If I for example had a 10 SMA and a MACD, I wanted to trade when the SMA crosses over from negative to positive but only if the MACD has crossed over from negative to positive in the last 5 candles.
How would I make this work? I basically want the MACD to cross over and then give a grace period of 5 candles in which the MACD block is allowed to be passed; as it stands right now it won't work because it wants the MACD and SMA to cross over at exactly the same time
I think i've worked out that a large problem seems to be that it filters out anything with a 0 infront, so like 0.9 or 0.5 it won't run any trades. No idea how to fix this, once again if I write 2.5 or 02.5 in the spread filter it doesn't filter anything out until a 25pip spread
Trying hard not to share my project but does anyone have any idea what the issue is with this spread filter or if there's another way I can input it similar to "+5pips"
I want a 2.5 spread filter but when I set it as 2.5 it has a 25pip spread filter and when I set it as 0.25 it seems to work weirdly, like it will run backtesting on a spread of 2 but not 1.5? I have a similar thing with my SL where 50pip in the box is 500pip in practice; it's always shifted one digit up.
Wondered if anyone had any experience with the breakeven block, i'm trying to get it so that when a position reaches a certain level say 30 pips profit it sets a new stop loss at 20 pips of profit. I think the break even block is the one for this but i'm not entirely certain how to configure it
It's a shame that on the block there's no descriptions of which each setting actually does
Thanks i'll definitely make these changes, I was more curious about how to configure the condition blocks - i'm not sure the MACD is meant to be configured that way for crossovers and the parabolic SAR I had no idea at all; it's a default conditions block
So i'm trying to make a bot more for learning than anything but i'm not sure how to set up some of the conditions, especially the MACD and parabolic SAR https://fxdreema.com/shared/eIY6KSJ2c
The idea is
Again this is just for learning more than anything but if anyone has any ideas on how to make this into an actually decent strategy it'd be appreciated, for now I just want to learn how to configure the condition blocks properly
@l-andorrà I have changed the candles ID to 1, currently tried to implement what I described and came up with this however it's very messy and I have no way of testing if it works since it goes over the 10 block limit (and i cant afford premium rn)
Also as you can see if we use a bullish example it places the pending orders as normal but if the SMA is below average then it will trigger block 15 and close the trades, ideally I could rewrite this in a better way so it doesn't open the trade at all and I don't have to pay spread but I can't figure out how. Also another issue is trying to fit this into a 10 block limit but that might just not be possible
Any thoughts?
@l-andorrà Wondered if you might have an idea about this? http://fxdreema.com/forum/topic/9409/orders-trigger-over-sma I'm pretty sure I have the right blocks just not sure how to correctly position them
@q8carpenter I took it as that both pending orders are placed but lets say if the buy pending is crossed it does a check to see if its above the SMA before going through with it, if its not then it just doesnt trade on that day
@l-andorrà I took your advice, but the trades still seem to close seemingly at random immediately after being fulfilled. I'll do more testing on it, with just one pending order the orders go through normally
@alphaomega I do have it on trade event but i'm not sure that's the main problem at the moment, i've been looking into it and it seems that the pending orders by themselves aren't set up correctly somehow, I made this one with only the orders https://fxdreema.com/shared/0okBOaT9d but when the pending orders trigger should trigger into a trade they just cancel entirely instead; the journal and expert advisor tab on MT4 show nothing
Been playing around with it a lot and i'm thinking the issue is with the pending order settings to begin with, even with the other bits disabled the pending orders rarely trigger; I have no idea what i'm doing wrong. I listened to what you said about +5pips and -5pips and that works correctly, it's just not in the shared project because I wanted the orders to trigger more often in testing
@l-andorrà Sorry for being late but I wanted to wait until the markets opened to implement the changes, i've done as you mentioned here but it is the same problem - the orders just cancel where they should trigger https://fxdreema.com/shared/iVPT9Tfec
I think I may have been private messaging you about this but here is the whole thing https://fxdreema.com/shared/vC667kD9c
Just looking for an explanation as to how i'd set up a sequence by which two pending orders are set, one at the top of the last candle +5 pips as a buy stop and one at the bottom of the last candle with -5 pips as a sell stop - I have these ordering correctly it seems but i'd like to know how I can make it so when one triggers the other pending order is canceled.
Right now I have this in the On Trade section
But it seems to just cancel everything when either is triggered
I have done this but it hasn't changed anything, once the price moves beyond the pending orders threshold it instantly closes the order before any trade is made; am I missing something super obvious?
Even when the price first sets the boundaries it's listing the buy pending as a buy limit automatically, as in a below market average boundary so when the market moves through it; it just doesn't trigger at all. Atleast I think that's why it doesn't trigger, I honestly have no idea
