Posts made by Trader3487

do virtual stops also trail as market goes up?
can virtual stops be used with "start when profit is above" offset or only by timer?

I know that this is not a limit that fxDreema introduced. Just trying to understand how things are working - this is not related to 130 error (you solved that in the beginning thanks

really?! that's interesting but then what is 0.0004,0 under the "Limit and Stop Levels" column on the right side of this link: http://www.xm.com/assets/pdf/spreads/XM ... d_2013.pdf

It says at the bottom: *** Minimum level for placing Stop Loss and Take Profit orders from a current market price

And if it were 40 pips minimum, then why am I getting blocked at 59? I'll check out virtual stops...

thank you for the clarification. I did some further testing and was able to get trailing stop of 5.9 ("double tStopPips=5.9; // Trailing Stop size") or if I changed point format to five digits, then 59 ("double tStopPips=59; // Trailing Stop size"). Question is if, XM broker's minimum trailing stop is 40, why can't I get less than 59?

Do you know why for one broker (XM) using 0.00001 = 1 pip, minimum setting for ea is "double tStopPips=6; // Trailing Stop size". If I do "double tStopPips=5; // Trailing Stop size" trailing stop doesn't work in backtest. XM's s/l minimum is 40 pips. EA point format in fxdreema is set to 0.0001 even though broker uses 0.00001. If I set it 0.00001, ea does not work. If trailing stop set to 40 ("double tStopPips=40; // Trailing Stop size"), ea also doesn't work in backtest.

For another broker (Alpari), minimum setting for ea is "double tStopPips=20; // Trailing Stop size". Alpari's s/l minimum is 20 pips.

figured it out... block #28 adjust value was too restrictive. Increased it to 0.0001 and now it's working as expected

I am also getting a lot of buys on my backtester but, based on the ea blocks, shouldn't there be a buy within the first bar if not the first few ticks? If no orders running, open buy position. Even if you take the conditions away, it doesn't open a buy order on the first tick.

good catch, thanks. It's working great now except... buy order should open on first tick (if no trade is running) but it doesn't. I removed all the conditions and still no luck: http://fxdreema.com/shared/e9c2qnaNb

Any ideas?

ok, thanks for that information. Based on that, I built this but something isn't working correctly: http://fxdreema.com/shared/aZn6u8Chc

hmm, can't figure it out. Basically, if conditions are met and "n" ticks have passed, then buy order. But if conditions are not met and "n" ticks have passed, keep checking conditions every tick until conditions are met and then buy order. If I put every "n" ticks block under conditions, then it is not exposed to tick flow and does not count every tick. Not sure if counter could help here.

Here is the logic in steps:

meets conditions?
open position
wait n ticks before running again
on nth tick, check condtions again. meets conditions?
open another position
doesn't meet conditions?
keep checking conditions every tick until conditions satisfied

Maybe this can't be accomplished without custom programming?

Thanks

Is there a way to achieve the following: instead of running ea every "n" ticks and then not again for another "n" ticks, run ea every "n" ticks and check every tick thereafter until conditions are met/order is opened and then (once condtions met to open order) check again in another "n" ticks?

will "break even point" block work with trailing stop?

great, thank you.

Is there a way to open 1 order per bar but at the highest point in the bar instead of at the beginning?

that's how I thought the logic worked but it seemed to open 3 orders even though no orders were open. Anyway, I'll try again and let you know if it doesn't work. Thanks

how do you adjust s/l to kick in when market crosses the opening price and still keeping trailing stop?

Let's take the following scenario:

1. market passes opening price and position becomes profitable
2. but market has not yet reached trailing stop level
3. then market reverses direction and approaches opening price
   4a. before it reaches opening price, order stops out
   4b. or it changes direction again and reaches required level to activate trailing stop

In other words, the question is how to prevent position from slipping back into the negative before it activates the trailing stop?

If trades are 0, 1 or 2, then continue and open another one.
if number of open trades are 0, 1 or 2 (less than or equal to two)?

then continue and open another one.
until trade count (number of open trades) reaches 2?

After that trades will be 1, 2 or 3 respectively.
won't the ea stop opening trades once the number of open trades reaches 2? If not, how do I set it to allow only 2 open trades at one time (sell trades with group #5)?

Thanks

I used the "check trades count" and set it to "if lower than or equal to 2" orders. In addition, I assigned group # to buy now order and entered it into check trades count block. However, it opened 3 orders. Any suggestions?

thank you!

How do I delete an ea created in fxdreema?