Posts made by roar

@sara-m commission and swap shouldn't affect the calculation in any way, as they are always in relation to the lot sizes. So it is enough to weigh the open prices by the share of total lot size.

I'm not sure that works, it would be better like this

newsfilter.mq5

@Archer glad it works. Currently the indicator filters for USD and the margin and profit currency of current pair. These filters are on line 75, you can add more currencies similar to the "USD" part

Hi!

I got this project a little bit forward, adding the 6 datetimes to the indicator buffers and also visualizing the event dates. Keywords aren't supported in this version.

newsfilter.ex5
newsfilter.mq5

@oseiwe good find.
To put it more precisely, the "Time" selection by "Candle time" does not follow the "Set Current Timeframe" block.

@Julianrob good stats so far, for what it's worth. A Myfxbook tracker would be great, so we can see the equity curves.

Hi!

I processed the csv file in a custom indicator project, but trying to move the same code to fxdreema causes some weird problems. I think fxdreema cannot handle such big arrays, it needs to be constructed in some other way...

Maybe someone finds the indicator format useful. I will try to better integrate this to fxdreema at some point...

I used the file "All news events 2007-01-01 thru 2023-12-31 timestamped UTC time -- sorted by date, time.csv", renamed to "news.csv" and moved to the Common folder.

newsread.mq5
newsread.ex5

@Julianrob dare to give your strategy a full week lol

@Archer thank you! That is good data, valuable stuff. I'll try to find some time this week to code it and update here. Please remind me if I dont

@Archer sure, lets do it!

Is it confirming your strategy, though, if the same system doesn't work live but instead you need to add more filters...?

Can you show the results when you used live exactly the same system that you backtested?

Its a bug in the custom indicators model. You can try to workaround by setting datatype int for the trend method setting.

Maybe the chart is just not updating the results.

Put ChartRedraw(); in a custom mql block.

In short, create a proper EA.

In long, your EA only appears to be profitable because the MT4 tester doesn't have enough data and it falsifies the results. The profit doesn't come from your strategy, it comes from a bug in testing software. Its not real, don't get your hopes up.

Type this to the lot size field

0.01*AccountBalance()/100

Why do you need to convert the distance into pips? The SL selection supports many other number types too, a price level for example.

@Champ the logic is ok, there is nothing to fix. The problem is that we dont know for sure what to write to the text field.

Another option is a simple password.

Maybe the name is Cadebra Abba, ABBA CADEBRA, Cadebra.... Just use account number instead of name. Otherwise the logic is ok.

A challenge for the community: Present the best way to detect a ranging, choppy, non-trending market.

There are many options to do this, but many indicators seem to either filter too agressively or not at all.

I will start with something a bit less ordinary, my own indicator that consists of RSI and a soup of moving averages. When white line is between 45-55, market is ranging (counter-trend strategies are safe). I came up with this in the last 10 minutes, so it is probably not quite perfect.
rsitrend.ex5 rsitrend.mq5

@PhiLykia does the custom indicator have variable names such as "c" or "v"? Those may create the bug. You could try renaming the variables of your indicator.

I do agree these kinds of bugs should be fixed rather than finding such workarounds.