Comments on: Historical Results of FAPturbo Forex Robot

By: David Tough

David Tough — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:48:16 +0000

Well, 4pm to 8pm EST would be 10pm to 2am CET, so it’s roughly in line with what we’re seeing. A 1am Friday trade for me would be at 7pm Thursday EST. (Geographically speaking, CET has a GMT offset of 1).

By: aagarcia

aagarcia — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:39:22 +0000

Hmmm,my GMT offset is 2 as well and it takes trades between 4 and 8 pm EST. Interesting. Explanations?

By: David Tough

David Tough — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:23:20 +0000

@thesecret, You’re right, when you run the tests with MM set to false, the risk reductor has no effect. Sorry, my mistake, However, as Mary says, the lot size changes only work when MM is set to false.

@aagarcia, I guess it depends on what your GMT offset is. In my case it was set to 2, and in the backtest, the Scalper took trades on almost every Friday over a three month period, usually between 00:30 and 03:00 CET (which would still be Thursday evening EST, so markets are definitely open).

By: aagarcia

aagarcia — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:50:23 +0000

How can Scalper be traded on Fridays when set to true? I’ve seen my scalper always run from 4 pm to latest 8 pm EST. If this is the case then the markets would be closed!

By: thesecret

thesecret — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:34:16 +0000

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By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:27:13 +0000

Dave, thanks for passing along your back-testing results.

One difference I’ve found while live trading is that when I set the lots at 0.5, MM=true, FAPT used its own set of lots, going as low as 0.04 most of the time. I had to change MM to false to get FAPT to use my 0.5 lots. Since the change, all trades have been at the 0.5 amount, with much better profit.

By: thesecret

thesecret — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:33:47 +0000

Nice. Scalper is awesome. I think u made a mistake, u wrote “Changing the value of risk reductor only has an effect when MM is set to false”, doesnt LRR have effect only when MM is set to true?

From guide:
“Scalper_LotsRiskReductor – Percent of free margin used to open new order. Can be from 1 to 100. It is used only if Scalper_UseMM = true”