[WIP] Cowabunga MT4 Expert Advisor

[Big Be]

GentooGeek,
Thank you.

You said,
"I too am working on an EA for this, but I am as of yet unwilling to release my source code. My backtesting shows the system opening positions when the indicator says to, but I am still losing money. I won't release a losing EA."

Does the trades it takes match Big Pippin's?

I wouldn't let the profit be my standard - and here is why:
Most systems when automated do a lot worse than when manually traded.
I have observed that the computer can not SEE that which the trader's eye sees. It only calculates based on the rules you give it. It sees every match of the rules, including many, many that you did not intend.

For that reason I hope an Expert Advisor (EA) can be created that matches what Big Pippin says and does, then ask him to look at a (long) series of actual trades it takes (such as with the Strategy Tester), and say which trades he would not take and WHY. There may be a little filter (rule) or two that he does not even realize he applies.

Collaboration may get us there. If we stick to the plan. In most EA thread's at ForexTSD, collaboration involves adding every indicator except the kitchen sink. To me that means the original idea is inadequate, at least for automating.

You said,
"If you limit all your logic to the first tick in a bar, things will run faster and be more accurate to the system."

Sounds great! Do you know how to code that?

Big Be

[GentooGeek]

Big Be,

As far as I can tell my EA opens trades when Big Pippin's does. I have requested an excel file from him with a history of the trades that his system has made so that I can cross check without having to go to each blog post and manually check things. I have not yet gotten my system to exit the way that Big Pippin does. My code is already growing fairly complex, and I think I may need a small rewrite to get things straightened out.

As for coding on the first tick of a bar:
if(Volume[0] == 1){
//do something
}

GentooGeek

[Big Be]

GentooGeek,
Thank you. Would you like the MM code I referred to? (It is short.)
Can I e-mail you?

Big Be

[GentooGeek]

The MM code would be interesting. I have not yet played much with any money managment tools.

GentooGeek

[Big Be]

GentooGeek,
As you set your user settings to NOT receive e-mail, I cannot send to you unless you email me with an address.

I want to send this privately.

Big Be

[GentooGeek]

Before I wrote my last post, I allowed users to email me. You should be able to email me.

[kampf]

Hey guys - been looking for a Cowabunga EA and came across this thread.. Any progress on it? I'm trying to learn MQL4 so that one day I can give back to the pipping community what they've given to me.

Keep up the awesome work!

[cosgrove]

Did you ever get the swing high/low code working? I will post mine if yours doesn't work sufficiently.

[GentooGeek]

Hey guys,

Sorry for not responding. I have been busy with other things and haven't had a chance to look at this. It has been a while since I looked at this, but from what I can recall I was having trouble getting the backtests to match the trades that were posted. I now have a machine on which I could run this in a demo account to forward test, but it looks like the surfer dude is on vacation.

I am not sure if I will have much if anytime to work more on this before summer.

GentooGeek

[fmulyono]

Hi all,
I was wondering, who has the *latest* code on the EA?

I'm working on Cowabunga EA myself too, but it was made from scratch and I'm sure there's still a lot of things to do. I have some spare time to work on this one, and I'm looking forward find people who are also interested in it.