As to my test, APV TS did help to reduce a small amount of loss in a ranging market. However, in a trending market, APV TS will also restrict the possible profit to be reached. Frankly speaking, using trailing stop won't enlarge your gain but can ...

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Basically, The Hedging mechanism of Robin is like the concept of zone recovery strategy. But I just let robin takes only one round of hedging. The reason is if you don't have enough free margin available. A sequence of hedging operating will ...

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I think the liquidity will also affects the price change. If the liquidity is relatively small, the pending orders affect the price more directly.

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Which EA you mean? Icarus or Robin? The Icarus_M_3.3 and Robin_new_2.7 are the newest versions so far. Plese refer to #post 907 for setting guide. url

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I code MQL4 program but MQL5. As I know FunkyKoval is coding MQL5. However, translate Icarus from mq4 to a mq5 is a very difficult task, because its original code is in mq4 and no any mq5 version.

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Yes. it is a technical metter. When you running a back test, you had better choose M1 time frame no matter what time frame you use in your EA for indicators. The simulated tick value or using the historical tick data will accurate respond to your ...

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I run back test using M1 history data, but in my EA is using fix time frame of M5. I always select M1 for back test, but my EA is not set to current time frame. The new area is worth to study.

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You have to compress the HTML test report to a zip file and upload. BTW, the test report I attach is using APV as TS. The EA is designed for running in ranging market. When using APV as TS, the drawdown percentage is reduced and the profit is ...

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I had tested your TS logic on my 2 EAs, they are all for XauUsd. One is designed for trending market, the other is for ranging market. I found that TS model works great on ranging market but not so well on trending market. The reason I think, ...

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Hi, FunkyKoval, Your trailing stop performs very well. What the different between your APV and ATR? Could it is possible using ATR instead APV? Because I only coding MQL4 so far, I read your mq5 code and rewrite the trailing stop part into a EA ...

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No, it should not be. To a grid trading EA, close the oldest order won't help but will destroy the EA's normal functions. You can run a forward test on your demo account, when you find the DD is more than 50% you close the oldest order manually to ...

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You can select whatever time frame you like. Only time frames choose for indicators are needed. Before you select time frames you can draw the indicators on the chart to see what time frames for what indicators you are going to use to trigger a ...

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To me, I am very happy you can share your experience on this thread but it still depends on Mapi because this is his thread. I agree with your assumptions. For a grid trading EA, the moment of entry is not so important. I hope we can develop a grid ...

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You have to put the custom indicator Center Of Gravity.ex4 into your MT4 indicators folder.

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Well, it depend on which EA you are running. For Robin, you have to keep enough free margin to guarantee the EA will work normally, that is, one min lots for normal position and 2 min lots for hedging, total of margin need for three time of min ...

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I have to say that there is no EA will long live survive if you put arbitrary parameters in the input settings. To a grid trading EA, grid size is critical to profitable or burn your account in the end. I have given the option of using ATR to ...

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It depends on what version you run. If you run Icarus 2.2, the answer is YES.

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new 2.7 is a modified version of new 2.6, the former is when off the trading time window stopping initiate new cycle but keep manage the positions that not be closed, the later is when off the trading time window stopping all operations. if you ...

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So far by now, you don't have to pay attention on the message showed, because I didn't take care of the show message part. I suggest you disable show message on the settings. (The show message part is inherited from Icarus, for Icarus, it is OK, for ...

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The codes seem no errors, I don't know why the hedging position is close in profit but the loss sell position was not closed. Perhaps closing of sell position was not success? Are there any message from journal or Experts? if (BE) // As the hedge ...

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