Posts made by richard96816

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.

Write your own simple 'skip ticks'.

There are certain block combinations in fxDreema that do unexpected things.

What does the troublesome part of your project look like?

You could skip ticks manually.

Create a variable as a flag that says don't execute your trade. Then count ticks from that point. When the counter reaches the desired number then set the flag variable to true.

Maybe a Condition block and a Counter block is all you need ...

Seems plausible.

It troubles me when someone suggests a certain strategy doesn't or worse can't work. With all the tools and techniques available with fxDreema and Metatrader pretty much any strategy can be made to work.

If it doesn't work right now you haven't found its flaws and adjusted for them yet.

There may be cleaner or easier strategies or methods. But it sure feels to me like you could make a pig fly with these tools with a little effort.

No magic. Just patterns, analysis, some funny colored ovals on the screen and optimization.

My warped view of the world ...

What do you do to avoid over-fitting?

@ambrogio Refresh works fine for me on MT5. In Navigator right click on the folder your file is in and hit Refresh there, then it will show up in Strategy Tester. Works every time.

Thanks. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to include all information. Like Magic Numbers.

Not sure what else is missing.

How would I copy my account trade history to a file?

Thanks

@fxdreema That's a little inconsistent and confusing.

So where the tutorial says you can have disconnected blocks in your project and they will do nothing it is not always correct.

What are all the blocks that don't play by the rules?

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

Learning to be much more thorough in my testing.

Thanks.

You can get what you want by stacking and joining blocks.

It would be nice if the Weekday Filter had a table of days and hours for each day.

Day .......... Start Time ...... End Time
Monday ..... 09:00 ............... 14:00
Tuesday
...

Then you could map out the week with a single block and be done. With the current setup I think the intent is to have multiple chains of blocks ANDed together.

@daniele-0 Your query will be better received if you create a new topic.

Starting a new topic in the middle of a discussion of something else is confusing and messy.

Good luck.

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

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

I understand these two blocks do different things. It is sometimes helpful to have the combined effect of both. Only pass when there is no trade and only pass once per bar.

When I string them together I sometimes get surprising results, like as many as five simultaneous trades running. Seems Once per bar is negating the effect of No position.

The name No trade is reasonably suggestive of what it's supposed to do. Once per bar is much more confusing. And the documentation is incomplete. It hints at what it does more than fully explaining it.

What happens when you hook various blocks together? Some blocks, like these two, seem like they shouldn't have the connector on their tops. Like they should always be the first block in a chain. I've not seen an explanation of their possible special nature.

Maybe I'm putting No trade in the wrong place. Is it legal to put it in the chain just before a Buy or Sell block? Most of the examples I've seen put No trade at the top, suggesting that it needs to be there. (With limited documentation these are the kinds of things users have to go on.)

I've seen mention that a single block by itself is not executed. But I don't remember that being well explained or even mentioned more than once. Are any two connected blocks all it takes to enable execution? Which blocks are 'special' in this regard? What are the limitations of this scheme? What blocks shouldn't be 'anded' or 'ored' with other blocks?

Thanks.

What is the easiest/best way to compare the performance of four or five EAs running live or on Demo?

Native MT seems surprisingly bad at this and the reports it creates aren't very good either.

Thanks.

@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.

Okay. Constants are for you to set. Variables are for your program to set.

Take a look at the orange Formula block. Its purpose is to create interesting values and stuff them into variables. Some things are easy, some a bit more involved.

It is much more powerful than the help suggests.

Someone should make a half dozen videos ...

Good luck!

If you open each trade in a different group then you can control each one separately afterward.

It does require planning ahead.

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I want to activate a possible trade once per bar and only if no position currently exists. The combination of the Once per bar and No position blocks.

Unfortunately, the Once per bar block appears to override the No position filter and allows multiple positions to be opened.

I want a No position block that activates on bars instead of ticks.

Thanks.