Settings of -1 do mean the EA won't trade. It's basically illogical information which the EA cannot trade with so it ultimately disables the EA. The impact of a single week is of course limited. When using such a large sample size, I'm able to ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

Here's a thought Metacoder. You obviously seem skilled as a programmer and I've been exploring new ways to trade relatively old strategies. I have a thread in the trading systems forum called "Old Dogs With New Tricks". I basically take a market ...

Successful Automatic Trading - Like Chasing Bigfoot?

if(StringFind(Symbol(), "EURUSD", 0) != -1) Print("Symbol is EURUSD");

How to compare Symbol() string to find "EURUSD" in it?

I think I explained how the backtester works, and assuming your stoploss / takeprofit are sufficiently large, spread should be a non-issue. I didn't design this to be a scalping EA, I designed this to be more of a swing-trading EA, which is immune ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

Triangular arb is simple. Take pair A multiply by pair B, then get the synthetic pair generated, and compare to the current price. If there is a significant difference, trade into the triangle. The problem is you have to pay spread against three ...

Need Triangle Arbitrage Calculator & indicator for MT4

I don't know. I've tried triangular arb when I was at RBS, didn't really make that much money.

Need Triangle Arbitrage Calculator & indicator for MT4

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Need Triangle Arbitrage Calculator & indicator for MT4

This is why I always split trades if I will partially close them

Modify RR EA (Traffic Light)

No. Direct interbank means I am the liquidity provider.

Need Triangle Arbitrage Calculator & indicator for MT4

Your modeling quality is 49%...

ADDD EA - SkyStriker

Try using steve's version. His code handles ECN brokers better than mine.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Even with the rebates, it won't work. Brokers are privy to this information and may possibly be doing it themselves. If you really want to to triangular arb, you need direct interbank access.

Need Triangle Arbitrage Calculator & indicator for MT4

I will tell you now that it won't work. Lag, slippage, and spread will eat you alive.

Need Triangle Arbitrage Calculator & indicator for MT4

What do you mean by 'practice'? Qu'entendez-vous par «pratique»?

How do you protect my EA?

Don't distribute it. ne pas distribuer

How do you protect my EA?

This seems a lot like Trader101's method.

Confirm 14 EA System

No, the EA doesn't use spread. No it shouldn't skew the results as long as the sl/TP is greater than the spread.

Old Dog with New Tricks

The trade is counted as a win. The way the optimizer works is (assume reverse trades is false)... An entry bar is found in the bar history. The EA counts the number of bars after the entry bar when the stoploss is hit. Or the maximum trade length is ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

EA automatically reverses a long trade if there's a short signal and vice versa.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Bloomberg. ~$10-15k

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