Nah you don't need to change the number, it works fine as it is.

Free Grid EA Ikarus - From zero to hero

Aha maybe that is why I have not been seeing any hedging kicking in, I use grid size progression 1 on my testing as that was the optimal selection from my original batch testing.

Free Grid EA Ikarus - From zero to hero

Thanks for your work on this, I am probably doing something wrong but I can't seem to get it to start hedging. Any chance you could do a quick write up of your additional options in the control panel what they do/how it works? Am I right in thinking ...

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I have not changed the ATR settings from the default settings that are contained in the EA. As I have repeatedly stated I am not fully au fait with ATR so have not attempted to play with the settings, entrusting that the default ones are suitable. I ...

Free Grid EA Ikarus - From zero to hero

No point in quoting code at me, I am no coder and do not understand any of it. All I can say is that when ATR grid is turned on, at some point the grid stops expanding as per my screen shots in post 1742. When ATR grid is turned off this does not ...

Free Grid EA Ikarus - From zero to hero

Strange, you can see from my earlier post with screenshots what happens. This definitely only occurs when ATR grid is active, when ATR grid is not used then the grid continues to expand normally & does not stop expanding at a certain price. I wonder ...

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OK I get most of that, I understand how grids work, it is the ATR I need to reaearch and understand. However this does not explain why Icarus stopped increasing the grid size (price) past the 6th position and then continued to open new positions ...

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I am runnning on a $50k FTMO trial account and have an initial lot size of 0.20 lots. This is generating a little more than the daily required profit for the target so can probably be decreased to 0.15 though testing is very much in its infancy & I ...

Free Grid EA Ikarus - From zero to hero

Found a significant bug in the ATR grid routine. It seems to stop increasing the grid past a certain price and then when the price hits that target each time the EA still opens a progressive lot size trade according to the lot size multiplier that ...

Free Grid EA Ikarus - From zero to hero

Could do but just as easy to get it written into the code as the calculations are already there, it would just need linking up to a hard stop option. I realise the orignal intent was for Icarus to only operate on a single chart at a time but it ...

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Yes but isn't that global (based on overall account drawdown) as opposed to "per chart/pair" drawdown?

Free Grid EA Ikarus - From zero to hero

No I have not played with that setting yet. I have not really looked at ATR so want to research and understand it fully for myself before I start experimenting with it. Update on activating Bollingers - reduced the number of trades taken by about ...

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Not really as I have no reliable set file as of yet but I have given the bones of the settings in my post anyway so it's not hard to dulpicate for your own testing.

Free Grid EA Ikarus - From zero to hero

OK an update on my test running ICarus on all 28 pairs simultaneously with a view to using it for prop firms, I have been running it on FTMO trial accounts. Settings (basic) were: Bollinger off Stoch on at 20/80 RSI on at 20/80 Initiate both cycle ...

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Just tried Gid Boss in strat tester and just get a journal full of errors referring me back to the author (get the same for the grid trading EA too and on any chart I try to test them on). - I see the uploaded versions of the EA in post indicated it ...

GRID TRADING EA

Yes you can have a "swing" account which removed a lot of the requirements but other prop firms are probably better. I think TPT using a copy trade to copy the trades to MT5 may suit Icarus better in the long run if my test works as they have less ...

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I ended the 24 hour trial with 0.81% profit and still the 0.49% max dradown, very small sample duration but promising. Have set up an FTMO free trial to run it on from Monday with slightly lower lot size and further reduced lots for 4 pairs that ...

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I currently have it set up on my test rig running on 28 pairs simultaneously with an optimised low risk settings, only started it running yesterday but in abut 16 hours it has made 0.52% profit with a max drawdown of 0.49%. Will see how that pans ...

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Anyone else playing with the MT5 version? It seems OK in backtest but when I plonked it on a live chart it opened a trade then immediately closed it at a loss (commission) regardless of the TP figure chosen in the settings & repeated that cycle very ...

Free Grid EA Ikarus - From zero to hero

This test was with the MT5 version but I came across the same bug in the orginal when on occasion for some reason it does not "take profit" and allows a basket of trades to stay open and accumulate profit. Previously when it happened it closed the ...

Free Grid EA Ikarus - From zero to hero