Newbie Problems? Help please

[Kkaos]

Hi there Admin.

I am having issues with a multitude of functions on the EA's.

I am testing on Renko bars, so I am not sure if that will affect the EA functionality.

Breakeven not working - or it works in some EA's and not others
This goes for trailing stop, when to trade ( ma's crossing or one above the other )
Basically the EA's do whatever they please it seems.

So I am not sure I am putting them together properly, please see my latest one - Renko Freak - ultra simple only 5 blocks, as that is not working either.

Also during back testing certain functions just stop working and others change function!

So I guess I must be missing something important!

Please Help!!!

Thanks

[Kkaos]

Hi Admin,

I seem to have found the problem.

Your EA's do not run well on offline-RENKO- charts, there seems to be a incompatibility between the two.

Not fxdreema's fault.

[fxDreema]

I have seen many Renko EAs and even indicator that produces Renko charts. So I can't tell what exactly is going on with your Renko-generator thing. If you think that there is a problem, give me your Renko thing + instructions (if you think I will need some) and I will take a look. But I can't guess what Renko program you are using

[Kkaos]

Hi,,thanks for the reply.

The renko creator is from OVO.cz
https://ovo.cz/products/offline-charts-for-mt4/renko-bars/

Renko with wicks. It's only licenced to me - however there is a 15 day free trial and simple download to get it. V quick and easy.

Today again I am running an EA I made, RenSim.

So I tell it to trade when 2 ma's cross, and then every consecutive bar thereafter if the MA 1 is still above/below MA 2.

Mega Simple.

What happens in the back tester is it trades at the crossover, however from the bar open not the bar close ( which is impossible in real time of course - as it's future knowledge )
I am using the "time module" check once per bar.
How do I get it to trade at bar close instead of open please?

When I put the trade if MA1 is above/below MA2 - it skips most of the direction change bars - trades 25% and not the rest - which is odd - so it doesn't trade most of the losses

As for the trades to trade bars when a crossover has happened - say when MA 1 is Above MA 2 - Buy, it trades them, yet also 1 bar into the future.
So the last bar in the range which should be a loss is traded in the opposite direction - ie future knowledge. which means that the rest of the bars ( in trend ) are also traded one bar into the future.

Basically I need to know how to activate a trade at the end of a bar( bar close ). So if MA1 is above MA2 at bar close = Buy. Simple.

However what concerns me as well is the fact that it is even missing some signals altogether, even if they are incorrect as above.

I have screen shots to clarify if you could let me know how to send/attach them.

Thanks in advance

[Kkaos]

Hi,

I think I resolved the issue by using a pending order.

Will update again.

[Kkaos]

And - no - the pending order is only working 50% of the time to place the trade where I need it.

So back to a way to get a trade placed at the close of a bar as opposed to the open, when being signaled by an indicator.

[fxDreema]

Here I tried to explain the problem with Bar Close - https://fxdreema.com/help/-/working%20w ... e%20closes
Many people asked for this. Yes, it seems something very logical. But in reality you never know which will be the last tick in the current bar. The EA is working based on ticks, so anything happens only if tick comes.
Everything would work if instead of ticks, the EA works on clock. Like, check for new tick on every 1 millisecond. Only in this way you can detect the final millisecond of the bar. And in theory the EA can be made to work this way with endless while loop, but the Tester can't work that way. If you have endless while loop, the Tester simply hangs in the very first tick and no other ticks are received.

[Kkaos]

Thank you, the bar close explanation helps a lot to understand what is happening.

So how do I get the tester/EA to check the previous candle "indicator positions" ( to make a decision to BUY or SELL ) on the first tick and open of the new candle

[keydcuk]

I too had problems with BE and Trailing Stops with my EAs in fxdreema.

I think that the best tip I can give your comes from the fxDreema admin himself that he has posted somewhere.

"When you are using the BE or Trailing Stop blocks, it is best to up them on the top level of your configuration."

Trailing Stops and/or BE are always the first 1 or 2 blocks to be used unless you are using something like a day or hours filter.

Daniel

[Kkaos]

Thanks Daniel that tip helped.