That's an interesting idea. All that's really needed is a new opening logic condition.

I have some more ideas to play with randomness but at this stage we need to find out whether this basic concept can be easily implemented to be used on FSB.

If you use daily or hourly charts, sticking to bar open may be a limit, but if you go to 1 min chart it may not be an issue. Especially if you set relatively small probability for entry 1-5%.

you genius developers are getting way too esoteric for jgp to follow.  But I have been playing around with developing FST strategies wherein the simple entry logic is essentially over-ridden by a manual [buy/sell] entry based upon visual inspection of price action combined with visual inspection of values of multiple indicators on multiple time frames [like iPanel Indicators ].  So what matters thereafter is how that trade [particularly the exit] is managed by the FST attached to that chart.  Seems to me that there may some way to semi-randomly exit the trade at the end of the bar, based upon the price action during that bar or [2] at the end of the next bar, based upon the price action during that next bar or on those two bars, or [3] at the end of the third bar based upon the price action during that third bar or during those three bars usw, usw.  I don't understand what you doing here Master Popov with this random entry magic, but can a random exit logic condition be developed and somehow be optimized on previous data streams?  Once again I apologize for not understanding what you're doing, now, or perhaps have already done.   

http://forex-indicators.net/mt4-indicators/ipanel_indicators

If you are interested in some reading on this subject, some of the work published by Bill Williams on using chaos theory may offer some assistance in finding a suitable 'filter' for your random entry/exit ideas.  Try the reference at http://www.alpari-us.com/en/alpari_acad … chaos.html as a starting point.

There is some really interesting research into working with random techniques if you search around, and don't mind reading through a lot of detail on math theory.  The best example of what may be possible that I have been able to find is by Guy R. Fleury, with the following links making good starting points:
  http://alphapowertrading.com/index.php/ … g-the-game
  http://alphapowertrading.com/index.php/ … he-game-ii
  http://alphapowertrading.com/index.php/ … e-game-iii

There is an excel file on the last of these pages that has simulator for a randomized model using stock data, that may form a decent starting point for further study.  I don't believe that it would be a very difficult task to convert the excel math functions into a set of custom FSB indicators for further study if the idea was something that interested a few of the users.

NOTE: I have no relationship with the owners of the links above are please don't take the above as an endorsement of a product or service, these are links from my personal stash that I have read in the past, and yes ... I do read too much

Ab, thanks for the links.

It seems that Mr. Fleury is trying to apply the concept of randomness to the buy&hold strategy. It is interesting indeed but it will be even more interesting to see how does this strategy perform if we would choose 10 random stocks/currency pairs in a strong downtrend. I may understand that in case of stock market it has more chance to succeed as "stocks always rise" if you diversify them well, but unfortunately its not always the case in forex.

What might be worth the effort is to test Mr. Fleury's concept of 'random' diversification. We would need a platforms that is able to simulate a portfolio of at least 10 different instruments. As far as I'm concerned its not possible in FSB at the moment..

-enter when the average bid/ask spread (X period) is < than (Y)

As you most probably know, there is no bid/ask in FSB, but it can be doable in FST.

-enter after (X bars) in the same direction

You can look the thread in the link to get ideas. http://forexsb.com/forum/topic/19/three … -in-a-row/

-exit after (% of previous day volatility measured in PIPS)
-exit when average volatility (X period) is > than median volatility (Y period)

Define volatility first, then we can look at the implementation.

Actually Volume in MT data is a tick counter in essence, so in a way you can already do it. Downticks and upticks needs a custom approach, but using standard volume you can trade higher TFs on M1 to have a similar effect, practicality of my suggestion is an unanswered question of course.

This is very easy to be added in the expert. It can be controlled from a starting option.

I'll try again to submit this reply.  don't know where the previous one went.  I gather Master Popov said it would be easy to add an "excess tick activity" condition to the MT4FST Expert "input" conditions [such as SL and MinAcctBal] that would essentially close a trade as soon as that input condition was reached.  Is there any way through FSB we could get some idea of what that sudden excess tick activity setting should be??

I don't understand.  I want something that will close a trade asap after an "excess' tick per second activity is reached, not at the end of bar, which might be  an hour or a day or a week later.  Something like the Trailing Stop Limit closing point, which is not predicated on a bar closing, but presumably closes a trade asap after a SL or TP is reached.  At least on my FSB there is no "Volume" closing point  indicator that can be used like "Trailing Stop Limit".  If an "excess" tick per second setting could be added to the Inputs tab of the MT4FST expert, that would provide the needed closing when reached [not at the end of some bar] but how could user-members determine what that setting should be? That's my question.

but I'm talking about god-only-knows-what-caused sudden "excess" tick/millisec spikes [which may or may not be correlated with price spikes] that can and do occur well within a 1min time bar. My uninformed guess would be that anytime [in an open trade] the #ticks/time increases a factor of 2 or 3 over the previous #ticks/time, I would want my EA to exit that trade asap.  But what do I know?