Results — Well, I started Phoenix yesterday soon after it was posted running 24 hours. It has closed 14 trades with 5 winners and 9 losers in a bit less than a 24 hour period. I'm a little suprised to see so many losers. Everybody get similar ...

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Yes, it closes trades if a new one is signaled, which is good, I agree. But why doesn't it close a regular trade if a surf trade is opened? If a surf trade is initiated it means we're in a trend, so why shouldn't the original counter-trend close? ...

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Yes, Yardie, and it looks like you can chage that back the other way if you set UseCloseSignal to false.

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I have the chf sell active, but didn't get the long. Probably just a data feed difference. I'd still like to know if a surf trade closes a regular trade and vice versa and will probably find out by tomorrow from Hendrick.

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Alsup, you don't need it. It's a visual. You're going to be a bit lost if you don't read the firebird thread and at least the phoenix manual. It's all there.

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UseCloseSignal — Hendrick, if UseCloseSignal is set to true, should a Surf trade close out a regular trade and vice versa? I have one of each open in opposite directions on cable. I'm set to true, so not sure if it's acting properly. Thx

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I'd like a clarification of this too. I've never used orders sizes other than .1, .2, .3 etc and full lots. I have some Phoenix orders open that are .48 and .43. Do all brokers allow that? If all do not allow it, there needs to be a mechanism to ...

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Hendrick, I have UseCloseSignal set to true. At 19:50 GMT it sold GBPUSD @ 1.8462. At 20:22 GMT is bought GBPUSD @ 1.8476. I thought with that parameter set to true that should not happen. Both positons are currntly open. Should that be set to false ...

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Great job, Hendrick. What are you using for SafePipsMinutes and SafePipsDistance? The default is 240 and 60, but the manual mentions 120 and 60. Thx.

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Hendrick, I've been on vacation a few days and might have missed something (but I've read the days I missed) but why are you testing Phoenix against G and not H?

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I let mine sort themselves out too. The only time I see positions opened in the opposite direction is on my demos that have a TP over 25 -- which makes some sense since price has to travel farther and may breach the oppsite side of the envelope ...

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On Metatrader, 5 mini lots would be .5, correct?

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My calculations were a bit off, but still in the ballpark as yours. The reason I asked the question is because of an item I saw on Interbank's site: "... if an account value is $10,000 and the trader places a trade for 1 lot, he is in effect ...

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Hendrick, looking at your SafeArea indicator, does this quote simply mean that when the indicator is outside of the 40/-40 channel trades are not initiated, is that how it works? Thx

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But I would loose all the trade history I have if I did that.

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Wow, that scared the heck out of me. I didn't realize today was July 1. All my previous history was hidden. When I chose "select all" it appeared. Thanks a lot -- I was sweating bullets there for a few minutes. Thx.

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Disable SafeArea — Hendrick, I'd like to run some side by side comparisons this coming week. Can the SafeArea function in your new version be turned off or disabled?

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