I still can't get a simple Heiken Ashi on M15 and H4 to work together. See screenshot. What's missing?

[Gorilla]

It's a simple logic that should have opened a lot of SELL trades.

When I only had the M15 condition, it opened a lot of trades. But when I added the H4 conditions, it didn't open a single trade.

I'm working with 99.90% Modeling Quality. Please help.

One more thing, The trade opens trades using 1% Risk on a Risk Reward Ratio of 1:3. It's also puzzling why sometimes trades close without even being near the stop loss. I can't figure out why.

[l'andorrà]

@gorilla Can you please share the link to the project instead of just uploading the images?

[Gorilla]

@l-andorrà

Here is the link https://fxdreema.com/shared/bK4KDRpzb

I backtested on EURUSD from 2021.02.26 to 2021.03.08

Hope this helps. Thanks!!!

[TipsyWisdom]

test it on a much longer time frame

[Gorilla]

@jsauter86 Tested longer time frame using D1. Still the same, no trades were executed. Does FXDreema's short and long time frame conditions only work with a fixed combination of time frames?...

[TipsyWisdom]

@gorilla no, but I would using a smaller time frame in testing. You should be able to test it in the smallest time frame that you've specified with a single block in your EA. I initially tests ideas on a 2 year time frame at a minimum. I try to build trading in a 1 hour time frame, but it just all depends on your EA.

Are you intraday? short term? "swing"? whats your trading goal? this is the most important piece of information you need to start with when designing an EA. Whats the goal, how often to trade, etc.

[Gorilla]

@jsauter86 I need to close trades at the end of the week which means trades ideally last only a few hours or a day at most. I used M15 (Initially M5) and H4. I switched from M5 to M15 because the spread cost was too high per trade using the M5 as the shorter time frame.

[TipsyWisdom]

sorry I dont have mt4 anymore and refuse to go back to it otherwise I'd test it out. I'll check the code real quick.

I personally don't like those custom blocks. I would rather define what is a bull or series of bear candles, by using a condition block or 2. For instance:

Condition block
Market properties, ask
cross above
Market properties
highest price, candles period (1 - 3?) (1h)

"So that 1 condition would say; for the last 3 hours, if ask crosses above the highest of the 3 candles..."I would rather define a "bear" scenario like that, rather than to just use 3 "bear" candles for a code on something that can be changed my the dev at any time without notice.

[paragorundu]

@Gorilla hi there,

Just to be sure, what's the block name that you use in the project?

[Gorilla]

@paragorundu Using Indicator Appear on both the lower and higher time frame. Is there a better condition to use?

[Gorilla]

@paragorundu It started to not work when I used Indicator Appear on the higher time frame. What's the correct block to use?

[paragorundu]

@gorilla, I'm trying to figure out from your setup but not sure about the idea. What is the details of your strategy?

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