As you know, the Ichimoku Kinko Hyo consists of 5 moving averages, a couple of which are complex.

Be wary of the number of additional indicators if using Ichimoku.

In FSBPro you can do the Monte Carlo and then the Multi Markets.... if the strategy passes the Monte Carlo at 95 percent and then the Multi Markets with three or four other currency pairs, I think you can be assured that the Curve Fitting has been looked after.

I have had tremendous frustration trying to get strategies past the Multi Markets but it is well worth the efforts.

I have now come to use the OOS, I did not use it until now. But I have to clamp my heart when I run an EA on a live account even after a few weeks of testing. I saw some of my EA's running fine then started on a live account and it was good for 10 trades. After a couple of trades it was opening exactly where it should not. Of course, I can test an EA months as some other EA traders recommend on the internet, but it will be the same again. It may work well for weeks or months and by the time you go live, the strategy is to old. But how to know when it's time to change or modify it?

So I try to find somewhere the average by creating a logical base that I trust and then using the generator to improve and backtest it. I'm relatively familiar with Ichimoku trading and it's an indicator that you should not change in principle. That's a good base for avoiding curve fitting. But I'm very far from being a specialist in EA creation. I will follow your experience and let run FSBPro and then choose the EAs that seem the best. Thank you for your advice. I appreciate.

I can understand people wanting to make changes, I have wanted to do that also....

Popov has attempted to make something that will run quickly on most machines so he has stayed away from elaborate calculations wherever possible. (because there are so many calculations involved)

I sorta just trust that the math calculations will bring me something that is profitable, I try to not mentally attach pictures of the indicators on a chart, but view them only as different math formulae so that the macd is just some arithmetic approach. That may sound weird but that is how I can handle using the different indicators that I have never used on a chart.  LOL

I have a lot of software experience -- including developing indicators and EAs.  And I'm relatively new to FSB.  And since I came from the world where the focus was indicators then that is how I first approached FSB.  But then I read something that Blaiserboy wrote -- the FSB model is about *statistics*, and not indicators.  And then a light bulb went on.

I've discovered that FSB is a joy to use when you simply let it do its thing.  I let it generate a bunch of strategies without worrying which indicators are included.  And then I go through the Collection and pick out the ones with the best stats.

I'm much more successful creating EAs now that I learned not to fight the tool but, rather, simply take what it gives me (since it gives a *lot*).

I've tried over and over to find conditions to overcome this but it's not possible. The position should open at the given conditions when the first bar is closing above the kumo and then close the position under a given condition let's say after 300 pips. This means that after the position closed it's done and the EA should wait for the next proper breakout. I've tried to use the enter once a day slot but then I miss opportunities and it can still open in the middle or at the end of a cloud if the conditions are valid.

I may have missed something but for so far I did not find the way how to correct this.

Considering this problem, it is not helpful to test the EA because this is not a kumo breakout no matter what kumo breakout technique is used.

Opening logic = Bar opening

Slot 1: ichimoku
The position opens above the Kumo
Tenkan= 9
Kijun= 26
Senkou Span B= 52
signal shift = 0

Slot 2: ichimoku
Chikou Span is above the closing price
Tenkan= 9
Kijun= 26
Senkou Span B= 52
signal shift = 26

Slot 3: ichimoku
Senkou Span A crosses Senkou Span B
Tenkan= 9
Kijun= 26
Senkou Span B= 52
signal shift = 0

Closing logic = Bar closing

Slot 1: ichimoku
Chikou Span is below the closing price
Tenkan= 9
Kijun= 26
Senkou Span B= 52
signal shift = 0

Is it possible to add Chikou span to the SlotTypes.OpenFilter and SlotTypes.CloseFilter?

What logic do you have in mind?

Some parts of the code are slightly different from the explanation of the tutorial that I found on the forum. I'm making a mess and can't debug.

Let me know if something's not right.