open/close cross ea

[jiva34]

Using Steve's shell, "mgft" from ff coded a strategy I was working on. I added via cut and paste the Allaverages indi that Steve put together for the bbstop ea and voila we now have what appears to be a fully functional robot.
Let's see what this miracle put together by many hands can do.

not sure what time frame is best.
The strategy in general is very sucessful on the day chart.
Would be good to get it up and running nicely for shorter term trades.

21 sma open,
21 sma close

21 lsma for trend

cross down enter short trade with lsma trend

cross up enter long trade with lsma trend

The atr and partial closing functions aren't programmed in yet. so use the other stop options provided in the shell.
stop = 1 ATR

close 1/3 at +1/2 ATR
move stop to Breakeven profit +5 pips

close 1/3 at +1 ATR

can trail stop for remaining 1/3.

exit stopped out or new signal in opposite direction.

ea is being modified trailing stops functions are buggy

[jiva34]

The jumping stop, trailing stop and candle stop don't seem to be functioning (Breakeven pips set true)

[SteveHopwood]

There was a logic bloop that exists in all of the stop management functions that prevented them from working if HiddenPips = 0.

I guess this bloop exists in most of the stuff I have produced recently.

I suggest you make sure this works, then copy it over the top of your version in post 1 so everyone can find it easily.

[jiva34]

There was a logic bloop that exists in all of the stop management functions that prevented them from working if HiddenPips = 0.

I guess this bloop exists in most of the stuff I have produced recently.

I suggest you make sure this works, then copy it over the top of your version in post 1 so everyone can find it easily.

Not working quite right.

if hidden pips is set to a value a red dotted line will appear on the chart that trails the prices using trailing stop, but the trade doesn't close.

if hidden pips is 0 nothing happens...

Break even works properly hidden pips set or not.

[SteveHopwood]

The function that looks for trade exit conditions needed some extra code.

See if this works.

[winsteadglenn]

Up 8% overnight. I like it. EU/GU/AU/UC/EJ; 2% risk. fifteen min. window . Manual close. Glenn

[jiva34]

The function that looks for trade exit conditions needed some extra code.

See if this works.

seems to be closing alright.. as long as hidden pips is given a value...

but the trailing stop lines all remain on the chart.

This is going to be a really good one..........

[SteveHopwood]

The version checks for orphan tp/sl lines every 15 minutes. They might hang around for a while, but will disappear eventually.

[gaheitman]

Is it worth putting explicit deletes in when the bot closes trades on it's own?

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BTW, quick work updating the code to make sure there were lines in the first place!

George

The function that looks for trade exit conditions needed some extra code.

See if this works.

seems to be closing alright.. as long as hidden pips is given a value...

but the trailing stop lines all remain on the chart.

This is going to be a really good one..........

[jiva34]

stop lines on chart are not aprobloem now.
But it looks like the stop reverse function is not always working.
screenshot shows 2 times a short did not open when a buy was stopped out on a reverse signal..