Posts made by l'andorrà

Trader.philipps is right. Sharing your project will be the best way to understand what you need.

I'm afraid the only option then is trying it ona demo account on real time.

The first think to do is NOT using that money management option on the buy/sell block. That means you will have to create at least a variable in which you will store info about those closed trades and another one to store the closed ones after hitting the SL.

Than you will need a calculation variable to identify the next lot size depending on the info stored on both previous variables. It is not necessarily difficult if you can work with variables easily. Is that your case?

@mischa said in Highs and lows:

Thanks a lot!

Will this give me every high for the past 10 candles? or just the highest high?

It will give you the highest high for that period.

Thank you for your good advice.

Then I recommend you to do it in forwardtesting.

I'm afraid it will count it as a loss if the trade is closed as a loss, no matter how. In order to do what you want you will need a more complex structure of variables distinguishing closing trade by type in order to filter the next lot size.

Did you try it on backtesting? I remember someone said it doesn't work then. Did you try it on forwardtesting?

Can you please share your project instead of just a screenshot?

What do you exactly mean by 'start condition'? And is that zero value the histogram?

1. In that case connect them one after the other and not in parallel as they are now.
2. I don't see that 'Once per bar' block substituting the 'No trade' one in your link. Results cannot be the same by using 'No trade' instead.

Can you please share your project?

@miro1360 Oh, God! If miro is saying this I'm doomed! Apparently I got into a minefield without me noticing it...

Thank you for your help also.

@trader-philipps Interesting. Should this 'dummy' initial value be a zero? I'm not sure I understand what you mean by 'no value'.

BTW, thank you for your help.

But i can't see that is different from I'm doing now. I will need as many global variables as open trades and I will never know how many of them will be needed to cover all of them now.

I see. Ok. Firstly, you are working on candle ID 0 everywhere. I strongly recommend you to do it on candle ID 1 in all operands of all your condition blocks (clock on 'More settings').

Secondly, disconnect all blocks below buy/sell now. They should be the last ones of their tree. Then create a new separate tree of blocks headed by 'For each trade'. Below then you can connect all required conditions to close your trades.

Try it and let me know.

I'm creating my first hedging EA and 85% of it works fine. I just need a final loop to complete it but I simply cannot find the way to do it. General wisdom in this forum will be appreciated. This how it works:

1. A general trend is identified so that only buys or sells will be opened, never both at the same time.
2. The first trade of the new trend belongs to group 1.
3. All consecutive trades after the first one belong to group 2. There can be more than one at the same time, as well as trades from both groups simultaneously.
4. When price moves in loss in any of them, a hedging trade is open at a fixed distance from its 'parent's' open price.
5. When price reaches again that fixed distance back, the hedging trade is immediately closed. If price is in loss again and hits that fixed distance again, a new hedging trade is open.

This means that we can find a situation like this:

a) One group 1 trade and its hedging counterpart.
b) One group 2 trade and its hedging counterpart.
c) A second group 2 trade with no hedging counterpart.

I don't know how many group 2 trades can be open at the same time, but all of them must open a hedging counterpart as described above. And this is where some help would be appreciated. In my current project I can do it for a single group 1 trade and another single group 2 trade. I know I can create new groups to identify more 'group 2' trades, but it is hugely increasing the number on blocks required and that doesn't fix the problem because maybe there will be another group 2 trade to be open that will not be caught by the EA.

I guess a loop should be the solution, but they are not my field of expertise. Is there a way to create a loop identifying:

a) How many trades of groups 1 and 2 are open?
b) How many of them have a hedging counterpart open so that no more counterparts are open for each of them?

Any help will be much appreciated.

I need to see how blocks are set. Could you please share a link with the project?

Let me ask you two questions. a) Do you need both conditions of blocks 2 and 3 to be true for a trade to be open or just any of them? b) I don't see the 'Once per bar' block anywhere. Are you sure that's the last verision of your project?

I'm experoencing troubles like that with smaller projects. I know the admin said that fxDreema server is being saturated right now. I don't know if that is the reason but I find it plausible. I have no idea how that can be fixes unless a new server with more memory space is available.