Fxqu v9.95

Still going... Much lower trading frequency with focus on exhaustion levels. 

FXQU v9.33 one size

What takes 20 + years to find? Algorithms that can identity profitable opportunities across all timeframes for all  major currency pairs and across varying market conditions.

Whilst seemingly great systems work for certain pairs against certain timeframes it is not a sustainable way to trade.

FXQU_A1 v2.53

A small change to the volatility detection algorithm was made last night and deployed across two of the bots.  One demo and one live prototype account.

The battle between spreads, noise and true price movement makes for an extremely difficult challenge.. And having a robot make decisions influenced by these factors is very difficult.  However the bots never get tired.. They only get it right or wrong.

Quartz v1.89 remains untouched.

FXQU_A1 small average durations

FXQU_A1 Sapphire is unwinding its exposure to the usd pounding nicely.

However I am now changing the approach of the robots.   I am changing the settings for all of the accounts to enable much smaller average trade durations - dropping from 2 days to 2 hours.   This will help avoid the broker limits being hit.

Three new accounts are being set up for this reason.. FXQU_A1 Quartz, FXQU_A1 Graphite and FXQU_A1 Topaz.  I will be phasing out the original FXQU_A1 Sapphire account once the open trades complete their natural close outs.

FXQU_A1 re-factoring

Latest version is v1.78  ...  I had to refactor the engine to cater for broker limits (max trade numbers).  This meant some prolonged testing periods across all the robots - it also meant that a minor bug crept into the deployed code.  This is now fixed however I am monitoring the internally generated messages created during the robot execution window.

FXQU_A2 update

Since mid December the robots have been pushed... Constantly trying to manoeuvre through positions to get the best outcome in a one directional market.

I have changed the FXQU_A2 account to very small time frames as of this morning.

Latest version is v1. 77

I had to recode some data blocks that reduce the level of broker server messaging following a warning from IC markets.... Apparently 2000 hits per day is a lot... Unfortunately that's not a lot for FXQU_A1!

FXQU_A1 update.. Limits hit

With the strong directional decline of the usd pairs I noticed some trades were not completing. Further investigation showed the robots were hitting the Max allowed number of trades per account (in line with broker guidelines) . I have changed the code accordingly and have deployed the latest version 1.72 across the robots. 

Overall the next week or two the new version will be fully flushed through the trades. 

FXQU_A1 2018 .. 1st update

Happy New Year .. the last week of December 2017 saw a general dumping of USD and this has meant a build up of trades for most USD pairs.   

A minor new version was deployed to all Robots (v1.58) - it includes an updated, stricter, dynamic throttling algorithm.

Also looking at including the first crypto-currency pair : BTC/USD. but will check it over first.

Thats all for now .. 2018 here we go.

FXQU_A1 and A2 update

All 6 robots are hammering along today... Movement in the Euro pairs and aud have caused a large number of transactions to open.  The 2 CPU 2 gb vps is struggling.

Dynamic throttling is getting a work out as the robots attempt to minimise exposure to the sudden directional movement.

No new releases...

FXQU_A1 ECB

The big ECB press conference is due in a few hours and some heavy volatility is expected... I will let the robots as is and see how they handle it.  I expect there could be some 200+ pip movements in some pairs.. Probably Euro exotics.. The stop losses may be hit is some of the smaller time frames...

No new releases since last update

FXQU_A1 update.. Quiet

No real news.. All five robots chugging along. Some all time highs were hit late week.. MME has now passed over 70,000 trades in 5 months.

There are some further risk management changes in the pipeline as well as some potential market volatility detection algorithms..but they are at the planning stage so far...

FXQU_A1 update... So quiet on G4

FXQU_A1_MME has passed 66,000 trades and has almost hit its all time high in return.

FXQU_A1_Majors_T1 is at a new high and has closed all but 4 trades.

No new releases but some modifications are being developed.

FXQU_A1 metals rounding

Minor release was deployed on Friday night that addressed a rounding bug for non-forex instruments...

Quiet Monday otherwise...

FXQU_A1 metals

I have started a 5th instance of FXQU_A1 running with commodities and indices only. It's with AxiTrader and is set to low / medium frequency.

FXQU_A1 update.. Deep movement

Following the FOMC meeting yesterday there was significant movement across USD pairs... FXQU_A1_MME currently in full flight, which is expected as it is tuned to be high frequency... The other robots moving as well however no where near like MME.

Thinking about starting a journal of forexfactory.. I need to get the junior status promoted up before i can.  The aim is to educate potential traders on the dynamic time frames.

Anyways more high impact news coming today and tonight. No further updates to the robots.

FXQU_A1 update.. GBP holding levels

No change to the dynamic throttling. Testing the change on my custom tick fx platform indicated it was not beneficial.

In the meantime GBP holding levels... Quiet Monday morning. Robots are being stretched... The dynamic throttling is controlling the scaling and the draw down is being limited.