I have but the whole situation has shaken my belief in the reliability of the inner workings of the indicator, I've discovered several flaws already during my process of turning it into an include. Once I'm done, I won't hesitate to run it live.

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

Props to Scooby-doo! — For your Holy Grail 1.6. It's made 15 trades, with only 3 losers and 2 of the losers were a direct result of the news filter failing. Can't imagine how you could improve, but am eager to see nonetheless!

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

In the Economic News indicator there is a variable ReportAllForUSD which I've set to true. This should filter out the real earth shakers.

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

MaxKG = MathMax(MathMax(MathMax(JpyKgRS,UsdKgRS), MathMax(GbpKgRS,EurKgRS)), MathMax(MathMax(ChfKgRS,AudKgRS), MathMax(NzdKgRS,CadKgRS))); Equally nasty just takes up less room.

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

You also get 99999 if there are no more news for the week.

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

Woowee! That looks promising

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

The problem with the news indicator stems in the fact that it gets loaded and reloaded constantly. Each time this happens it has to download the news xml file from the FF site, when high impact news occurs the file can't be retrieved and 99999 is ...

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

To address the unfavourable R:R ratio I've lowered my sl to 50% and left tp at 25. I like your idea bit9ret, let's see if I have it down pat: - user defined ADR threshold percentage (l'll use 50) if current price < today's open + (0.50 * ADR) >>> ...

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

Short of calling up your old roommate Bob who now works for the competition I would venture to guess the ol' saying "The trend is your friend" applies.

Identifying Market Swings - Medium and Long Term Trading

For the most part yes, I've added a few functions since the version I've posted to speed up calculating the display and cleaned up the code... bloody ADD can't let anything just be. Shouldn't affect performance though.

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

Yes. I'm trading G7 and pacific crosses excluding nzd/cad, aud/nzd. Max drawdown today was around 1.5%, currently have 1.5% locked in, floating positions around breakeven.

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

I recommend not trading exotics, the spread makes the risk/reward ratio unappealing.

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

That'll do, we're easy to please

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

I take your local PC time and add the LocalGMTOffset. Scooby originally programmed to not trade on Friday's past 11(I assumed GMT) so I have stuck to this.

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

It won't hurt. You're the first tester with a 4 digit broker so I'm sure I gobbled up a broker multiplier calculation somewhere.

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

Looking at the code this is the only place it could've fudged, Line 110. You can change it to this and see if it helps. I've also attached a version with this fix. PairStat = StringConcatenate(PairStat," ", Rsi," ",pScore," ", Pairs[b]," ...

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

can you turn printDebug to true and tell me what it outputs in the log? Are you using a 4 or 5 digit broker?

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

So as promised here is my version of Scooby's 200-20-3 EA. Variables: ATRrange - Number of days to average the daily range PercentOfADRtp - Percentage of daily range to set as TP PercentOfADRsl - Percentage of daily range to set as SL ...

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

As for ATR I'm testing the scoobs 200-20-3 EA with TP and SL based on daily ATR, with lots sized accordingly. In 6 hours its outperformed the original, also using the variable RSI function I posted earlier. A few more tweaks and crude display and I ...

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

So a couple of days ago I read a Scooby post which brought up the point that when using the RSI indicator it needs to be 2 during quiet conditions, 3 when active, and higher if the market is more volatile. Here is my solution which I will begin ...

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot