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Hello Edu,
it is not a bad idea to test the Trading portfolios with your broker. However, it is strange for me that only few pass the validation.
What is the acceptance criteria in the Validation that you are using?
Also, I saw the name of your broker(I do not say any brokers names in the Forum), I think you should make a good research about them, I have heard from students not really positive reviews, as they are closing the trades(interfere the traders work), no security on the deposits, and so on. However, this is a personal choice which broker you will use. What I want to say is that even you use the best EAs, they will not work at all if your broker is not trusted.
You should always try to generate your own strategies, specially once you are get used with EA Studio.
The Validator is useful because it nearly eliminated the Demo account testing. It shows the same results when you refresh your Historical data, and it is really useful tool, but let me know what is your acceptance criteria there, because this is what stopped the strategies from passing.
Kind regards,
Hello! Everything is possible nowadays, the question is “Is it worthy?”
You can predefine the hours of trading in EA Studio and FSB Pro. So when you run the generator they will create EAs that are trading only during these hours.
However, I do not suggest you to use the Forex news as a moment of volatility, because the volatility is not stable there, every time the Forex news are different.
I do not think you will end up with robust strategies.Thank you, Edu! Appreciate it. It is always about testing…
Let me know if you have other questions about FSB.
I would like to ask something here. I see that there is no exact rule to pause the EAs during the Forex news. Is it possible than to trade Expert Advisors only during the Forex news?
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Hey Edu,
for the first post:
The Optimization results seems better, and I think the Monte Carlo looks just normal for the number of bars you have. Later when you have bigger number of bars, the strategies will get more and more robust.
The USDJPY looks so much better. I see on your FSB back test that you have more than 300 count of trades which is a reliable number.
Also, when you perform the Monte Carlo, you can select the last two options together. No need to do it separately.
Cheers
Hello,
Yes, we have our courses on Udemy as well, the very same as on our website.
It is the best to have the History data from your broker, and not downloading it from somewhere.
For sure you do not need to pay for History data. Just leave your Meta Trader opened, and with the time it will collect you the data.
You can always save it from your Meta Trader, or if you change computer, you can transfer it. Go to Files-open data folder-history. And you will see the server of your broker. You can save this file from time to time.
Kind regards
Hello,
Yes, we have our courses on Udemy as well, the very same as on our website.
It is the best to have the History data from your broker, and not downloading it from somewhere.
For sure you do not need to pay for History data. Just leave your Meta Trader opened, and with the time it will collect you the data.
You can always save it from your Meta Trader, or if you change computer, you can transfer it. Go to Files-open data folder-history. And you will see the server of your broker. You can save this file from time to time.
Kind regards
Hello Edu,
you are missing something with the optimization.
The first time you did it with step of 1, and the second time with step of 10.It is good to do optimization with round numbers as step. But make sure the parameters of the strategy before the optimization to be round as well.
For example, make Stop Loss 80 and Take Profit 70, and then do optimization with step of 10. Same for the other parameters
Your Monte Carlo is just fine. The over-optimized strategies will show total loss with all tests, which is not your case. And yes, you are correct.
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Cheers
Hello,
For sure, I will let anyone what the new feature/software is available, because it will be useful to everyone, not only the US citizens.
Actually with FSB Pro, you are able to create more professional and complicated EAs.
Make sure to watch the Free videos from the developer of this Forex trading Software:
https://eatradingacademy.com/forex-strategy-builder-software/
Also, I have made a long video/article about it sometime ago:
About the min count of trades, it depends on the Historical data you have. The more data, the more min count of trades you can set in the Acceptance criteria.
So if you place 300, and you see that you have many strategies generated, you can stop and set it to 400, and than to 500. Until you find some value in the middle, not to limit the reactor of having no strategies, and in the same time to have enough strategies to work on.
The idea of the min count of trades is that the more we have, the more reliable the becktest is. Obviously we want to trade a strategy that showed profitability over 300-400 consecutive trades, and not over 20-30.
Let me know if there is something else.
Beautiful weekend ahead!
Hello Edu,
this backtest looks bad. When you optimize in EA Studio, you have an acceptance criteria. Try to remove it, and do the optimization. This way you will see if the issue is there. If it passes, than try to make the acceptance criteria not so strict.
The Monte Carlo itself is the robustness test for over optimization. If it fails, it means that the strategy is probably over-optimized.
Another old method to see if a strategy is over optimized is to change manually some of the parameters in the indicators. If you see huge difference in the equity, this is also a sign that the strategy is over-optimized.
Have a beautiful weekend too!
Petko AHello Edu,
I always suggest the students to test sometime on Demo account before placing on real account. It is important to understand that it is a personal choice and responsibility when one will place the EAs for live trading.
It is good to test it on Demo account until the moment you feel comfortable for live trading.
And yes, you should collect more data, with the time your strategies will become more robust. Also, during the time you collect you can practice with FSB and create more strategies.
Kind regards,