Posts made by roar

@beefie The first test was run with ForexTime, but should work with any broker with decent trading costs. I'd recommend ICmarkets

@jzfusion said in How can I set a stop loss based on ATR%:

@Voodoogodman
I don't think I understood what you meant. This is what I did:

And this is what I'm getting:

I'm missing something here!

Just change the mode. ATR is not a level, it's a price fraction

@heiminsha2019
You can compare ID 0 to ID1, or ID1 to ID2.

ID means the candle order number: 0 is the current candle, 1 is the previous candle, 2 is the 2nd newest candle and so on.

@heiminsha2019
You don't need the "indicator", the volume can be found in the candle properties

@gee Check the journal tab in your strategy tester, it has a message for you

@wolamen
Your lot size already grows linearly with balance, so couldn't you just use a fixed pip TP, like 10 pips?
Anyway, there is no fast way to use $ stops, you must calculate it with your lot size and TP pips. You should be able to do the math yourself, I'll help only with the "coding" part

@fxmich78
Well, you can optimize your algorithm in a way that your CPU does minimal amount of useless work - if you have multiple conditions, put first the condition that passes the most rarely.

Also, putting "once per bar" on top of your project naturally makes "every tick" faster, but it also limits the strategy.

If "open prices" and "every tick" differs a lot, you are probably making too small (short-time) trades. I would change my strategy - the backtest results are not very reliable in that case.

@fxmich78 Every tick = more data, CPU needs to do more work, like a 100 times more work.

I usually test with open prices when developing, and only confirm the final test on every tick method.

@pontedruse
Ok, I don't know if there is some simple way to do this, but you could just keep track of your highest balance, and then compare that variable to your current balance

@kiwi789
The V1, V2 things are just a lazier way to use the variable in the quick window. These are the same thing:

Difference between white and orange: do you want to change the variable before the main block does its thing, or after that.

If you want to manually interact with the EA, I guess you should use some button objects and the "on Chart" section in the builder. Thats not my expertise, though

@pontedruse
How do you define the drawdown in this case? The % fall from record high balance?