ianj

There is a problem in the mechanism for calculating the SL using a ZigZag indicator - the decompilation is faulty - i can fix that but then something else is broken

 

The fault is causing it to hang in backtest (and it will hang when you trade forward as well)

 

Unless you can fix this EA YOURSELF you should not use it - It has AT LEAST one fault. If you can fix the fault yourself then you might be qualified to test and use yourself

Does anyone have the FCS400.dll that actually COMES WITH the v4 EA (You cant simply rename the FCS300.dll because then you have most of the strategy from v3 - not the new v4 implementation)

 

I would guess the new FCS400.dll would be a different size than FCS300.dll but in any case, if you post a candidate here ill peep inside to see if it looks like a new version

 

Thx

Its not just that - it picks up a range of parameters from the server - and without those it cannot trade properly

Oh! I forgot to say - i bought a license

Please check your pm inbox. Thx

 

Sorry i cant reply to the PM - this is only my 2nd post :-) - ill just have to spam you all then

 

 

I have programming skills in general - and recently acquired MQL as well, but not extensive - i also looked at the decompiled 116 EUR/USD version but the code is very very convoluted. Since i am interested in the logic rather than the EA itself i decided just to look at how it behaved visually. I have extensive backtests that show how it behaves with the regular exposed parameters and now have some idea what some of the the others do. The real power of the EA is in the way it throws a spread of orders over the area knowing some will go to SL but also some to TP. The RR on each is very good - its novel and similar to how i try to run multiple EA's on slightly different settings - but with automation and risk limiting

 

It is very reminiscent of Forex Growth - who i had heard might have created this as well - i am not surprised

 

I don't want to run the EA - i want to understand the strategy, but i see it does load a number of "deviations" when it authorises with a legitimate license and seems to populate some internal buffer within the EA on initialisation. You can actually run the EA without authorisation on successive occasions as long as you dont restart MT4 - it seems to retain the "deviations" in the DLL until you restart. If the deviations are only needed in the EA, and not in the DLL, i suppose you could capture them and store them until next time - i might take a quick look over the weekend - just out of curiosity

 

I see USD/JPY uses 4 BB but the EA is similar size - i expect it to be similar in strategy, but not identical to EUR/USD. I managed to run it on my EUR/USD credentials - it didnt complain in the backtest

That was possibly me - I had to update to a recent MT4 build for MDP and i couldnt be sure that the patch was working - so before i came to rash conclusions and broadcast to the world i thought i had better be sure - all my prior tick testing had been on earlier builds amd i have learned that you sometimes get wild results if the setup is not right - so i pulled the analysis

 

If you got a version mailed (I forgot about that possibility) that will be why it dissappeared, even though i do believe most of the analysis to be correct.

 

I am still unsure of the methodology for multiple order entry