The best way to learn about firebird it to read the thread. All your answers are there. I think only through reading the thead will you get a full understanding of what this EA has been through and its many iterations.

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Nice, tight float level. That has to be due to excluding cable.

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Remember, this is an old thread and a lot of questions are answered in the thread. Also, ideas are great, but a lot of the same ideas are being proposed that have already been tried, coded, tested and either discaded or made their way into other ...

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Yes, probably. Mono breaks his down manually and uses a different timeframe. On that site you can get averages for recent periods. Mono has gone further back in time to do his averaging. In other words, rather than take a 2 week average daily range, ...

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Yardie, You can get the history right from the MT4 history, but you have to break it down yourself. Here's a site I refer to for daily averages, etc. http://www.mataf.net/en/analysis-volatility.htm Scroll down to the bottom of the page. You may find ...

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Not sure what you're after in "case studies" but here's a site I refer to occasionally for statistical info. http://www.mataf.net/en/analysis-correlation.htm

Forex case studies and statistics.Where?

Nice. What would be the plan for the swap? Even though some are quite large and eat the majority of the profit, overall it's not that bad. Maybe just don't do anything with them -- I don't know yet.

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What you're suggesting here is akin to the "UseCloseSignal" and surf feature we tried on firebird/phoenix.

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You need to trade with an ECN-type broker to avoid trade interference. Dealing desk brokers will constantly re-quote you and stall. An ECN broker usually charges a commission per lot, but that's a small price to pay for no interference.

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It's the exact same, just doesn't print the equity. Better to use the one posted with divergence fixed and just comment out the equity print if you don't want it. In fact, someone may have already posted that. But I'm not sure if Mono is using the ...

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That's right, Mono. The version I have running with a pipstep of 15 sometimes has a + $3,000 float. And then a news even comes along and cleans it right up and pips are booked. I'm at the point with it where I like to see a large float because I ...

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True. I have a version that's been going just over a month now with a tp of 25 sl of 80 and pipstep of 15. It creates a huge number of trades at times, but is very profitable. My only concern with it has been the number of trades opened and the ...

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Traderseven gave up on firebird quite some time ago. During testing in the early part of this thread we traded several emails and he relayed that he could never get it the way he wanted and so abandoned it.

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That comment is only in one version of v63g that I've seen. Over versions posted throughout this thread do not print the equity. Somewhere along the line someone made that change and it got posted, but it's not part of the original v63g -- if you ...

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yes, you've got it right. that extra 30 is pipstep. I've also been testing the variable targets and pipsteps for about a month. Either way, it's all good.

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Where would you propose those order be placed? In the case of a sell order, how far above the upper envelope would you place your buy stop, and how far below it for sell?

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Skyline, you're in a 1 min chart with EA timeframe of 30?

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Have you found that bit wider to have an effect on the float in terms of limiting the number of trades opened? Does it seem like the quality of trades have improved?

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Thanks. I thought you were on 15 minute chart for some reason. I'm on 1 min chart, 15 TF, .1 percent with 30-300-30. Your envelope is just a bit wider than mine.

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