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.”
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
}
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.
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.
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.
i have my version too and notes about what to change if any1 wants to. had no idea there were so many cowabunga EAs lol thought i was the only 1 but good thing im not
I downloaded it and backtested it on M15 from May 2009 to August 2009 and my balance shrunk from 25000 to 24301 … doesnt seem to fit in with the publiched results. Was wondering if you guys could try it and see if it works?
:mad:i have heard about a new feature of meta trader 4. it allows the use of excels for charting and graphing that also without the knowledge of typical language. can any one tell any thing more about it.
I believe you are referring to DDE linking? You can use it to display prices from MT4 in Excel and then use VBA to code a system…but getting MT4 to read your signals from Excel is rather more tricky but can be done.
You might find it easier to just code in Mql (MT4), than coding in both Mql and VBA
Did you open a H4 chart and leave it open before opening the M15 chart and attaching the CowabungaEA ? You can also then load the original Cowabunga Indicators for monitoring.
btw I’m currently running a ‘controlled’ test for the CowabungaEA with the hope of developing and establishing quality ‘settings’, an automated AvoidNews addon and an additional Neural Net adviser between the selected currency pairs.
The test is running on a $5000 AlpariUK-Demo account, trading GBP/USD , GBP/JPY , GBP/CHF - All 3 currency pairs will trade from 08:00 to 22:00 GMT on the ‘default’ settings.
Live MT4stats are available - you can find the thread in > Expert Advisors and Automated Trading.
