Steve Hopwood's new AshFX V2 auto-trading robot

aharon.amir · #81 (**permalink**) 26-10-2009, 07:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by SteveHopwood

Ignore them. They are strategy tester thingies that are nowt to do with the robot.

Still,
I can't test your robot, I am getting only errors and no trades are done.
can u show me a configuration that work's with any pair?

aharon.amir · #82 (**permalink**) 26-10-2009, 07:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by SteveHopwood

Ignore them. They are strategy tester thingies that are nowt to do with the robot.

Still,
I can't test your robot, I am getting only errors and no trades are done.
can u show me a configuration that work's with any pair?

aharon.amir · #83 (**permalink**) 26-10-2009, 09:22

sorry,
Form resend error due to Internet connection failure.

SteveHopwood · #84 (**permalink**) 27-10-2009, 12:46

* Fixed a few bugs.
* Added ECN thingy - relevant input is CriminalIsECN. Set to 'false' if yours is not a 2-stage crim.
* Altered the screen update code so it only changes once a minute instead of every tick. This dramatically reduces the processor power eaten up by the robot.

vff · #85 (**permalink**) 27-10-2009, 14:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by SteveHopwood

* Fixed a few bugs.
* Added ECN thingy - relevant input is CriminalIsECN. Set to 'false' if yours is not a 2-stage crim.
* Altered the screen update code so it only changes once a minute instead of every tick. This dramatically reduces the processor power eaten up by the robot.

Hello Steve and thanks for the new update.One question, in post #78, you said you added code for slippage? Is this hard coded, or is an input you can configure? I don't see a parameter for it?
Thanks again and have a nice day!

Decided to add to this post instead of posting another.I see a possible problem in using the longer time frames such as 4hr or especially on the daily.
If using the daily tf and you have let's say five pending trades ready to fire off at new candle.When new day starts, there is a possiblility you will get the trade did not happen due to busy context.I know I have the wording wrong, but I think this happens when you are trying to send more than one trade request at a time.
This just happened to me while watching the ea.One trade took place, the other did not.
Wonder if there is a way to pause between sending trade requests so that not all are sent at the same time?
Have a nice day!
Vince

SquareRoot · #86 (**permalink**) 27-10-2009, 18:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by SteveHopwood

* Fixed a few bugs.
* Added ECN thingy - relevant input is CriminalIsECN. Set to 'false' if yours is not a 2-stage crim.
* Altered the screen update code so it only changes once a minute instead of every tick. This dramatically reduces the processor power eaten up by the robot.

Why update every minute? Why not every hour or end of day?

SteveHopwood · #87 (**permalink**) 29-10-2009, 09:28

Over at FF, we found a few bugs. These are squished in the latest version. There is also a lot of code added to show why impending trades have been cancelled.

Chills · #88 (**permalink**) 29-10-2009, 11:45

Hi Steve,

I don't know what I am doing wrong but the robot is not taking any trades at all.
As I have not used something like this before I am not sure how it works. I wondered if it was because it needed to be on 24/7 so the past couple of days I have done this but there are still no trades even though there seems to be a couple on my FXDD demo eg gbpjpy.

I ticked 'allow live trading' on the common tab. What else could I be missing?

I haven't downloaded your latest as if I can't get it working what is the point?!

Any suggestions?

Thanks heaps.

SteveHopwood · #89 (**permalink**) 29-10-2009, 11:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chills

Hi Steve,

I don't know what I am doing wrong but the robot is not taking any trades at all.
As I have not used something like this before I am not sure how it works. I wondered if it was because it needed to be on 24/7 so the past couple of days I have done this but there are still no trades even though there seems to be a couple on my FXDD demo eg gbpjpy.

I ticked 'allow live trading' on the common tab. What else could I be missing?

I haven't downloaded your latest as if I can't get it working what is the point?!

Any suggestions?

Thanks heaps.

Yep. Read the documentation, especially the stuff about candle wick lengths; you will probably find the answers you need.

I leave the robot on 24/5 but it probably isn't necessary unless it is managing trades as well as looking for them. If you do not require it to do any stop-loss managing of open trades, then you can probably leave it on for about an hour either side of the start of the new candle. Leaving it running has little impact on your computer's processor use.

'Tis up to you whether you download the latest version or not. The previous one threw up a couple of bugs, so you are currently running a slightly faulty one. The bugs are not serious, but they will drive you nuts if they surface.

vff · #90 (**permalink**) 29-10-2009, 14:18

Hello Steve and thank you for the new update.I was wondering if you saw my post #85 reguarding trade context is busy message? When you have so many possible pending orders and if they all trigger on next candle, this causes the server to send busy context message therefore, there will be some trades that should trigger will not trigger.
Also which is the main forum to post for the ea? This one or on FF?
Thanks again for the new update.
Vince