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Originally Posted by Frank Forex
Daraknor,
I’m not sure if I am putting this in the right spot I am new to forums. Thank your for your input. I am glade to see you have fixed the trailing stop issue and Mode 3 issues. I have to revise my comments on the live results I have on the 5.6.03 version. I have a friend running the same version on 4 different demo accounts 1 mini and 3 standards in mode 1. The only difference between the 4 accounts max risk mode. Each one is trading different! All are with Interbank. I am trying to compare apples to apples. The thing that really throws me off is that on my real account interbank fx is making trades that are unlike the demo trades. Would you please link me or tell me what post to download the right phoenix from I’m not sure if I should be testing 5.7.0a, 5.7.0 or what.
I wonder if you or anyone else in this forum has a live real money report that shows any positive gains. I have gone through this thread and if I am not mistaken it looks like 90% are losses and the rest have wins.
P.S. I would like to find out more about the PhoenixFund as soon as I can prove to myself that this is going to make money and not kill the account. The only way I can see how this works is with a live real money account.
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Frank, thank you for your honest and fair comments. People are welcome to post anywhere, but we try to avoid asking and answering the same 10 questions 100 times.
If you want to put money on an account, I'd recommend 5.7.0 strongly unless you want to use trailing stops. If you want the delayed trailing stops, I recommend the version Pcontour posted based on 5.7.2 (he altered the name slightly in his post, which I heartily condone).
I believe the true test of any EA is real money trading. I would strongly recommend against IBFX, and most threads on most forums will tell you why. I have posted regarding IBFX in those threads, with my research done on the financial arrangements. We have also done testing that consistently shows FXDD to perform better on demo accounts than IBFX on demo.
Even with only minor changes, trades are different among brokers, and sometimes on the same broker by multiple people. My first goal was to make the EA perform more reliably when the broker is the same, signal is the same, start time is the same. I believe we did that, because we are seeing many reports of people in this thread having the exact same trades. Synchronized trading doesn't always occur even with the same broker and a hands off approach but it occurs much more often now. We use ConsecSignals in order to keep the accounts in synchronization. It also avoids trading an errant Buy or Sell signal that is sandwiched by 5 or 10 signals going the opposite direction. Errant signals are something of an issue, but the root causes won't be addressed until Phoenix6 has some enhancements (magnitude & sign instead of just sign of Fast-Slow, etc).
Our main development goal for the past 2 months has been stability and learning how to optimize Phoenix. I am inclined to agree with Hendrick, optimization can't be taught as a rote process. Along the way we have collectively learned how to optimize, and this pause in development (stable instead of feature cram) has given us time to reflect on what areas of Phoenix would benefit most from development.