I have a few buttons on chart to control what side the market to be on. Those work well. They restrict the trade directions.. but why the heck is it that the same button structure ignores that I have turned other blocks off and runs them anyways.
I have tested it a half dozen ways. EVEN isolating the blocks entirely and turning them off. (they are mulptiple buy /sell blocks ) that are turned off and still execute\
@titangeorge said in BUTTON TEMPLATE:
Here's the button template. The buttons act like buttons, you press then it depresses. Instead of staying pressed (like a switch).
https://fxdreema.com/shared/kHn2tWrPc
Simple change your button names and your conditions. This example does buys and sells.
@Pan4Pips Not sure how your buttons turned out but this seems to be working just like a button PERFECT!!!! Thank you!
I figured it out. What was stopping it was trade counter inadvertently. I'm getting the hang of how it works now. I was always spooked of code, reading it no problem. But I have had developers on staff for 15 years. Now I can thoroughly develop/test and implement projects before giving them the code to slim down and make high performance.
The only condition to this is baffling me. I have a direction identified and I want to trade when the current candle low breaks lower than the prior candle low and vice versa for buys on prior candle high. The rules are right but it seems to only trigger trades every 5/6 bars. Help..
@titangeorge said in Choppy, sideways markets:
@pan4pips I'm intrigued by your view on this. It's price action but I like your statistics.
If you have time, can you break apart what you said.
Ranges (then) Trend (then) Ranges = 95% of the time. Is that what you see. I'm guess the other 5% is Ranges (then) Trend (then)Trend. No time for a range to form?
"1 pullback and a continuation." This is the definition of a trend but I'm not sure what you're referring to.
3."If there's no prior pullback and a failure you've simply found a subsequent turn (95% probability of a reversal??) and the prior slow (I'm guessing LOW after reading it multiple times) should be tested (breakout on the reversal with previous LOW as a point of interest??)"
It sounds like the 1-2-3 strategy. Where #2 is the recent low or high and the distance between the #1-#2 is equidistant to the next continuation. With a stop loss at the opposite low or high (#3).
Only 5 % of the time, will a secondary pullback that is smaller in magnitude than the first, lead to a change in direction. The 1-2-3 only happens when the second pull back is larger than any previous. Like clockwork!
When after a climb and series of pullbacks you see a pull back that is larger than the rest of the pullbacks in the climb. That by magnitude alone gives you the range bound move. Don't trade until it's broken the high, or after the pullback finds support... dont trade till it breaks that low.
I use aggregated volume so I have the benefit of seeing what volume's doing but in price action alone it turns the trending trades off without chop involved. - the ol' "I knew it would do that" syndrome.
@titangeorge said in Fuzzy and Illogical:
FOUND THE SOLUTION! Learned how to create buttons in the process. Can you imagine I was creating TEXT messages to control my blocks. Such a hassle.
Any who, here's your solution.
https://fxdreema.com/shared/QstMKBHE
The button didn't change to "Exit Rules OFF" since I made the program terminate itself. But it should work once you replace it with the correct ON/OFF blocks. You can delete the Pass button. I was just testing it.
Got it working nicely. Take a peek. I put it in your button shared project. (but turned blocks off)
A little late here on a reply but thought I'd chime in. FX Moves in Ranges, and breaks out of the ranges for trends until it then again moves in ranges.
The following happens 95% of the time with this in mind.
At the top of a trend - or any time after you have had 1 pull back and a continuation.
If there's no prior pullback and a failure you've simply found a subsequent turn and the prior slow should be tested.
If there's a pullback and a continuation.. that pullback provides precedent for the next pullback. The next pull back will be almost the same in pips (magnitude) if it's greater than that, you are going into a range bound move. (95%) of the time. Do not trade until it breaks the extreme high, or the low of the most recent pullback.
If the second pullback is the same in pip magnitude, you're going to have a continuation.
The reason for this is volume and distribution. It stays the same and that's why prices move in diagonals and not round turns (most of the time +/- 97% of the time. When you have a larger pullback, sentiment is changing and volume on the weaker side is absolutely getting stronger just as the dominant side is fading.
I'm building a group of blocks to identify this with FXDreema. It's already in a Custom Indicator but I'd be glad to help along the way.
@titangeorge said in Fuzzy and Illogical:
FOUND THE SOLUTION! Learned how to create buttons in the process. Can you imagine I was creating TEXT messages to control my blocks. Such a hassle.
Any who, here's your solution.
https://fxdreema.com/shared/QstMKBHE
The button didn't change to "Exit Rules OFF" since I made the program terminate itself. But it should work once you replace it with the correct ON/OFF blocks. You can delete the Pass button. I was just testing it.
BEEE YOUTiful! Thank you @TitanGeorge
@trader-philipps said in Turning Exit Rule Blocks off with button on chart.:
@pan4pips Well, if the button executes the blocks correctly, you might use one of the Switch ON / OFF or Toggle blocks. If you don't like the output in the logs, you might use flags for achieving the same.
Button doesn’t allow or stay pressed. On init and onchart it doesn’t show up when applying to live chart
Ontick button shows but doesn’t allow interaction
Re: Button: Turn off some blocks.
Is this still the valid method for turning blocks off with a selector button? I've copied this and it doesn't work in either on init, chart or ontick - Help anyone?
I have exit rules that I want to manually turn off at times... whats the best method to use a button on chart?
@trader-philipps said in Fuzzy and Illogical:
@pan4pips Is it possible to share your project and custom indicator(s)?
This project is to help simplify fund management a little through automation, it's not ready yet to offer. The indicator is a result of aggregated institutional flow.
But inside the indicator is price action, statistical analysis and a few other proprietary tid bits
DPA is driven by vol. The heavier side of volume becomes obvious. go with the flow.
Here's a question.... I'll post a screen shot of what it's doing now where I want it to be triggering trades...it's missing something even though the rules are there for the transition of the buffer >0
I've already determined the overall direction, but I want to 'stack' multiple trades, one at each of those locations. How?
@titangeorge I've been profitable pretty consistently. But admittedly never really believed in automated trading much. Too many variables that the brain can handle, a computer cannot.
@titangeorge My passion for decades has been the trading profession. My love, engineering transparency (for trading) AND gold mining.
@titangeorge said in Crossover EA with Stat Arb:
I'm not as familiar with once click interfaces, fxDreema offers the same functionality but the approach would be different:
Close when TOTAL specified profit is achieved and Close all Trades and Terminate the EA.
Close when specified profit/pips is achieved on the pair and terminate or turn off the trading.
Yeah, that's not an effective approach to trading. I'm by far a programmer.. in fact I have cringed for 20 years thinking about it. lol This makes it a good bit easier in some instances.. but from a code students approach it still leaves out the flow of things that no programming book says. I think I've tried to read them all with the same success rate as migraines lol.
Now to the number side of things, no problem!
@titangeorge said in Crossover EA with Stat Arb:
I'm glad pan. If you need help with objects, let me know. They're usually straight forward but sometimes manually created objects can cause trouble.
Another idea, if you want to MANUALLY control your Buys/Sells. Objects can help with that. For example, if you write "Buys On" Then buys will work and vice versa. Only if you have access to the computer at all times or have remote control access.
I've used a one click interface for years. My next attempt is to duplicate it.
@TitanGeorge I'm becoming more efficient with the objects but your first answer I think worked well! Thank you!!!!
@TitanGeorge I'll share what I have when I'm back at the desk in the AM. But ty! And no, the picture is not me. I own a few mining claims so a long passive hobby is panning for the gold stuff.
Ok, so I've been a trader for three decades but never dove much into the programming side of things as I have always had the benefit of developers on staff. With FXDreema though I have found a mixed bag of results. The simplicity of FXDreema at first glance seems easy. But I have found countless bugs with bad business logic. I know programmers are typically not business minded and vice versa, business minded people are not typically good with programming logic.
BUT- on a dozen occasions I have set vanilla conditions for sells and closes which all work rather nicely. Only to have the opposite Buy side trades erratically and seemingly on a whim of its own?
Has anyone else experienced this ?
