My mod for the FH boxes "filter" addition — Ok let's try this one: Awesome hates ranging conditions. Trading Awesome in ranging conditions will grow the Mart factor quickly to the death trade level (margin call). So the idea here is ...

"Awesome" auto-trading robot by SteveHopwood

sqDynamicBreakoutBox.mq4 v1.7c — another round of cosmetics for FH... Looks definitely better like that! Sq

Tools for forexhard's Stairstep Breakouts system

Not very easy to do that. It's MT4 limitations that make the text labels located like that, there is no choice to select the position of the text relative to the given coordinates... i will try anyway! Sq

Tools for forexhard's Stairstep Breakouts system

something's wrong in the EA... — Checking in for a followup on your overnight work Steve... (My Chinese guys decided to cancel the conf call... ) I run it thru the backtester on EU from just july 18 to see how this goes. There are ...

"Awesome" auto-trading robot by SteveHopwood

Man! that was a quick hack ! I'll ring in tomorrow morning to check the progress.... Sq

"Awesome" auto-trading robot by SteveHopwood

Here is an example list of boxes it plots with me: 2011.07.22 01:12:37 2011.07.21 21:00 Awesome with fh auto trading robot by Steve Hopwood GBPUSD,M5: NEW BOX formed at 2011.07.21 21:00 boxHigh=1.63229900 boxLow=1.62898000 range=33.2 2011.07.22 ...

"Awesome" auto-trading robot by SteveHopwood

ok, i won't be very "fresh" tomorrow morning i guess... I loaded it on backtester, and it DOES plot the boxes and trendlines properly. However it does NOT trade Sq

"Awesome" auto-trading robot by SteveHopwood

All right, i'll let you play with it Got a conf call with China early tomorrow morning... I need some sleep Sq

"Awesome" auto-trading robot by SteveHopwood

Well... on a second thought (can't sleep yet ) the latest CZ EA i posted already has martingaling options in it . It's just not "jumping high enough" on the second trade to produce the mart sequence described in the pdf. The sequence is ...

"Awesome" auto-trading robot by SteveHopwood

Mart's don't like ranging conditions ? All right, let's martingale only when ranging is over, then! How about combining this with Forexhard's CZ ?... When a breakout of the CZ appears, kick in Awesome... That could really be awesome. Or maybe not. ...

"Awesome" auto-trading robot by SteveHopwood

This is the simple way the EA is coded right now: Either always on (UseSafetyFeature=false), or 1 trade and then close shop (UseSafetyFeature=true). I did not test this option yet, so this how it should behave. The 3Tier derived EA will have all ...

Tools for forexhard's Stairstep Breakouts system

you might have something like "sqDynamicBreakoutBox(2).mq4" in your "downloads" directory... this happens when you DL multiple times the same file. You should then rename and use the last downloaded one. Try that. Then manual recompile should update ...

Tools for forexhard's Stairstep Breakouts system

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Indi v1.7b -- more cosmetics... — more cosmetics... now draws a "box continuation rectangle" on each Box (selectable color with BreakoutBoxContColor), and price labels at the right of the last box continuation rectangle and breakout lines (if ...

Tools for forexhard's Stairstep Breakouts system

Thanks for the suggestion; Keep them in a warm place until i release the "new" bot. We will play with new ideas once it is running smoothly. Sq

Tools for forexhard's Stairstep Breakouts system

This is essential.... EU Buy trade this morning (open @1.42749) went to 40p loss after having reached +19p... and my TP was 20p.... At least BE would have saved that one. Now in Sell trade on the opposite border @1.4232... and it is ...

Tools for forexhard's Stairstep Breakouts system

i'll look into this; i had not used the fixed-pips mode yet. Sq

Tools for forexhard's Stairstep Breakouts system

All right, i'll take over the bot. My plan is to "inoculate" this new Breakout Box detector into the 3Tier bot, so we benefit from all its little trading gadgets -- multiple TPs, trailing/jumping stop, BE, optional max number of winners/loosers per ...

Tools for forexhard's Stairstep Breakouts system

Try that one... Sq

Tools for forexhard's Stairstep Breakouts system

Got that in; i updated my previous post. Don't know yet how to create a "text background"... I've seen some of THV indis doing this. I'll check that out. Is that so important anyway ?... Sq

Tools for forexhard's Stairstep Breakouts system