During the last month I've created an EA which is able to find the best historical combination between a pattern and all its relevant indicators/values.
Here is an example:
We give the EA all the "morning star" formations for the EUR/USD between 2010 and 2020 as input, and it returns which combinations (moring star + indicators/oscillators/prices on the graph) gives the best preformance.
As result we find that the "morning star" gives us a good profit if we buy when 1. the close price of the first candle is higher than the moving average at 48 period, 2. the moving average at 48 periods is lower than moving average at 288 periods, and 3. RSI is above 60.
I thought that since this combination works for the past prices it could have been working for future prices also... but reality is the results are not good.
Basically this Ea is not working... I feel i have no more ideas left. Do you have any suggestion?
then your strategy wrong ..
do you mean strategy is not working or codes of EA not working?
During the last month I've created an EA which is able to find the best historical combination between a pattern and all its relevant indicators/values.
Here is an example:
We give the EA all the "morning star" formations for the EUR/USD between 2010 and 2020 as input, and it returns which combinations (moring star + indicators/oscillators/prices on the graph) gives the best preformance.
As result we find that the "morning star" gives us a good profit if we buy when 1. the close price of the first candle is higher than the moving average at 48 period, 2. the moving average at 48 periods is lower than moving average at 288 periods, and 3. RSI is above 60.
I thought that since this combination works for the past prices it could have been working for future prices also... but reality is the results are not good.
Basically this Ea is not working... I feel i have no more ideas left. Do you have any suggestion?
What you did is called curve fitting, you changed the inputs until it fitted the data. Any strategy will look good this way during backtest.
yeah... I tought I could uncover the underlying logic of a chart patter by doing this way. I didn't want to try every single strategy to find the one that works... I still think my idea could be somehow good(!?), maybe I need to take more variables in considerations?
I am open to suggestions :)
yeah... I tought I could uncover the underlying logic of a chart patter by doing this way. I didn't want to try every single strategy to find the one that works... I still think my idea could be somehow good(!?), maybe I need to take more variables in considerations?
I am open to suggestions :)
Using more variables will overfit more your trade system. We need to have few variables and some criteria on optimization, such as walk-foward optimization.
Maybe if you wanna try your strategy, I sugest to make optimizations in small sample periods (1 month por example)... it is what I am trying with a trading system of mine. In this case, I optimized in one month and run in the next other, even in backtest... doing this settings, I had better results on the EA... I can tell you if real results will be good too later, but you need to optimize your EA every single month (work, work, work... I hope to result in success).
Using more variables will overfit more your trade system. We need to have few variables and some criteria on optimization, such as walk-foward optimization.
Maybe if you wanna try your strategy, I sugest to make optimizations in small sample periods (1 month por example)... it is what I am trying with a trading system of mine. In this case, I optimized in one month and run in the next other, even in backtest... doing this settings, I had better results on the EA... I can tell you if real results will be good too later, but you need to optimize your EA every single month (work, work, work... I hope to result in success).

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During the last month I've created an EA which is able to find the best historical combination between a pattern and all its relevant indicators/values.
Here is an example:
We give the EA all the "morning star" formations for the EUR/USD between 2010 and 2020 as input, and it returns which combinations (moring star + indicators/oscillators/prices on the graph) gives the best preformance.
As result we find that the "morning star" gives us a good profit if we buy when 1. the close price of the first candle is higher than the moving average at 48 period, 2. the moving average at 48 periods is lower than moving average at 288 periods, and 3. RSI is above 60.
I thought that since this combination works for the past prices it could have been working for future prices also... but reality is the results are not good.
Basically this Ea is not working... I feel i have no more ideas left. Do you have any suggestion?