Volatility Factor - Alpari Real讨论

looks cool

why is this account in gold and not a currency?

   mistificator posted:
   looks cool

The growth curve looks cool, indeed, but to me the EA suddenly looks totally not cool. Reason? Too much averaging down. See here a basket that went all the way to 8 trades:

02.16.2012 17:01 02.22.2012 11:31 GBPUSD Sell 0.10 - - 1.57124 1.57554 -43.0 -25.58 5d -0.49%
02.16.2012 17:25 02.22.2012 11:31 GBPUSD Sell 0.10 - - 1.57285 1.57552 -26.7 -16.29 5d -0.31%
02.16.2012 17:28 02.22.2012 11:31 GBPUSD Sell 0.10 - - 1.57462 1.57552 -9.0 -6.20 5d -0.12%
02.16.2012 17:36 02.22.2012 11:31 GBPUSD Sell 0.10 - - 1.57657 1.57545 11.2 5.32 5d 0.10%
02.16.2012 23:47 02.22.2012 11:31 GBPUSD Sell 0.10 - - 1.57994 1.57543 45.1 24.64 5d 0.47%
02.17.2012 11:13 02.22.2012 11:31 GBPUSD Sell 0.10 - - 1.58173 1.57535 63.8 35.57 5d 0.69%
02.17.2012 11:36 02.22.2012 11:31 GBPUSD Sell 0.10 - - 1.58473 1.57526 94.7 53.18 4d 1.04%
02.20.2012 00:17 02.22.2012 11:31 GBPUSD Sell 0.10 - - 1.58615 1.57522 109.3 61.81 2d 1.22%

seems another kind of Martingle ?

   EA5918 posted:
   seems another kind of Martingle ?

grid but not martingale

Experienced people know that the grid system should be tested at least 10 years of backtest. This EA has backtets only from 26/08/2008!!! I think that backtest from 2007 will account blow up. Very similar to one EA, which is free. I wonder if that you guess?

https://www.volatility-factor.com/backtests/gbpusd_0,1_lot.htm

piece of carp just like WSFR...

WSFR is crap? Really? And why is that? Please do tell.

   maxoverkill posted:
   WSFR is crap? Really? And why is that? Please do tell.

https://www.myfxbook.com/members/jd5503/wsfr/120393

That stats look nasty, but there are no informations about risk used and there are unsupported pairs. Could you give me more info about settings?

nasty? u ain't see nothing yet...here, lol 😝😝😝

https://www.myfxbook.com/members/jd5503/wsfr2/123116

Agreed, I've seen the best results on GBPUSD and EURUSD ONLY ... risk lvl 10.

   Meta4r3x posted:
   nasty? u ain't see nothing yet...here, lol 😝😝😝

https://www.myfxbook.com/members/jd5503/wsfr2/123116

He traded unsupported pairs and he played with SL. Look at his worst trade, -1323 pips. He probably used suicide mode ;)

What are the settings on this Volatility Factor account?

Also, why do you not allow back-testing to before 2008?

   NextLevelForex posted:
   

   mistificator posted:
   looks cool

The growth curve looks cool, indeed, but to me the EA suddenly looks totally not cool. Reason? Too much averaging down. See here a basket that went all the way to 8 trades:

02.16.2012 17:01 02.22.2012 11:31 GBPUSD Sell 0.10 - - 1.57124 1.57554 -43.0 -25.58 5d -0.49%
02.16.2012 17:25 02.22.2012 11:31 GBPUSD Sell 0.10 - - 1.57285 1.57552 -26.7 -16.29 5d -0.31%
02.16.2012 17:28 02.22.2012 11:31 GBPUSD Sell 0.10 - - 1.57462 1.57552 -9.0 -6.20 5d -0.12%
02.16.2012 17:36 02.22.2012 11:31 GBPUSD Sell 0.10 - - 1.57657 1.57545 11.2 5.32 5d 0.10%
02.16.2012 23:47 02.22.2012 11:31 GBPUSD Sell 0.10 - - 1.57994 1.57543 45.1 24.64 5d 0.47%
02.17.2012 11:13 02.22.2012 11:31 GBPUSD Sell 0.10 - - 1.58173 1.57535 63.8 35.57 5d 0.69%
02.17.2012 11:36 02.22.2012 11:31 GBPUSD Sell 0.10 - - 1.58473 1.57526 94.7 53.18 4d 1.04%
02.20.2012 00:17 02.22.2012 11:31 GBPUSD Sell 0.10 - - 1.58615 1.57522 109.3 61.81 2d 1.22%

Remus found 8 open positions. Birt's EA Review website stated 4 positions max. Can the developer please share the details of what this strategy does.

I also noticed the recent losses, Does the EA close the positions before the weekend? Is that the reason for closing down the latest positions and not stacking more to the floating loss

The max basket size is one of the EA parameters (to be precise, the parameter actually tells how many positions to open when averaging down, so it would be 7 or 3 in our case). I bet the recent close of the EURUSD basket and the fact that there are no new GPBUSD positions opened in the current basket is because they changed the basket size for this official account, from 8 to 4.

The default 'maxnegs' is 3, so it will add the original position, plus 3 more, by default. You can set this as high as you want, but in their backtests they show that 3 is the best option for least drawdown and max profitability factor. That being said, I have personally set mine to 1, so it will do initial position + 1. You can even set it to 0 if you want.

   jagsfx1 posted:
   why is this account in gold and not a currency?

good idea ,maybe in the near future we'll all have to fund our acc in gold,good for crisis mode and the feds are devaluating the us $ like crazyl

   Meta4r3x posted:
   nasty? u ain't see nothing yet...here, lol 😝😝😝

https://www.myfxbook.com/members/jd5503/wsfr2/123116

you are not serious when you show that as a proof to denigrate wfr?

what i like is to see bt before 2008,for me this is the the biggest turn off about that ea. only ignorant or stupid people will buy this without any more proofs