Posts made by roar

Right.
I personally use "once per bar" on my every ea, everything starts with that block. It has sooo many benefits

just put an "once per bar" block on top of your logic tree

But you do understand, the ea runs on every tick
So if the body touches the MA, it has crossed crossed it at some time.
If you dont want it to act so fast, maybe use the envelopes indicator instead of ma?
You can also run the ea on every bar only, maybe it helps you in this case.

Probably.

I don't know your trade opening logic, but maybe you should use the previous candle on closing - set candle id 1.

Ok, well, that's strange.
I assume you mean candle height, width is always the chart period (M5, M30..)

Try making a cross condition with two blocks:

1. previous candle (ID1) is below ma
2. current candle (ID0) is above ma

Does the trade close correctly with this setup?

I didn't quite catch what you mean
But I think the "cross" system just compares the current candle and last candle:
if last candle close is below MA, and current candle is above MA, crossing must have happened.
^You can also do this with two simple condition blocks, without crossing condition

@ggrobot said in trailing stop/trailing profit:

2. if it goes 2020 with trailing stop 20pips and 1 pip step that means that at 2021 the stop with me modified from 1980 to 2021 ???

Not exactly, if price is at 2020 and you have 20 pips SL trail, the stop is at 2000. When price is 2021, and your trailing step is 1, the stop is now 2001. If your step is 2, the stop moves to 2002 only when price reaches 2022.

Trailing profit is useful too, but it is all about your strategy, you have to do your own reserch about what is better.

Trailing means that the stop has a maximum distance from current price.
If you have 20 pips trailing stop (SL) in a buy trade, and the price goes upward, the stop also goes upward 20 pips behind current price. If the price then goes down, the stop doesn't move anywhere and the SL can trigger.

just leave the width to 1.
https://fxdreema.com/shared/HiuKscOsd
^This closes your trades when price crosses 20 MA

You can make a shared copy of your project from Projects menu at top left

You would have to assign different weight on each trade - if you have 1.00 lot buy at price 1.000 and 0.01 lot buy at price 2.000, the midpoint is not price 1.500 but close to 1.000..
There could be a way to calculate this, with a million variables, but its not very simple

Well, MT5 does this automatically, everytime...

Yeah, the core principle seems to be working, now its just about improving the ea as whole

Hehe, 19000 trades - the spread costs could be pain in the ass in live trading

Hmm, yeah, could work

If you just want to delay the ea after something happens, this is what I usually do:

• create variable barcount
• on each bar, modify variable barcount to barcount +1 , so the variable just increases every bar
  then, if you want to wait 3 bars after opening a trade:
• reset the barcount at buy or sell,
• put a condition: barcount > 3

All right
There is certainly a way to make the ea as you said, excluding the losses from new positions. But I'm afraid it won't be very simple or elegant solution.

You would need a variable for the modified profit.
Then find out how much loss a new trade causes, this could be done with some more variables, one variable should show the profit a few candles ago, so when a trade happens, the loss could be calculated. The loss would then be subtracted from the "modified profit" variable.
Then there should be another variable that keeps track of the losses caused by opening trades, a "loss bank" variable. That "loss bank" could then be slowly drained to the "modified profit", so the losses would be taken into account after some time, and "modified profit" would get closer to the real profit.

Anyway, thats how I would do it, but I'm not sure if its worth the trouble

So you want to exclude the new positions from the profit calculation?
I would go with the 30-min condition, why not?
Or set the ratio lower, 0.8 for example?

The ea runs every tree, on every tick.

If you are using mt4, you can have both buy and sell trades open.
If you don't want that, use a "no trade is running" block, for example.

In the close trades -block, you can filter the trade type, so it closes only buys, for example.

If you want to show exactly what you are doing, create a shared copy from the Projects-menu (top left).

CONDITION --> BUY--> CONDITION -- CLOSE TRADES

This would not be very great, because it always closes a new trade, because the closing can't happen without buying...

Just separate the "logic trees":
Condition -> buy
Another condition -> close

I'm not sure if the link works - did you mean this project?

Hmm.. If your trades have different lot sizes, measuring the total profit as pips becomes difficult.
Maybe just close the trades based on account equity, or account profit?

This could help you:
https://fxdreema.com/forum/topic/4858/total-profit-reduces-by-x-then-close-everything/2?page=1