Posts made by 4xFatigue

Wow. Having trouble with this one.

I started the EA.

It generated 1 trade immediately and then nothing...for months of ticks.

I feel there is something simple I'm missing here.

My conditions for a trade are not convoluted. It's very simple and therefore there should be a lot of trades.

It like the EA works once and then stops...like there is something entered in the cache that's changing the nature of the EA.

I could understand if I had conditions set that were impossible and that is why, but it's just a simple cross system of the smi and signal.

After testing the the indicator shows on the chart in visual mode. So it is running and the indicator numbers are plotting. It's just not triggering the trades.

As I write this I'm trying the standard Stochastic that comes with MT4 to test but the indicator does not reveal as much as a Stochastic Momentum indicator.

Pardon the previous question/post....didn't read everything.

I had added another SMI (CORRECTLY...input parameters as INT)

Just to troubleshoot I changed the crossever blocks to do it the long way, using 2 blocks instead and the testing is finally triggering trades.

Not sure that had anything to do with it but because I'm pretty sure I had loaded the 3rd smi correctly...although I was tweaking it all so much I don't know, I may have entered the 124, thinking that was the input type.

Anyway, thanks for your help on this.

Okay and finally to make sure....

When I "Choose file" to choose the indicator from my indicator folder, is it mandatory to place the entire path name in the "Name" Field?

From the directions I can't tell if by "subfolder" you mean in subfolder inside of the "indicator" folder or just any subfolder under MQL.

OR

Do just put the name of the indicator in that field if it is only directly inside the indicator folder?

When I run the EA, i do not get any error codes. The trades simply don't trigger...and I know these conditions are being met repeatedly. It's a very simple cross-over trigger.

Still having problems.

What does there error mean?

The steps I took:

1. Deleted the customer indicator from fxdreema.
2. reloaded fxdreema
3. opened "Load Customer Indicators"
4. clicked "browse" to choose the mq4 file.
5. parameters loaded automatically. I just changed the names of the output buffers and set my own defaults. NOTE: When it loaded the input type said "inp" when on the input window of the actually indicator in MT4 it said "123". I changed all of those to 123. (I attached the screencaptures of the indicator upload and the MT4 indicator parameter screen)
6. Clicked update.

When I used the indicator in my EA, I got the following error...

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I had read that article but I'm thinking what I was missing was the "name" of the file.

I read the bottom of the indicator upload window and am I interpreting it correctly that I need to use the whole file path for the "Name of the Indicator" field?

like this:

C:\Users\MyUsername\AppData\Roaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\CBC1E074A032EF0E6A1328D19FB1736E\MQL4\Indicators\SMI.mq4

This is where the indicator's name is SMI.mq4.

Is that correct?

I'm using a customer indicator...SMI

It will literally work in the EA one test and then another it doesn't...without changing any of the conditions to initiate the trade!

I'm beginning to wonder if there is something wrong with the customer indicator or the way I have imported it.

The EA is simply supposed to initiate trades when the SMI crosses the signal line and the signal line is supposed to be heading in the same direction (compared to previous candle).

I can't see what's wrong and why no trades are starting...especially when they did at one time but not now...?

Also, one of my closing possibilities includes CCI but when running the test, that one is not even showing up.

What troubleshooting can I do?

the EA is SMI CCI 1-1 in case you can take a look.

But seriously. What do we use import for?

Can we import from a mq4 file into fxdreema?

...MQ4 FILE...GOT IT.

I'm using a Stochatic Momentum Indicator which works fine in metatrader.

It won't compile because of "Some Operator Expected"

And it's listing the default setting entered.

What does this mean and what do I need to check?

When I browse to select the file path and name, do I select the mq4 file or the exe?

I used the exe on this one.

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SMI.mq4

On mine, Visual mode only shows the indicators after the test is stopped.

The problem is that it only shows the indicators after the testing is stopped.

I cannot see the formation of the indicator during the ticks.

That's the only way I would know if the CCI is spiking that much during ticks.

Is there a way to watch the indicators during the back test?

the EA is STD CCI 1-0

This EA is supposed to trigger only when the CCI cross above 100 (or below -100 for sell).

Yet this trade triggered. On the backtesting it shows that the CCI only reached 70. I understand that during a candle an EA can spike and then at the close of the candle go lower...but that much lower?

It would make sense if the CCI on the backtest said 90 or 95 but I have a hard time believing that it spike up to 100 and then back down to 70 by the close of the candle.

Do you think this is what happened? Or is there something else?

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So a problem I run into while using CCI in my particular EA is that the CCI may spike into my condition to activate the EA and then out.

Is there any block I can use that would basically say: CCI >100 for 5 minutes (or whatever time) before passing to the next block? And if it doesn't hold for that period of time, don't pass?

Been trying and yes, this seems to be the case.

Nevermind. Found my dumb error

For the life of me I cannot see why trades won't trigger.

I've tested this period 2014.05.09 to 2014.06.20

When I look at the charts I can see where a trade should have triggered.

Also, are there any common errors people make when using multiple time frames that I might be making here?

Any ideas?

If we have an ea that uses multiple time frames, is there a particular time frame we must choose to run the visual backtest?

Does it matter at all?

MACD 1-0

It's just the Fast and slow MA settings for indicator?

So we are not able to have these as user input in EA?

To change it I must re-compile the EA in fxdreema each time?