Hi. Any rationale to Additional_Channels being set to 1 in the range of 0-8? Do you have slippage at default for 1.2.0 which is 0.5 (developer told me that corresponds to 5 under 1.1.6)? I have my AC set to 8 and running demo on EES FX and I got fewer trades than you did today. Thanks.

Hi gwrigh,

I'm honestly not sure how the different AC settings affect MDP's trades. I've been told that increasing additional channels causes MDP to enter trades a little earlier than AC=1, which can produce more trades overall. But a few of the trades often get in too early and end up as losers, so I'm not suree if that's something I wanted.

Anyway, I decided to play it conservatively and stick with the default settings for the most part. I have been using NO=0, AC=1, SO=4 (reduced from 8), FIFO=false, Use_Stop_Orders=true, Use_Trailing_Stops=true, Risk=1.5%. However, I lowered SO to 2 the other day, just to see if MDP ran smoother without as many simultaneous orders. But then we had the server disconnect debacle for the past two days, and most of my sl and tp modification orders couldn't get filled, and the original sl was passed over during the disconnect. So my losses were larger than usual. EES FX/ILQ have stated that I will be reimbursed for the losses though, so we'll see. In the end, however, I'll probably increase SO back to 4 and keep it there.

My trade execution and modify times have been very good for the most part -- 300ms - 500ms -- and usually always under 1 second or just slighty over during certain spikes. The only time they have been terrible was during the server freeze over the past two days. By the way, an ILQ rep told me that they found the source of the problem and it has been fixed. So we shouldn't have the same problem going forward. We'll soon see if that is correct or not. Good luck with your trading and take care...

Cheers,
Roger

Hi, did you try AC=0 or have you decided what the ideal values for NO, AC, and Slippage are? Thanks.

Sorry for the delay, I don't check this message area very much. Here's my current settings:

NO=0
AC=1
SO=1
FIFO=false
AutoECN=false
GroupOrders=false
StopOrders=true
Hard Trailing Stops=false
fixed lots= .1

I think everything else is default. I hope that helps out...

Thanks for the settings. Are you keeping Slippage at 0.5 with EES - is that working? Did you ever try AC of 0? I thought I saw you on Donnaforex saying you were going to try that. Thanks again.