Why does this EA only go long?

[SpecialFX]

https://fxdreema.com/shared/MoRbJ9bbe

^I set this to run on strategy tester for a year and these are the results:

Why is it only buying? I tried limiting it via checking once per bar and it doesn't solve the issue :S

[miro1360]

specify the filter in conditions:

[SpecialFX]

@miro1360 Thx - but still only 3 short trades:

Is it because the buys consume the maximum volume condition for most of the period?

[l'andorrà]

Maybe there's an error on your tick data.

[SpecialFX]

@l-andorrà have deleted and re-downloaded data and tried a different broker in demo mode - still not working

[l'andorrà]

Then I'm afraid I don't have any further explanation.

[miro1360]

as I remember from the distant past, the internal fractal repaints and is not well designed for the use with any EAs, therefore you have to trace the buffers (using trace blocks) and see what is it doing

[SpecialFX]

@miro1360 Thanks Miro, but if this were the problem surely it wouldn't go long either? The fact that it works for up fractals and doesn't for down fractals implies the problem is elsewhere...

For the record I downloaded an alternative fractal indicator for mt4 and now this works fine.

[trader.philipps]

@SpecialFX I tweaked your EA a bit and it's working well long and short trades. Just the short condition dows not occur as often as the long for whatever reason.
See tweaked version here

I also made a backtest of that version. See results here

On higher timeframes I saw less short trades what gives me the feeling that @miro1360 might be right with his points.

[SpecialFX]

@trader-philipps Nice - thx man I'll take a look after work