It is the nature of Icarus logic, Icarus's virtual TP is according to the Take Profit value you set and virtual SL is according to the grid size you set. Virtual TP and SL are independent. Of course, it brings a dilemma to us. If you set a relative ...

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Yes. I can explain it. From Icarus 4.1 on, including 4.2, Icarus will open both directions buy and sell orders when the trigger condition is satisfied. The reason is, I think the original Icarus initiates both buy and sell cycles make sense and I ...

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It is not caused by restart of MT4. It is a normal close because the profit chasing order and the profit lock you set. When an order of the profit cycle reached its virtual TP, Robin will consider to add an additional order to chase the profit, and ...

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Robin 1.1 is an old version of Robin, please try newest version.

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Thanks GreenBro for this wonderful thread.

Predicting swing tops and bottoms in any time frame

What MaPi said "Only Long / Only Short " settings is from here. image

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How to Prepare Historical Tick Data for Back Test Tick Data Suite? Quant Data Manager? Tickstory? As I mentioned before, I don't trust Tick Data Suite because it embedded some code into your MT4 terminal such that the quality of back test can not be ...

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Attached is Icarus with working time restriction version. file file

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About the trading time restriction function, yes, I can do it. But I'll do it on Icarus 4.x later. Icarus 4.0 is nothing different to Icarus 2.2_Time version if you choose not to use any indicators. About another issue, the digits incompatible ...

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Icarus is not my EA, I would not change any part of its mainly parts. If you don't know how to modify it, you have better not use Icarus on symbols other than currency pairs.

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Icarus is designed for currencies pair by default, if you want to run it on other things you need to make sure the point value of digits as well as the pip value calculated are the same as currency pairs. For instance, Icarus calculate PIP VALUE as ...

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1000 USD should enough for per 0.1 lots. Robin isn't like Icarus, you can use a bigger initial lots.

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There are many reasons no trade is taken, one is you didn't check Allow Live Trading in your EA property settings. image Other reasons are your triggering condition is too harsh for any trade be taken.

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Correct, Icarus has the Max Spread setting for you to restrict the maximum spread for trading. It is RSI or STO, CCI is not so sensitive in a ranging market situation.

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You can try to see what happens. However you have to aware that RSI and STO are not like BB indicator. Their value represent a relative strength of the PA but not the price value. My invert of RSI or STO is used for preventing enter a trade in a ...

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1. ATR will be always recalculated at start of each cycle. (no need to add any logic) 2. ATR is used to determine the grid size dynamically. However, in Icarus, the grid size affects only the virtual SL rather virtual TP. TP is determined by your ...

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Before you output data to MT4, did you close the MT4 terminal? Backtest on either Icarus or Robin there are no orders opened I think it is because of your trigger condition were not mit.

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Try to state your strategy, I'll see what I can help. Some strategies may be thought as simple by a trader but to a coder it is not so easy to be coded. A dedicate EA for trading XAUUSD only?

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It is not impossible to do like you said, however, if added such a code to Icarus would destroy the trading logic of Icarus. Then, Icarus won't be Icarus any more. You can use buttons, Cl. last B or Cl. last S, to close the last order in the buy or ...

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Before you ask question you have better go through this thread for more understanding the behavior of Icarus. Icarus doesn't have stop loss and can not set a stop loss for each position. However, if you want to control your loss, you can set ...

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