26 Reply by ViniQ (edited by ViniQ 2017-09-15 03:45:20)

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Re: Trading Session

rjectweb wrote:

Hi all,
I've tried to create strategies closing at the end of the session or at the end of the week, but I wasn't able to do it. When I review a strategy in EA Studio and go to report and have a look at the closing operations, they don't close on friday night (or at the end of the session). I attach a capture showing positions not closing on friday night.  Is this feature working for you?  Am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance for your help.
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Please be awere that you are looking to 2017 calendar in your windows
and at 2015 in ea studio report.... hmm

I've used ea studio generate algorithms to trade in metatrader and it are closing at the end of session ok.
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Re: Trading Session

I'll check that again.

Rjectweb, p[lease attach your EA. I'f there is some specific problem, I'll fix it imitatively.

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Re: Trading Session

Hi ViniQ, rantampla, thanks a lot or answering. Thank you Popov for having a look at this.
I cannot upload my EA right now, but I can do that over the weekend.

In any case, what it doesn't seem to be working for me is simply the "end of session/friday closing" settings in EA Studio when building and backtesting the strategy in EA Studio. In EA Studio backtests/results the Report shows not closing operations at the end of the day/week... As far as I understand it, the strategies created using the "close at the end of the session / close at the end of friday settings" should show closing all the trades at the end of each day / end of each week, and you can check that in the Report of the strategy in the EA Studio.

I guess if the strategy in EA Studio doesn't close all operations at the end of the session (or at the end of the week) it doesn't matter if this feature works in MT4 or not. I mean, in that case, the strats won't match, won't be the same if they are closing positions at night in MT4 but not closing them in EA Studio...

Am I wrong on this? A simple strategy build in EA Studio chosing "close at the end of the session" reveals (for me) that trades are taking more than one day in EA Studio report, so not closing at the end of the session...

Thanks a lot or having a look at this. I'm planning to build all my new strategies closing at friday nigth, to make simpler to prune bad strategies in a portfolio over the weekend (not leaving open trades over the weekend).

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29 Reply by rjectweb (edited by rjectweb 2017-09-16 07:39:54)

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Re: Trading Session

Hi
Uploading an example of EA showing the issue (attached).
Thanks a lot in advance
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Re: Trading Session

There is no gap time between 00:00 and 24:00, that's why you can't close a position.
You are using 1 hour timeframe so be sure to include the end of session before midnight. Ex: 22:00 / 23:00

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Re: Trading Session

Hey! Thanks a lot ViniQ!
I see how it works now. It was just my mistake, and the feature seems to work well smile Very happy with that, because I think closing the positions before the weekend can help me select the best strategies for the next week smile
Thanks again for your help
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Re: Trading Session

Actually I fixed a small issue in the code. It was incorrect setting of the week day due to the local time zones. It appeared that the programming language automatically converts the week day in the local time zone. The result was that 22:00 at Friday night was shown as Saturday !?!?!? In the programming world we call that "magic" - something that the programming language does without explicitly telling it to do it.

It had also anther strange thing. My broker closes at 22:00 at Friday evening and I use close at Friday. However I noticed that there were deals closed on Sunday ?!?! It took me 2 hours to understand that the broker was closing at 21:00 on the Fridays on 2014. (It may be because the Daylight Saving Time) We have to take that also into account.

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