You are right. The Portfolio Expert is not for everyone. The reason to make it available only for the licensed traders is to prevent the new user to blow their accounts.

For maximal safety, you can set the portfolio to trade on the minimal possible lot size. You may also l use a lower number of strategy. Please note that MT and the brokers have limitations on the maximal count of open positions. It is different for every broker.

I think that limiting the included experts by a number of open positions or a free margin is not a good idea. It will break the trading logic of the suppressed strategies. The experts that open first will have a benefit and you will not be able to evaluate the performance.

Hi Popov,

Some futures exchanges don't support TP/SL (either on the order or setting them later, obviously they work on netting scheme). So an EA generated with TP/SL don't work and keep returning "Error with Ordercheck: Invalid order". In that case, only way simulate TP/SL is to send pending orders (and cancel the remaining pending order related, after a pending order executed and position netted).

So i wonder if it's possible EA Studio to support these situations?

Thanks.

Hi Blaiserboy,

I began using MT5 data some time ago, and finally am getting some good quantities of bars, but i wrote this post since then, as my new problem is large gaps.

Popov is about to offer a data source which will serve to eliminate data difficulties. It will probably be culled from a couple of different sources and carefully checked before provided to the users.

This might be worth the wait, I think he is close to releasing it.

I believe he is actively testing the data device, I expect it soon.

Normalizer now can Reduce Stop Loss and Reduce Take Profit. I noticed i get now much strategies with high SL and small TP.

What about to have an extra option. Reduce Stop Loss and Take Profit but TP must be higher than SL.

Hi Popov,

One request I have is that the export settings functions captures every single setting and every ticker box.
At the moment it doesn’t save what boxes were ticked in the reactor/validator and also the data horizon, it will save the amount of bars and dates but this can be confusing as when you reload old settings you aren’t sure if you used the number of bars to restrict the amount of data or if you used the start/finish dates m.

I see Data Horizon settings are not updated properly if we first Reset them. I'll examine the case.

Hi Popov

I’d also love to see ichimoku get added to EA Studio,

I’d also like to request the we can add more than 100 strategies to a portfolio and allow more then 100 strategies in a collection. I for one run 20 instances of Ea Studio at a time and generate a few thousand strategies at a time and would love to be able to put more than 100 in a portfolio.

Another request would be to be able to shift the OOS sample window to data previous than the start the date of training. This allows us to train on most recent data while checking results on unseen data. I for one do this quite a bit and have found it to be a great tool to prune over curve fitted strategies.

Option to improve the Closing Conditions ONLY via Generator

Hi Popov, I would like to have the option to generate new and better closing rules to my existing good Strategies.

Usually, I'll pick good strategies (based on demo trades result) and use them as preset.

My good strategy already have 4 good entry rules and I only want to find/generate better closing rules for my existing good  strategies (with the same opening rules as preset). 

Here are some of my observations and the problems I faced...

1. if I were to run the Generator, using Preset strategy which already has 4 opening rules, the Generator will remove the preset strategy's 4th opening rules and replace them with new ones.  Which will then change my original preset strategy.

2. If I already have 2 closing rules in my Preset, the Generator will remove the 2nd/last closing rules and replace it with new closing rules.

I wish...

1. I can "lock" all 4 of the opening rules and let the Generator change only the closing rules (not just remove the last closing rules).  Currently the Generator will remove the last/4th opening rules and the last/2nd closing rules to generator new ones. 

2. I wish you can increase more opening and closing rules (eg max 6 opening and 6 closing rules), so that I can keep my original good strategy as preset and with the option to let the Generator 1) add in extra closing rules only, 2) add in extra opening rules only 3) add in extra opening and closing rules

3. I wish you can also increase the max 500k bar.  I generate 1min strategies.  When you increased the max bar from 200k to 500k, I get far better quality strategies.  Furthermore with increase max bar, I can have longer duration to perform OOS test.

I only take good strategies (not from the Collection) only after I demo test the Collection/100 strategies. 

In another words, I'm not assuming all the strategies in the Collections are definitely going to be profitable (in demo or real trading) despite the backtesting in EAS.  Because backtest results does not necessarily guarantee future results. 

So the way to select good strategy for Preset is to use demo results, not just choosing the best/top one found in the Collection.

More Filter options in collection.

- Filter Strategies with stop loss > xx
- Filter Strategies with stop Loss > Take Profit