Hello my little droogies:

Just to let you know, I ran the EA on GBPJPY (Default settings) this last week and it ended up 33% ahead. It should be noted however, that there was a bug in the code for the first couple trades; it opened a second set of trades where it should not have. Then it closed all 4 at the same time. Since the second set should not have been placed, and were good for $130, if you subtract those out, I'm at 20% for the week.

That is on a $1000 demo account on Velocity4x, trading 0.1 lots per trade, no MM.

Hi Derk,

Thanks for the comments on the intricacies of Synergy trading. If it is of some help to you I attach copies of the Experts and Journal logs captured today. Please let me know if I can do anything else in the meantime.

For the moment I am immersed in redesigning the signals in the Chimera simple version so that it can be forward tested efficiently, and this involves a fair amount of backtesting. Once I begin to get consistent results I will upload a functional version and at that point I can turn my attention to backtesting SynergyEA.

I'll keep watching the thread for developments. It's great that others are pitching in on backtesting SynergyEA, as this should speed up development considerably.

Attached Files

	SynEAFXDD23Nov Expert.txt (50.6 KB, 93 views)
	SynEAFXDD23Nov Journal.txt (10.4 KB, 61 views)

Autumn:

Please use this Ind instead; it has the Print statement removed (the ones that cause these lines:

SynergyInd USDJPY,H1: PAC EXIT: i = 0; MA_Hi_1 + Spread = 108.18479711

Other than that, I can see there was an error toward the bottom of the file:

2007.11.23 12:37:53 LibOrderReliable USDJPY,H1: OrderSendReliable v1_1_3:non-retryable error: 131:invalid trade volume

2007.11.23 12:37:53 LibOrderReliable USDJPY,H1: OrderSendReliable v1_1_3: attempted OP_BUY 0.05000000 lots @108.31000000 sl:0.00000000 tp:0.00000000

Any idea why it was attempting to trade 108.31 lots?

Turn both MoneyManagement settings off, set Lots = 1.0, use a $10000 demo account (or larger); use this new indicator with the output turned off so it does not confuse the issue, and if you see it fail to take another trade, paste the contents of the experts tab over to me again.

Thank you,
-Derk

Attached Files

SynergyInd.mq4 (19.2 KB, 185 views)

Got it, but I'm not sure how to turn off outputs. Is that in the indy?

autumn

my EA still not picking trade though the Manual Indicator is doing better than the later version. attached to this mail is the error report as dislayed by the journal while back testing.

I think this might help you in proferring solution to the problem

Attached Files

	backtestjournal_errorreport.txt (35.3 KB, 35 views)
	error_expert.txt (16.4 KB, 29 views)

I posted a new version of the indicator because I removed the Print() statements from the code, so it would not fill up your experts tab. You do not need to do anything to "turn it off", just use the new Ind I posted instead.

Non is helping with some backtesting now and if I can prove the Chaikin indicator does not help, then I will just remove it altogether. Then you will not get zero divide errors. As far as the other, I am adding a check that should fix it as well.

A new version should be out Monday or Tues....

May I prevail upon someone with a very fast computer to do some optimize runs with the attached EA. Because of the array used in the EA, backtesting and optimization are hopelessly slow on my computer.

Here are some suggestions for testing. Do not try to optimize all the inputs at once, and please use the longest time period you can tolerate. Ideally it should be subjected to 2 years of data, but it may only be possible to run it on 2 months at a time.

thanks
autumn

extern double P_SARStep = 0.02; range: .018 - .026
extern double P_SARMax = 0.2; range: .18 - 0.3 step: 0.3
extern double P_EnvDev = 0.1; range: .04 - .15
extern int P_ATRPer = 13; leave as is
extern int P_ATRMin = 7; range: 3 - 15
extern int P_ATRMax = 20; range 10 -25
extern int P_SORPer = 8; range: 5 - 13
extern int P_SOYPer = 21; range 13 - 34
extern int P_SOSlow = 8; range 3 - 15
extern int P_STDFPer = 13; leave as is
extern int P_STDFMin = 180; range: 150 250, step: 5 or 10

Attached Files

ChimeraSimple.mq4 (16.3 KB, 111 views)

How about stops ?..........

Stops? There aren't any. You can use a TP, but I set it to 999 to allow all trades to exit on signals. No SL, and exits and TS are handled by signals. There is also no money management. This version is intended as a test of the effectiveness of the signals.

Thanks

autumn