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My question was different. I understand what you mean, but how technically you will keep looking at the last 5 trades? In FXBlue you have time filter, which will not work for you. Even you exclude the first day or two for some of the strategies and see just the last 5 trades, this won’t work for the rest.
Simple words, what will you do with your statistics in order to see always the last 5 trades for each strategy?
Normally I would stop and give it more air after 10-15 min of no results. But yeah, it reaches 10k and no results are there, you better stop it, unless you do not want to run it for 10 hours and get a couple of strategies at the end.
I like what Petko says that it is better to have more strategies to choose from.
Also, you can generate more but get stricter in the additional criteria in the collection where you can filter more the strategies.
Hello Jay-R,
there is a great user guide about FSB Pro where you can find detailed information about each instrument: https://forexsb.com/wiki/fsbpro_guide/start
The data is the same as in EA Studio and in FSB Pro you can not create Portfolio EAs. It is a function available for EA Studio.
The more generators you run, the slower it will become but that will not affect the performance.
Regarding the last question…Petko should give the answer 🙂
Hope that was useful 🙂
Hey Jay-R,
as far as I know, you can not do that. The size is one for all of the strategies in the portfolio. If it was possible it would be in the input menu. I am sure they can add that, it is an idea, but that will bring you far away from the diversification.
Because if you increase the lot of one strategy it is the same as trading one expert advisor with higher lots in the account. But if that one starts to lose, it will bring you more losses and the others won’t be able to compensate because they are trading with smaller lots.
The idea of trading portfolio experts or many experts in the account is to have equal lots so there will be risk-diversification.
Hi Jay-R,
My bad, I wanted to write you can NOT really do a lot. 🙂 Just missed the “not”.
Yes, if the results are different, it means that Historical data is different and the brokers have different quotes/prices at any moment. So you can not do a lot on that…
Kind regards,
I had the very same question to Petko during one of the 1:1 sessions with him( I did a couple and they were all very useful).
One of the ways is exactly what you said – import the data from the other broker and check if the equity line is similar or not. It you see totally different results, you can really do a lot. If you optimize it, there is a risk of over-optimization.
If you want to take average values for the parameters (what Petko did) you need to switch between the different data sources, optimize with round numbers and acceptance criteria, and take the average values.
Let’s say the SL with one of the brokers is 80, with the other is 70, and with the third is 40. You will take average SL of 66.
That is a lot of work that I tried as well, and I figured out that I really do not need to do it for myself because I use just 2 different brokers, and I generate separate EAs for each one.
Petko does that because he provides many EAs in his courses, and he aims at providing EAs that are suitable for everyone (even that is quite impossible according to him). However, I am very impressed that he does it anyway.
Hello Jay-R,
I prefer to use all the Historical data I have. I am a believer that the more that we have, the more count of trades we will have in the generated strategies, which means more robust strategies.
However, you can do this with FSB Pro. The Historical data there is saved as CSV and you can open it in Excel. From there you can delete the desired period.
Regards,
Hello Jay-R,
for certainty, you see different results because the Historical data of each asset is different. The behavior of the price is different so it forms the different Historical data.
what you say is quite interesting… It is correct that the most strategies we see, the more this asset is suitable for the strategies generated by EA Studio. Simply, its Historical data shows and proves that.
I am on the new course of Petko where he shows trading indexes with EAs. I am very much interested in the idea.
So far I have been trading more than 100 Forex EAs in 6 Demo and 2 live accounts, but I feel like I want to experiment and diversify more the portfolio.
This is why I am planning to start with stocks and cryptocurrencies.
Hey Jay-R,
Second-hand computers work just great for me. I have a laptop, and desktop that is my main machine, and I have bought 2 another that are second hand but they do just great with 3 MetaTrader platforms installed on each. So on those, I have my 6 Demo accounts, and on my Laptop and main machine, I have the 2 live accounts.
It is a bit of investment but if you pay VPS every month, you will end up with more cost at the end of the 1st year probably.
Cheers,
Hello,
I think that the bar opening is the only way to prove that there was a confirmed cross of any MA or another indicator.
Let’s say we have a Moving Average and the price is below, going up. In order to avoid the fake signals, we always need to see a new candle opening above the line/indicator. I am glad that EA Studio Experts work this way.