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Originally Posted by garr8107  James,
In this case it looks like Evolution lucked out. Today EURUSD retraced dramatically starting about 20:00 GMT which made good all those sell orders that were hanging out there. That won't always happen. |
I totally agree. An EA which operates on luck isn't really the best strategy, in my opinion.
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Originally Posted by garr8107 Your idea about the stats mouse-over is better than I had imagined. I'd say you must have done this before. |
Thanks. I have a few other features planned as well that will make your spreadsheet obsolete.
While I've not done Forex to this extent, I'm a web developer by trade and the last site I built became the worlds largest for it's specific topic, so I learned a trick or two.
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Originally Posted by 1ka Firstly, if I do a backtest starting from the 10th Nov. Then I get a bit of activity but nothing much. If I start it on the 11th, then there is consistent activity all the time. It does appear that this EA's behaviour is determined by the conditions at the point you start it. It could be that if you start it at the 'wrong' time, it won't do anything. In my forward test this EA has done nothing. |
I'm no expert, but I have seen the same behavior with several other EAs as well. Start it one day and it tanks almost immediately. Start it 1 day before or 1 day after and it is a winner. I am sure someone else has a better explanation for this phenomenon.
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Originally Posted by garr8107 Secondly, I see many 4051 errors where it appears to be closing an invalid order. Since it does close many orders at a loss, it makes me wonder if these are errors or part of the algorithm. There's also an Order 131 error, incorrect volume right at the start. |
I
think that may be caused by a bad data feed and/or bad historical data?
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Originally Posted by garr8107 I'm assuming that I've got the latest version, it's the one off his website, but without any version number in the code, then I'm not sure... |
Good point - authors should include version numbers in their code, I know I do.