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Has anyone successfully generated Non Forex based EA’s?

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lsburrows

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8 years ago #113871

After having a sizable account eliminated in three minutes when the Swiss National Bank removed the currency peg in January I have turned my thoughts to EA’s based on stocks and indices.  So far I have not read of anyone who has been successful in this area in this forum.  One member posed the question recently but did not receive any comments and issued a statement awhile later stating that they assumed that the answer was zero.

 

I will ask again.  Has anyone been successful using Strategy Quant in developing successful EA’s based on anything other than Forex.  If so, could you please describe your experiences.

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nolube

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8 years ago #131062

I’ve found what I think is a very good strategy for gold but have only just put it on a live account.

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lsburrows

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8 years ago #131082

Hi:

 

Thanks for the response.  You are the only one.  I received a message from Marc Fric saying that the vast majority of members of the forum are Forex oriented.  He suggested that I open a new thread for non Forex interested members.  If there is an interest please respond and maybe we can open some dialogue.

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nolube

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8 years ago #131083

I’m definitely interested, would love to create some index EAs as well.

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mikeyc

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8 years ago #131086

I’m very interested in index, metals and energy based strategies.  Not tried generating any yet though.

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8 years ago #131088

Non Forex Thread Sounds good

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jaukb

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8 years ago #131090

I know a CTA (based in Spain) and they are actively using SQ for major world equity/bond index futures

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jaukb

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8 years ago #131229

Can you share more information about the CTA in Spain regarding how they use the tools

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felipebr

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8 years ago #131471

I’m also interested I trade on IC Markets and I can trade CFDs like US30, WTI and BRENT oil. Would be great we can share hints about it. 🙂

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Peter

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6 years ago #201001

Anyone know what the data manager settings should be for a IG Markets MetaTrader?

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tomas262

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6 years ago #201002

Hello,

what symbol (market) do you refer to?

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tnickel

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6 years ago #201010

BTCUSD

Most Brokers offer Bitcoin

I found historical data about bitcoin and a tool to import this data in metatrader

I will try next bitcoin.

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https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/3704#!tab=comments

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=160791.0

https://monitortool.jimdofree.com/

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Peter

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6 years ago #201011

(Answer to tomas262)

The symbol in IG Market is “UKOIL”. But it is the same as Brent Crude Oil.

Since this is a CFD I guess the point value etc isn’t the same as the normal symbol. Also it isn’t exactly the same as the oil that is being traded on CME or ICE.

I have attached a screen shoot from IG Markets together with the spec.

 

As you can see on the screen shoot the price, when I write this, was 64.3740. This might look strange since Brent Crude Oil normally only have 2 decimals…

 

I did a test trade to see what one (1) lot would do in price: I bought at 64.5290 and sold at 64.3820. The loss on that trade was -127.08
(In my account it is traded in EURO)

 

I hope this will make my original question a little clearer 🙂

Best Regards,
Peter

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tomas262

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6 years ago #201022

Hello,

in this case I suggest to use point value = 1000, pip size = 0.01 and minimum step = 0.0001

to all: for futures fans, CME now introduces Bitcoin futures 🙂 http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/bitcoin-futures.html

 

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