It's good to see you finally have the EA working. Remember, both EAs use the past to try and predict the future. Based on the stats generated by that EA when you ran it, trades are more likely to be profitable in breakouts. To us, of course this ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

MaximumBarShift is basically how many bars a trade should last in the backtester. I originally didn't have any maximum bar shift included, but what ended up happening is there were some trades which were at the absolute highest point of a trend and ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

PM me, seems there may be another system coming.

Old Dog with New Tricks

How many H1 bars do you have in your history center? (F2). And why for that matter is the HiLo SO EA on H1?

Old Dog with New Tricks

As I explained earlier, this self-optimizing EA isn't 'true' optimization, it's a more efficient form of optimization.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Look for Generic Breakout Version 7

EURUSD Breakout EA Help

Strange stuff... TP is -1? Did you use default settings? What I don't get is how some people are having no trouble with this EA and others are...

Old Dog with New Tricks

Quite difficult. There are theoretically infinite round numbers, and only two hilo numbers.

Old Dog with New Tricks

I'm wondering why your start times are in 1970... What does reloading the EA do?

Old Dog with New Tricks

Yeah.... that's a problem. Maybe the issue rfking2 mentioned earlier is happening here.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Okay. Delete old EA, put in new EA, download and import bar data ( url ) start again.

Old Dog with New Tricks

With the exception of the code change, the default settings should work already. I agree. That's the problem when you can't use the start function unfortunately.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Frowny face is adjusted in the common tab when you're setting up the EA. As for your settings, it looks like your TP is pretty small depending on the desired win rate, risk/reward, and success score. More likely than not, the optimizer EA couldn't ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

That is expected behavior. The EA is basically running on an infinite loop. Cycle count is the number of 100 ms intervals that have passed between the last tick and the present. The EA was running over the weekend it seems so it's expected that ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

Trickier. It's hard getting a reliable seamless set of tick data to test off of. One day's worth of tick data is pretty insignificant. You'd probably need one week minimum for marginally improved results.

Old Dog with New Tricks

I had the same problem and RangeBound showed me a very good solution: url

How to direct my EA entries to my website?

I should probably elaborate how the backtesting and optimization work. There are three major steps the EA goes through: Run through all the bars in the backtesting period and write any trade data to a file. Read the file into a series of arrays ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

If ReverseTrades is set to false, the EA tests all trades with a SL setting of whatever SL you set. If ReverseTrades is set to true, the EA tests all trades with a TP setting of whatever TP you set. The optimization engine of this EA is a lot more ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

You need three main things: MySQL database Apache server with support for PHP An MQL dll call which handles web-access Have them? Skype me (brynmawr114) and we'll go over it

How to direct my EA entries to my website?

To download more bars: url Use this source: url I think you're right. It's mentioned here: ( url ). I wonder how I didn't have any trouble with this... If anyone is good with timezone math, I'm in the New York timezone (Eastern).

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