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iya replied Oct 30, 2006Daily Candles are subjective — Yeah, that's what I used in the first version, too.
The point was to seperate the high and low from the daily candle, so you could use any 24 hour period. I get only one candle for sunday/monday combined ...SRDC Episode I
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iya replied Oct 29, 2006The problem is different versions of MetaTrader from different brockers show different times and even candles. I think if you want to setup the trades at 06:00 brocker time you should set start_time = 6. (What's "spore time"?
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iya replied Oct 29, 2006No, we're still trading on a daily basis, i.e., high and low of the last 24 hours. But the expert now uses the information of smaller timeframe candles, to get entry and exit right. I hope it still works as intended, because we know optimizing an ...
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iya replied Oct 29, 2006Ea — Ahh, alright. Please dont use daily candles for the new version. Everything less should actually give almost identical results, as long as your start time falls on the beginning of a new candle. For example closing after one 1H candle ...
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iya replied Oct 29, 2006Sorry, I didn't want to triple post, but got carried away phoning and coding.

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iya replied Oct 29, 2006Ea — Could you look in the results or log what happened to these trades, because I couldn't reproduce it. Maybe it's something about slippage. Is this even possible with pending orders? Sorry I'm still a noob.
: Probably backtesting isn't ...SRDC Episode I
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iya replied Oct 29, 2006Ea — Should be easy. Let's just see if I got it correctly: 1) We exit on the open of the second candle after the trade triggered. 2) No problem 3) Isn't it the same to make the SL just 10pips larger? 4) No SL at all? Maybe set it to 1000 pips ...
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iya replied Oct 28, 2006Expert Advisor — Hi, I tried to make an EA for your method: At midnight it sets pending orders on the previous days high and low. Exit is by profit target, trailing stop or stop loss and remaing positions are closed at the end of the day (The ...
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