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Old Dog with New Tricks

You have to consider context. As a loose example: you can drive your car on both sides of the road, right? But there are only certain places in the world where it's better to drive on the right side, and where it is better to drive on the left.

Question about volume spread analysis

In theory, the EA will continue to reoptimize itself every week starting on the first tick sunday / monday. I always have my servers do a hard restart over the weekend to clear the cache, apply updates to metatrader, the OS, occasionally my EAs and ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

I think Mindsphere meant something which disables the EA during news. I still know that's a bad idea and here's my explanation. The spikes that occur during the news do show up in the backtest that the EA puts itself through. This EA in a roundabout ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

My theory--if it can be called one--states that the perfect trading system for a given time in a certain market is different from a perfect trading system for a different time in the same market. The changes are not necessarily significant, but at ...

Metatrader 5's distributed optimization

If neither of those numbers are moving, the EA generally got stuck somewhere.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Are last tick and cycle count still counting upward?

Old Dog with New Tricks

Isn't there a symbols file in the history folder?

Adding New Symbol on MT4

To disable the Tick Database in this EA, look for this section of code (around line 390) TotalTime = GetTickCount() - StartTime; Rates = "True"; LastTick = 0; TickData(); Replace with this block of code TotalTime = GetTickCount() - StartTime; Rates ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

Wrong section. Look for something that refers to the tick database.

Old Dog with New Tricks

The EAs will still trade. They just can't send tick data yet.

Old Dog with New Tricks

I had to take down the tick database. I'm trying to setup a backup database tonight. Not sure how long it will take. Those errors will affect all of the [TD] EAs. Simplest way to disable them is to look for the line in the code where you see ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

The EA will skip the tick.

EA workflow and ticks

Use GetTickCount() "The GetTickCount() function retrieves the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since the system was started. It is limited to the resolution of the system timer." So basically. static int LastTickMiliseconds = 0; int ...

Recording Tick Data by EA

I have some EAs which work together in a similar fashion. I basically designed a library which is connected to the EA's lot sizing function. The library is able to actively track--using the text file--what the exposure of each EA is and adjust the ...

Master EA and Sub EAs

It's doable. All you'd need to do is use text files or global variables for the master to give instructions to the subs. Alternatively, you just create a library which manipulates the global variables and text file so each EA is 'mesh networked' to ...

Master EA and Sub EAs

Interesting concept. I noticed it seems you optimized the RSI values used. Is there any danger of some market-changing paradigm affecting the system?

Watukushay FE - A Long Term Viable System

Nobody is missing anything. When I trade with this type of EA, I try to set it up so I get a handful of trades per week. When you test against the larger datasets, it's expected that trade opportunities are harder to find. When you think about this, ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

Yes

Old Dog with New Tricks

When optimizing using this EA, you choose whether or not you want a fixed stoploss or a fixed takeprofit. I have EAs where I am optimizing both--independently. That's where I notice the most changes. The strategies traded using those EAs are the ...

Old Dog with New Tricks