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@yoander4503 Sorry - I'm not looking to buy anything

@l-andorrà I thought as much, can it be done using a loop? This is what I have so far:

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

Hi,

I want to create an EA which opens additional positions 1.2x larger than the previous ones each time price moves against me by a certain number of pips, however the martingale system in fXDreema requires the losing trade to be stopped out before it opens the next trade.

Does anyone know a way of keeping the losing trades open whilst still applying the new trades? I would also want to trail the TP on all existing positions so that they all close at the same time should price move a certain number of pips in my favour.

Agreed - anyone got a link to a decent renko indicator for mt4 that doesnt require a long-winded setup?

@trader-philipps That's pretty irritating, kinda of messes up indicators which revolve a zero-line cross doesn't it?

In this case however I checked the line of code as roar suggested and apparently this error was caused by me risking an invalid % of equity in buy / sell orders

Happens on multiple currencies - is one of my indicators incorrectly configured?

@cpxiom Thanks - how do I use this? Do I open the EA in metatrader and put it on the chart along with the indicator?

@roar This is interesting stuff - but how would you present this in FxDreema?

@trader-philipps I'm afraid that's not quite right, fractals are a mathematical feature in their own right, and in order to form one all you need is 5 candles. A fractal is formed when the third (middle) candle marks a trend reversal, so in very basic terms let's say the first two candles move lower, the low is rejected in the third candle and price subsequently moves up in the fourth and fifth candles - in this instance a downward fractal would be formed. In order to form an upward fractal you would simply reverse the price movements I've just described.

It is entirely possible for multiple downward or upward fractals to form in succession, here's an example taken from the s&p 500 daily chart at the start of this year:

Personally I find fractals fascinating, hence my ill-fated attempts to work them into a trading bot. Bill Williams gives an excellent lecture on them here in this ancient video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNxt298VVOw

So back to the point - my system doesn't account for the zig-zag indicator business because they're not related. Clearly though I am setting something up wrong as my bot will only sell

Here's my effort:

https://fxdreema.com/shared/OMBgkAhOb

Again it seems to only sell though

@trader-philipps Nice - thx man I'll take a look after work

@miro1360 Thanks Miro, but if this were the problem surely it wouldn't go long either? The fact that it works for up fractals and doesn't for down fractals implies the problem is elsewhere...

For the record I downloaded an alternative fractal indicator for mt4 and now this works fine.

@l-andorrà have deleted and re-downloaded data and tried a different broker in demo mode - still not working

@miro1360 Thx - but still only 3 short trades:

Is it because the buys consume the maximum volume condition for most of the period?

https://fxdreema.com/shared/MoRbJ9bbe

^I set this to run on strategy tester for a year and these are the results:

Why is it only buying? I tried limiting it via checking once per bar and it doesn't solve the issue :S

Not sure we're on the same page here, this is an example of an upward fractal being broken:

I want to buy the candle that breaks the fractal I have circled (selling is the same concept in reverse).

See what I mean?

@roar figured out my problem; I wasn't setting up price conditions properly. I've opened another question looking into this - thanks for your help on the data issue!

Hi all,

I'm trying to build an EA which initiates trades (subsequent to some conditions) when fractals are broken (buys when this happens to upward fractals, sells in the case of downward fractals).

However I can't get my EAs to take any trades when I use these initial conditions. The EAs will trade when this first step is replaced with something else (or removed entirely), so obviously I'm doing something wrong in setting this up:

I have been setting the candle IDs to 2, as fractals appear 2 candles after the fact - can anyone shed any light on why this isn't working?

@roar Cheers - deleted the data and no longer getting the error. However my EA takes no trades... I guess I fucked it up haha!

@roar Thx but not sure this is the right file location. I deleted the files but the records are all still here: