Forex Software — Improving Strategy Structure

Re: Improving Strategy Structure

2011-11-09T18:22:20Z

Do not use (HTF) indicators. They are known to have bugs. Your testing and real trading trading results will not match.

Use (WTF) version instead:
http://forexsb.com/forum/topic/2438/wid … ndicators/

Re: Improving Strategy Structure

2011-11-09T17:34:15Z

Hello Mr.Popov and everyone ,
I am new to this forum and forex trading .I have made a strategy which uses parabolisSAR(HTF).Closing condition is also psar(HTF).Its opening position is same as in FSB but closing is not ,it closes early even in winning condition (even before SL and psar value).Why it is so?Also after this indicator no other indicator can be put in closing condition. i think my early closing is b/c of intra bar value,but when i put "Bar Clocing" then PSAR(HTF) can't be put.How it can be solved? Please can any body help me!

Re: Improving Strategy Structure

2011-11-06T02:40:40Z

Hi Krog
That is most interesting and opens up a lot more possibilities. A Trailng Stop is not always the best way to exit and maybe the option to close at the end of the week will be more fruitful when used with a different closing strategy. I have just set it up as a second logic slot with Bar Closing to give Bar Closing AND Day of week exit. I will do some more testing on it and revert back to you. Thanks.

Re: Improving Strategy Structure

2011-11-06T00:59:13Z

Hi SpiderMan,
I agree, I wouldn't want to hold a position over the weekend either.
I made an indicator a while back that sounds similar:
http://forexsb.com/forum/topic/2228/day-of-week-exit/
(allows to set a block of time to force exit, example, Friday 15:00 - 16:00)
Is this in the right direction?
But I think I understand, it might not work for you, because it needs Bar Closing, but Trailing Stop does not allow Bar Closing exit indicators to be added.

Re: Improving Strategy Structure

2011-11-05T23:25:10Z

The most important thing I would like to see is an alternative close separate from the main logic so that the position is always closed at the end of the week to avoid the weekend gap. At the moment I have many strategies that look good but I have to manually look at the results to see if they are as a result of the price gap in the direction of the trade over the weekend. This is very time consuming and doesn't really lend itself to optimisation.

In these volatile times the mere thought of holding a position over the weekend gives me sleepless nights. All we need is for the US to start bombing Iran, or the Italians to default on their sovereign debt one weekend and Monday morning my position could be 2500 pips light. The most important aspect in forex trading is defining and limiting risk. I know many traders will say that the weekend gap is not important because on average you will win just as many times as you lose. That may be true but you only need one Black Swan event to blow up your account and I see the weekend gap as a Black Swan in waiting. I could still be caught during normal trading times but my stop should always save me the worst of the pain even if there is a lot of slippage.

This thread explains exactly what would be needed:-

http://forexsb.com/forum/topic/2541/trailing-stop-limit-but-always-close-at-the-end-of-the-week-regardless/

I have tried building strategies based on the week close as exit by locking in the slot but they always fall way behind other exit strategies like a trailing stop.

So to summarise, an alternate close at the end of the week that works in parallel to the strategy closing logic would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Re: Improving Strategy Structure

2011-11-05T12:12:42Z

I am no coder either. lol, I think I will have to try to learn a bit so that I can understand more of what this program does.

I would like to see some different results for my strategies and I am thinking that i will have to analyze what is happening in order to ask for some modifications to the program.

Have a great weekend...!!

Re: Improving Strategy Structure

2011-11-05T11:47:59Z

Blaiserboy wrote:

SpiderMan wrote:
Popov wrote:
It's possible also to add Day closing and Weekend closing there as a separate exit rules.
How is this coding progressing?
He posted a mew version in early October.
Did you know that you can contribute to coding, the program is open source..... and even if you are not a coder you can contribute a 'flow chart' to show how your enhancement ideas can be implemented.

Yes, I downloaded the new version but there were no changes to the exit rules as far as I can see. I cannot code to save my life but am happy to contribute what I can.

Re: Improving Strategy Structure

2011-11-05T10:24:18Z

SpiderMan wrote:

Popov wrote:
It's possible also to add Day closing and Weekend closing there as a separate exit rules.
How is this coding progressing?

He posted a mew version in early October.

Did you know that you can contribute to coding, the program is open source..... and even if you are not a coder you can contribute a 'flow chart' to show how your enhancement ideas can be implemented.

Re: Improving Strategy Structure

2011-11-04T22:36:08Z

Popov wrote:

It's possible also to add Day closing and Weekend closing there as a separate exit rules.

How is this coding progressing?

Re: Improving Strategy Structure

2011-09-26T01:46:48Z

Speaking of stops: and this might already be possible......

Set your stop as a bases of ATR, or upon feedback of a specific indicator?

2.5X ATR or
stop set to last pivot point up,
etc.

Re: Improving Strategy Structure

2011-09-19T15:42:25Z

Hello everyone,
I'm totally new to this whole strategy-automizing thing and also to this forum. Just wanted to let you know how much your work with setting up this program for free is appreciated.

p.s. by when do you think your improvement with martingale and stuff is going to be implemented? - sounds
great to me

greets from Germany,

ck1981

Re: Improving Strategy Structure

2011-09-14T19:49:41Z

Yes, it`s exactly that I was waiting for. Can`t wait to get it my hands

Re: Improving Strategy Structure

2011-09-05T17:10:21Z

I feel that allowing some access to number of deals per day will allow people to make a tighter result. ie have a steady number of transactions as opposed to a small one today and a huge trade a couple days later.

Perhaps this would give people a better control, especially people working on the smaller time frames who look to fast trades with small take profit.

Thanks for considering this.

Re: Improving Strategy Structure

2011-09-05T13:52:24Z

It could be added to FST but we have to add some variable in the program to store the value.
Probably will be better to add this in the expert. This will keep FST stateless.

Also we can make:
- max deals per day;
- max lots per day;
- max loss in dollars per day;
- max profit in dollars per day.

This can be made like the Min Account Protection in the current expert.

Re: Improving Strategy Structure

2011-09-05T13:41:47Z

I wonder if it would be possible to create a setting which could govern the number of trades in a 24 hour period.

I feel that may be quite beneficial.