Indeed...

From all appearances, MetaQuotes doesn't give a rat's ass about any sort of customer service (i.e. responding to bug reports), whether it's us end users, or brokerages.

I have removed calls to IsConnected() from the OrderReliable library, hoping instead to depend on responding to actual errors if indeed it is not connected, because I am seeing this often.

Regarding the floating point comparisons, there is a function in stdlib.mq4, called CompareDoubles(), which does this:

if(NormalizeDouble(number1-number2,8)==0) return(true);

Following this example, I have created functions in MY standard library called dGTE(), dLTE() & dEQ(). Naturally, any "C" programmer has probably run into this "not equal by virtue of the Nth decimal place" phenomena, but it's just that when you fetch a bid or ask, you expect it to be of precision 4 (or 2), so comparing it with another precision-4 should not cause problems.

Using these new functions instead of direct compares seems to be working so far. MT4 is a not a robust product, and yes, one would hope they would be forever improving it. But their responses to all the people who complained about the "Recalculate" box disappearing after release 208, fairly proved their attitude.

As time passes, demand will provide for better solutions and the Metaquotes can either step up or die. Personally, the fact that the MT4 server is designed to be a market-making product, encouraging the broker to screw the user, makes me look forward to moving on to something a little more professional.

Guess I rant too.

Hi Derk,
My exit setting is UseOppOrSmall on, but my open positions are not closed when the HA candle turns opposite colour. Attached are my set file and a screenshot of one of the trades. I am not sure if there is a problem with the EA or its my settings are not right. Can you take a look? Thanks.

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Franco:

Unfortunately, the picture is too small for me to read. You can email it to me at derkwehler@gmail.com. And tell me what broker. Then maybe I can backtest that time and see what happened.

In the mean time, I will run some tests w/your .set file and see what I find. Your settings look fine (assuming you want them that way). For the time being, I have personally gone to disabling UseVolExpanding, but I assume you want that...

-Derk

EDIT: I have been testing it on mine (FXDD) and the option to close on opposite candle seems to work fine. However, I have made some changes, so I will be posting a new version soon.

Francoc30,

Can you post the indicators and templates for this chart?

Thanks
Jeremy

The Traders Dynamic Index indicator works fine. Just wonder if anyone knows how to change the code to make the level line displayed in different color? especially for level 50 as attached picture....

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Hi Xcooper,

Please click on one of the curves in the TDI, then right click on same, and open the indicator dialogue by clicking on the name. Select the Levels tab, and change the colours to something that you prefer. You can also change the thickness or switched to a different line style.

autumn

I am doing some backtesting with DS and will see if I can find some productive settings.

My feeling, however, is that DS is sprouting too many levers and dials and possibly tripping over the potholes in MQ4. Just for an exercise, why not consider the following simplification of Synergy:

Entries: Stochastic fast above/below slow, Momentum above/below 50 and rising/falling, and Alligator green above/below red and blue and rising/falling. PSAR below/above Alligator green.

Exits: PSAR crosses below/above Alligator green. and/or Stochastic fast crosses below/above slow. Momentum and Alligator green falling/rising.

Trailing stop = PSAR as long as it is moving with the trend.

The blue line on Momentum is a moving average that could also be used as a trigger, but maybe it is best to stay away from moving averages.

See illustration attached.

autumn

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Autumn:

This looks quite interesting, but really has nothing to do with Synergy (and that may be a good thing!).

I would just start from scratch were I to make this one... That is possible, but I am a bit backlogged at the moment to be able to take on something new.

I'll keep it in mind tho.

-Derk

PS: What is "DS"?

Point well taken, although please bear in mind that Synergy is based on identification of 4 market forces:

Price Action
Trend
Momentum
Market Strength.

It seems to me that it is not terribly important how one implements a system based on these forces, once the basic proposition is accepted. Malone chose to do it one way, and there could well be other ways. It may prove that the Malone manual system poses too many problems for implementation as an EA, since there are ambiguities in what constitutes an exit, and since signals for both exits and entries may be difficult to program efficiently with the indicators Malone has chosen. Perhaps the four forces can be better translated into an EA through other indicators, such as (for example):

Alligator
PSAR
Momentum (the indicator)
Stochastic Oscillator (plus Standard Deviation??)

It may also be desirable to substitute 2 moving averages on another oscillator (such as Force or RSI, or DeMarker) for the Alligator, as the latter may produce ambiguous signals due to wiggle on price bars.

Perhaps I shall try to mock something up in the old Phoenix template and then see where that goes.

autumn

Yes, another good point. When I said not Synergy, I meant it in only two ways:

1) Not the system called Synergy, created by Dean & CompassFx, since it uses specific inds, and this system diverges from all of them.

2) For automation, so dissimilar that I feel it would be best to start from scratch.

But especially if you end up testing it and find you feel it is highly promising, it would be worth automating in its own right.

Also, I have felt that Synergy is better at picking entries than exits, so if yours is better a getting out with a higher percentage of the maximum, that is a plus too.

-Derk