I am unable to do optimization of the EA. It causes a critical error in MT4. I can, however, backtest, or at least on a short period of time. Any ideas why this would happen?

autumn

No, cannot say why. NonD. didn't have any problem. Perhaps he has some idea...(?)

Hi,

Thank you for your advice, Mike. I tried to use SynergyEA today during London session on USDCAD and USDCHF only. I judged USDCAD bullish and USDCHF bearish on the base of this morning's H4 charts. I set the trading options accordingly: Only Short on USDCHF and Only Long on USDCAD.

There were four trades, all of them closed with profit, one of them with trailing stop, the others reached TP. (There were other trades on the account, I show only Synergy trades on the image.)

You are right, the stops usually were much bigger than the TP settings using the opposite PAC and it is dangerous.

Attached are my presets and a screenshot. The broker was TradeView, they use 5 decimals in price, so the slippage setting looks a bit strange for the first sight...

All in all, using predefined trend direction the EA worked well on the first day but we perhaps should find stop loss settings other than opposite PAC.

Regards,

Chrisstoff

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Great, glad it helped. I have heard two professional traders say to never go against the 4hr trend. Of course, if the 4hr if overbought or oversold and is about to turn with the daily trend then you should be ok. I have the CAD and the EURUSD attached, I have both set up to go short. Looking at the hourly chart with 20-30days of data helps see whats happening, stochastics also help, thx mike

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Hello all:

I have completed a few additions to the EA and Indicator:

1. There is now an option called "CheckClosedCandle". If this is true, it will only check for a trade at the beginning of each candle, and will look at whether the just-closed Heiken Ashi candle closed above/below the PAC. This was the original behaviour of the code, but was later changed so that it could enter a trade at any time during a candle. Now it is an option.

2. A Martingale MM option has been added, because I noticed in my forward testing that it loses often, but not many times in a row, so I thought it could be useful to "double-down" after a loss. For complete instructions, see the updated instruction document.

3. The alert messages have been updated to this format (example):

2007.12.10 14:00: Buy GBPUSD @ 2.0143

The time/date stamp is server time.

4. I have added support for the use of the advanced RangeFactor and Volatility indicators. Unfortunately, I cannot post the actual indicators, so please do not ask for them. But if you have them or do acquire them, the EA/Ind will now use their default settings to filter trades. If you do not have them, they will of course be ignored.

Happy Trading!
-Derk

Defrag your drive. And limit your candle's in your chart to 1000. Between the both of them, that should fix the problem.

Chrisstoff, what are you using for your initial stop, trailing stop if any, and TP for you trades ? thx mike

Nondisclosure, thanks for the suggestion. I have optimized thousands of times and never encountered this before.

If anyone has settings they would like tested for full automatic trading please upload.

Not much to report today, and not making money yet.

autumn

No problem. It worked for me (along w/ removing and re-installing many times).

Metatrader is a poorly written application. It doesn't clean itself up and nor does it release resources when it's done using them. I swear the ONLY reason it is so popular is because it is the only one, that I've found, that it's programming language for automated trading is so close to 'C' and everyone else is something else. If it weren't for that, I'd be using someone else, anyone else.

Okay, please test this .set file. Am using on GBPJPY, but you can test on GBPUSD and EURJPY (or whatever else) as well if you like.

Thanks,
-Derk

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