Trade Timing Issues

[djlaserman]

This is some sort of coding issue / optimization or lack of that on the backend of fxd. It just can't time trades well. This leads to huge accumulative losses.

See how much of the beginning of the bar is missed!

This following clip is from another ea creator application. See how exact it times the beginning of the bar to get maximum profit if trade goes in favor. Note that I'm not using fixed TPs or SLs. Everything in my EAs is dynamic, such as is the market.

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If I have free time to kill, I will attempt to debug the actual mql4 code produced to find out why there is this huge delay getting things done... or perhaps one of you knows how to get a perfect (new bar open trade placed like the later using fxd)?

[TipsyWisdom]

@djlaserman said in Trade Timing Issues:

This is some sort of coding issue / optimization or lack of that on the backend of fxd. It just can't time trades well. This leads to huge accumulative losses.

See how much of the beginning of the bar is missed!

This following clip is from another ea creator application. See how exact it times the beginning of the bar to get maximum profit if trade goes in favor. Note that I'm not using fixed TPs or SLs. Everything in my EAs is dynamic, such as is the market.

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If I have free time to kill, I will attempt to debug the actual mql4 code produced to find out why there is this huge delay getting things done... or perhaps one of you knows how to get a perfect (new bar open trade placed like the later using fxd)?

in short, the problem is most likely with your logic. I precisely test things in my EA's so I understand every detail. There are not delays in mine as you experience.

[djlaserman]

Its failing to time trades correctly with the minimum logic states required to buy or sell on a new bar!
Its set on every tick to place a buy and sell trade, but on testing it just aptly places trades in the middle of the bars, more noticeably bullish bars than bearish bars and it gets worse if id place any calculations before finally saying on a new bar, buy or sell. That would place the trades right above the bars on the tips of the highs, which is ridiculous.

I do create ea programs with other applications using exactly the same logic and ALL the trades are placed correctly at the beginning of the new bars.

Once the fxd site starts working again I’ll show you the 5 blocks its chocking on

[djlaserman]

@tipsywisdom analyze this output vs the ea and determine if you think it's timing the trades correctly.

if you look at all the buy trades, they are well in the middle of the bars and never if ever at the beginning of the bars. therefore, if you were to take profits here you'd be missing the points/pips left behind at the bottom before the trades are placed vs an ea which would correctly place the trades at the very beginning so that there is maximum take profits, especially for scalping expert advisors which take profits as little as $0.10 sometimes.

EA setup

Results (just test with $100000 to see the timing issue before it runs out of cash. I purposely avoided any more LOGIC to show that it's delaying even with minimum basic blocks).

Look at where all those buy trades are placed... it gets worse with a complete ea with all the moving average checks and other embedded logic. You'd see the trades planted in the air well above the bars and actually outside the bar components (low, high, open, close).

I know we all love fxd, but let's admit where there's problems.

[TipsyWisdom]

@djlaserman

lol...you told the EA, "once per bar."

Whats the issue?

[TipsyWisdom]

The trade

[TipsyWisdom]

The Logic.

[TipsyWisdom]

Now its your turn, you analyze the LOGIC and the output and hopefully you can tell me what you're doing wrong.

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[l'andorrà]

@djlaserman Did you notice that the 'missed bar' distance in that pic is exactly the spread distance? Did you consider that?

[TipsyWisdom]

@l-andorrà Im not certain its a spread issue. Backtest usually doesn't show spread or slippage.

[l'andorrà]

@tipsywisdom True but that pic is apparently a demo screenshot, not a backtest. Just a guess.

[TipsyWisdom]

@l-andorrà if hes running an incomplete EA on demo...