Posts made by richard96816

Thanks for your response. I appreciate that there's power within the tool. I'm just used to having defaults more carefully chosen. So you can whip up a simple EA and touch the least number of options. And fall prey to fewer unexpected side-effects.
fxD is a power saw without the blade guard. Even experienced carpenters make mistakes from time to time.

When the defaults are well chosen the operator needs to keep fewer issues in mind and can focus better on their current strategy.

Having an EA unexpectedly reach outside itself and modify other running EAs is troubling. Every simple fxD example EA I've seen online makes this mistake. That's not good.

The simple case should be automatically self-contained, not touching other EAs. To touch other EAs should require consciously making that choice.

fxD makes 'badly behaved' EAs by default.

Ouch.

Is there a better write-up for this feature? It seems a bit nightmarish in the default usage.

If I create a simple EA with 'Buy now' and 'Trailing stop' blocks included and don't specify grouping I've just created a very poorly mannered EA that will go out wanting to police trailing stops on all others. I hope this is not the way it actually works. That's nasty.

As with most things here I guess I'll have to test it for myself.
That's not easy. That's what manuals are for.

Defaults are usually expected to be least expansive and most safe.

If I build a simple EA that buys and sells, using all defaults it should never touch trades from elsewhere. Not without specifically addressing them or in some way verifying that I'm reaching outside my EA. Not by default.

Thanks

Aloha,
Do the 'Trailing Stop', 'Close Positions' and other similar blocks all act globally on all trades unless you use groups?
Am I required to use groups if I don't want EAs messing with each other?

More documentation would be nice.

Thanks,
Richard

In the Buy Now and Sell Now blocks there is a 'Volume upper limit' box which I've not seen used in examples.
I usually fill that with a constant: Max_Lot_Size and set it to .01 initially -- for testing. Put a larger number in there when you're ready to go live.
A simple override to money management.

@avrahambr Which 'hours'? Time of day or time in trade?

I also would like to have a condition block for time in trade. Can't seem to find it. Perhaps my glasses are dirty ...

Thanks

Is custom code the only way to do multi-candle patterns?
If so how?

Thanks