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			<title><![CDATA[Re: How to force positions closed at 21:00 GMT and/or week close?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><blockquote><p>I think, there is no Day of the week exit indicator anymore, isn&#039;t it?</p></blockquote></div><p>Hmmm !! I don&#039;t remember why, but Day of Week indicator is available as Opening Logic Condition only.<br />Was it available as exit condition before?</p><p><strong>EDIT:</strong></p><p>There is a Day of Week Exit indicator from Krog: <a href="http://forexsb.com/forum/topic/2228/day-of-week-exit/">http://forexsb.com/forum/topic/2228/day-of-week-exit/</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: How to force positions closed at 21:00 GMT and/or week close?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>I think, there is no Day of the week exit indicator anymore, isn&#039;t it?<br />I cannot find it in FSB...</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 19:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: How to force positions closed at 21:00 GMT and/or week close?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>footon wrote:</cite><blockquote><div class="quotebox"><cite>pomelov-yuriy wrote:</cite><blockquote><p><a href="http://postimage.org/image/7viy2k531/"><span class="postimg"><img src="http://s14.postimage.org/7viy2k531/000qsp1h.jpg" alt="http://s14.postimage.org/7viy2k531/000qsp1h.jpg" /></span></a></p></blockquote></div><p>Does she force position closing? <img src="https://forexsb.com/forum/img/smilies/big_smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="big_smile" /></p></blockquote></div><p>How do you code that indicator??</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>pomelov-yuriy wrote:</cite><blockquote><p><a href="http://postimage.org/image/7viy2k531/"><span class="postimg"><img src="http://s14.postimage.org/7viy2k531/000qsp1h.jpg" alt="http://s14.postimage.org/7viy2k531/000qsp1h.jpg" /></span></a></p></blockquote></div><p>Does she force position closing? <img src="https://forexsb.com/forum/img/smilies/big_smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="big_smile" /></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>I wanted to report back that my settings were still not quite right (screenshot from couple posts back). I think I finally have this figured out now, and I&#039;m posting the latest settings screenshot in case anyone else is trying to learn how to do this.</p><p>Taking krog&#039;s advice, I&#039;ve set this to close the position several bars before the actual market close. This is the setting I now use when trading M1 timeframe, and I want it to close no later than 20:55 Friday afternoon (3:55pm ET, New York close).</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>I use 30 min charts so Day of week exit will try to close the position just a few seconds before the close for the weekend at (23:59:59 with my broker). This is too late to get the order into the market so you have to use Day Closing 2 to force the close order a little earlier.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>SpiderMan wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I use Day of Week Exit live to close all positions on Friday but it has to be used in conjunction with Day Closing 2 to specify the closing time.</p></blockquote></div><p>Hey Spidey, I meant to ask you... you mentioned &quot;Day Closing 2&quot; once before -- what did you mean by this?&nbsp; I haven&#039;t done anything special with Day-of-Week-Exit (settings screenshot above) and it works just like I expected -- it allows other closing conditions to be added by Generator, but all positions are forcibly closed Friday before GMT 21 (OR logic).</p><p>I wanted to understand better what you meant, or how you are using this indicator, to see if its something I would want to try. Thanks</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the thorough explanation Krog. I probably would have figured that out eventually, but I was so excited I just slapped it on there in a hurry!&nbsp; Here is a corrected screenshot showing the settings I&#039;m using now with good success -- THANKS!!</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Exit Interval indicator:<br /><a href="http://forexsb.com/forum/post/12768/#p12768">http://forexsb.com/forum/post/12768/#p12768</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>krog wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>But the surest method is use this indicator only for research, and be sure to monitor it on Friday afternoon and close manually.</p></blockquote></div><p>I use Day of Week Exit live to close all positions on Friday but it has to be used in conjunction with Day Closing 2 to specify the closing time.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Oh ok, just need to point out two more things for this indicator:<br />From hour -- hour part of time; From min -- minute part of time. As in the screenshot, you have &quot;21:21&quot; -- change &quot;From min&quot; to 0.<br />Also, (incl) means &quot;inclusive&quot;, so includes that time, (excl) means &quot;exclusive&quot;, so before that time. I think From Friday - To Friday will be every day. Change To (excl) to Saturday.<br />It&#039;s best to set the From time a little before the target time. This protects against the possibility of losing the connection before the exit order is sent. Also, since it&#039;s Bar Closing, I think it will execute at the end of the bar. If you set to 21:00 GMT when markets close, with 5 minute data, I think it will send it at the end of the bar which is 21:04. This runs a high risk of not exiting because the market is closed. To better ensure getting out before the weekend, I&#039;d recommend a large margin, ex, <br />From Hour:&nbsp; 20&nbsp; &nbsp;From min: 30&nbsp; &nbsp;(eg, 20:30)<br />Until Hour:&nbsp; 21&nbsp; &nbsp; Until min: 00&nbsp; &nbsp;(eg, 21:00)<br />this gives 30 minutes, or 6 5-minute bars, for the exit to happen, and will probably avoid the end of the bar noted above.</p><p>But the surest method is use this indicator only for research, and be sure to monitor it on Friday afternoon and close manually.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>krog wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Hi dusktrader,<br />Could you check, is this with indicator &quot;Exit Hour&quot; or with &quot;Day of Week Exit&quot;?</p><p>Just a guess, but it sounds like you are describing Exit Hour -- it is the closing point of the trade, and you cannot add other closing logic slots to it.</p></blockquote></div><p>Yes I was referring to the &quot;Exit Hour&quot; indicator in my above post</p><div class="quotebox"><blockquote><p>Day of Week Exit -- add &quot;Bar Closing&quot; slot to the closing logic, then you can see Day of Week Exit indicator. Then, since it&#039;s with Bar Closing, you can add other closing indicators and change the logical groups; if they&#039;re different groups they should behave as logic &quot;OR&quot;.</p></blockquote></div><p>Awesome! I think this is exactly what I wanted. I get confused about when indicators appear and disappear ... I know there is a logical reason but I haven&#039;t quite grasped it yet. But, in my preliminary test, I believe this does exactly what I wanted: to allow Generator to come up with creative new closing strategies, while always forcing a Friday 4pm ET close (GMT 21).</p><p>I&#039;m including a screenshot below of how I set this up in case others are also wondering. I just locked the &quot;Day of Week Exit&quot; condition while Generator runs.</p><div class="quotebox"><blockquote><p>For the periodicity indicator, I&#039;m working at that now, hope I can get something posted soon.</p></blockquote></div><p>Wow, that would be sweet!&nbsp; Thanks for looking into this. Especially for a day-trading bot, I think the more frequently that you can force an exit, the more opportunities you have to take good trade setups. I&#039;m excited to try it out!</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Hi dusktrader,<br />Could you check, is this with indicator &quot;Exit Hour&quot; or with &quot;Day of Week Exit&quot;?</p><p>Just a guess, but it sounds like you are describing Exit Hour -- it is the closing point of the trade, and you cannot add other closing logic slots to it.</p><p>Day of Week Exit -- add &quot;Bar Closing&quot; slot to the closing logic, then you can see Day of Week Exit indicator. Then, since it&#039;s with Bar Closing, you can add other closing indicators and change the logical groups; if they&#039;re different groups they should behave as logic &quot;OR&quot;. </p><p>For the periodicity indicator, I&#039;m working at that now, hope I can get something posted soon.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>krog wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>this thread may have something you can use:<br /><a href="http://forexsb.com/forum/topic/2228/day-of-week-exit/">http://forexsb.com/forum/topic/2228/day-of-week-exit/</a></p></blockquote></div><p>Thanks krog. I did read through this thread but I think this is still the same issue as before.</p><p>Please correct me if I&#039;m wrong -- it seems that FSB can only have one closing point. I think what I&#039;m looking for is a logic of OR --- so it could close at [Generated combination of conditions] OR [Exit Hour before GMT 21]</p><p>Through playing around with this, I have been able to generate several profitable strategies that trade M1 timeframe and use only that single closing point of Exit Hour. It works to accomplish what I want (ie, get out of the market by 4pm New York close each day) but I think the overall strategy misses additional opportunities that could be had (ie daytrading) if there were other closing conditions.</p><p>I do use Perm TP/SL/BE settings, so on occasion the strategy can get 2 or 3 trades in a single day. But trading on the M1 timeframe, seems like a strategy should be able to get many more trades throughout the day if it had an additional closing criteria.</p><p>Another thing that could be helpful is a closing point that would be adjustable by time increment. For example, instead of just &quot;Exit Hour before GMT 21&quot;... how about:</p><p>Exit at time:<br />minute bar close increment:&nbsp; 5, 10, 15, 30, 60<br />start hour:&nbsp; 0-24<br />end hour:&nbsp; 0-24</p><p>For example, if I set it to &quot;15&quot;, then it could force a close every 15 minutes. This would allow positions to run for a max of 15 minutes and then reset to allow another entry. These settings would also give me the close by GMT 21 by default, since they would all trigger a close at the top of the hour.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<link>https://forexsb.com/forum/post/12733/#p12733</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>this thread may have something you can use:<br /><a href="http://forexsb.com/forum/topic/2228/day-of-week-exit/">http://forexsb.com/forum/topic/2228/day-of-week-exit/</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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