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Hi David,
For the wrong file type just do the following:
1. Right click the file and select “Open With”
2. Check the box to say always open with selected program
3. Navigate to any metaeditor.exe file and all should be well
Let me know how it goes.
I trade my own Robots so am currently unfamiliar with Petkos process, I will review and get back to you. Usually I personally just use the same EAs that passed the challenge but lower the risk to about 70% of what I used for the challenge.
Hi Gareth/Alan,
Yes the steps above are how its done. I would add that I have noticed that certain hardware can be different so its a good quick and easy test for anyone new to do to optimize for themselves. I personally do get benefit from more that 3 reactors but it is diminishing returns. The main reason I run more is just because I run each on a different symbol. Its good to have an understanding of all this so the user knows how best to optimize depedning on what they are doing.
For example if you were just developing strategies for 1-3 pairs then it would be pointless to try to run more reactors (and in some cases would be slower as it is on one of my computers).
Hi Thorsten,
This time 2:00 – 24:00 will work for most brokers but you should check if it is set to yours.
You should of course backtest any EA on your brokers data before trading it and that may show up if there is an issue with your brokers time. I am sure Petko will confirm but I would consider the times above to be adjusted to UTC +2 with daylight savings, so quickest way to adjust if necessary would just be to clarify what your brokers time is set too.
Good Job Alan, this is exactly right.
You can see that for 1 reactor you are getting 6000 generations a minute but between 5-10 reactors your combined generations is 10000. So I would suggest that 5 is pretty optimal for you. Although 3 is getting 9000 generations per minute total which is also pretty good.
You must have good hardware, I find if I keep increasing the reactors then at some point I get a pretty drastic slowdown.
This is good info because it lets you save some resources for other things and also dont need to work the computer hard unnecessarily
Hi Gareth/Alan,
Definitely running too many reactors can slow things down but it depends on your hardware. My rule of thumb is a browser for each computer core works well so I run 8 on my 8 core computers.
However in this case I believe the issue was not this but that the browser was inactive and simply stopped churning.
You can easily test the slow down effect by doing the following:
Set a single reactor running and then time how long it takes to generate 1000 strategies (generate not collect), then open a second reactor and set running and time again. Continue doing this until you see a large drop in generation speed and you will know the optimal number of reactors for your computer.
But it’s important is making sure the browser is active so it keeps running.
Hi Alan,
Ill have to check what I get but this seems low number of generations to me so I expect you are working your computer very hard. Of course it depends on number of bars but I am pretty sure I get about 1000 generation every couple of minutes.
Maybe easiest to attach your settings file Gareth, there could be something with the account size or leverage preventing trades being taken. I see you are generating using 0.01 lots usually this is 0.1 so I am seeing a few flags of odd settings.
Hi Omkar,
Great, yes in this case of using generator I would recommend using Ea studio over FSB pro. Ea studio has a better generator, fsbpro is better if you have your own strategy ideas that you want to create. There’s more too it than that but conceptually if you are using the generator I would recommend sticking with Ea studio for now.
Also make sure you backtest using the open prices model.
Please do the following.
Import your broker data to ea studio
For an ea see backtest results in ea studio
then download the ea and backtest on mt4 using open price model and compare the journal files
The software is robust and matches well, many users including myself have these kind of issues/concerns early on. Let’s see how you go with the above and we can take it from there 🙂
Regarding your struggles with matching fsbpro with mt4/5. I have several suggestions to help with that.
First though can you let me know why you are using fsbpro instead of Ea studio. I am assuming you are manually building strategies that cannot be created in EA studio??
The exercise of matching the backtests is most straight forward using Ea studio and mt4 initially I would say. But if you want to go straight to FSB pro and mt4/5 then all good too. Just needs a couple of additional considerations.
And info about your experience in fsbpro and ea studio will also allow me to help you better. Cheers
Hey Omkar,
For point 1, the mt4 limit can be easily increased by changing the chart options. Your broker data will only download so much but you can import data to mt4 much greater than 32k bars.
additionally yes the limit in FSB pro of 200k bars can be easily increased by modifying one of the settings text files, if you can’t find how to do this on google let me know and I’ll help you out.
Hi Garett, I agree that this message in itself isn’t a problem really. However with the hugely wide settings you have shown I would expect you to be getting some strategies.
I believe I see the issue though 😉
you have shown the generated image with only 6000 generations in 54 minutes. This is barely anything so what I expect is happening is the browser is becoming inactive.
Watch this generated number for a minute or so to see how many generations you expect and then keep an eye on if it is moving up properly.
The browsers need to be active so if you are running several, minimize them so they are all visible and they should keep running.
Any further issues just post and will help out.
Hi Omkar,
I have a couple of questions also.
1. Have you tried doing this comparison with Mt4 and fsbpro instead of mt5 and fsbpro?
2. Why are you using mt5 rather than mt4?
Also have you compared a control point backtest (OHLC M1) in mt5 with the live trade results?
I have personally found mt5 backtester to be a real pain and pretty buggy. Something does look odd here, but I would recommend doing some tests using mt4 first.
Hi Robins,
I cant see any problem with the input file. It seems there could be an issue with your node.js installation though. I would try reinstalling this and if this doesn’t work I would get in tough with Popov himself. Cheers
hi Robins,
right click on the “.cmd” file and paste the text here please. I expect you have only asked it to download these pairs and timeframes but I could be wrong.
in the text file you will be able to edit the list of timeframes and symbols that you want to download.
Hi Jaylon,
I’d suggest for Petko to help you fully you provide three things:
1- the EA
2-the data imported
3-the EA studio settings file
Ill be able to take a quick look also if you provide this.
To me the most likely thing looks like this particular Strategy has been generated on different data and seems to perform extremely different on this data for some reason. Looks odd that it makes so few trades.
Hi Robins,
First point is that EA studio is undoubtedly the best software for this approach given its speed of generation and validation.
I know a trader who does exactly this with EA studio.
I would suggest that to be even more efficient that you save a pool of collections and validate first also, depending on the look back period I would expect most of the strategies you generated the week before to pass again this week (unless you are using an extremely short look back)
If looking for 5 trades in three days then I would expect that m5 and m15 timeframes will work better for this. Usually I expect my h1 EAs to make 1-2 trades a week.
Additionally can you share your trading background so I can help further if you have more questions. I would strongly recommend at this point that your live account is either very small and trading the smallest lot size available or a mock live account until you are getting stable results.