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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 price differences between the brokers, but since

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 charts of one broker and putting trades on another

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 of 0.1 on 1k account so should I just trade with

How to convert a simple 2MA based to martingale.???

void OnTick () { if (MAPeriod1<MAPeriod2) { ArraySetAsSeries (ma1, true ); ArraySetAsSeries (ma2, true ); ArraySetAsSeries (close, true ); CopyBuffer (maHandle1, 0 , 0 , 1 ,ma1); CopyBuffer (maHandle2, 0 , 0 , 1 ,ma2); CopyClose ( _Symbol , 0 , 0 , 1

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 ); ArraySetAsSeries (close, true ); CopyBuffer (maHandle1, 0 , 0 , 1 ,ma1); CopyBuffer

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 chart. This EA has 2 optimizable parameters. I have

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 the ontick function is not continuously updating

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 so convincing. I all this I was biased for Asian

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 instrument start and when should this end and she

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 problems of mine. Perhaps I posted these into wrong