This journal is to keep record of my bot and to see where it needs adjustments until I consider that it is workable,
Will post results daily - weekly and when ready will go live,
Cheers
FX
Interesting week, results were good making 30 odd pip trades and the 5 pip trailing stop working fine then about two days ago the bot stopped placing stop or profit criteria in the trades, very frustrating so going to rewrite the whole script today and see what happens just thought I’d better do a post to keep integrity instead of being in crossed in scripts.
Will share again very soon still looking at going live within two weeks 
Cheers
Fx
85960791 2018.01.12 05:14:29 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.35495 1.35505 0.00000 2018.01.12 09:18:03 1.35505 -0.70 0.00 0.00 1.00
85999841 2018.01.12 09:18:03 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.35507 1.35407 0.00000 2018.01.12 10:02:26 1.35407 -0.70 0.00 0.00 -10.00
86015201 2018.01.12 10:09:15 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.35402 1.36083 0.00000 2018.01.12 11:15:50 1.36083 -0.70 0.00 0.00 68.10
86048181 2018.01.12 11:15:53 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36085 1.36140 0.00000 2018.01.12 11:48:53 1.36140 -0.70 0.00 0.00 5.50
86057635 2018.01.12 11:49:48 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36144 1.36149 0.00000 2018.01.12 12:38:24 1.36149 -0.70 0.00 0.00 0.50
86067903 2018.01.12 12:38:34 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36157 1.36164 0.00000 2018.01.12 12:56:06 1.36164 -0.70 0.00 0.00 0.70
86071411 2018.01.12 12:59:51 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36137 1.36344 0.00000 2018.01.12 13:40:05 1.36344 -0.70 0.00 0.00 20.70
86082599 2018.01.12 13:40:06 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36344 1.36345 0.00000 2018.01.12 14:04:16 1.36345 -0.70 0.00 0.00 0.10
86086590 2018.01.12 14:04:17 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36349 1.36350 0.00000 2018.01.12 15:20:14 1.36350 -0.70 0.00 0.00 0.10
86100318 2018.01.12 15:25:44 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36383 1.36283 0.00000 2018.01.12 15:30:01 1.36283 -0.70 0.00 0.00 -10.00
86103102 2018.01.12 15:30:05 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36276 1.36280 0.00000 2018.01.12 15:30:46 1.36280 -0.70 0.00 0.00 0.40
86106050 2018.01.12 15:30:47 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36282 1.36351 0.00000 2018.01.12 15:36:58 1.36351 -0.70 0.00 0.00 6.90
86118208 2018.01.12 15:41:36 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36235 1.36135 0.00000 2018.01.12 15:44:19 1.36135 -0.70 0.00 0.00 -10.00
86119712 2018.01.12 15:44:19 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36135 1.36405 0.00000 2018.01.12 15:45:53 1.36405 -0.70 0.00 0.00 27.00
86121941 2018.01.12 15:45:54 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36382 1.36383 0.00000 2018.01.12 15:46:04 1.36383 -0.70 0.00 0.00 0.10
86122414 2018.01.12 15:46:04 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36416 1.36800 0.00000 2018.01.12 15:46:39 1.36800 -0.70 0.00 0.00 38.40
86124725 2018.01.12 15:46:39 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36811 1.36711 0.00000 2018.01.12 15:47:20 1.36711 -0.70 0.00 0.00 -10.00
86126260 2018.01.12 15:47:38 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36655 1.36760 0.00000 2018.01.12 15:52:16 1.36760 -0.70 0.00 0.00 10.50
86130495 2018.01.12 15:52:25 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36777 1.36677 0.00000 2018.01.12 15:53:49 1.36677 -0.70 0.00 0.00 -10.00
86135255 2018.01.12 15:58:12 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36579 1.36479 0.00000 2018.01.12 16:02:52 1.36479 -0.70 0.00 0.00 -10.00
86139019 2018.01.12 16:02:52 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36480 1.36648 0.00000 2018.01.12 16:35:17 1.36648 -0.70 0.00 0.00 16.80
86151502 2018.01.12 16:35:24 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36651 1.36706 0.00000 2018.01.12 17:08:49 1.36706 -0.70 0.00 0.00 5.50
86161300 2018.01.12 17:08:50 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36706 1.36706 0.00000 2018.01.12 17:48:08 1.36706 -0.70 0.00 0.00 0.00
86169405 2018.01.12 17:48:27 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36720 1.36847 0.00000 2018.01.12 18:01:52 1.36847 -0.70 0.00 0.00 12.70
86176357 2018.01.12 18:07:49 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36819 1.36888 0.00000 2018.01.12 18:59:07 1.36888 -0.70 0.00 0.00 6.90
86189678 2018.01.12 18:59:30 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36890 1.36790 0.00000 2018.01.12 19:25:59 1.36790 -0.70 0.00 0.00 -10.00
86194337 2018.01.12 19:26:19 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36867 1.36868 0.00000 2018.01.12 19:36:29 1.36868 -0.70 0.00 0.00 0.10
86196011 2018.01.12 19:37:19 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.36876 1.37093 0.00000 2018.01.12 20:40:56 1.37093 -0.70 0.00 0.00 21.70
86210356 2018.01.12 20:43:40 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.37122 1.37389 0.00000 2018.01.12 23:06:23 1.37389 -0.70 0.00 0.00 26.70
86235079 2018.01.12 23:06:24 buy 0.10 gbpusd 1.37393 1.37293 0.00000 2018.01.12 23:48:26 1.37293 -0.70 0.00 0.00 -10.00
so after re-writing the whole system this is the results that i got last night so pretty happy just got to go thru the results to see if there was any alarm bells
cheers
Fx
Ok had a few issues pop up during the week so sorted them out on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Results were good, thursday up 35 pips and friday up 65.8 for the whole days, time to restrict robi too London NY sessions for a few days then release this puppy on the live market starting on a micro at first, around the middle of next week.
cheers
Fx
Ok after another good night 158 pips last night I have gone live with robi and have it on myfxbook trading on micros at first will keep updates coming, must admit a little nervous going live lol like a nervous parent I guess 
Cheers
Fx
Well first night live and it does not respond the same way as it did on demo, over 100 trades for London and ny sessions but good result in that we made over 70 pips but the bot did entry a lot of trades that were not legit.
Have connected it to myfxbook but at this point have not been able to make it public, will post that when I get it working but for the first night good results.
Cheers
Fx
They rarely do… have to ask your Broker to get your Demo to utilise the same settings as your live account…Spreads, Commissions etc… Ask about the Data feed as well…
Good Luck getting your Broker to do that for you, just another “edge” they don’t like to give up…
Thanks trendswithbenefits, i don’t think ill bother with the broker ill just concentrate on the live trading and again thnx for the input always welcome.
No results for Friday as we got a thunder and lightning storm go thru and take out a power pole which intern took out the internet and funny enough the power as well, go figure. didnt get either back until after market closed for weekend.
went to the pub and worked on the bot and believe i have adjusted it to execute correctly on the live market will test on Monday morning before letting robi on the London and NY sessions.
Looking forward to Monday to checkout results and will post results.
Also when i figure out what i need to do with myfxbook to allow me to go public with it ill post that here as well if anyone wants a geezer at it.
cheers
Fx
Hey Fxexpat… As you are probably finding… a problem with Bots (Logic Dependent) is the more they trade ie: more time left running , the more they tend to get “tangled” and start to lose more trades than they win… All my Bot’s have a “Total Trades Limit” parameter which limits the amount of trades completed before stalling the Bot. ie: 6 trades completed Bot stops.
I also include a “Trades Open Limit” Parameter which controls how many positions are open at one time…Now performance is always better if left unlimited but Margin and Drawdown can become on issue the longer the Bot continues to run.
So I set it to 1 or 2 positions open (Lot size dependent) at one time to cap margin at a set value and limit drawdown if the trade(s) should move against you.
Just of interest what language are you coding?
Hope this is of help…
Thanks Trendswithbenefits,
Already have trade limits set to 1 open position at a time, the issue arose from when I copied the ea to my live acc a figure was reset which I missed and now have reset it.
Monday will be another run to iron out anything else that pops up.
It normally would do 10-20 trades for the London and NY open times combined which is a lot better than the 101 trades it did on Thursday .
Robi (the bot) is in early days so I do expect some issues over the next little while, so no upsets just looking at improvements as needed. He’s a work in progress and always better to do it live as one learns more when live.
Thanks for the input and will look at your suggestions carefully as you seem to have sound experience behind your communication.
Cheers
Fx
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Sorry mate didn’t see last bit of your post, I use EA-builder for my programming as it was referred to me by Fitz a guy who studies forex robots and ranks them, he came highly recommended.
Cheers again
Fx
by the way, without bots the market isn’t so bright for many people. Bots have already a long time ago integrated themselves into the market and help their traders to make investments on time or just inform about what grew and what fell down to certain minimums.
How did u create your hot