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Hello, Petko!
I tried ea studies and it seems that service works with errors. I set one strategy, that has somei indicators for the formation of signals (in the specific case: MACD Signal, RSI). After adding a strategy to the collection, the strategy contains completely different indicators (Stochastic, Volume). How to correct the mistake?
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VladHello Vlad,
Do you mean that you preset some indicators? And what do you mean you added the strategy to the collection after that?
I am using EA Studio for over a year now and I never had any errors or mistakes.
Hey Vlad,
are you using the Preset indicators? There are no errors in EA Studio, all was fixed at the beginning. Give us more information about what you are trying to do so we can assist you.
Here is one strategy for Gold which I started to use recently and it shows fantastic results:
These are the rules:
Hey Andi, the strategy looks great indeed! I see that the SL and the TP are within $100 which I really like for the Gold. Good job!
Hi guys!
I have a several question about this kind of trading:
First:
What is the best method for create/learn new strategies? With a laptop (i5 3317u 2c/4th, not so fast, and hot also), or a better PC (1240 v2 xeon 4c/8th, more ram, much faster) or with a VPN server (1-4 cores. The 4 core is 4 times more money)? Now two 5000 minute “learning” is on my laptop. CPU peaks at 100%.
Second:
It the time (longer) means better strategies? Eg: Is a 2 month old strategy better than a 2 week?
Third:
Is there any required/recommended criteria? Now Im using only pin bar for long and short opening. Seems much better than a normal without any options of course.My time is kinda limited for doing it manual trading, cuz I have a lot of meeting, hand-on training as an Continuous integration engineer. So I want to create a few strategies, that has around 10%/month yield. Of course, I can manage them at the weekends and at two aftermoon in a week.
Thanks for the help, and also sorry for my english and the stupid questions.
Regards
AdamHello Adam,
no stupid questions, even I asked many at the beginning 🙂
There is not really a recommendation for a computer or laptop, mine is similar to yours and with EA Studio it works very fast. Simply, it works on the browser. So it does not really require a lot of resources from the computer. FSB Pro is heavier and might run slower, but just give it a try…
Regarding the strategies, it is all about generating new ones, testing them and placing the best EAs on a live account. Petko shows that in nearly all the courses. I have some EAs running profitably from 5-6 months now…but every day I run the Reactor and leave it. Put on Demo the ones I like, and then I follow results. I palce on the live the ones that perform the best. Simple as that 🙂 Of course to get used with that it was not easy at all.
Hello Adam,
Welcome to the forum. What I would suggest you is to start simple. All you need is two Meta Trader platforms which will run without an issue. In one test the strategies as a Demo account, the other for a live account where you can place the top performers from the Demo.
Of course, if you are beginner instead of live account, use another Demo(as it was your live).
Cheers,
Dear Petko and all!
I have round 100 EA for EURUSD 15M, and 10 of them is pretty useful and works good. But… they are placing SL and TP so randomly, and always too high, or the SL much higher than the TP. There is one example:
So as you can see, the randomly generated Stop Loss and the Take Profit is so inconsistent. (by the way, this EA got around 6k profit from 300 dollars in 4 years).
So, there could be two solution:
1: Let the EA works, how it should be, and using trailing for every market and EA. There is one example, why it can be useful:
An of course, after its almost got the TP, turned around and started to go up. Zero profit from the SELLs.
2: Manuall interraction:
I started to change every EA and SL-TP manually. Changed every SL and TP for the same amount of pip. 20-60, 25-70.
After a new minutes, its started working a little bit strange, as you can see in the picture. _
EA number same, TP and SL same, but the SL got the 70 pip, and the TP got the 25, not as I wanted.
So I have 2 question about this issues:
How can we turn on the trailing manually, and how can we change the SL-TP numbers and use it in the correct way, and not like mine?For everyone:
After 1 and 2 weeks, dont say EA is bad and not works and so on. Its depends on you. Your time and the maintenance. Just take a few minutes in every week and strat to investigate, why is it not works in proper way.
On my first week, i had -1%, now I have 3-5%. Just with the manual interraction. But after this problem fixed, hopefully, It will not take hours in every day and week, just minutes, for check them.Sorry for the missspells and so on. Im in hurry and after 4 hours of sleep 😀
Regards
AdamHello Adam,
thank you for writing in the Forum. Appreciate you have attached pictures which makes it easier for me and the others to see.
Now, first of all, keep in mind that this software is coded for many years now and thousands of users are using it. All bugs and mistakes were fixed long ago. Of course, its a code, there could be something always.
Now here is what you are missing:
1. The SL and TP are generated according to the Historical data you have and the acceptance criteria you have selected to use. From my experience, I saw that it does not really have to be an SL smaller then TP. I know the “old trading” rule for having Sl 3 times smaller than the TP, and many people realize it was quite wrong when using the EA Studio backtester. Of course, you can find some strategies with such SL and TP but not too many.
Now, what I see on your picture is normal. It will always happen that the price will go towards the TP and turn the other way around. But the SL and the TP are set based on many trades(not only one situation that you have in your case).
Regarding the trailing SL, you can set it when generating the strategies:
If you select to use it, all the EAs will be with a trailing SL.
2. In the second picture, you are looking at two different EAs.
On the right up corner, you have the number of the EA that is attached to the chart. In this case, it is 01843265, not 99186720.
So for me, I do not see anything wrong in the pictures you shared. Make sure you look at the right EAs.
Regards,
Hi Adam,
why do you want to change the SL and TP manually? There is no sense in this. if you want to use exact SL and TP for your EAs you can set them in the strategy and optimize the other parameters with the Optimizer. But if you have a generated strategy and after that, you change the SL and the TP do you get better results with EA Studio backtest? I doubt it…
I see you are putting some manual trading emotions in your EA Trading. i guess everyone does that at the beginning. If the price reaches towards the TP, you should not hurry to close the trade or to get angry if the price gets the other way. That is exactly what causes manual traders to lose.
Leave the EAs do their work, and just monitor them on Demo and live account. if you see which ones are profitable(as you have some already) you can place them on a live.
Have a nice weekend!
Dear Petko and Andi!
Finally I1m here again, so I can answer.
Firstly Petko:
Trailing: I want to use it in my every EA, and coding into the EA manually. So the question is, what is the code? Or where can I turn it on?
I find this code, okay, now its false, so not works. I have to change it to “true”, then give pips, digits and so on for being useful.
Is there any “magic numbers” for this? eg. after every 20 pip, follow the current price, and so on.Anothe one: The picture.
Yes. Im watching every EA in one window, but nonsense where. It showes every currently workin’ EA. So, it nonsense what is in the corner. If u check the comment/number, it showes the exact trading.Andi: Cuz a few of them are so dumb. 130 on SL and 80 on tp, and every trade is on SL after 2 weeks.
I only checked the best profit instead of robostusness and RR. For me, three trade with profit and one with closed sl is much better, than that one, which trade 3 sl and 2 tp. Maybe the 2 TP givesm ore money, but I cannot trust on them. There is a lot of good open, but not good levels. As you can see my 2nd pcture from the previous comment, at least 4 sell did great, but never closed. Cut too damn high TP lvl. Same for the SL. around 20-35 pip is good for SL, but I just want to test them for a few weeks. Same for the TP. Fistly, I will use 60, then more, or less, but the 80/120, like a few, is not good.
 “I see you are putting some manual trading emotions in your EA Trading.”
Yes, as I mentioned, a lot of good lvl, good opening, but not goot tp and sl. I had to change. But yes, my goal is get a few working as well. but I fix them for myself.Adam
Hello Adam,
When you generate the EAs you can set up the range for the SL and the TP. r you can choose exact values to use.
Look at the first picture from Petko, you can see min and max in pips. The EA Studio does not give you 80/120 alone, you have set it this way in the first place(maybe you did a huge range and it found the best parameters). For me, these are not bad levels by the way. You make conclusions too quick just from a couple of weeks.
Once again, if you want to use precise levels in SL and TP, you can set it there, and all generated EAs will use those levels.
Good morning!
Yes, I see. But can I retrain my all existing EA? I had to start a new training session, same setup as before, but now all of them with trailing, and not as optional.
When you generate the EAs you can set up the range for the SL and the TP. r you can choose exact values to use.
Yes, I have 2 selection. One with “bad” SL-TP and net profit (as I mentioned, 120-80, or even worse, 120 for sl, and 80 for tp, just as an example. Net profit not above 5500 dollar from 300 dollar.)
Another selection SP and TP range is: 10-30 and 70-120 (the lowest had 6k from 300, the highest one 10066 from 300, 0.15 lot). And now, I want to turn on the trailing for these. But probably, If I get only one with these parameters, I can change my all EA on code lvl. I have the original selection, so its not matter.Adam
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