Indo Run (First post will be updated with new versions/setfiles/etc.)

[expat1967]

Almost every grid will survive using 0.01 % of the account, but the profit will vary between 5 and 15%/y. And restricting number of open trades is not equal to using SL.

I do not know good hedge strategy but it is possible too. But once get in hedge how do we get out of?

 

I am trying with hedging strategy on a lower lotsize for the reveresed trades. Helps to reduce dd but overall it will press hard on the margin. Brokers will be very happy as the number of trades increases accordingly. Still got some options on my list but I am not much happy as of yet with it.

 

Cheers

[expat1967]

Hi All,

 

make sure you revert to Forex TSD News if you want to check the News Stream.

 

E.g. Forex Factory for today:

 

Mon

Nov 29 4:45am NZD Trade Balance -319M -416M -457M

6:35am AUD HIA New Home Sales m/m 2.4% -1.7%

6:50am JPY Retail Sales y/y -0.2% 0.8% 1.4%

7:30am AUD Company Operating Profits q/q -1.5% 4.3% 17.0%

8:00am JPY BOJ Gov Shirakawa Speaks

9:00am NZD NBNZ Business Confidence 23.7

2:30pm AUD RBA Gov Stevens Speaks

4:30pm GBP Net Lending to Individuals m/m 0.8B 0.4B

4:30pm GBP Final Mortgage Approvals 47K 44K

8:30pm CAD Current Account -14.9B -11.0B

8:30pm CAD RMPI m/m 1.0% -0.4%

8:30pm CAD IPPI m/m 0.2% 0.2%

Tentative GBP Annual Pre-Budget Release

 

TSD for today:

Nov 29, Mon 07:30:00 AM AUD Company Operating Profits Low - 18.9% 0

09:00:00 AM NZD Business Confidence Medium - 23.7 0

08:30:00 PM CAD RMPI Low 0.1% -0.4% 0

08:30:00 PM CAD IPPI Low 0.2% 0.2% 0

08:30:00 PM CAD Current Account High -13.0B -11.0B 0

04:45:00 AM NZD Trade Balance Medium -527M -532M 0

06:50:00 AM JPY Retail Trade

 

Cheers

[tomislav]

Hi Expat. The first parameter in envelopes is envelopes time frame - 0 (default). In what format does this parameter accept different values? I've tried 30 and 60 to no avail. I've tried testing the whole thing on 1 hour but pointless for me. What values would it accept apart from the default zero?

[expat1967]

Hey tomislav, try with the value (30, 60, ...) settings below.

 

PERIOD_M1 1 1 minute.

PERIOD_M5 5 5 minutes.

PERIOD_M15 15 15 minutes.

PERIOD_M30 30 30 minutes.

PERIOD_H1 60 1 hour.

PERIOD_H4 240 4 hour.

PERIOD_D1 1440 Daily.

PERIOD_W1 10080 Weekly.

PERIOD_MN1 43200 Monthly.

0 (zero) 0 Timeframe used on the chart.

[tomislav]

Thanks Expat. I'm finding using the filters set by yourself to be the best way. I have found though that ATR periods 12&3 work better (less DD) on 5,5,5 compared to 7,7,7. Edited November 29, 2010 by tomislav

[expat1967]

Thanks Expat. I'm finding using the filters set by yourself to be the best way. I have found though that ATR periods 12&3 work better (less DD) on 5,5,5 compared to 7,7,7.

 

Yeap, its best to source for your own settings to adjust it to your environment and requirements. As well, its important to understand what the EA is doing on your account. Like I said erlier, I do run it without indi filter, just newsfilter on well seems I do have a high risk level ;)

 

However, will try to get a closer team together to tackle the optimization. Znake gave me some ideas how we can consolidate.

 

Cheers

[tomislav]

I've just noticed something bizarre. There are two GBP news events listed on FFcal today, Monday the 29th Nov at 9:30 GMT. One medium and one low impact. These two GBP news events are not even listed on the TSD news calendar. As long as it gets the high impact events :-/

 

I'm also diggin' the MA filter. From your first conservative set MA current up/down 0.0003 and MA previous up/down 0.0004 ; What do these values refer to? A moving average period? Once again interested in the mechanics of the EA :)

Edited November 30, 2010 by tomislav

[warmanever]

Hey tomislav, try with the value (30, 60, ...) settings below.

 

PERIOD_M1 1 1 minute.

PERIOD_M5 5 5 minutes.

PERIOD_M15 15 15 minutes.

PERIOD_M30 30 30 minutes.

PERIOD_H1 60 1 hour.

PERIOD_H4 240 4 hour.

PERIOD_D1 1440 Daily.

PERIOD_W1 10080 Weekly.

PERIOD_MN1 43200 Monthly.

0 (zero) 0 Timeframe used on the chart.

 

Thx expat1967...i will test it wit this set.

[tomislav]

Is anyone else having issues with the TSD news filter? Mine is just not working right now. It did work the other day.

[expat1967]

I've just noticed something bizarre. There are two GBP news events listed on FFcal today, Monday the 29th Nov at 9:30 GMT. One medium and one low impact. These two GBP news events are not even listed on the TSD news calendar. As long as it gets the high impact events :-/

 

I'm also diggin' the MA filter. From your first conservative set MA current up/down 0.0003 and MA previous up/down 0.0004 ; What do these values refer to? A moving average period? Once again interested in the mechanics of the EA :)

 

Yeap, the news streams differ, is it TSD, FF or DailyFX. The most complete is DailyFX and currently testing with Indo Run (thanks again to odrisb for integrating). Thus news streams are not standardized not on content nor on impact classification. Using the Indo Run with TSD you might check the stream via the TSD calendar http://calendar.forex-tsd.com/index.php?p=calendar

 

E.g. Below TSD stream, Bernanke Speech was added later to their stream and is not in news file from the EA:

 

Nov 30, Tue 07:01:00 AM GBP GfK Consumer Confidence Low -19 -19 0

07:30:00 AM AUD Current Account High -6.0B -5.6B 0

07:30:00 AM AUD Private New Capital Expenditures Low 0.1% 0.1% 0

07:30:00 AM AUD Building Approvals High -1.6% -6.6% 0

08:30:00 AM JPY Average Cash Earnings Low 0.9% 0.9% 0

12:00:00 PM JPY Housing Starts Low 15.0% 17.7% 0

02:00:00 PM CHF UBS Consumption Indicator Medium - 1.70 0

03:55:00 PM EUR German Unemployment Rate sa Low 7.5% 7.5% 0

05:00:00 PM EUR CPI Estimates y/y Medium 1.9% 1.9% 0

05:00:00 PM EUR Unemployment Rate Medium 10.1% 10.1% 0

08:30:00 PM CAD GDP High 0.2% 0.3% 0

09:45:00 PM USD Chicago PMI Low 60.4 60.6 0

10:00:00 PM USD Consumer Confidence High 52.0 50.2 0

10:30:00 PM EUR ECB President Trichet Speaks High - - 0

04:45:00 AM NZD Building Permits m/m sa Medium 0.5% 0.5% 0

06:30:00 AM JPY Unemployment Rate Low 5.0% 5.0% 0

06:50:00 AM JPY Industrial Production Medium -2.3% -1.9% 0

Dec 01, Wed 07:30:00 AM AUD GDP High 0.7% 1.2% 0

09:00:00 AM NZD ANZ Commodity Price Index Medium - 3.5% 0

02:00:00 PM EUR German Retail Sales m/m Low -1.1% -2.3% 0

02:00:00 PM GBP Nationwide House Prices Low -0.7% -0.7% 0

03:30:00 PM CHF Manufacturing PMI Low 59.2 59.2 0

03:55:00 PM EUR German Manufacturing PMI Low 57.0 56.6 0

04:00:00 PM EUR Manufacturing PMI Low 55.5 55.5 0

04:30:00 PM GBP Manufacturing PMI Low 55.0 54.9 0

08:15:00 PM USD ADP Total Nonfarm Employment Change Medium 60K 43K 0

08:30:00 PM USD Unit Labor Costs Low -0.1% -0.1% 0

08:30:00 PM USD Non-farm Productivity Low 1.9% 1.9% 0

10:00:00 PM USD ISM Manufacturing Index High 56.0 56.9 0

10:00:00 PM USD Construction Spending Low - 0.5% 0

10:00:00 PM USD ISM Manufacturing Prices Low 71.0 71.0 0

10:30:00 PM USD EIA Crude Oil Stocks Low - 1.0M 0

03:00:00 AM USD Fed Chairman Bernanke Speaks High - - 0

05:30:00 AM AUD Manufacturing PMI Low - 49.4 0

Edited November 30, 2010 by expat1967

[tomislav]

Funny thing is the separate TSD news indicator that displays news on a chart actually registers the Bernanke speech... funny. Expat there is something strange going on with the Indo Run 1.5 TSD news filter from my end. It works then it doesn't work and when it works it has the timing reference to avoiding news quite wrong thinking there is news a few hours away when there's nothing for over 13 hrs. My computer clock and TSD web clock are matched. Like I said the TSD news indicator works perfectly and displays all the correct news times previous and upcoming on a chart. There's something going on with the EA or TSD.

I really hate to be a party pooper :-??

 

P.S On a lighter note: Profit all order on 6 and dynamic profit "true" and set dynamic profit step to 10.0 for mini-lots (1.0 for micro-lots). Takes 50+pips at times... usually 18-28 pips sometimes 9-10 pips when there is a squeeze. It will improve your profit.

Edited December 1, 2010 by tomislav

[expat1967]

Hi All,

 

thanks to tomislav found a bug in the news filter. I have applied a quick fix and first post is updated with new 1.5 version.

 

TSD still needs to be monitored and burned in.

 

Cheers

[⭐ pipmaster]

Does anyone know if the new 1.5 version of Indo Run works I've had it going for a few days and hasnt traded at all. I think I'm regretting using these crazy EAs. Have wiped out almost 3 accounts now. Had one with $500 and on 0.01 is down to $110 now with draw down $68 on two trades.

Lost around $5500 on a larger account, was going well for a while.

The other one had $100 and now is $8.

Just the GU dropping so much didn't seem to work for this EA I think.

I still appreciate all the work Expat has put into Indo Run and will continue trying it out, just a shame to wipe out most of my accounts in only a couple of weeks.

[tomislav]

I wasn't going to say anything but what the heck... you're having a forex meltdown. It'll pass. You're not the first or the last. Expat posted a conservative set file on the first page:

 

Conservative: http://www.multiupload.com/X1TGMTVRUJ.

 

I've been using this and it trades a few times everyday and makes money with acceptable draw down.

Edited December 1, 2010 by tomislav

[expat1967]

Sorry to hear that some accounts are troubled...

 

Looking forward, you can backtest the newsfilter in the todays posted version of 1.5.

open the mq4 file in the MT4 editor and replace: if (AvoidNews && !IsTesting() && !IsOptimization()) with if (AvoidNews) in line 1312 inside the mq4 then save/compile...

 

You can test max 4-6 weeks in a row (better stick with 4), then the tester starts returning an error of too many open files. Better make 2 runs over a month to ensure all newsfiles are downloaded. Also check the journal or even better the files itself in the tester/files folder.

 

Done that and you dont want to test with newsfilter switch AvoidNews to false.

 

The Version 1.5 might not have been trading this week if you have applied the setfile. The set includes not to trade month end/first, ADP NFP(Wednesday before NFP), NFP(Friday) and Monday after NFP. Thus, the first time it trades this week is tmrw Thursday.

 

Cheers

[ho3ain190]

indo run 1.5 not worked ! why ? please upload best set file

 

thanks

[⭐ pipmaster]

Regarding back tests I still haven't really got decent back test data. I look at birts back test data and still didn't have a download link. Is there a site where you can download back test data and don't have to convert or modify it or is anyone able to upload back test data to somewhere like hotfile or rapidshare etc

[tomislav]

TSD news filter works OK now. Thanks Expat.

 

Best set files on first page. Just have to adjust to 0.01 lots or what ever you like. All info on these pages.

[bibi505]

Expat

I not post a lot but Indo 1.5 seems to me very very slow even without news filter on.

Testing on 2 account one very slow and the other Alpari UK no trade at all since 2 days

I know market is wired...

Bert

[expat1967]

Expat

I not post a lot but Indo 1.5 seems to me very very slow even without news filter on.

Testing on 2 account one very slow and the other Alpari UK no trade at all since 2 days

I know market is wired...

Bert

 

See my prior post. Not sure what you have set, but check on the Not trade ADP or month end/first.

 

Cheers

[Znake]

Hi expat,

 

you messagebox is full. Please clear or contact me via e-mail. I have already sent you me email adress.

 

Thanks !

[tomislav]

Expat

I not post a lot but Indo 1.5 seems to me very very slow even without news filter on.

Testing on 2 account one very slow and the other Alpari UK no trade at all since 2 days

I know market is wired...

Bert

 

Who is your broker?

[Znake]

Who is your broker?

 

I'm also testing on demo account. Only a few good trades the last days. My broker is Alpari RU.

[tomislav]

I thought I was asking bibi505 because he's complaining that Indo Run 1.5 isn't working. I think as long as you're using a decent 5 digit broker who is STP or ECN you should be OK. If you are using a 4 digit broker with fixed spreads then the problem is, is that these brokers are market makers who only make money when you lose. But still it should work if you are using MT4. If your Indo Run isn't working then you are doing something wrong. It's that simple.

 

I'm using Expat's first conservative set (page 1) with -13 price offset (more trades) and MA method 3.0 (linear weighted) in MA filter. News filter off. Demo account.

And I'm using dynamic profit. The last trade in picture below took $97.67 on 0.1 lots only. Unusual, but it does happen.

 

http://img130.imageshack.us/i/indorun15.gif/

Edited December 12, 2010 by tomislav

[bibi505]

Tomi

 

FXDD Malta

1.4 was running like hell... sometimes toooooooo fast....

but 1.5 is like an very old turtle... with nooooo ofense : joking... but just

looking for a " middle" term... not more