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Thanks, Petko! I missed your answer. Yeah, I do not see the point of using percentage, but because it is so popular, I was curious. :)
Yes! If you are running Generator/Reactor, make sure you are running it in a separate Window. This will give you extra speed.
A good idea is to keep looking at different periods – last 1 month, last 2 weeks.
Because some strategies might be in a loss for some time and in order to get over the 0 will take you a lot of time. But if you look at the last 1-2 weeks you will see it faster getting on profit.
I am not sure if I wrote it clearly :)
Hey Arturo,
Petko was explaining the following thing: Even the regulated brokers have the A book and B book clients. A book is the winners, B book is the losers. One of the ways to move more clients from A in B is to increase the slippage for the A clients that trade the news.
This means that if you succeed to make profits on the news they will notice it, and they will increase the slippage just for your account.
I do not say that all brokers do it, but its a practice. Keep it in mind.
Hello, Adc,
Glad to hear that someone wants to share. I was sharing a lot before, but I did not see an honest response from the others to share as well.
Anyway, your idea is awesome and we can think about it. But it is not that simple to create such a super portfolio.
The first issue is that everyone uses a different broker. That is why we can not have a portfolio of many EAs that will perform equally in the backtest for everyone.
Second, the most reliable test would be if we place all these EAs trading in one account, which is nearly impossible.
Third, I do not think Petko will mind having such a basket of EAs, but we will have to ask his team to create some kind of app or a page on the website where everyone can place his best EAs that fit any acceptance criteria. Anyway, if we write in the forum and attach them in here, people will have to look in previous pages. They won’t know from where to start and so on…
Not a bad idea, but again its a lot of thing to think about.
Hi Gordon,
Yes, you can choose a direction when you generate strategies.
before you start the EA Strategy generation, go to the generator settings, and click on Preset Indicators:
From there you can choose what indicators the generator to use always in your strategies. Click on Add a new entry rule:
After that select the indicator Long or Short:
Choose the direction.
Keep me updated on the results. I always wanted to test this but never had the time for it…
I would still use SL, because you will be in the wrong direction when the trend changes, and it will at one moment.
Hi guys,
what I have been doing the recent months is to avoid the Demo account and use just the reuploading.
I generate strategies daily, but I do not export the strategies as EAs.
I download the collections and name them according to the date it was created. After 1 month, I re-upload the collection and I see which strategies performed best during this one month(it is the same as if I tested on Demo).
It works really great so far, but I am doing some tests now to see if I recalculate it after 2 weeks or after 2 months will be better. I am not sure if 1 month is the best option…
Happy New Year, guys!
Did anyone test the percentage option in FSB Pro? Thre is the option to enter with certain % from the free margin, and not with lots.
I am not a fan of it, but I was wondering if anyone can share the experience with that.
Hello Jay-R,
I think you are doing a great job!
I have been trading with Expert Advisors and EA Studio for about two years now (since I met Petko and his courses).
The first six months, I did not pay attention to the Historical data, and it caused me some losses. However, after 1;1 call with Petko I understood the importance.
Now I am collecting from 3 brokers, but I use 2.
One is JFD, and I am using the Metatrader-Demo data from the EA Studio because it updates regularly.
When I compared Demo and Live data for the last time ( about one year back), it was very similar. So I use it from EA Studio.
No, you are not over-doing it. Everyone who is NOT doing it is on the wrong path…
Cheers,
Welcome to the forum!
I did not have experience in trading before I came to Forex Academy(unless the fact that I was scammed pretty bad from a binary broker). But I can share with you that no matter which course you will take first you will receive a lot of value. I have all of them, watched them more than 4 times and I wait for every new course that comes up every month. Petko is a genius for me…
After I practised for about 3 months I succeeded to have profits in the account and after that I had one losing month because of my own mistakes. The other 9 months I have been on real account are all on positive. Of course, I am still looking for a better and better approach to combine many EAs in one account.
I wanted to update this topic with some recent observations I have. Since M1 and M5 are very tricky, volatile and the same time it is hard to get EAs that will last profitable, I tried trading only with EAs from FSB Pro that have more than 1000 count of trades. The results are promising even I get less profit per day, I get more stable EAs.
hello all, I want to share a bad experience I had from my stupid mistake: I created my new EAs for the month and I placed the first ones on one of the computers I have. After that, I just received a new laptop and decided to test it. I installed the MetaTrader and placed all the EAs there. And those EAs I place straight to my live account because I use the method from Petko to simulate Demo trading with the Data in EA Studio.
When I looked at the results in FX Blue I saw that some of the EAs already opened double more trades than the others which was not usual. I kept looking into it for another 2 days and those EAs were opening more and more than the others. Until I realized that I had those EAs running still on the first computer I started placing them and on my new one…luckily they did not make losses but profits.
However, it is a stupid mistake because it could have been the other way around and get more losses… so pay attention where you place the EAs. If you decide to move them, make sure to disable the auto trade in the first place.
Just an update to this topic: I started using more the consecutive losses acceptance criteria. I went down to 5 and the strategies I get are really awesome. I use it as well to remove the EAs from my live account. If they make more than 5 consecutive losses, I remove them.
And it makes a lot of sense because if we create an EA following one thing when this thing is broken or comes not true, it means the strategy was over-optimized for that criteria. Correct me if I am wrong Petko.
