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I started learning C programming in 2010. From there I picked up many languages.
I'm working on several indicator projects and EA concepts.
I'm working on several indicator projects and EA concepts.
Conor Mcnamara
Added topic Are object events possible (button press) in the EA strategy tester (visual tester)?
I'm seeing that events from OnChartEvent seem to work in the Indicator strategy tester , but it doesn't seem to be the case in the EA strategy tester. The events from an EA code script are working correctly on a chart, but not inside the strategy
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Keep this is mind when it comes to automated trading:
- An EA that was designed for a particular market style (trending/volatile/ranging) is unlikely to work properly in other market styles with the default setting.
- If a market is choppy, a setting has to be created to account for that, and that takes understanding of technical market dynamics.
The other world of automated trading is quantum/adaptive where it is not trading like a trader anymore and is using complex adaptive algorithms.
It's not fully known if this is more profitable or risky, or whether keeping it simple is more profitable. Simple systems can offer transparency. Complex systems come with validation challenges and opacity.
Personally I see markets as something that alternates primarily because of news and data releases. Both algorithms and manual traders react to that.
If a position is opened by a simple EA, the user must have due diligence and decide if the trade should sit there, or if it should be closed soon based on current news, and not the news that was published at the trade open time.
- An EA that was designed for a particular market style (trending/volatile/ranging) is unlikely to work properly in other market styles with the default setting.
- If a market is choppy, a setting has to be created to account for that, and that takes understanding of technical market dynamics.
The other world of automated trading is quantum/adaptive where it is not trading like a trader anymore and is using complex adaptive algorithms.
It's not fully known if this is more profitable or risky, or whether keeping it simple is more profitable. Simple systems can offer transparency. Complex systems come with validation challenges and opacity.
Personally I see markets as something that alternates primarily because of news and data releases. Both algorithms and manual traders react to that.
If a position is opened by a simple EA, the user must have due diligence and decide if the trade should sit there, or if it should be closed soon based on current news, and not the news that was published at the trade open time.
Conor Mcnamara
The answer is 2, it's still going down.
Because THAT is known as a liquidity trap which traps a lot of novice traders.
Because THAT is known as a liquidity trap which traps a lot of novice traders.
Conor Mcnamara
Trading quiz.
Where do you think the price is going?
1. Support is found, it's going up again
2. Still going down
Where do you think the price is going?
1. Support is found, it's going up again
2. Still going down
Conor Mcnamara
My next project is to create a system that allows you to buy and sell manually in the actual EA strategy tester. I don't even know if this works yet. But I think that if we could test our strategy AT SPEED it would be good.
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Published code Indicator loader for strategy testing
A system to test up to four indicators concurrently in the strategy tester
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Published code Zigzag Custom Timeframe
It's the classic zigzag with a timeframe input to display a HTF zigzag on a LTF chart
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Published code OHLC Candles with extreme tick price tracking
This is an OHLC candlestick chart which records the highest ask and lowest bid on each new bar
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Published code OHLC Candles with Ask and Bid
A candlestick chart which connects the ask price and bid price to the high and low of the candles
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This is a historical moment for me. The cleanest trade I have ever made !
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2025.10.11
This was a manual trade. It was a Sell Limit placed at the daily vwap price when the dollar gained strength again. I would say this trade was a bit of luck too to get such a bid price
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Published code Trading Session Mapping
A tool to align the trading sessions names with broker server time, and local time
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Added topic Preventing unreasonable losses in an EA
I don't know if I'm the only one who came to think that making a successful autonomous expert advisor is like playing a tedious chess game against the market. Some people may say that it is impossible longterm, however it will also depend on how
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Published code Volatility Step Channel
A channel which calculates local highs and local lows with volatility-adjusted lines
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this was another entry on the VWAP price
the way I see it, whether you buy or sell at this price, there's some profit there eitherway
I am on a demo account performing these tests where I put indicators into live testing
the way I see it, whether you buy or sell at this price, there's some profit there eitherway
I am on a demo account performing these tests where I put indicators into live testing
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this entry was the VWAP price at the time I placed the buy limit, it seems like a good indicator to me, and it's downloadable on the codebase
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Added topic Gmails tightened security preventing SendMail from working
I recall in the past the SendMail function working seamlessly with gmail, but now it doesn't any longer. I created an external app password at http://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords but using this password in the SMTP password
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I used to think that from a 10K account and 1:33 leverage, a 1 month profit of 1 - 2K would be very good. But this current strategy is showing much greater alpha in one month.While I know that not every month can be the same, and that one month historical backtest means nothing for the future, it gives me an indication that this strategy has substance if it can show results like that. This is the power of ATR.
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By not immediately executing a trade upon a signal...you can refine entries using states. It's just a bit more work.
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It's crazy to think that technical analysis in financial markets borrowed from mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, statistics and probability theories, geospatial engineering, thermodynamics, neuroscience....the list goes on
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A promising work underway..
- Candles are colored based on IDWMA price cross, noise, momentum, and doji patterns
- Extreme channel to calculate extreme prices on the last 30 bars
- ATR bands from the IDWMA price
Buy:
Previous and current green candle
Bid price is below the midpoint of the extreme channel
Bid price is above the 50 period EMA
Position stop loss trails on ATR band
Sell:
Previous and current red candle
Bid price is above the midpoint of the extreme channel
Bid price is below the 50 period EMA
Position stop loss trails on ATR band
- Candles are colored based on IDWMA price cross, noise, momentum, and doji patterns
- Extreme channel to calculate extreme prices on the last 30 bars
- ATR bands from the IDWMA price
Buy:
Previous and current green candle
Bid price is below the midpoint of the extreme channel
Bid price is above the 50 period EMA
Position stop loss trails on ATR band
Sell:
Previous and current red candle
Bid price is above the midpoint of the extreme channel
Bid price is below the 50 period EMA
Position stop loss trails on ATR band
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Aleksandr Poluchin
2026.07.21
I see that some of the trades are not done exactly as described. and it would be interesting to know what indicators are in this setup