Re: XARD - Simple Trend Following Trading System

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ImpLaNT wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2020 1:17 pm

Good afternoon...
I myself have never written anything in MQL, but in general, programming is not alien to me. A complete trading system is always a clear algorithm in which there is no room for discrepancies. If there is a clear algorithm, then it can be automated. Is it logical? You have clearly formulated the conditions for opening a sale position ..

Sell
1. semafor red
2.tma cg above black
3. red candle
4. red trend ma
5. red signal ma
6. red background cci
7. red adx

I can’t understand why the working indicators cannot be made a parts of the adviser by providing it with an output buffer. For example ... a red candle - 0 is written into the buffer, a blue candle - in buffer 1, a red background - in buffer 0, a blue background - in buffer 1, a gray background - does not change the current state of the buffer. And this logic applies to every indicator. Further, upon closing each candlestick, a logical AND operation is performed on the buffers of all indicators analyzed by the adviser. If all buffers have a state of 0, then a sell position is opened, if all in 1 - open buy position. In other cases, nothing is done. Or do you want to say that such logic cannot be programmed by means of MQL?

Further, I understand very well that the indicators included in the system are repaints. But this problem may be solved too in my opinion. You can simply give the adviser the logic of maintaining an open position. Here is the most primitive version of such logic ... after the position is open, after closing the next three candles, the output buffers of all indicators are checked, and if at least one indicator has changed its value, then there is a repainting, and the position that has just been opened immediately closes. In other words, only those positions remain in the market in which the indicators did not change their state during the next three candles. Other more elegant approaches and solutions are possible. It already depends on the professionalism of the programmer.

In conclusion, I will say that it is possible to automate any, even the most complex algorithm through any, even the weakest programming language. It all depends of the professional level of the coder. And this is not a theorem, it is an axiom.
Ok lets not derail the thread but I guess its helpful for others to read and learn - Xard's system ends up on most of the other forums around the world in multiple different languages.

I am not talking about the programming aspect - you are correct that you simply take the buffer if available and line them up. Where not available you just use the indicator within the EA. As I said, its less than a mornings work.

Some (massive) issues you are going to face;
-Range/chop - if you square the circle, it will always break. The market will ALWAYS break something you think has 'nailed it'. This is the biggest problem you will face in automating - any clown can make money in trends.
-Volatility/liquidity - Similar to above this will make or break you, just from 10pm UK and thin liquidity to batshit times of volatility you cannot statically forsee this in MT4 with the above. Random spikes for no reason are happening more and more.
-News - this wasn't so much a problem before but now the algos are going fucking nuts 24/7 - check out when selerity put out the wrong news via their tweet stuff and I think it was AUD shat itself 40 pips.
-Economic events - you have to calendar all that crap in. Doable, but I have seen minor events wreck stuff.
-Hedging/Recovery - another massive topic.
-Stop Loss/Take Profit - The biggest topic of them all.

Your 'solution' for repainting is just the same as reading the buffers and them all complying. The repainting point is more about backtesting and visuals. A repainting system looks great, hell, everything looks great in MT4 until you actually come to objectively test it. It all unravels very quickly and you realise you have nothing at all in terms of automation. You will soon realise how very limiting MT4 is.

Then there is the issue of valid backtesting - MT4 is already utterly rubbish for this, let alone trying to solution repainting indicators, let alone valid data - note every MT4 brokers data is different.

In terms of professionalism you have to look at the guys who have been around for years and contemplate why they can't get anything automated to pay for their lambo's/yachts/mansions which they still haven't got.... check out Hanover (on Forexfactory.com) & Steve Hopwood (Stevehopwoodforex.com) - they are perfectly competent MT4 programmers but they have stated they have never been able to get anything 'going'. You should digest that, they are way more competent MT4 programmers than I shall ever be, they are not mladen level, but they know enough.
Therefore, its not about the level of professionalism with respect to MT4.

So is it then down to the system/method you use? Yes and no.

As I mentioned above - retail, MT4, Day Trading is a completely and utterly different world to the system/algorithmic trading world employed by the big boys succeeding at it - they won't be using MT4.

What about all the social trading sites and signal copy services that are all 200% profitable per month you ask? They aren't.... I have tested those too. Its all nonsense, mostly scams, underneath they are just martingales.

*There is always one in a forum/thread that will say Jimmy Mcwherters EA does 500% a year....
If you have never seen their withdrawal statement into their bank from their broker then you can guarantee they are lying.
MT4 can be gamed - see here, metaquotes had this removed from youtube https://d.tube/#!/v/mt4-gets69d/QmdLEC5 ... F7iFFHhf7K

99.999% of people 'trading forex' lose, not the 77% touted by your broker. Its bascially a giant Casino teetering on Scam.

You 'can' make money in forex if you have outstanding discipline along with emotional intelligence, if you have these you can make money trading.
If you don't its highly unlikely you will ever make money trading manually - even if your system has a 100% win rate because you won't have the discipline and emotional intelligence to employ risk and money management along with sound trade execution and trade management.
Note most professional traders only win 40-60% trades, most professional traders only return 5-7% a year.
The cards are so stacked against you its pretty silly.

People have wild get rich quick dreams and try to automate what they do manually and soon realise quickly they cannot, it is a completely different journey to embark on.
So choose, are you going to be a manual trader or a system/automated/algorithmic/quant trader?

I have never been able to replicate what I can do manually, via MT4 automated EA. Why? Because what you do manually is discretionary - closer to gambling than systematic objective process driven 'trading'.

So in conclusion, of course the above can be automated - will it return you a positive return? - I can already tell you it won't, I don't even need to backtest it or forward walk it, I know what each of these indicators are and what they are underneath and the limitations of MT4.
You can take the basic system above but it would take you months to years of mucking about before you realise that MT4 is not the way to go.

All you have is price and time within MT4 (digest that point), if it was that easy, there would literally be thousands of programmers making hundreds of thousands a year. There are literally none.

People that have, have had to refactor libraries and pretty much take everything out of MT4 and just use it as the pass through to the broker.

And to finish - those that automate STILL sit in front of their system watching their automated system to check its actually doing what it needs to be doing. Those of you with those wild dreams of making an MT4 EA so you can sit on the beach or drive your speedboat are dreaming - it will never ever happen.

This is just some late night ramblings from me, probably all bollocks when I read it back tomorrow but hopefully it helps.
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Re: XARD - Simple Trend Following Trading System

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francisfinley stimpy wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2020 11:20 am

Ok lets not derail the thread but I guess its helpful for others to read and learn - Xard's system ends up on most of the other forums around the world in multiple different languages.

I am not talking about the programming aspect - you are correct that you simply take the buffer if available and line them up. Where not available you just use the indicator within the EA. As I said, its less than a mornings work.

Some (massive) issues you are going to face;
-Range/chop - if you square the circle, it will always break. The market will ALWAYS break something you think has 'nailed it'. This is the biggest problem you will face in automating - any clown can make money in trends.
-Volatility/liquidity - Similar to above this will make or break you, just from 10pm UK and thin liquidity to batshit times of volatility you cannot statically forsee this in MT4 with the above. Random spikes for no reason are happening more and more.
-News - this wasn't so much a problem before but now the algos are going fucking nuts 24/7 - check out when selerity put out the wrong news via their tweet stuff and I think it was AUD shat itself 40 pips.
-Economic events - you have to calendar all that crap in. Doable, but I have seen minor events wreck stuff.
-Hedging/Recovery - another massive topic.
-Stop Loss/Take Profit - The biggest topic of them all.

Your 'solution' for repainting is just the same as reading the buffers and them all complying. The repainting point is more about backtesting and visuals. A repainting system looks great, hell, everything looks great in MT4 until you actually come to objectively test it. It all unravels very quickly and you realise you have nothing at all in terms of automation. You will soon realise how very limiting MT4 is.

Then there is the issue of valid backtesting - MT4 is already utterly rubbish for this, let alone trying to solution repainting indicators, let alone valid data - note every MT4 brokers data is different.

In terms of professionalism you have to look at the guys who have been around for years and contemplate why they can't get anything automated to pay for their lambo's/yachts/mansions which they still haven't got.... check out Hanover (on Forexfactory.com) & Steve Hopwood (Stevehopwoodforex.com) - they are perfectly competent MT4 programmers but they have stated they have never been able to get anything 'going'. You should digest that, they are way more competent MT4 programmers than I shall ever be, they are not mladen level, but they know enough.
Therefore, its not about the level of professionalism with respect to MT4.

So is it then down to the system/method you use? Yes and no.

As I mentioned above - retail, MT4, Day Trading is a completely and utterly different world to the system/algorithmic trading world employed by the big boys succeeding at it - they won't be using MT4.

What about all the social trading sites and signal copy services that are all 200% profitable per month you ask? They aren't.... I have tested those too. Its all nonsense, mostly scams, underneath they are just martingales.

*There is always one in a forum/thread that will say Jimmy Mcwherters EA does 500% a year....
If you have never seen their withdrawal statement into their bank from their broker then you can guarantee they are lying.
MT4 can be gamed - see here, metaquotes had this removed from youtube https://d.tube/#!/v/mt4-gets69d/QmdLEC5 ... F7iFFHhf7K

99.999% of people 'trading forex' lose, not the 77% touted by your broker. Its bascially a giant Casino teetering on Scam.

You 'can' make money in forex if you have outstanding discipline along with emotional intelligence, if you have these you can make money trading.
If you don't its highly unlikely you will ever make money trading manually - even if your system has a 100% win rate because you won't have the discipline and emotional intelligence to employ risk and money management along with sound trade execution and trade management.
Note most professional traders only win 40-60% trades, most professional traders only return 5-7% a year.
The cards are so stacked against you its pretty silly.

People have wild get rich quick dreams and try to automate what they do manually and soon realise quickly they cannot, it is a completely different journey to embark on.
So choose, are you going to be a manual trader or a system/automated/algorithmic/quant trader?

I have never been able to replicate what I can do manually, via MT4 automated EA. Why? Because what you do manually is discretionary - closer to gambling than systematic objective process driven 'trading'.

So in conclusion, of course the above can be automated - will it return you a positive return? - I can already tell you it won't, I don't even need to backtest it or forward walk it, I know what each of these indicators are and what they are underneath and the limitations of MT4.
You can take the basic system above but it would take you months to years of mucking about before you realise that MT4 is not the way to go.

All you have is price and time within MT4 (digest that point), if it was that easy, there would literally be thousands of programmers making hundreds of thousands a year. There are literally none.

People that have, have had to refactor libraries and pretty much take everything out of MT4 and just use it as the pass through to the broker.

And to finish - those that automate STILL sit in front of their system watching their automated system to check its actually doing what it needs to be doing. Those of you with those wild dreams of making an MT4 EA so you can sit on the beach or drive your speedboat are dreaming - it will never ever happen.

This is just some late night ramblings from me, probably all bollocks when I read it back tomorrow but hopefully it helps.
Hi' thanks for your thoughts,
I am already a silent reader in this forum for couple month, but i found Xard system is pretty useful and easy to adapt. The problem is just the time, not everybody in this world can sit in front of their mt4 when the market are open (especially on indices). So, what i do is i did automate the system but not fully automated and not whole entire system, i take some indicator that doesn't repaint from the system and combine it with my own.
Result? It's great, i get notified when the opportunity is happen, mt4 send me screenshoot of the chart when that happen via email and what i need to do is only press agree or disagree to run the trade.
This much easier for people who trade on 1H chart like me and have many things to do in daily basis. But again, repainting indicator can't be backtested and i can't trust my money on something that arenty yet proofed by some data. However, Xard give a very very nice concept and indicator that if you take it apart and combine it, it can be a good system as well.

Sorry for my writings, english isn't my mother language. :)


Re: XARD - Simple Trend Following Trading System

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xard777 wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2020 4:46 am Tweaking Trend setup - will let you know how I get on.
All the best
Xard777


Respected Sir, Please have a look.
Please keep the file name same as: !!!-MT4 X-XARDFX-MAv2 of this updated file with updated options.

Please do this favour. A small Request. Asked for this in earlier post but it may have been missed.

Please Provide these Missing Options for Trend Line Also in your : XMAS - !!!-MT4 X-XARDFX-MAv2
Trend Line Per :
Trend Line Mode :
Trend Line Width :
Trend Line BGDWidth :
Trend Line clrUP :
Trend Line clrDN :
Trend Line clrBGD :

These options are available in your earlier setups. This wilh help us.

Thanks for your Kindness & Support

Re: XARD - Simple Trend Following Trading System

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Evernewtron wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2020 1:30 pm
Hi' thanks for your thoughts,
I am already a silent reader in this forum for couple month, but i found Xard system is pretty useful and easy to adapt. The problem is just the time, not everybody in this world can sit in front of their mt4 when the market are open (especially on indices). So, what i do is i did automate the system but not fully automated and not whole entire system, i take some indicator that doesn't repaint from the system and combine it with my own.
Result? It's great, i get notified when the opportunity is happen, mt4 send me screenshoot of the chart when that happen via email and what i need to do is only press agree or disagree to run the trade.
This much easier for people who trade on 1H chart like me and have many things to do in daily basis. But again, repainting indicator can't be backtested and i can't trust my money on something that arenty yet proofed by some data. However, Xard give a very very nice concept and indicator that if you take it apart and combine it, it can be a good system as well.

Sorry for my writings, english isn't my mother language. :)
Exactly, what I say is not a criticism, we have to objectively test the system/method in front of us.

Re: XARD - Simple Trend Following Trading System

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Tweaking Setup

I really like this Trend setup, it still needs a bit more work but so far I am impressed with the results on 5 Min and 15 Min TFs.
Makes it easier to see direction and wait for breakouts. Plus less information on the charts.
I still have to sync the candles and background to the new Trend ribbon, will do that once I have the ribbon just right.
Xard777
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