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is it only me or are the backtest results quite bad?

 

It's not just you. I've been spending a lot of time backtesting MegaDroid over different historical data sets, and results vary a lot.

I'm still figuring out which data to trust.

You can be sure though that the data that you download through the History Center (which comes from MetaQuotes) are one of the sets that should be least trusted. It is poor quality indicative data.

I've written more about it in this thread: http://indo-investasi.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4476&sid=ac639da50c7a59ed9d8b8075b74afb73

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thanks Don for the wonderful work.

 

after tinkering a bit with my GMT offset, my backtest results seem a better! (don't know why it was wrong tho...)

 

i will give this EA a go on my live alpari-uk account with all the supported pairs...i'll see how that goes.

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thanks Don for the wonderful work.

 

after tinkering a bit with my GMT offset, my backtest results seem a better! (don't know why it was wrong tho...)

 

i will give this EA a go on my live alpari-uk account with all the supported pairs...i'll see how that goes.

are you using AUTOGMT OFFSET = true ? or you set it manually ?

i'm running live on alpari uk currently with all the suggested support 4 pairs.

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Just joined this thread...

Totally agree with you hyperdimension, I've done a lot on backtesting myself back then only to find the backtesting results are quite different with real trading.

Of course I've done a lot research on how MT4 uses the interpolation on it's "every tick" data, which would affect on EAs that take profits around 5-10pips.

I have been planning to download "real time" data from my office which subscribes "bloomberg data", I need a favor from one of my colleagues to do it, and I haven't had a chance to talk to him. I am not sure how much data I could get from this terminal and how accurate it will be.

I'll let you know if I have the data.

You've probably seen the thread of how you could collect data from your broker ("tick by tick") by running a mq4 scripts, but of course this would not guarantee you'll get 99% quality as this would also depend on your broker and your internet connection and so on and so on...

Anyway good luck to everybody on this EA, I will try it myself when I got the time...

 

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Results from last day. +58,92pips and no negative trades. I wish it was live account ;))

 

2381161 2009.07.22 22:00 buy 0.10 eurjpy 132.94 132.06 133.44 2009.07.22 22:36 133.04 0.00 0.00 0.00 10.69

2381388 2009.07.22 22:21 sell 0.10 gbpusd 1.6466 1.6502 1.6419 2009.07.22 23:29 1.6465 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00

2381511 2009.07.22 22:38 buy 0.10 eurgbp 0.8631 0.8588 0.8681 2009.07.22 23:44 0.8632 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.64

2381667 2009.07.22 22:59 sell 0.10 usdjpy 93.62 93.94 93.12 2009.07.23 00:00 93.59 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.21

2381687 2009.07.22 23:00 sell 0.10 usdjpy 93.65 94.36 93.05 2009.07.23 00:47 93.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 10.69

2381888 2009.07.22 23:20 sell 0.10 usdchf 1.0659 1.0721 1.0599 2009.07.23 03:00 1.0658 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.94

2382070 2009.07.22 23:36 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.6461 1.6308 1.6511 2009.07.23 00:07 1.6472 0.00 0.00 0.00 11.00

2382078 2009.07.22 23:38 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.6459 1.6369 1.6519 2009.07.23 00:07 1.6469 0.00 0.00 0.00 10.00

2382174 2009.07.22 23:47 buy 0.10 eurusd 1.4204 1.4156 1.4254 2009.07.23 00:48 1.4211 0.00 0.00 0.00 7.00

2382223 2009.07.22 23:50 sell 0.10 eurchf 1.5156 1.5199 1.5096 2009.07.23 00:56 1.5155 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.93

2382292 2009.07.22 23:59 sell 0.10 usdcad 1.1001 1.1045 1.0941 2009.07.23 01:15 1.0999 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.82

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Results from last day. +58,92pips and no negative trades. I wish it was live account ;))

 

2381161 2009.07.22 22:00 buy 0.10 eurjpy 132.94 132.06 133.44 2009.07.22 22:36 133.04 0.00 0.00 0.00 10.69

2381388 2009.07.22 22:21 sell 0.10 gbpusd 1.6466 1.6502 1.6419 2009.07.22 23:29 1.6465 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00

2381511 2009.07.22 22:38 buy 0.10 eurgbp 0.8631 0.8588 0.8681 2009.07.22 23:44 0.8632 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.64

2381667 2009.07.22 22:59 sell 0.10 usdjpy 93.62 93.94 93.12 2009.07.23 00:00 93.59 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.21

2381687 2009.07.22 23:00 sell 0.10 usdjpy 93.65 94.36 93.05 2009.07.23 00:47 93.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 10.69

2381888 2009.07.22 23:20 sell 0.10 usdchf 1.0659 1.0721 1.0599 2009.07.23 03:00 1.0658 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.94

2382070 2009.07.22 23:36 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.6461 1.6308 1.6511 2009.07.23 00:07 1.6472 0.00 0.00 0.00 11.00

2382078 2009.07.22 23:38 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.6459 1.6369 1.6519 2009.07.23 00:07 1.6469 0.00 0.00 0.00 10.00

2382174 2009.07.22 23:47 buy 0.10 eurusd 1.4204 1.4156 1.4254 2009.07.23 00:48 1.4211 0.00 0.00 0.00 7.00

2382223 2009.07.22 23:50 sell 0.10 eurchf 1.5156 1.5199 1.5096 2009.07.23 00:56 1.5155 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.93

2382292 2009.07.22 23:59 sell 0.10 usdcad 1.1001 1.1045 1.0941 2009.07.23 01:15 1.0999 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.82

Thanks Don for a job well done,please can share your optimized settings with me .I

am interested in megadroidpro for live trading.then can you expantiate further on the issues of logic ,i am confused which logic to use .thanks

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Thanks Don for a job well done,please can share your optimized settings with me .I

am interested in megadroidpro for live trading.then can you expantiate further on the issues of logic ,i am confused which logic to use .thanks

 

3000€ account, agressive, 0.1 lot per trade, Risk=0 and Recovery= false trade logic settings see below:

 

USD/JPY= 4

GBP/USD= 4

EUR/JPY= 1

GBP/CHF= 4

USD/CAD= 2

EUR/USD=1

EUR/CHF=2

EUR/GBP=3

USD/CHF=4

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What is the exact GMT time that MD starts and ends his trades?? (Its between 22h00 and 00h00 GMT)?

I'm a little confused :hammer: about this setting...

 

Need some help, thanks!

 

Note: I'm using Alpari uk, and i have GmtOffset:2 (auto)... is it correct?

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I have been planning to download "real time" data from my office which subscribes "bloomberg data", I need a favor from one of my colleagues to do it, and I haven't had a chance to talk to him. I am not sure how much data I could get from this terminal and how accurate it will be.

I'll let you know if I have the data.

 

Does your office subscribe to other vendors like Olsen or Tenfore? They're considered to be top quality (but very expensive).

 

Oanda's tick data is also considered to be good quality, and it's free if you have a live funded account with them. I made a request for it here: http://indo-investasi.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=4425

 

I've downloaded pretty much all of the tick data from ratedata.gaincapital.com, but it has a lot of inconsistencies and holes.

 

You've probably seen the thread of how you could collect data from your broker ("tick by tick") by running a mq4 scripts, but of course this would not guarantee you'll get 99% quality as this would also depend on your broker and your internet connection and so on and so on...

Yes, I know about that method and was thinking of doing it, because people on other forums suggest that you should be backtesting over data that actually came from the broker whom you intend to actually trade through (and the data downloaded from the History Center is from Metaquotes, not the broker). But as you said, you need a reliable connection to continually collect ticks (otherwise there'd be holes), so it would have to run on a VPS. The data feeds from different brokers can differ by a few pips or so at any one time, which can have an impact on strategies that have small take profit distances like MegaDroid.

 

Also, I have been working on a way to backtest over tick data in MetaTrader. The historical data in MetaTrader is of only 1 minute resolution, and as you stated MetaTrader simply creates fake tick data out of the 1 minute data and puts it into an FXT file in the tester\history folder. If you've been using MetaTrader for at least a year or so ago you may remember the recalculate checkbox, which allows you to tell MetaTrader whether to recreate the fxt file for the next backtest or optimization. By not ticking it, you could put your own tick data file into the tester history folder and it will test over that. But as of build 210 they removed the recalculate checkbox, much to the disappointment of those who were backtesting over their own tick data.

 

But I have now worked out a way to prevent recreation of the FXT file. The only problem I still have though is that the FXT file format has changed from previous versions, and I'm having trouble creating FXT files that the latest MetaTrader build will accept. I've been using these scripts: http://codebase.mql4.com/515 and http://codebase.mql4.com/516, but they were for the previous FXT version (404). There's pretty much no information about the new FXT version (405). I'm not sure whether it's because Metaquotes simply does not want us to test over tick data, but that seems to be the case.

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Yes, Alpari UK is on GMT+2 now.

In backtests use GMT+1.

 

If you are going to test over Alpari's data (which is actually Metaquotes data but with different GMT offset), you should actually switch GMT offset between 1 and 2 depending on the date, because the Alpari data is has a GMT offset of 2 during daylight savings time and 1 at other times of year. You need to write code to do it. Otherwise you are simply introducing another flaw in your backtests.

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last night was awesome with MegaDroid on my live account ^:)^

it made 14 trades ; 13wins and 1 breakeven.... I LUV it \m/

 

1104934  2009.07.23 22:00--sell--2.0   usdchfm   1.0749  --2009.07.23 22:27-- 1.0741==> 14.9

1104989  2009.07.23 22:00--buy--2.0   eurusdm   1.4143 --2009.07.23 22:01-- 1.4150==> 14

1105190  2009.07.23 22:05--buy--2.0   eurusdm   1.4141 --2009.07.23 22:06-- 1.4141==> 0

1105241  2009.07.23 22:06--buy--2.0   eurgbpm   0.8581 --2009.07.23 22:12-- 0.8586==> 16.47

1106013  2009.07.23 22:27--sell--2.0   eurusdm   1.4163 --2009.07.23 22:45-- 1.4157==> 12

1106228  2009.07.23 22:37--sell--2.0   gbpusdm   1.6496 --2009.07.23 23:01-- 1.6486==> 20

1106372  2009.07.23 22:52--sell--2.0   usdjpym   95.07   --2009.07.24 00:14-- 95.05 ==> 4.21

1107363  2009.07.23 23:32--sell--2.0   usdjpym   95.06   --2009.07.24 00:48-- 99.06 ==> 21.05

1107441  2009.07.23 23:35--sell--2.0   eurusdm   1.4164  --2009.07.23 23:54-- 1.4159==> 10

1107519  2009.07.23 23:38--sell--2.0   gbpusdm   1.6502 --2009.07.24 01:11-- 1.6501==> 2

1107614  2009.07.23 23:40--sell--2.0   gbpusdm   1.6510 --2009.07.24 01:05-- 1.6502==> 16

1108194  2009.07.24 00:01--buy--2.0   eurchfm   1.5207 --2009.07.24 00:18-- 1.5208==> 1.87

1108205  2009.07.24 00:01--buy--1.5   eurchfm   1.5205 --2009.07.24 00:31-- 1.5207==> 2.8

1108462  2009.07.24 00:18--sell--2.0   eurusdm   1.4168  --2009.07.24 00:23-- 1.4163==> 10

 

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Re: Megadroid Pro

 

hm...i'm on alpari-uk live testing supported pairs. no trades yet due to crashes...(running MegaDroidPro_v1_00ee2x by Don)

 

now have switched off auto gmt and MM...see how that goes.

 

anyone have it running without crashes? if so, was there any special settings done?

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