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Hi again Graeme,

Under the Portfolio tab, click on the “Content” tab. There you can see the strategies you saved to the Porfolio. If you don’t see all 6 strategies, tick off “Use performance filters” and  “Resolve correlations automatically” as shown in the image below. If you still can’t see all your strategies, kindly take a screenshot of the left side of the Portfolio’s Content page (not the strategies).

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Hello Graeme,

I’m a participant just like you, but I may have the answer for you.

When you generated the strategies, you probably had used some settings in “Common Acceptance Criteria” and/or in “Correlation analysis” and or in “Monte Carlo”.

If you “Upload” those strategies to the “Portfolio” using different settings, the strategies would be further filtered. Try to tick off the “Use performance filters” and “Resolve correlations automatically” in order to upload (or to see) all your 10 strategies unfiltered.

If you “loaded” or “dropped” the 10 strategies into the “Validator” (that’s another way to upload the strategies), you need to tick off “Use common Acceptance Criteria” in “Validator settings” and to tick off “Monte Carlo” as well, in order to load (or to see) all your strategies unfiltered.

Happy Christmas.

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Yah… and South Africa, for that matter.

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DK :-)

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You’re so right Geo. Thank you for enlightening my old brain.
I’m dividing 4086 by 284 in stead of 284 by 4086 which means, as you said, about 1 trade every 14 days.

@Ilan: Good suggestion! I’ll do that. Thanks.

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Whoa!
Nice to know how you handle your electricity supply and internet connection.
Ilan: I’m not from down under like Richard. Go a little further north, turn left and you find me in Europe waiting for you by the EU sign :-D

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Wow… Quick & precise answer!
What a great software that continues running despite internet connection failure.
Happy to hear from you Ilan.

Thank you.

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Great info, tips & tricks. Thank you Richard.

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Hey Richard & everybody,

Found a very efficient way to give equal power to all open windows with running EA Studio Reactors.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re using Chrome or Firefox. It’s a Windows solution.

You need to open additional clean “Desktops”. It’s equivalent to adding a new virtual computer.

Here is how to do it:

1.      I’m actually running 6 Reactors on my main Desktop called “Desktop 1” (more on that in a second).

2.      I open a new clean Desktop called “Desktop 2” (tell you how in a second) and run 6 more Reactors.

3.      Open another desktop “Desktop 3” and run 6 more Reactors.

4.      And so on…

5.      How many Reactors per Desktop and how many Desktops… depends on your computer.

 

Here’s how to open a new Desktop:

–        Click on a button called “Task View” in the taskbar close to the Windows button (bottom left).
(If the “Task View” icon doesn’t appear in the taskbar, I’ll tell you how to put it there in a second).
A “Task View” window opens.

–        Click on a new Desktop (a square with a plus sign in it)  at the top and a clean Desktop will open. It’s called “Desktop 2” automatically.
Now you have a clean Desktop – just like having a new virtual computer.

–        Go ahead and run a set of new reactors here.

–        Do the same again for Desktop 3, 4, etc.

The “Task View” button looks like this:

… If it doesn’t appear on your taskbar, you can find it as follows:

–        Right-click on an empty space on the taskbar

–        Click on (select) “Show Task View button”

–        The Task View button will then appear close to the Windows button.

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Thanks Petko.
You are a good teacher (so is Ilan) and you help me a lot as you always do – only sometimes I misunderstand you… Hey I’m human :-)
What do you mean by: Keep the spread to 2 pips?

Sure Richard.
The only alternative would be offshore brokers. Contrary to popular belief, having an offshore account is not illegal and you need not to hide it from the tax authorities. I know I’ll probably be bashed saying this, but good offshore brokers that are regulated, just not under the well-known regulatory entities, could be just as secure because ESMA, CySec, FCA, etc. often mean nothing for many traders. The so-called highly regulated brokers can still get away with anything. The problem with offshore brokers is that there are many crooks who establish an offshore broker website just to suck traders’ money and vanish. We have to find offshore brokers that have been in business for quite some time and have good satisfied customers.

My own challenge with one good offshore broker is that my bank (a large and well-known bank) didn’t allow me to fund my account with that broker. That’s the same bank that was exposed in my country for having helped laundering billions to their customers in their offshore branch, go figure! My bank can harm me by terminating my loan any time they like if I don’t follow their rules. What a world we’re living in!

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Well, no more 1:500 leverage in Australia as per 29. March 2021.
I just received an email from my broker announcing that ASIC decided to follow Europe’s, UK’s and Japan’s regulatory authorities and drop the leverage of CFD for retail traders to 1:30 for Forex pairs,  1:20 for Metals and 1:2 for Crypto-currencies. They don’t like people like us shorting the market.

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Thank you Petko.

Glad to hear from you too.

You’re right: I totally missed the relationship between lot size and initial balance when I copied the 1 lot size from your course. Thank you for putting me on the right track.

YES, I do understand that 1 lot and $1000 account is gambling.

Actually, I was generating strategies quickly (for testing purposes) on 0.01 lot only on 2 brokers and different length of historical data for two weeks. However, I was able to generate very little or no strategies at all when I decided to follow your steps and copied the 1 lot size from your above-mentioned course. As it turned out (thanks to your reply) I totally missed the relationship of the lot size with the initial amount and am so glad you pointed this out for me.

I may also have found two other reasons for little or no strategies:

1.      Spread value in symbol settings doesn’t have to be so set as high as I did. I took the highest value and round it up to factor 10. That’s too much. For example: If my broker’s GBPUSD is between 0 and 41, I set the value in “Symbol settings” to 50. That’s good but too high to generate strategies. I found that a more realistic value would be at 66% or 2/3 of their value as in the following table:

2.      From your (Petko’s) comments to others in this forum, I understand that (everything else being equal) generating strategies slowly isn’t a necessarily a bad sign. Sometimes we have to be patient and wait longer for good strategies to appear.

As to the leverage, I’m not keen on reducing it to less than 1:500 for now. I need the high leverage because I’m unable to increase my initial amount and hope to become good at working with calculated risk at least until my account is big enough.

Thanks.

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Hey Petko,

Thank you for looking at the screenshots and for suggesting to me to set the starting amount to $10,000 and the entry lot to 0.1.
That would have generated strategies but not for my account and might not solve my problem.

As I showed you in the screenshots, both my brokers are from AU (not from the UK) and the leverage is 1:500 (not 1:30).
My initial capital is only $1,000 (with each of my two brokers) because Corona had (and still has) a huge impact on my private finances. $10,000 is not realistic at all for me.

You’re right, I am “missing a little bit of the Forex basics. 1 lot = $100,000 trading units“… I’m still a beginner and can easily miss something – but did you take into consideration that my account has high leverage?

I’ll try to look (again) into generating strategies with 0.01 lot – but have tried that already and it’s only a partial and and limited solution – which is why I asked for help in the first place.

– Are there any Forex settings suitable for generating strategies with $1,000 and 1:500?
– Would I be better off if I reduce my leverage to 1:30 or lower?
– Can anyone put me on the right track please?

Thank you in advance.

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Hey Petko,

Sent you screenshots of my settings to [email protected]

Thanks.

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Found the answer…

When I upload an image and submit the post, all goes well.
If then I edit the post and resubmit it, I MUST re-upload the image before submitting the edited post, or else the image would disappear.

Sorry for any inconvenience to you “Moderators”, but I hope that this post is useful for somebody.

Thanks.

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