Has anyone successfully generated Non Forex based EA’s?
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lsburrows
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.
nolube
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.
lsburrows
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.
nolube
8 years ago #131083
I’m definitely interested, would love to create some index EAs as well.
mikeyc
8 years ago #131086
I’m very interested in index, metals and energy based strategies. Not tried generating any yet though.
seaton
8 years ago #131088
Non Forex Thread Sounds good
jaukb
8 years ago #131090
I know a CTA (based in Spain) and they are actively using SQ for major world equity/bond index futures
jaukb
8 years ago #131229
Can you share more information about the CTA in Spain regarding how they use the tools
felipebr
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. 🙂
Peter
6 years ago #201001
Anyone know what the data manager settings should be for a IG Markets MetaTrader?
tomas262
6 years ago #201002
tnickel
6 years ago #201010
BTCUSD
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I will try next bitcoin.
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Peter
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
tomas262
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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