but the more variables you have, the more prone you are to over-optimizing. I'd like to keep the number of variables to no more than 5, and have the system determine the rest.

Interesting GBP/USD MA Crossover system

HowManyPips, this is one Itme's best post so read it many times. I echo his ideas in my signature: the one thing that truly separates the successful from the unsuccessful in forex is ATTITUDE. Aim for the stars and beyond and never look back at the ...

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Guys I've been watching the price for the last 6 hours and I've gotten some great ideas, I'm excited. To determine ranging, I'm adding the possibility if the average distance between the high and low of the last 8 candles is greater than the width ...

Interesting GBP/USD MA Crossover system

Thanks to everyone for your input and thoughts over these last 24 hours. There have been some questions asked. MarkGavalda, how often to optimize? how large of a sample to optimize over? My beginning benchmark has been once a week over the last 6 ...

Interesting GBP/USD MA Crossover system

Jackinabox, I can't see the dates on that window, when was that trade?

Interesting GBP/USD MA Crossover system

you say this as if the market doesn't change in those 5 years. But since the market does change, its permissible in the world of 100% mechanical systems to tweak the system now and to stay in sync with the market. So now repeat your challenge ...

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13 trades as of this morning.

Interesting GBP/USD MA Crossover system

Raytracy, thank you so much for adding these little extras to the EA. I don't have much experience in computer programming so I sometimes skip things in the EA that aren't relevant to the strategy but relevant to the EA as a little computer program. ...

Interesting GBP/USD MA Crossover system

Also remember that this is a trending EA so it can be very harder to fit it to ranging markets, no matter how much you optimize it. The final EA for this system will work for ranging and trending markets.

Interesting GBP/USD MA Crossover system

the market conditions of this last spring were entirely different from the market conditions of this past fall, so I doubt you'll be able to have it perform well with the same parameters over a years time. The EA is designed to fit to the current ...

Interesting GBP/USD MA Crossover system

cool, thanks for the interesting additions. It was only optimized over the last 6 months, so if you have good data, you should have excellent results since september.

Interesting GBP/USD MA Crossover system

I'm not happy though with this version. It misses too many trades.

Interesting GBP/USD MA Crossover system

Hey guys, this is the trending part of the MoneyMaker system, only the trending part. Right now I'm getting 24 trades, optimized over 6 months. ROR seems to be around 75% to %100 per month on my standard account with 1:100 leverage, so for all you ...

Interesting GBP/USD MA Crossover system

I thought I would give an update since things keep taking longer than expected. The trending part of the EA is done. Right now it's optimized over the last 6 months and with 20% invested per trade, its taking $10 to around $17,000 with around a 5% ...

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yes, exactly.

Can parameters run on different periods in the same EA?

if you want to use metatrader, just find a broker that offers metatrader as a trading platform. you don't have to subscribe to anything. Unfortunately there is not good documentation for learning the metatrader language. I taught myself just by ...

How does one learn an EA?

72,48,48 are excellent settings

What Macd settings do you use

they show the average price.

Why moving averages are important?

nice call hmm? it probably will retrace tomorrow some. On another note, I'm basically done with the code for this version. Right now I'm optimizing it again(its been a while since I've done that) and doubling everything for ranging markets on the 15 ...

Interesting GBP/USD MA Crossover system