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Hey Centcel,
The problem is very obvious – you have 2076 bars!!! You can not create strategies with so small number of bars. Look again at the videos of Petko. He uses around 100 000 bars on M15. Or you look at the MetaTrader-Demo Data source in EA Studio it has over 100k bars for the assets.
2k bars is small number mate, you need to collect the data or find a broker with more bars. But all at the beginning show a small number of bars. You can guess why 🙂
Hello Centcel,
the best thing to do is to start with small criteria, not strict. With the time when you collect more bars, you will be able to increase it. For example, try to make stricter the criteria every new month. Increase the Number of Trades from 300 to 320, 340..every new month. Because with every new month you will have more bars. It worked for me before…
What I do now is to create many EAs, and after that filter them in the collection. Not looking so much to make it strict.
Me too 🙂 Just with the time I increased it(stricter) when I collected more bars. I think Petko uses much stricter criteria, but in the courses, he shows less because the students will not have a lot of data when watching the courses.
I think it is something with the VPS, normally it should work without an issue. It is enough you are connected to the net. Try what Jacpin says.
Hey Jacpin,
Sorry to hear that you had personal issues, I hope everything will be perfect soon with you.
Actually, we use pretty similar Acceptance criteria, only I use Profit factor above 1.2 for the whole period and r-squared – 60%.
What is the reason you use different r-squared in the Complete backtest and in the In/Out of sample?
Thanks for sharing!
Hi Simone, Welcome! Thapelo gave you the best piece of advice – organize your time and take the maximum of EA Studio.
At the beginning I was doing that only during the weekend, I succeeded to create some nice EAs, but when I started running the reactor daily, I got much more profitable with more stable results.
Feel free to ask questions. The Forum is the best place to learn.
Hello Petko,
Thank you for the advice, I get your point. I know that, but somehow I really force my self-trading with more EAs. This time I think to listen to you from the beginning, not after mistaken 🙂
It was an extreme month for me. I did fantastic for the first 10 days. After that, I increased a bit the lots, hit another 15%, then a small loss about 4%, but at the end, I am totally up with 22,7% which is just great for me.
Hey Jacpin,
Hope you are fine, I haven’t heart from you in a while. I have tested your method with the win/loss and I found it really applicable.
I was wondering if you have any updated on it?
Here is one strategy for Gold which I started to use recently and it shows fantastic results:
These are the rules:
Exactly, in these 3 we have enough diversification between assets that it is even hard to figure which ones to trade because they are so many!
Hey Roman,
Cheers, mate! I am just in a small glass of whiskey after work. Glad to hear you are doing profits for the last 6 months.
I succeeded to become profitable in 12.2017 after having the EA Studio and FSB Pro 5 months earlier. Since this time I had one month just -17 pips which I consider as a Break Even. However, before that I had a lot of losses, struggling between manual and algo trading, but Petko answered pretty much all my questions in his courses and some 1:1 sessions.
Regarding the lagging indicators, I listen again to Petko, and I create more EAs on M1 chart with higher time frames filters. This way we can catch some of the moves before they are gone.
Your story is somehow motivating, because you had a piece of good basic knowledge, and now it is just a matter of time how you will apply it in FSB Pro.
I do combine EA Studio and FSB Pro and trying to stay with 50:50 of the EAs created with both programs.
Same with you, FSB Pro
Hey Bart,
I tried before but then I figured that there is no volatility there. Also, the shares are driven a lot by news, releases, different events for the companies which means that price patterns really do not repeat there.
In Forex we have similar(not same) patterns and it is much easier to use the strategy builders to generate EAs on Historical data.
Anyway, EA Studio will generate EAs for you but once again I would stick to Forex.
Hi Roman,
thanks for the replay. Yes, I have been experimenting for quite a long time now with the FSB Pro and I am just looking for the right way to go. EA Studio brings me great EAs with simple rules but I just know that with FSB Pro I can create great EAs… I just feel it 🙂
Can you give some details about your discretionary trading?