andi21
20 Apr 2017, 02:15

@Spotware:

Is there any Update on this feature? This is very important, because traders need to rely on the bots that they are running also after a restart.

Thanks in advance.

andi21
31 Mar 2017, 11:17

RE: RE:

trend_meanreversion said:

andi21 said:

Forgot something to ask:

do you have also an real account at icmarkets and if yes how long have been there with the real account and also are you satisfied with them?

Thanks in advance.

 

Been with them for more than a year now. No major issues but obviously they are like other brokers and will slow you down in terms of execution, login issues etc from time to time. But overall you to have choose the best among the beasts ! cTrader hasn't become that popular yet and most of the regulated brokers don't offer it and if they do , then terms aren't attractive ( spreads, commissions, products etc.. ). I have only 2 choices to be honest ICmarket or Pepperstone. Pepperstone charges much more in terms of commissions and IC is a little better in spreads + commissions.

 

 

Thanks for your answer. I asked, because i am currently choosing between FxPro and IC Markets (running a lot of optimization runs before demo forward testing).

I think i will give both a try running two demo accounts in parallel when i am ready to run forward testing and then i see which of them performs better. Of course, afterwards when i am going live it could be getting different results (more worse), but i hope it does not. Let's see and try :).

But overall you to have choose the best among the beasts

You are absolutely right - that is why i asked ;). 

andi21
31 Mar 2017, 10:26

Forgot something to ask:

do you have also an real account at icmarkets and if yes how long have been there with the real account and also are you satisfied with them?

Thanks in advance.

andi21
31 Mar 2017, 10:23

That looks really really good! Good luck!

andi21
23 Mar 2017, 18:02

I have another short question:

How have you optimized your bot - have you done optimization with the complete period of 3 years and how long did your runs take?

andi21
23 Mar 2017, 17:40

Perhaps one run (with the 0 trades) thinks it got Positions and so does not open new trade. But the static Positions-Property probably falsely has Positions from other runs - could that be possible (because multithreaded)?

andi21
23 Mar 2017, 17:36

On more thing:

the run in optimization with 0 trades IS actually running (so it does something), because i got output on OnTick.

andi21
23 Mar 2017, 17:32

I got new info to this topic:

now i also got results in optimization with 0 trades. And it is the same behaviour like i described:

use parameters from optimization with 0 trades in backtesting -> backtesting GOT trades and is running fine.

So strangely same parameters generates 0 trades in opmtization and 900 trades in backtesting (all on the same machine).

Has anybody an idea, perhaps it could be a bug?

andi21
23 Mar 2017, 13:01

RE: RE:

trend_meanreversion said:

andi21 said:

Hello trend_meanreversion,

i am watching the results of your bot in myfxbook a time long.

The performance in my opinion is great!

I am working on a bot since several months (fulltime) incl. many many days of optimization ("sadly" i got many parameters).

I got quite good results in year 2016 (i optimized for that).

And yesterday i thought i am ready to go for forward testing and i runned 2014-2016. But strangely the year 2014 and 2015 performed not good (only even). So i thought i am getting crazy because the finish is getting further away...

I wanted to ask you if you can tell us what your bot is doing to get such great results (entry, sl, tp, exit etc.)? I mean it would be awesome if you could even share the sourcecode, but we cannot expect that because you did a lot of effort to get your bot like this.

Nevertheless no matter if you could provide some details to us or not (like i said i would understand that completely if not) good luck for your live going next month (risky martingale is running :) - but i did not see much risk in the results :) )!

Best Regards

Andi21

Hi Andi21,

First of all thanks for your words of appreciation ..it really helps and keeps me motivated !

My advice to you regarding martingale systems ( without revealing any secret sauce :P )

1) Put onus on entry levels..search for over-strech in market ( probably use multi time frames to confirm ) 

2) Grid spacing..try to be innovative here :) ..fixed , scaled version, ATR based etc etc.. 

3) Try different martingale position sizing ( there are hunderds.. linear, exponetial inreasing/decreasing, multiplier, doubling etc etc )

4) Try different TP schemes ( usually Martingale systems don't have SLs like mine and that's why i call it risky )..

I would suggest you to go through all of my posts/algo/comments which i have written in cTDN forums and i am sure you will be able to find something that will help you in some way or other.

I am already running live my Risky Martingale [ but usually quite conservative so lock in quite early ..like this week i locked in only 100$ even though risky martingale in demo is up 550$ :( ] 

 

Most important thing for martingale systems is to understand associated risk which is 100% DD !! You can't avoid that , you can just delay it ! So make most of it till the time it hasn't seen that DD ,and that's where my stable version will help me. It has quite low probability of ruin ( but of-course can blow my account ). It has survived 3 years of tick data across multiple currency pairs which give me 'faith' in it . 

 

Hope it helps and all the best  !!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for the tips! I will look after it to try to improve my bot more and more.

Thanks and good luck!

Best Regards,

Andi21

andi21
23 Mar 2017, 01:38

Hello trend_meanreversion,

i am watching the results of your bot in myfxbook a time long.

The performance in my opinion is great!

I am working on a bot since several months (fulltime) incl. many many days of optimization ("sadly" i got many parameters).

I got quite good results in year 2016 (i optimized for that).

And yesterday i thought i am ready to go for forward testing and i runned 2014-2016. But strangely the year 2014 and 2015 performed not good (only even). So i thought i am getting crazy because the finish is getting further away...

I wanted to ask you if you can tell us what your bot is doing to get such great results (entry, sl, tp, exit etc.)? I mean it would be awesome if you could even share the sourcecode, but we cannot expect that because you did a lot of effort to get your bot like this.

Nevertheless no matter if you could provide some details to us or not (like i said i would understand that completely if not) good luck for your live going next month (risky martingale is running :) - but i did not see much risk in the results :) )!

Best Regards

Andi21

andi21
17 Feb 2017, 15:44 ( Updated at: 23 Jan 2024, 13:15 )

andi21
17 Jan 2017, 14:55

Hello f.mogyi,

i think your variable bAuth OR bWeekend is a nullable bool ( bool? ), but it does not have a value. So either you check that with bAuth.HasValue / bWeekend.HasValue before your access your variables or you change your logic in code (no nullables etc.).

Best Regards,

Andi21

andi21
16 Jan 2017, 11:20

Thanks for your answer Team Spotware.

Meanwhile i have further investigated this problem and found out the source:

- the problem does only occur with timeframes, that opens on one day and closes on the other day, so for example hour, m15 etc. are fine, but the problem occurs with hour12, daily etc.

- the thing is the bars get cut into two pieces, so an example:

• Backtesting starts at 10.12.2016
• Hour12-Bar at last index from PAST data opens at 09.12.2016 22:00:00 and closes at the beginning of Backtesting start so at 09.12.2016 23:59:59, so the Hour12-Bar only contains data of these two hours
• On the first Tick on Backtesting start, so on 10.12.2016 00:00:00, the new data will NOT continue to fill the already started but not finished Hour12-bar from the PAST Data, it will falsely open a new Hour12-Bar which then only will contain the left 10 hours

So i think the previous bar from PAST data should be continued instead of that a new bar is opened.

andi21
12 Jan 2017, 18:17

RE:

ColossusFX said:

Check the events tab, this is normally because a trade is still open

Thanks for your answer ColossusFx.

That is correct - Trade 7 is still open, but there is always one more Trade which is in this example the 8th one.

So for 7th Trade that is clear now, but why is always one more "ghost"-Trade visible in equity chart? Perhaps that only occurs if there is at least one trade still opened left.

That is not an important problem, but it is just curious.

Nevertheless thanks for your answer.

andi21
28 Dec 2016, 20:30

Dear Spotware,

can you give us an answer to this bug, please?

I have also already contacted you via feedback@spotware.com.

Best Regards,

Andi21

andi21
28 Dec 2016, 19:35

andi21
21 Dec 2016, 23:21

andi21
21 Dec 2016, 23:05

RE: RE:

pipsniper123 said:

andi21 said:

Hello pipsniper123, the solution is the correct method defintion: public override void OnBar() { } // notice the override keyword Best Regards, Andi21

Hi Andi, thanks for your response.

But when I try this, I get the error: Error CS0115: 'cAlgo.NewIndicator.OnBar()': no suitable method found to override.

When exactly are you allowed to use override? I got this message a lot of times before when I tried implementing override somewhere. 

 

Kind regards

Sorry, my mistake - the OnBar Method is only available in a Robot. In an indicator there is only the Calculate Method, which is called for each historic bar starting from the beginning of the series up to the current bar and then on each incoming tick.

I haven't used an indicator for just on any new bar, but perhaps you can use a variable MyRememberedLastOpenIndex etc. and save the last .Open.Count and if MyRememberedLastOpenIndex != Open.Count, then it is a new bar and remember the new open Count. That is just a simple thought about this and could be a solution.

Override is a keyword which is used, when you derive from a class and this class has abstract or virtual methods which can be overidden.

andi21
21 Dec 2016, 18:45

andi21
21 Dec 2016, 10:28

RE:

yukitaga said:

Look ... I've been around the block. I've traded currencies for longer than many readers here have been alive.

But opening a Ctrader account has to be one of the most fucked-up sequences I've ever seen.

If you can't arrange it so that, when I open the app I'm logged on and ready to go, I don't need you.

Get that?

Hello yukitaga,

i ran into the same situation. The solution is simple:

before you click the Login-Button in CTrader you have to check the "Save password"-checkbox. The next time you open the app you will be automatically logged in and you are ready to go.

Best Regards,

Andi21