using it, but scares the cr*p out of me sometimes. Has a stop loss of 140 ... and those DD's are heavy.
 
The EURUSD, EURCHF and USDCAD on Alpari UK Classic GMT+1 (not +2) are all EA Kain. Given up on USDJPY and GBPCHF, why should I waste my gains on something less stable than the other 3 pairs.
 
cheers!

Good morning guys,
 
I use Alpari UK Classic. Normally auto-GMT tells me +2, but I use GMT+1 on all pairs but USDJPY.
 
Good results today, a small loss on EURCHF but all others are winners, again :)

here you go ! I've added a README-file for explanation and the correct GMT-calculation which is VERY IMPORTANT for the performance !
 

 
remove the camouflage out of the link as always. Those who don't know how to do not deserve the files anyway ;-)
 
Happy green pipping and earning money while you sleep ! (at least here in Germany)
 
yours, xxl205
 
and a thanks / kudo would be welcome if you find it useful ...

here you go ! I've added a README-file for explanation and the correct GMT-calculation which is VERY IMPORTANT for the performance !
 

 
remove the camouflage out of the link as always. Those who don't know how to do not deserve the files anyway ;-)
 
Happy green pipping and earning money while you sleep ! (at least here in Germany)
 
yours, xxl205
 
and a thanks / kudo would be welcome if you find it useful ...

Hi Loulou, I had it running on Monday and Wednesday but not on Tuesday. I got hit as many others with a full stop loss on USDCAD Monday night / tuesday morning. Tuesday I decided to demo on the FOMC meeting, but it would have gone good the results told me.
 
This night was hefty. 6 trades (each of the 3 logics was running on agressive too), a massive drawdown, but in the end I have positive results ! This also came from the trades running on the agressive strategy, normal mode only would have been a small looser for this night.
 
It was one of the worst runs I have seen since May, but with positive results. If I once will not answer this forum anymore, the reasons might be heart attacks from sitting such trades ...
 
EDIT : Sorry I forgot : EURUSD, EURCHF, USDCAD on GMT+1 (one hour less than auto setting)
Testing GBPCHF successfully last night, also on GMT+1.

Multivers V3 EDU
 
http://depositfiles.com/files/lgwpdq2lt

mate, i fully agree with this! in fact i've just disabled trading after USDCAD hit SL.
 
I noticed something, Primeval had the same trade with KAIN, but it was smart enough to to adjust TP (at small loss) to close the trade.
 

http://www.4shared.com/file/zgFQuY3F/MegaDroid_13_edu.htm

here you go ! I've added a README-file for explanation and the correct GMT-calculation which is VERY IMPORTANT for the performance !
 

 
remove the camouflage out of the link as always. Those who don't know how to do not deserve the files anyway ;-)
 
Happy green pipping and earning money while you sleep ! (at least here in Germany)
 
yours, xxl205
 
and a thanks / kudo would be welcome if you find it useful ...

If you are in a hurry...this receiptcode should work at least for BT: TLEG2B2Q
 
edit: looks like you can go live with the rc

delete your history files and re-download the entire data.

You must download Alpari demo from Alpari.ru or from http://www.alpari-forex.com/
That demo use history directly from Alpari not from Metaquotes and is perfect without holes.

Those USDCHF trades came from a quick intermezzo with FAPTurbo 5.0, but decided to stop again because the trades where more sort of "we open a trade and with luck it closes in profit" style. iwjw and me were discussing about FAP, but both decided to shut down again, am I right iwjw ?
 
the USDJPY trades came from Kain. I was testing here also (because still too greedy and can't have enough trades :), joined a fabulous SL and kicked it out again. But I am testing on demo, looks good since then, maybe I will add it again with low lots to see results live.
 
Fine to hear that you have joined the "Kain for president" club :) yes, I do run agressive. Much more trades and hey, you have the chance to grab up to 50 pips on the aggro strategy ! Happend to me 2-3 times already.
 
Check out the risk settings ! As I have stated many times, my risk settings of 40 might not be friendly to everybody's account :)

md is for eurusd only

here you go ! I've added a README-file for explanation and the correct GMT-calculation which is VERY IMPORTANT for the performance !
 

 
remove the camouflage out of the link as always. Those who don't know how to do not deserve the files anyway ;-)
 
Happy green pipping and earning money while you sleep ! (at least here in Germany)
 
yours, xxl205
 
and a thanks / kudo would be welcome if you find it useful ...

Hi ALL
 
This educated for you please leave me kudo.

Patched dll

http://www.4shared.com/file/EnMmEfss/Supersonic.html

here you go ! I've added a README-file for explanation and the correct GMT-calculation which is VERY IMPORTANT for the performance !
 

 
remove the camouflage out of the link as always. Those who don't know how to do not deserve the files anyway ;-)
 
Happy green pipping and earning money while you sleep ! (at least here in Germany)
 
yours, xxl205
 
and a thanks / kudo would be welcome if you find it useful ...

Best pair for EAKAIn right now are EURUSD, EURCHF & USDCAD.
and make sure GMT offset is right, just try play set autogmt_offset to false and adjusting manual GMT offset additional +1 and or -1 from offset you get from autogmt_offset, and see which setting is the best.
 
Regards,
Benz