What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.
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Added topic For choosing a signal provider on this website, does it need to be working on my own broker or any one will work.?
When I search with my broker filter on, I don't find anyone with significant result. So can I just choose the one with significant result even if it is on some other broker ? I think I'll just need to increase the slippage since there might be minor
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Added topic For manual trading, can I do my charting on charts of one broker and put trades on another broker.?
I know that EA' s don't work this way. You have to optimize or tweak them for specific broker and time period for live trading. Thins happens because of inherent spread and tick variations. But if I am trading manually with trend and S/R lines on
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Added topic How does equity amount affect trading style?
For the safety of my equity I want to ask this (perhaps I already know this but still "better be safe than sorry"):- What differences will I feel as a trader when moving from $ 1k to $ 10k account or more take 500k for example? Suppose I trade lots
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Added topic How to convert a simple 2MA based to martingale.???
void OnTick ()   {    if (MAPeriod1<MAPeriod2)      {        ArraySetAsSeries (ma1, true );        ArraySetAsSeries (ma2, true );
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Added topic Turn an Ea from working on every tick to work on open prices only, or every 15 seconds or any such interval.
I have been exposed to writing the trading logic onside the ontick() function and see them trade on the logic programmed. void OnTick ()   {    ArraySetAsSeries (ma1, true );    ArraySetAsSeries (ma2, true );
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Added topic optimization with strategy tester and montecarlo in detail.
My knowledge is limited to manual trading and markets and have started writing EA's. I need some detailed guide to setting the parameters of an EA before sending it in a live market. Suppose today is week six and I have to attach my EA to a EURUSD
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Added topic Past value of RSI indicator is stored as current value of RSI in an EA while it is running.
My EA has an RSI indicator whose vale is updated onscreen via print function. However i just noticed that the value of RSI is vague when compared to that shown in indicator window. Perhaps it is lagging. My best guess is that it is happening because
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Added topic Behaviour of gold that I am unable to explain. Pls help.
I was optimizing my EA for GOLD. For the time filter I was trying to find out which session was the best. I got mixed answer for London and Asian session . However few even pointed out a 24hr session for gold without specific reasons an so were not
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Added topic What is the best time slot to trade XAUUSD? and also sme more fudamental info on this instrument.
MY EA working on EURUSD runs only during the time when both London and NY markets are open which is around 15 to 19 as per the timezone of trading terminal. Similarly I was searching for a perfect time slot for XAUUSD as to when should trading this
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Added topic Conditional skipping of optimization passes based on parameter value. How to do it?
Suppose i have 2 parameters a & b for optimization and their values for passes range from 5-20 and 10-40. I want my EA to skip the particular passes where value of a is greater than b or a>b. How to do it? Additionally,Try looking into these
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Added topic Pls help me just enough to highlight my chart in 2 colours when a condition as simple as ma1>ma2 and ma1<ma2 is fulfilled.
I know this language just enough to code EA based on given indicators and condition, and nothing about coding indicators or scripts. So i was studying few of my backtests to find few logical errors. and it would be helpful if my chart was highlighted
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Added topic problem & doubts in forward testing.
I have been unclear on my doubts about forward testing even after researching a lot. I test with a 1/3 forward testing period with criteria as "complex criterion max".  My optimization has 2835 passes. This is the data for first optimization
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Added topic My EA is not closing the intended trades. It gets the wrong type of position ticket. How can i get the correct one?
       if (G1[GridArrayLevel].Grid_Buy_Pos== 0 && CurrentLevel!=CurrentLevelCopy)          //open buy order         {
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Added topic How to find the best pair to attach an EA? Also what can be the points to manage it from time to time and when to remove it?
I have been trying to program various strategies and have been able to figure out how various timeframes react with various strategies. Some of these are particularly good with metals which I can't figure out why. so any ideas on this situation? Also
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Added topic Inserting two RSI or similar indicator in same indicator window during visualisation of my EA instead of two windows which is created automatically.
I have added two RSI indicators using two RSI handle variables and it creates two indicator windows. I want both RSI indicators to be in same window like in the second image. What changes should I make in my code for this to happen
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Added topic Tax issues related to forex trading in India & Day trading with Estionian or any other E-residency.
Conventional forex trading is regarded as illegal activity in India. people escape it by (1) trading only brokers and pairs allowed by government is legal which are always set up in ways that people can't trade profitably and is an unregulated
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Added topic Logic to count higer high, lower high and vice versa.
i wish to check if a line, ma or any indicator is making higher high, low or lower high, low. What should be the logic to check it ? will it be same for all TF or different ??? perhaps in my logic it just gets caught in lowest time frame
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Added topic How to match an EA with symbol and a particular TF or the other way round.
1>I am just learning to write an EA. I have reached a level where my EA execute trades at the place and close trades at desired places according to indicator. Earlier they were getting caught in flats however with few more tweaks rarity of getting
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Added topic Few doubts about how EA work.
I am Sophomore in a EA programming. Matter of fact its been less than a week since I made my first EA. My last one was was based on MA, pending orders , trailing based on psar, opened an order alternately on very signals so where there used be 3-4
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Added topic While analysing CFTC report, which data is more important ?
While analysing CFTC report, which data is more important , the current long, short bias or the change in each section ? Of course Non Commercial section is what we look at, anyone here does the inverse or something else? How do you all take cftc