Posts made by gooseman

If youre coding a strategy using fxdreema

please please please remove the idea from your head of trying to "filter" news. At the time of this post, weve all seen this chart:

this is the s&p daily. reflect on the current macro politics...do you REALLY think the markets should be making all time highs? lol youre lying to yourself if you think they should NOT. you see? data doesnt give a fuck. quantify your data. use as much data possible. make sure your cost are covered.

I want to make this post because this is a massive CASE IN POINT.

THE MARKET DOESNT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT FUNDAMENTAL NEWS AND NIETHER SHOULD YOU.

I know how much of a pain troubleshooting\debugging code is, If someone could please point me in the right direction, I can figure out the rest.

I would like to replicate the (top) block condition (MA200) to the custom MQL code block (bottom)

both conditions in the MA200 block and custom MQL block use the same logic. using the MA200 block connected to the green bars will execute on each bar below the 200 length moving average

But when i have the custom MQL block connected, it executes on all bars. above and below the 200 moving average. ive added print function to confirm that mt5 is reading this code and it is

im at a loss as to why its executing on all bars instead of the bars below the moving average.

I could use the condition blocks to achieve this but i would prefer to use code as i have many conditions (multipe MA constants)

Its a very simple ma cross over signal using index 1 and 2. yet when i run this in the mt5 backtester, its shorting all candles as if the custom mql code box doesnt exist. am I missing something here?

add a time filter just above your buy\sell block and set it to your broker session time. also place that time filter above any close position blocks. see if that helps.

try going back a couple of steps of history. i didnt have this same exact issue as you, but mine was stuck loading but couldnt open any of the blocks. when i did a search here on the forums on it, some had resolved it by trying another browser (as everyone mentioned here) or by restoring history snapshots. try with the latest and keep going back until you get your stuff back, thats what i did.

Hello

The description should be the other way around, no?

in your constants window, try changing the data type to STRING instead of DOUBLE

@roar finally! no more error codes! I eliminated the LV variable and made that into different constants instead and created separate block structures for each of those LV. I coded all the symbol and TF into the project and I loaded up the robot on a demo last night to see if I woke up to any codes. I woke up and found no codes and its trading! the portfolio still doesn't match historical results

A - Current version
B - Original version

but it is fine! ill run with this portfolio in the meantime. I will learn mql5 language and dissect this portfolio and get it running at 100%. still! missing over 4k trades is not bad at all. Thanks @roar @sktsec for the help. I really appreciate it.

@roar ive turned the RSI parameter to a constant instead of a variable. Now each RSI parameter has its own set of blocks.

now that we have the TF and SYMBOL as variables

CADCHF H1 has 142 historical trades
CADCHF H2 has 101 historical trades

I've removed the code and tested it individually and does return the correct amount of trades. but when together

(market == "CADCHF_QDM_FTMO_II" && (TF == PERIOD_H2 || TF == PERIOD_H1))

I get a total result of 190 when it should be 243 total amount of trades. any ideas?

EDIT

Ive tried out the old code as well:

if(market == "CADCHF_QDM_FTMO_II")
{
	TF = PERIOD_H1;
}
if(market == "CADCHF_QDM_FTMO_II")
{
	TF = PERIOD_H2;
}

This results in H1 only being traded. H2 is ignored.

@ambrogio I also utilize Time Filter block to avoid market closed errors.

@roar hmm. ive tried what you suggested and its trading but something isnt right. I say that because im comparing the total trades to my historical test and getting lower results. So I just wanted to make sure were on the same page here. Here is a small sample of the portfolio. Each row is independant from each other, an asset. Column D are the historical total trades of n years. The ones that are marked with the red line, ive ammended to the project

This will backtest all symbols but not all trades. in other words, the total trades do not match my historical total trades (352 trades) I can confirm symbols being traded but not sure if its either the TF or LV variable is the culprit here. I understand the mql code but guess what I dont understand is the logic here so please forgive me if im repeating myself here. Once this portfolio is live, my next step is learn how to code in mql5. Between you guys helping, chatgpt, mql5 youtube videos, Im finding it more interesting and cant wait. so thank you guys for being patient with me.

@sktsec any advice on the previous post?

@roar I am looking at the previous post, I have to apologize, that's just bad practice\troubleshooting. To try and figure out why the system is not taking all trades is not on you. I should have known better as I am in the IT industry lol. I think I've figured it out though. What I did is start with 1 symbol and tested it. the system was able to take all trades. no problems and is working as intended. I added another, but different symbol. the backtest results show the correct amount of trades. it works. great! let's try 2 of the same symbol this time with different parameters.

Ah ha! found the issue! historically, H1 CADCHF LV1 has a total of 142 trades. H12 CADCHF LV2 has a total of 32 trades. when combined, the backtest should have a total of 174. but what Im getting is only 32 trades. Meaning the system is ignoring the H1 version and just trading the H12. so I tried this (don't laugh)

When backtested, Im getting 32 trades still. (H12 lv2 only) I believe adding pipes (or) will be used here. just not sure where.

Ive also tested

with this, it'll trade the H1\LV1 (174 trades) but ignore the H12\LV2 (32 trades)

Tested this

with this, it'll trade the first set of curly brackets and ignore the 2nd set.

@roar alright! making lots of progress here. Adding the CopyTime function looks to have solved the error! however, the system is not taking all trades. I have tested 1 year of historical data between my original build and this new build. I have tracked down the missing pairs in backtest to: EURAUD, GBPJPY, NZDJPY

Original build

New build

Ive tried changing the No Position block to

No difference, so I went back to default.

These are on the on Init tab

Heres the code for the missing symbols in the backtest

The missing symbols are there but don't seem to take trades. any ideas?

@sktsec Ive tried adding the blocks, but it seems to only limit to one symbol.