Caliber FX Pro

[rsmereka]

This review is about the Caliber FX Pro EA which I got from a friend. My friend has no access to a VPS at the moment and wants me to test this EA in a stable, responsive environment.

I have no affiliation with anyone in conjunction with this review.

I started trading this EA on a demo account on April 18, 2010. The Caliber FX Pro EA trades the three pairs: EURUSD, GBPUSD and USDJPY on H1 charts. The demo account is with Alpari UK at 500:1 leverage .

This EA has many settings. I have attached the set files I am using which come with the EA package. I have left the risk setting at the recommended 2.0 and only changed the EA magic number.

This EA is interesting in that it's accuracy is only somewhere around 37-42%. It's risk/reward is very good at 90-190 TP and 20-50 SL .

Here is a forward test on a demo account running since Feb 23, 2010

Rick

[GoodBoy]

I am back testing it and it seems to win 50-60% of trades on EUR/USD (only pair i tested) and yet remain in profitable. NOW Thats what i call good risk reward money mgmt! My SL was 37 and TP 76. Risk 2 (which can be increased if one wants to increase lot size)

One Issue , some of the losses can be minimized if one manually closes those positions that fail to hit TP (ie: TP was 76 pips and position went up to 71 pips and reverse when it closed, it closed at +20 pips. So thats 50 pips! that one could have captured, if one manually closed upon seeing market reversing). I figure if one baby sits using this EA, one can be much more profitable.


IMPORTANT NOTE: this EA works Money MGMT only works best w/ brokers that offer nano lots as well, ie: opening positions 1.33 micro lot broker will only allow 1.30 (so money mgmt will not be fuly utilized! which may result in difference in profit/losses.
because EA is designed to reduce lot size trading upon facing losses, which is SMART!

1.3 version seems to open multiple trades (taking huge DD)
3.3 version has fixed that to some degree.

Overall EA seems very good, could be improved upon by creator.



Just my 2 cents.

[rsmereka]

Originally Posted by GoodBoy

I am back testing it and it seems to win 50-60% of trades on EUR/USD (only pair i tested) and yet remain in profitable. NOW Thats what i call good risk reward money mgmt! My SL was 37 and TP 76. Risk 2 (which can be increased if one wants to increase lot size)

One Issue , some of the losses can be minimized if one manually closes those positions that fail to hit TP (ie: TP was 76 pips and position went up to 71 pips and reverse when it closed, it closed at +20 pips. So thats 50 pips! that one could have captured, if one manually closed upon seeing market reversing). I figure if one baby sits using this EA, one can be much more profitable.


IMPORTANT NOTE: this EA works Money MGMT only works best w/ brokers that offer nano lots as well, ie: opening positions 1.33 micro lot broker will only allow 1.30 (so money mgmt will not be fuly utilized! which may result in difference in profit/losses.
because EA is designed to reduce lot size trading upon facing losses, which is SMART!

1.3 version seems to open multiple trades (taking huge DD)
3.3 version has fixed that to some degree.

Overall EA seems very good, could be improved upon by creator.



Just my 2 cents.

Hi GoodBoy and Welcome,

Good points IMHO (for the most part).

What attracted me originally to this EA was it's risk/reward. The fact that it did not need to be super-accurate because of this ratio.

Unfortunately, like you say, it needs improvements. It still causes a large DD channel in the equity. I dumped it (and 4XProject did too about a week later) because of this. It's loosing streaks are deadly.

Rick

[misterocupo]

hi rsmereka
I am antonio, nice to meet you.
are you testing this ea? what do you mean about calibre FX Pro, what results did you get?
thank so much your worked on this web site

[rsmereka]

Originally Posted by misterocupo

hi rsmereka
I am antonio, nice to meet you.
are you testing this ea? what do you mean about calibre FX Pro, what results did you get?
thank so much your worked on this web site

Hi Antonio,

As per my previous post, I stopped using Calibre FX Pro. It's swings were too wild.

Rick