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@roar Thanks for sharing. Lots of ways to use the tools, nice to see someone else's approach.

Suggestions on ways of managing risk with multiple EAs on one account would be most appreciated.

Thanks, and profitable trading!

@rafaelgrecco Thanks Rafael. I was getting multiple simultaneous trades on the one-minute time frame, bar after bar. No paying attention to open positions or trades.

Definitely a lack of documentation, help files, demos, tutorials, etc.

Lots of surprises and wasted time.

Thanks.

I was using MT4 but MT5 is sooooo much better for backtesting.

Here's my history logger. A little messy but it works. Still can't seem to get it to work on MT5 though.

It writes the whole history to file when you start it and re-writes every time a trade closes.
Great for looking for good performing EAs on demo.

https://fxdreema.com/shared/moX1emVJc

I have a Perl script for parsing it with.

Edit: The logger appears to have a strange bug. Each time it writes out the trade history it seems to include the data from the previous loop. So each time it triggers the written file grows by the size of the whole trade history. With still only one header. Very strange.

@rafaelgrecco Thanks. I've put some useful things together. But surprises still arise.

More complete help files would make the learning curve more bearable.

@miro1360 said in FxDreema is awesome!:

Do you think your karma will improve if you predict and talk about the karma of others and you don't focus on your own?

I advise you:

• forget about forex, forget about investing, forget about gambling
• instead of crying, find a regular job and finally start to fulfill your life with happiness, we can't help you here
• I'm sure the admin is making a refund, just ask him and say it didn't meet your expectations

That was an unhelpful remark.

Assuming fxDreema intends to offer a good, useful service. And assuming he intends to make money at the endeavor, Angela's observations should be considered quite helpful and not something to attack.

If subscribership is actually very low, as suggested, it's most likely because the system seems easy to use, but in practice things don't work as expected. And because each feature is poorly documented the only way to know what things do is to spend lots of time testing yourself -- which certainly shouldn't be necessary. And most likely chases users away.

I like the abilities fxDreema provides. I really hate the lack of documentation and examples. I subscribe a year at a time. But I know I must spend lots of time testing. And I have scripts that hack the .mq4 code it creates to fix bugs.

Once you get past the (much larger than expected) learning curve it becomes a useful tool.

If fxDreema wants a larger subscribership and the larger income that would provide then paying closer attention to all the details that are currently being ignored would certainly help.

So many wonderful and elaborate facilities are provided, and so many tiny details left undone which make things much harder to use. And much more error-prone. For a system expected to control large sums of money that's tragic.

My guess at better skip-ticks and delay functions. Sounds like the provided ones are not very useful.

https://fxdreema.com/shared/7zRhyWgxb

Haven't tested these. Just guessing ...

Everything in fxDreema needs to be tested carefully.

GMT is the same no matter where you are. Seems like a much better choice for automated trading and discussing things with others around the world.

@fxdreema Thanks for the response. I worked around it already.

Learning to be much more thorough in my testing.

Thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)

Some losing systems never die.

@angela said in FxDreema is awesome!:

@miro1360
i think u r unable to understand what i am implying

it is not about me crying
everybody who has subscribed must be feeling cheated
and if u do not raise voice against wrong then u r being meek
so it was my duty to tell the admins that stop cheating and be true to your duty

evrybody hass paid thru their noses and want worth of their money
but unfortunately the admins are busy collecting money
so their fate is being sealed by their ill deeds

it is for them to redeem themselves now and ensure that they give proper service

if they can't do it then they should return the money along with the interest on the amount they have collected

Sadly, I think fxDreema is as big a loser in this as all of his users. The system is relatively inexpensive. If it lived up to the promise of an easy to use tool many more users would come and use and pay and probably contribute to making it better. The big loss is time more than money. Learning how the bloody thing works. And learning if you can trust it. Lack of basic features, like sufficient documentation makes it harder for users to trust the results of the system with their hard earned trading capital. The potential for losing money through misunderstanding or guessing wrong about how things work is even more destructive of trust.

Perhaps the problem is partially a language-barrier issue. If so that's even more reason to pay someone to do documentation.

Take any block within the system and you will find questions to basic operations that there are no answers provided. Asking for answers in the forum is a total mixed bag and often a large waste of time. Some questions never get answered at all. If the questioner asks one or two followup questions the 'help' seems to often quickly get tired and stops responding.

Why not consider user questions as opportunities to make the system better? A few minutes a day and before long the system will be much better! Before long answering questions will become less and less necessary. And new users will be creating working EAs in less and less time. And they'll be sharing their successes with others and attracting more subscribers.

fxDreema has the potential to be a great product. The 'karma' of being uninterested in working on various important parts because they're not fun to work on may keep it from ever achieving that greatness.

It's sad to see all the simple, dumb little things that never get fixed. Like the font sizing on the 'Spread:' display that so often makes a users first experience with the system less than professional looking. Or the total lack of FIFO recognition and support. It's not hard, but it's apparently not much fun to fix. Its only money after all. The list is endless.

Mediocrity is a choice.

@miro1360 said in FxDreema is awesome!:

Do you think your karma will improve if you predict and talk about the karma of others and you don't focus on your own?

I advise you:

• forget about forex, forget about investing, forget about gambling
• instead of crying, find a regular job and finally start to fulfill your life with happiness, we can't help you here
• I'm sure the admin is making a refund, just ask him and say it didn't meet your expectations

That was an unhelpful remark.

Assuming fxDreema intends to offer a good, useful service. And assuming he intends to make money at the endeavor, Angela's observations should be considered quite helpful and not something to attack.

If subscribership is actually very low, as suggested, it's most likely because the system seems easy to use, but in practice things don't work as expected. And because each feature is poorly documented the only way to know what things do is to spend lots of time testing yourself -- which certainly shouldn't be necessary. And most likely chases users away.

I like the abilities fxDreema provides. I really hate the lack of documentation and examples. I subscribe a year at a time. But I know I must spend lots of time testing. And I have scripts that hack the .mq4 code it creates to fix bugs.

Once you get past the (much larger than expected) learning curve it becomes a useful tool.

If fxDreema wants a larger subscribership and the larger income that would provide then paying closer attention to all the details that are currently being ignored would certainly help.

So many wonderful and elaborate facilities are provided, and so many tiny details left undone which make things much harder to use. And much more error-prone. For a system expected to control large sums of money that's tragic.

@cpbonzo said in Help with MT4 Scalping limitations by brokers.:

Brokers have these rules for good reason and if you want to use hard stops that are closer than you can currently get you will probably need to find another broker. Alternatively, you could create the EA in such a way that it closes trades at 5 pips profit or 3 pips loss while placing the hard stops at a distance your broker will accept. The hard stops are written into the trade and are visible to the broker, but you can have the EA close a trade at any point for which you can write a condition. This latter approach means your hard stops are only ever hit if, for any reason, your EA ceases to work properly e.g. your MT4 platform crashes.

Very smart. Things break. Good to protect yourself.

Most of all FxDreema is very poorly documented. That is a tragedy.

Pay someone to write a manual and finish the tool.

Add examples for everything. That would go a long way to making things more accessible.

Custom blocks seem very useful. Why are there no loadable examples for users to hack on and learn? Users would be sharing new blocks now if that facility was documented and had lots of examples.

The tool is half done. It has incredible potential. Hire some help and make it better. The results will pay for everything and then some.

If having no stop-loss is a problem with fxDreema's money management (makes sense) then why let the user even try to set it without at least a warning?

Ten more minutes for the programmer, once in his life, would save potentially hundreds or thousands of hours for users.

fxDreema's purpose is to save users time. The many land-mines like this one work against that goal.

Back-testing is fake. It's a simulation. It needs to be built every tick of the way.

Using tick data instead of Open Prices Only is especially slow. Lots of data to move around, create and simulate. Back-testing simulation of time is very imperfect.

Using Once Per Bar, if you're not already, can make a huge difference in the speed of testing.

My apologies. I have been addressing these issues with fxDreema quietly via email for some time with little results. Mostly just insulting responses from him.

It has become quite tiresome.

Sorry, it's been broken since he added it.

People get tired of reporting bugs.

What?!

What is this: chopped liver?

Yes, I know you can cobble together a form of money management from scratch. Why would anyone do that with all these options made available in the Buy now block?

Unless, of course, they don't work. Why would anyone trust their hard-earned money to software that doesn't work right?

I see your point. It doesn't work ... write your own.

Genius! And stupid at the same time.

All the other EA builders have money management that works. That you can trust.
Why can't fxDreema take the time to fix theirs? It's clearly broken.

I sent him links to parts of the MQL4 manual that show examples of the necessary library calls that he's clearly not using. Got no response.

This is not a simple problem. But all the other EA builders have dealt with it.

Perhaps this is another sad place where fxDreema says: "Oh, that's an old block. I don't feel like working on it." How many times have we seen that here.

Regarding money management: that is unacceptable.

Yes, the only safe thing today is to write your own, as you have clearly done. How many other users are aware of this sad, scary situation? Money at stake -- lots of it!

Most people aren't this cavalier with their money. Unless they don't know. What if your bank or your broker were this sloppy? Is fxDreema advertised as a toy? Not meant for actual use in the market? Just for play?