Hi

Well far too many replies for me to peruse them all, however my son looked at one of the amended codes for buy only.

Seems unclear what time frame this is for exactly. anyway he said it works best on the 3 minutes on Dax so ~I took a peek.

The code attached here would need amending for times and testing with the spread change times being ruled out as market closures etc can create a x10 value of the spread so backtesting a bit iffy for such a programme without this being factored in.

Anyway, so I will take a look at this, but for the code I looked at which is buy only over about a week and a half it didnt seem too bad, except that it was running 24hrs and there was no factoring in of the spread issues. So I would need to factor that in first.

What I’ve done here is looked at the losing trades noting they were during bearish runs, so just added an MTF clause to not buy if the 5 minutes MAs are bearish when trading the 3 minute chart. The program needs to run on the 1 minute chart to work with MTF. So it’s attached anyway, will probably see a much different picture if ruling out the spread change times, but before I do that I would need to check what times those are..

Lines 33 to 39 of code are a very simple amendment to rule out a bearish picture trading bullish using 2 MAs, could prob mod them to improve it too.

//BREAKOUT running on 1 minute timeframe for MTF//////////////////////
K=highest[1](close)     //IC*0.25
 
//EXPECTED DAILY RANGE (PERCANTAGE) = ENTRY/STOP////////////////////////
DP=0.007
 
//GRID STEP DISTANCE/ STOP////////////////////////////////////////////////
IC=((CLOSE*DP)/4)
GRIDSTEP=IC
 
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
//graph close as "close"
//GRAPH K AS "BREAKOUT"
//GRAPH START AS "START"
//GRAPH IC AS "AVERAGE RANGE"
//GRAPH floatingprofit as "floating profit"
//GRAPH BBfloatingprofit as "BB Floating Profit"
 
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Conditions to enter long positions
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
//TREND INDI////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
TFC=1
indicator1 = dema[18*TFC](ROC[13*TFC](ExponentialAverage[1*TFC]))
indicator2 = dema[18*TFC](ROC[13*TFC](ExponentialAverage[1*TFC]))
c1 = (indicator1 > indicator2[1])

//bearishness rule out based on MAs
timeframe (5 minutes, updateonclose)
indicator7 = Average[10](close)[1]
indicator8 = Average[20](close) [1]
c3 = (indicator7 < indicator8)//bearish MAs

timeframe (3 minutes, updateonclose)
 
//SET STOP ORDER INDI////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
TFC2=15
indicator10 = dema[20*TFC2](ROC[25*TFC2](ExponentialAverage[1*TFC2]))
indicator20 = dema[20*TFC2](ROC[25*TFC2](ExponentialAverage[1*TFC2]))
c10 = (indicator10 > indicator20[1])
//c20 = (indicator10[1] < indicator20[2])  AND C20
 
 
IF c1 AND C10  AND NOT ONMARKET THEN
START=K
BUY 1 CONTRACT AT K STOP
BUY 1 CONTRACT AT CLOSE+K+GRIDSTEP STOP
BUY 2 CONTRACT AT CLOSE+K+(GRIDSTEP*2) STOP
//BUY 4 CONTRACT AT START+(GRIDSTEP*3) STOP
ENDIF
 
IF c1 AND COUNTOFPOSITION=1 AND NOT C3 THEN
BUY 1 CONTRACT AT START+GRIDSTEP STOP
BUY 2 CONTRACT AT START+(GRIDSTEP*2) STOP
//BUY 4 CONTRACT AT START+(GRIDSTEP*3) STOP
ENDIF
 
IF c1 AND COUNTOFPOSITION=2 AND NOT C3 THEN
BUY 2 CONTRACT AT START+(GRIDSTEP*2) STOP
//BUY 4 CONTRACT AT START+(GRIDSTEP*3) STOP
ENDIF
 
//IF c1 AND COUNTOFPOSITION=4 THEN
//BUY 4 CONTRACT AT START+(GRIDSTEP*3) STOP
//ENDIF
 
 
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//  SAFETY STOPS MATTA
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
// Stops and targets
if countofposition=1 then
SELL AT START-GRIDSTEP STOP
ENDIF
 
if countofposition=2 then
SELL AT START STOP
ENDIF
if countofposition=4 then
SELL AT START+GRIDSTEP STOP
ENDIF
 
//if countofposition=8 then
//SELL AT START+(GRIDSTEP*2) STOP
//ENDIF
 
 
floatingprofit = (((close-positionprice)*pointvalue)*countofposition)/pipsize
 
 
//actual trade gains
MAfloatingprofit = average[20](floatingprofit) //[ONMARKET]
BBfloatingprofit = MAfloatingprofit - std[20](MAfloatingprofit)*1.8//0.25
 
 
 
FPP= (BBfloatingprofit)/((pointvalue*countofposition/pipsize))+positionprice
 
if onmarket  then
if FPP<CLOSE then
SELL AT FPP STOP
endif
ENDIF
 
 
 
//GRAPH FPP AS "floatingprofit stop FPP"
//GRAPH floatingprofit AS "floatingprofit"
//GRAPH CLOSE AS "Close"

Hope it helps..

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