Rsmereka Trading Journal - Page 28 - Pip Cop

**pipdetector** · 2009-10-24, 03:10 AM

BTW, was this 3.28 lot EUR/USD demo trade made by EB-Turbo? Seems like taking a lot of risk to me... The other positions were much lower.

**rsmereka** · 2009-10-24, 11:50 AM

I agree,

Robo/GT overall is the best EA I have used. It has done an amazing job on my live account so far

That 3.28 lot EURUSD trade on my demo account was made by MegaDroid, not EB-Turbo. EB-Turbo is currently trading around 0.21-0.24 lots and is easy to identify it's trades because it always opens at least three of them almost at the same time.

Rick

**rsmereka** · 2009-10-30, 07:59 PM

A good, but mixed week with my live account. Week results:

Account performance, all EA's
total trades: 8
won: 8
lost: 0
net profit: $189.8
daily profit: $37.96
roi: 1.4%
pips: 179.9
Performance of EA Robominer AUDNZD
total trades: 3
won: 3
lost: 0
net profit: $88.02
daily profit: $17.60
roi: 0.64%
pips: 120.0
Performance of EA Robominer EURCHF
total trades: 1
won: 1
lost: 0
net profit: $39.58
daily profit: $7.92
roi: 0.29%
pips: 40.0
Performance of EA Robominer (both pairs)
total trades: 4
won: 4
lost: 0
net profit: $127.6
daily profit: $25.52
roi: 0.93%
pips: 160.0
Performance of EA MegaDroid
total trades: 4
won: 4
lost: 0
net profit: $62.2
daily profit: $12.44
roi: 0.47%
pips: 19.9

It was a really good week with my demo account. MegaDroid (very high risk) had three big wins and EB-Turbo continues to crank out the pips without any losses. Week results:

Account performance, all EA's
total trades: 25
won: 25
lost: 0
net profit: $1444.25
daily profit: $288.85
roi: 9.83%
pips: 368.4
Performance of EA Robominer AUDNZD
total trades: 1
won: 1
lost: 0
net profit: $28.86
daily profit: $5.77
roi: 0.19%
pips: 40.0
Performance of EA Robominer EURCHF
total trades: 2
won: 2
lost: 0
net profit: $79.32
daily profit: 15.86
roi: 0.56%
pips: 80.0
Performance of EA Robo,iner (both pairs)
total trades: 3
won: 3
lost: 0
net profit: $108.18
daily profit: $21.64
roi: 0.75%
pips: 120.0
Performance of EA EB-Turbo normal strategy
total trades: 6
won: 6
lost: 0
net profit: $249.0
daily profit: $49.80
roi: 1.62%
pips: 105.0
Performance of EA EB-Turbo turbo strategy
total trades: 12
won: 12
lost: 0
net profit: $285.0
daily profit: $57.00
roi: 1.92%
pips: 120.0
Performance of EA EB-Turbo both strategies
total trades: 18
won: 18
lost: 0
net profit: $534.0
daily profit: $106.80
roi: 3.54%
pips: 225.0
Performance of EA MegaDroid
total trades: 4
won: 4
lost: 0
net profit: $802.07
daily profit: $160.41
roi: 5.54%
pips: 23.4

Rick

**rsmereka** · 2009-10-30, 08:26 PM

It was a good month with my live account. Robominer with both pair produced over 7.5% ROI but I am really paying for it now with the current AUDNZD DD. Month results:

Account performance, all EA's
total trades: 38
won: 37
lost: 1
net profit: $964.88
daily profit: $48.24
roi: 8.24%
pips: 1201.8
Performance of EA Robominer AUDNZD
total trades: 28
won: 28
lost: 0
net profit: $798.88
daily profit: $39.94
roi: 6.97%
pips: 1093.4
Performance of EA Robominer EURCHF
total trades: 2
won: 2
lost: 0
net profit: $79.46
daily profit: $15.89
roi: 0.59%
pips: 80.0
Performance of EA Robominer (both pairs)
total trades: 30
won: 30
lost: 0
net profit: $878.34
daily profit: $43.92
roi: 7.56%
pips: 1173.4
Performance of EA MegaDroid
total trades: 8
won: 7
lost: 1
net profit: $86.54
daily profit: $4.33
roi: 0.68%
pips: 28.4

It has been a wild ride with my demo account. My current demo account has only been active since October 15, so the following numbers are based on only two weeks. Daily profit values are divided by 11 trading days:

Account performance, all EA's
total trades: 61
won: 60
lost: 1
net profit: $2511.51
daily profit: $228.32
roi: 17.72%
pips: 988.9
Performance of EA Robominer AUDNZD
total trades: 10
won: 10
lost: 0
net profit: $298.49
daily profit: $27.14
roi: 2.2%
pips: 400.0
Performance of EA Robominer EURCHF
total trades: 3
won: 2
lost: 1
net profit: $7.45
daily profit: $0.68
roi: 0.009%
pips: 7.2
Performance of EA Robominer (both pairs)
total trades: 13
won: 12
lost: 1
net profit: $305.94
daily profit: $27.81
roi: 2.21%
pips: 407.2
Performance of EA FXNitro Fractal Edition
total trades: 5
won: 5
lost: 0
net profit: $59.32
daily profit: $5.39
roi: 0.45%
pips: 10.1
Performance of EA EB-Turbo (normal strategy)
total trades: 20
won: 20
lost: 0
net profit: $819.88
daily profit: $74.53
roi: 5.81%
pips: 365.0
Performance of EA EB-Turbo (turbo strategy)
total trades: 18
won: 18
lost: 0
net profit: $420.0
daily profit: $38.18
roi: 2.94%
pips: 180.0
Performance of EA EB-Turbo (both strategies)
total trades: 38
won: 38
lost: 0
net profit: $1239.88
daily profit: $112.72
roi: 8.75%
pips: 545.0
Performance of EA MegaDroid
total trades: 5
won: 5
lost: 0
net profit: $906.37
daily profit: $82.40
roi: 6.31%
pips: 26.6

Rick

**rsmereka** · 2009-11-02, 08:50 AM

Changes to my live account:

1. I have added EB-Turbo with very small risk (0.5%). I am staying with the EURUSD pair only with this EA.

2. I have decreased the risk on Megadroid to 2% from 2.5%.

Changes to my demo account:

1. I have increased the risk on EB-Turbo to 2% from 1.75%.

EB-Turbo EURUSD on a demo account has done very well. Lets see how well it does on a live account. If this continues to do well, I will gradually increase the risk.

Rick

**pipdetector** · 2009-11-02, 09:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rsmereka

Changes to my live account:

1. I have added EB-Turbo with very small risk (0.5%). I am staying with the EURUSD pair only with this EA.

2. I have decreased the risk on Megadroid to 2% from 2.5%.

I will still wait for the EB-Turbo to prove itself.

I am surprised to see that you are decreasing MD risk to 0.02, it seems really conservative to me (unless you really mean 0.2 from 0.25 then I am shocked by your previous risk willingness :-) )

**rsmereka** · 2009-11-02, 10:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pipdetector

I will still wait for the EB-Turbo to prove itself.

I am surprised to see that you are decreasing MD risk to 0.02, it seems really conservative to me (unless you really mean 0.2 from 0.25 then I am shocked by your previous risk willingness :-) )

Good one

You read it right, that's 2% (0.02). My decrease of Megadroid's risk is part of a plan to gradually phase out MegaDroid and gradually phase in EB-Turbo. I won't put both of them at the proper, production risk on my live account with Robominer at the same time. So far from what I have seen, EB-Turbo is similar to MegaDroid but it's way more accurate and trades much more often.

I am planning to make risk changes, if all goes well, in two week increments. That will give me a full three months to evaluate EB-Turbo on a live account before I throttle it up (ramming speed). If my plan succeeds, I can put MegaDroid to rest.

Rick

**rsmereka** · 2009-11-03, 09:30 AM

Hey pipdetector,

A follow-up to my previous post.

Last night was a really good example of the accuracy of MegaDroid verses EB-Turbo. All trade times are EDT (GMT-4).

Here is the MegaDroid trade:

Code:

select datetime(opendatime, 'localtime') as open, datetime(closedatime, 'localtime') as close, openprice, closeprice, lot, pips(ticket) as pips, pl, rollover , pl + rollover  as tot from closedtrade where magic like '30%' and open >= '2009-11-02 00:00:00'
database result:
row(1):Array ( [open] => 2009-11-02 17:02:00 [close] => 2009-11-03 02:03:00 [openprice] => 1.4774 [closeprice] => 1.47739 [lot] => 0.29 [pips] => 0.1 [pl] => 0.29 [rollover] => -0.12 [tot] => 0.17 )

This was a sell order that was in play 9 hours and one minute with a very lackluster win.

Here are the EB-Turbo trades:

Code:

select datetime(opendatime, 'localtime') as open, datetime(closedatime, 'localtime') as close, openprice, closeprice, lot, pips(ticket) as pips, pl, rollover , pl + rollover  as tot from closedtrade where magic like '8%' and open >= '2009-11-02 00:00:00'
database result:
row(1):Array ( [open] => 2009-11-02 21:31:00 [close] => 2009-11-02 22:36:00 [openprice] => 1.47934 [closeprice] => 1.47834 [lot] => 0.1 [pips] => 10.0 [pl] => 10.0 [rollover] => 0.0 [tot] => 10.0 ) 
row(2):Array ( [open] => 2009-11-02 21:31:00 [close] => 2009-11-02 22:31:00 [openprice] => 1.47936 [closeprice] => 1.47836 [lot] => 0.1 [pips] => 10.0 [pl] => 10.0 [rollover] => 0.0 [tot] => 10.0 ) 
row(3):Array ( [open] => 2009-11-02 21:31:00 [close] => 2009-11-02 22:31:00 [openprice] => 1.47935 [closeprice] => 1.47835 [lot] => 0.1 [pips] => 10.0 [pl] => 10.0 [rollover] => 0.0 [tot] => 10.0 ) 
row(4):Array ( [open] => 2009-11-02 23:24:00 [close] => 2009-11-03 02:03:00 [openprice] => 1.47808 [closeprice] => 1.47708 [lot] => 0.1 [pips] => 10.0 [pl] => 10.0 [rollover] => 0.0 [tot] => 10.0 ) 
row(5):Array ( [open] => 2009-11-02 23:24:00 [close] => 2009-11-03 02:03:00 [openprice] => 1.47804 [closeprice] => 1.47704 [lot] => 0.1 [pips] => 10.0 [pl] => 10.0 [rollover] => 0.0 [tot] => 10.0 ) 
row(6):Array ( [open] => 2009-11-02 23:24:00 [close] => 2009-11-03 02:03:00 [openprice] => 1.47813 [closeprice] => 1.47713 [lot] => 0.1 [pips] => 10.0 [pl] => 10.0 [rollover] => 0.0 [tot] => 10.0 )

EB-Turbo's trades where also sell orders, so both EA's were playing the same side.

EB-Turbo started four and a half hours later than MegaDroid. As a result, the opening price was a lot higher when EB-Turbo entered (the pair moved higher after MegaDroid entered the trade).

Actually EB-Turbo entered two groups of three trades. The first group closed in one hour and five minutes. The second group started almost two hours after the close of the first group. The second group trade lasted about two and a half hours. All EB-Turbo trades closed at exactly 10 pip gain each.

About the only complaint about EB-Turbo that I have at this point

is that it always opens at least three trades so I end up paying more in terms of the spread

.

Rick

**pipdetector** · 2009-11-03, 10:11 AM

Indeed MD did not score well yesterday. It broke even pipwise in my case, but the whole trade was still negative as I pay commission

for each trade (so actually it was 1 pip in the red).

EB-Turbo sounds interesting (more and more). I wonder what is the reason for triggering the trades in threes.

**rsmereka** · 2009-11-03, 12:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pipdetector

Indeed MD did not score well yesterday. It broke even pipwise in my case, but the whole trade was still negative as I pay commission

for each trade (so actually it was 1 pip in the red).

EB-Turbo sounds interesting (more and more). I wonder what is the reason for triggering the trades in threes.

So how does the commission

that you pay compare to the spread

that I pay? If you pay commission

, you are not subject to rollover

fees...right? What broker

are you using again?

EB-Turbo opens at least three trades at nearly the same time. I have seen it open five (with the 'aggressive' turned off) within a couple of minutes. I have also seen it open 10 trades with 'aggressive' turned on. That is what killed my last demo account. Right after I bought EB-Turbo. In put it on all four pairs that it trades with the aggressive switch on and pow, EB opened 10 EURJPY trades that lost over $600 each.

I am not positive about the reason that multiple trades are open but it may have something to do with the difference in the opening price.

EB-Turbo goes after either 10 pips (most of the time) or 25 pips. I am also not sure how it determines which of the two targets it is going after. The only way to tell before the trade is closed is to look at the open trade TP

. The TP

and SL

are not hidden from the broker

either.

Rick