Flex EA - TrendSurfer - REAL (By flexea)

Gain : +125.27%
Drawdown 74.48%
Pips: 6336.3
Trades 434
Won:
Lost:
Type: Real
Leverage: 1:500
Trading: Automated

Flex EA - TrendSurfer - REAL Discussion

Mar 21, 2016 at 20:15
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Member Since May 05, 2014   13 posts
Apr 17, 2016 at 06:27
I mean, the current pause in trading this account, after the close of the last orders. If not stopped this version of the EA has already manually whether to open new order? :-)
Member Since Mar 28, 2016   65 posts
Apr 17, 2016 at 15:00
You mean the pause in trading for the weekend? If you have trades held over the weekend it will just continue where it left off. You shouldn't have to stop the EA as some trades may be open for days or weeks potentially.

You can open and close manual trades without interrupting the operation of the EA doing it's own independent trades automatically. However, if you have your risk set to account equity, that will impact only so much as your manual trades effect the equity balance.

Hope this helps!
Sometimes you get the bear; sometimes the bear gets you.
Member Since May 05, 2014   13 posts
Apr 18, 2016 at 06:14
I meant a pause from 8.55 am on 14 April and 15 April day, during which new orders was not open.

For example, the https://www.myfxbook.com/members/flexea/flex-ea-halfgrid-real-fxopen/1371001 monitoring EA was stopped on 30 March, if you look at the history of orders.
Member Since Jun 22, 2015   84 posts
Apr 18, 2016 at 13:19
nice perfomance dude
Member Since Mar 28, 2016   65 posts
Apr 19, 2016 at 00:42
Hi Сергей. Good question. I didn't seem to have that issue on my account. I'm looking at my trade history and I have trades opened both days.

Sometimes you get the bear; sometimes the bear gets you.
Member Since Mar 28, 2016   65 posts
Apr 19, 2016 at 00:45
It might be the settings that Steve had in which the market did not meet the conditions to trigger a trade. He may even have temporarily took the EA offline manually so that he could adjust settings.
Sometimes you get the bear; sometimes the bear gets you.
Member Since May 05, 2014   13 posts
Apr 19, 2016 at 06:30
It is a pity that we cannot know the exact settings of this EA account...
Member Since Nov 06, 2015   91 posts
Apr 19, 2016 at 10:50
Hello,

Two questions that are not 100% clear to me,

1. I open a number of charts in my MT4. These are the pairs I want to operate in the strategy. Should I open the EA in each of the charts or opening in one will be enough.

2. If I select one strategy and I do not touch anything else, the rest of parameters all be the ones preprogrammed for the strategy ? or I should put all the parameters in 'according to strategy' mode. I mention this because after version 3.3 it is not clear to me (see notes to version 3.3.)

Thanks and regards.
Member Since Mar 28, 2016   65 posts
Apr 19, 2016 at 12:38
Hi Pablo51, you will need to attach the EA to each chart.

If you leave everything as SetByStrat it will use the default settings that the strategy uses, i.e. TrendSurfer will use the TrendSurfer defaults, however, if you change the setting from SetByStrat, the EA will use that setting instead of the default. Hope that helps. 😁

TrendSurfer
RealTakeProfit= 0
VirtualTakeProfit= 34
RealStopLoss= 0
PipStep= 21
LotMultiplier= 1.3
VirtualTrades= 4
MaxBuyTrades= 12
MaxSellTrades= 12
FloatingTP_Pct= 0
EquityTrail= On
EquityTrailTP= 2
EquityTrailSL= 0
ReverseMode= true
trendMode=true
Sometimes you get the bear; sometimes the bear gets you.
Member Since Nov 06, 2015   91 posts
Apr 19, 2016 at 12:41
Thanks Glenn,

Unfortunately for an unknown reason the EA does load only in one chart and refuses to do so in the other charts.. Also, I had the EA running in another account, I disconnected it for a second and later I was unable to load it back. I sent a note to Flex but I can not imagine why this is happening.

Thanks and regards.
Member Since Mar 28, 2016   65 posts
Apr 19, 2016 at 12:43
That does sound strange. When you drag the EA onto a second chart it does not place it on that chart at all?
Sometimes you get the bear; sometimes the bear gets you.
Member Since Nov 06, 2015   91 posts
Apr 19, 2016 at 12:44
Exactly. Just when I finish entering the inputs and press ok the forexflex icon on top of the screen disappears.
Member Since Mar 28, 2016   65 posts
Apr 19, 2016 at 12:47
Oh, I had that problem with an EA once! There was one of the setting I was forgetting and once I selected it it worked find. Um... let me see if I can remember which one it was.
Sometimes you get the bear; sometimes the bear gets you.
Member Since Nov 06, 2015   91 posts
Apr 19, 2016 at 12:47
Glenn SORRY. Disregard my previous message. For some strange reason I got Dll import not checked. Now everything running fine.

Thanks a lot and regards.
Member Since Mar 28, 2016   65 posts
Apr 19, 2016 at 12:48
Aha! That was it!

Glad you got it ;-)
Sometimes you get the bear; sometimes the bear gets you.
Member Since Mar 28, 2016   65 posts
Apr 19, 2016 at 12:49
I actually had my broker help me with that one (FXCM) as it was one of their EAs I downloaded.

P.S. I asked Steve for a copy of the .set file for this EA. Hopefully, he will send to me and I'll share with everyone else here.
Sometimes you get the bear; sometimes the bear gets you.
Member Since Nov 06, 2015   91 posts
Apr 19, 2016 at 12:59
Thanks Glenn.

Are you aware if the problem with the trend strategy you mentioned some days ago has been fixed with the new Beta version??
Member Since Mar 28, 2016   65 posts
Apr 19, 2016 at 13:40
The original Trend Trail Stop function is still not working. Steve has the equity trail as a interim fix. So that is the one you want to use instead of the older Trend Trail Stop. The equity trail stop is working fine though and is a good money maker.
Sometimes you get the bear; sometimes the bear gets you.
Member Since Sep 04, 2015   12 posts
Apr 20, 2016 at 06:09
Here is the set file for this account, it uses the EquityTrail mode instead of the trailing mode now as the two cannot currently coincide properly. I feel like the EquityTrail will be a much better alternative for Trendsurfer though, not only for ease of use but flexibility as well.

Note that this account is using a 100 DD Stoploss because I like to split my capital across many accounts, so one account blowing is just equivalent to hitting a stoploss. The difference is I have my exposure spread so far across 15+ accounts each trading different strategies with a mix of pairs that blown accounts are far less likely than hitting a 30%ish stoploss on a single account.
Each account is allowed the maximum breathing room to survive much larger draw downs.

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Member Since Nov 06, 2015   91 posts
Apr 20, 2016 at 06:15
Thanks a lot for the set file.

Actually the strategy you mention is the one I plan to follow as well. Splitting the balance among multiple accounts is a nice way to diversify risk.

Can you confirm that the settings you are using are the same as the ones published in your page for the strategies.

Thanks.
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