BlueMonkey Real Money Live Test == Started Oct 2014 Discussion

bluemonkey posted:

hokie posted:

raviluke posted:

GooSe79 posted:

FXtrader2010 posted:

bluemonkey posted:
Ready for the new upcomming trading week? :)

wooohooooo :D

Yes awesome trading so far, Handling crazy move on EURGBP today well so far, we see, long term still think it going down despite the DD holding.

Awesome trading till margin call......same with the last account 🙄

It won't hit margin call if you have safe 30% stop loss as suggested by the seller

Yes, but I doubt the seller practices the 30% stop loss himself, otherwise his account would have been hit by a stop loss last week as I saw a floating loss up to 40+ % using default recommended settings on my account.

that is not correct. the account has not had drawdown over 12% last week.

A

Ok fine, I could not prove it, but how about today? Below is the copy and paste from the current open trading status from BlueMonkey in FPA:

As of 11/2/2014 at 8:23 pm EST:

Open Trades:
Ticket Open Time Type Size Item Price S / L T / P Price Commission Taxes Swap Profit Pips
1018442 2014.10.30 16:20 buy 0.01 eurusd 1.26250 0.00000 0.00000 1.24628 0.00 0.00 0.00 -16.22 -162
1020071 2014.10.30 18:00 buy 0.05 eurusd 1.26103 0.00000 0.00000 1.24628 0.00 0.00 0.00 -73.75 -148
1037020 2014.10.31 00:30 buy 0.03 eurusd 1.26020 0.00000 0.00000 1.24628 0.00 0.00 0.00 -41.76 -139
1060070 2014.10.31 17:00 buy 0.25 eurusd 1.25355 0.00000 0.00000 1.24628 0.00 0.00 0.00 -181.75 -73
1061136 2014.10.31 19:15 buy 0.02 eurusd 1.25294 0.00000 0.00000 1.24628 0.00 0.00 0.00 -13.32 -67
1073867 2014.11.02 22:45 buy 0.07 eurusd 1.25097 0.00000 0.00000 1.24628 0.00 0.00 0.00 -32.83 -47
1074874 2014.11.03 00:00 buy 0.02 eurusd 1.25032 0.00000 0.00000 1.24628 0.00 0.00 0.00 -8.08 -40
1077011 2014.11.03 00:45 sell 0.01 eurusd 1.24418 0.00000 0.00000 1.24655 0.00 0.00 0.00 -2.37 -24
  0.00 0.00 0.00 -370.08 -699
  Floating P/L: -370.08

Deposit/Withdrawal: 501.88 Credit Facility: 0.00
Closed Trade P/L: 478.74 Floating P/L: -370.08 Margin: 112.50
Balance: 980.62 Equity: 610.54 Free Margin: 498.04



So based on my calculation:


Current balance $980.62
Total Floating Loss: = -$370.08 or approximately -37%

Yet the positions are still open, not hit the 30% stop loss.
Please explain?

willgart posted:

raviluke posted:
This EA hit 30% stop loss for me today. Did it hit for anyone else?

certainly the vendor account hit it too...
but the account is refreshed few times a week only...
the forexpeacearmy published account already has more than 30% of DD.

As in my previous message, I doubt the vendor applies the 30% SL for his account in FPA.

Here is the snapshot of the open positions (copied from BM in FPA) as of 11/2/2014 at 8:23 pm EST:

Open Trades:
Ticket Open Time Type Size Item Price S / L T / P Price Commission Taxes Swap Profit Pips
1018442 2014.10.30 16:20 buy 0.01 eurusd 1.26250 0.00000 0.00000 1.24628 0.00 0.00 0.00 -16.22 -162
1020071 2014.10.30 18:00 buy 0.05 eurusd 1.26103 0.00000 0.00000 1.24628 0.00 0.00 0.00 -73.75 -148
1037020 2014.10.31 00:30 buy 0.03 eurusd 1.26020 0.00000 0.00000 1.24628 0.00 0.00 0.00 -41.76 -139
1060070 2014.10.31 17:00 buy 0.25 eurusd 1.25355 0.00000 0.00000 1.24628 0.00 0.00 0.00 -181.75 -73
1061136 2014.10.31 19:15 buy 0.02 eurusd 1.25294 0.00000 0.00000 1.24628 0.00 0.00 0.00 -13.32 -67
1073867 2014.11.02 22:45 buy 0.07 eurusd 1.25097 0.00000 0.00000 1.24628 0.00 0.00 0.00 -32.83 -47
1074874 2014.11.03 00:00 buy 0.02 eurusd 1.25032 0.00000 0.00000 1.24628 0.00 0.00 0.00 -8.08 -40
1077011 2014.11.03 00:45 sell 0.01 eurusd 1.24418 0.00000 0.00000 1.24655 0.00 0.00 0.00 -2.37 -24
  0.00 0.00 0.00 -370.08 -699
  Floating P/L: -370.08

Deposit/Withdrawal: 501.88 Credit Facility: 0.00
Closed Trade P/L: 478.74 Floating P/L: -370.08 Margin: 112.50
Balance: 980.62 Equity: 610.54 Free Margin: 498.04



So based on my calculation:


Current balance $980.62
Total Floating Loss: = -$370.08 or approximately -37% which is greater than 30% S/L.

Yet the positions are still open, not hitting the 30% stop loss.

Hi,
     I am with FXCM. Two individual loss trades got closed for me, one on Friday, the other on Sunday night just a little while ago. Then I closed all the trades manually before it started the steep drop. FXCM is 1:50 and does not permit hedging so the EA would not open those trades. I turned BMEA off for now. CKD

Just a question: is there any way to 'protect' the account for example when the account S/L is greater thatn 30% it closes the positions and stop de EA... because whe know that most of those EA's does not recovery from huge stop loss usually they blow out the account

thanks

@bluemonkey Hey Alex, you will suspend update at every DD? smart. 😇

jhnnavoigh posted:
@bluemonkey Hey Alex, you will suspend update at every DD? smart. 😇

yep, always the same behavior :)
and check...
https://www.forexpeacearmy.com/metatrader_expert_advisor/blue_monkey/real/analytics
the equity used was 39.4% !!! higher than 30% and the trades were not closed....
so for sure the official vendor account uses a different setup.

jhnnavoigh posted:
@bluemonkey Hey Alex, you will suspend update at every DD? smart. 😇

not at all, myfxbook was updated a few hours ago.

A

bluemonkey posted:

jhnnavoigh posted:
@bluemonkey Hey Alex, you will suspend update at every DD? smart. 😇

not at all, myfxbook was updated a few hours ago.

A

@bluemonkey
Hi Alex, what's your EA setting now ?
According to your trading log, it looks like not default setting.
Thank you.

Hey Alex,

You seemed to kill it today and great job for you but I had almost the same size account as you at the time and you seemed to do a much larrger profit and pip take home than me. I mean I won either way but you really outdid me by A LOT! How is this possible? Also, my basket closed this am (us time) and you still have trades going and mine is quite. What is the reason for that?

askew8 posted:
Hey Alex,

You seemed to kill it today and great job for you but I had almost the same size account as you at the time and you seemed to do a much larrger profit and pip take home than me. I mean I won either way but you really outdid me by A LOT! How is this possible? Also, my basket closed this am (us time) and you still have trades going and mine is quite. What is the reason for that?

Hello @askew8 ,

Do you have any long positions now ?
Bluemonkey's myfxbook log has some long positions, but I don't have them.

No no long positions. All my positions closed in profit so I'm not really complaining but I just wanted to see how he had different wins that what I had... to me a win is a win and it was hedging for me and I won on both sides so I happy either way. Just wondering

askew8 posted:
No no long positions. All my positions closed in profit so I'm not really complaining but I just wanted to see how he had different wins that what I had... to me a win is a win and it was hedging for me and I won on both sides so I happy either way. Just wondering

Hello @askew8 ,

Thanks for your information.
I have used bluemonkey for a while.
Sometimes Bluemonkey myfxbook trading log is different from mine,
like this case, bluemonkey has long positions but my account doesn't have.

@bluemonkey
Would you share your EA setting for clients ?
It would be better for building your credits.

askew8 posted:
Hey Alex,

You seemed to kill it today and great job for you but I had almost the same size account as you at the time and you seemed to do a much larrger profit and pip take home than me. I mean I won either way but you really outdid me by A LOT! How is this possible? Also, my basket closed this am (us time) and you still have trades going and mine is quite. What is the reason for that?

I am in the exactly same situation. I have no openned trades right now!

maiamrn posted:

askew8 posted:
Hey Alex,

You seemed to kill it today and great job for you but I had almost the same size account as you at the time and you seemed to do a much larrger profit and pip take home than me. I mean I won either way but you really outdid me by A LOT! How is this possible? Also, my basket closed this am (us time) and you still have trades going and mine is quite. What is the reason for that?

I am in the exactly same situation. I have no openned trades right now!

did it open trades at all?

Yes trades did open and close sucessfully! You just seemed to have more positions and took in a much larger profi than I did so I was just wondering how that happened... I'm not complaining because either way I won but it was nowhere close to yours.

askew8 posted:
Yes trades did open and close sucessfully! You just seemed to have more positions and took in a much larger profi than I did so I was just wondering how that happened... I'm not complaining because either way I won but it was nowhere close to yours.

The problem was with our broker, it didnt allow all trades to be closed and after closing a few trades some trades were left hanging. Therefore the EA recognized the hanging trades and continued the trading as if the bath is still open.

so basically it was a broker issue.

A

So it worked out well for you! Lucky you! Green is always good!

askew8 posted:
So it worked out well for you! Lucky you! Green is always good!

It did, and did for everyone else too :)

bluemonkey posted:

askew8 posted:
Yes trades did open and close sucessfully! You just seemed to have more positions and took in a much larger profi than I did so I was just wondering how that happened... I'm not complaining because either way I won but it was nowhere close to yours.

The problem was with our broker, it didnt allow all trades to be closed and after closing a few trades some trades were left hanging. Therefore the EA recognized the hanging trades and continued the trading as if the bath is still open.

so basically it was a broker issue.

A

Hello @bluemonkey ,

This week clients reported no long positions opened in myfxbook,
and bluemonkey had some long positions.
Is it broker issue or EA setting ?
Thank you.