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- Toothman replied Mar 4, 2011
Thanks az, I have a thread with some similar ideas as yours but with different trade trigger. I find your strategy very interesting and will follow your thread.
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- Toothman replied Mar 4, 2011
arezab, That first buy was with stoch. overbought. Did you think the price action made it worth the risk? thanks
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- Toothman replied Mar 4, 2011
zz, Great question. Yes, the pending short should be voided and we start looking for longs since price closed above the 50SMA. Any other questions, let me know. thank you
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- Toothman replied Mar 2, 2011
Let's keep it nice folks — Please show respect for Steve. He's done a lot of work for other trading strategies that I've been involved with. thanks
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- Toothman replied Mar 2, 2011
zz, Appreciate it. Thanks. Any questions, let me know.
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- Toothman replied Mar 2, 2011
This trade not valid setup so something in the code needs a change. Price has to close above the MA then look for the next trigger candle.
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- Toothman replied Mar 1, 2011
EA took a trade earlier that has run in my favor . Something is not right though with alerts for that pair sounding with every tic. SL is getting changed with every tic. Any ideas programmers?
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- Toothman replied Mar 1, 2011
Something else I noticed is that stop loss on a sell trade is getting hit based on the ask price when it should be based on the bid price. Stop loss on a buy should begetting hit by the bid price also.
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- Toothman replied Mar 1, 2011
Price advanced far enough for BE to be set on this trade but EA didn't set it.
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- Toothman replied Mar 1, 2011
Ok, the problem occurs when price is bouncing around the 50SMA. I'll show you on a chart what the EA did and then I'll explain what it should have done. What the EA did - Bar #1 - closed below the MA so EA is looking forward for the next trigger ...
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- Toothman replied Feb 28, 2011
Steve, Now we're talking. Several trades spot on buys a sells . This version as far as I can tell is doing everything right except one thing. And this isn't a new rule so don't flame me.
See post #49.The EA needs to only look forward (not ...This System Has Teeth
- Toothman replied Feb 28, 2011
This sell worked perfectly. Lower high, lower low trigger candle(indicator framed it correctly), below the 50 SMA and trade opened at the break of this candle.
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- Toothman replied Feb 28, 2011
Sell trade (hadn't seen one until now) here had no trigger bar.
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- Toothman replied Feb 28, 2011
Last trigger bar was more than three bars away so this trade shouldn't have happened. I had just clicked the Expert Advisor button off then on if that has anything to do with it? If this is the case EA will be trading on stale trigger bars as soon ...
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- Toothman replied Feb 28, 2011
Steve, As I was waking up this morning the same thought came to me. The EA is looking at the ask price for a buy. So I think we have to base the decision on the bid price for a buy as you said. I think the trigger bar indicator lines need to be ...
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- Toothman replied Feb 27, 2011
Price never got a full pip above this trigger bar but trade was entered.
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