CCI Expert, not a holly grail, but quite rewarding

[scorpion]

I don't have any problem. Maybe you compiled the mql in MetaTrader 4? Make sure that you compile the code in the MetaTrader 3.85

[gazuz]

I was just wondering right now i saw an old post of you scorpion that mentioned that MT4 was pretty easy.

Well here's a job for anyone interested, I'd like to recreate the Tidy version and v2.0 of my expert into MT4 since I just redownlded it and found that we can backtest with tick data and I'm interested in reputting it in a demo account trading all day.

Please anyone let me know both links are here its just fine if you do one I don't really mind as long as at least one is done. Also no rush.

Thanks in advance:

http://forex1000.com/cnet/CCI-Gazuz-Tidy.mql
and
http://forex1000.com/cnet/CCI-Gazuzv2.0.mql

[scorpion]

he he guy, it's not easy to port mql to mq4. Look at the crazy syntax of mq4 that metaquotes has messed up, u'll know what i mean. I think MT4 users should request MetaQuotes (at their forum) to develop a MQL to MQ4 conversion program, so that everyone would be happy converting by themselves. But having chatted with them, I know they're not going to do it if they don't want to do it regardless how desperated users feel.

[gazuz]

would rewriting it from scratch be hard?

I'm going to post this on the yahoo group and see if I can get an answer fast enough. Thanks in advance

[scorpion]

Write from scratch might be easier. One should just put together available code or just replace the indicator functions.

I've seen a lot of people posting their mql and asking to convert to mql4 at various places, but I've never seen any code actually converted. I think there's not many mql4 programmers out there yet.

[Shahin]

Ok I just signed up - I can convert this to MQ4. I am normally in moneytec (now called strategybuilderfx) forums.
You can see my reputation there under the same name.
Please just tell me what version should I do V2 or tidy_up? (meaning which is more stable/better profits)

[gazuz]

First of all here is my first trade for a while

http://forex1000.com/cnet/statement.htm

Now those two stop losses reached could have been prevented if the trade was not opened when the cross was made. When I backtested visually I made the opening of the next candle the open of the trade (CCi(-2)>0 and CCi(-1)<0). So I think if anyone would care to help me to make that change happen? That would be awesome and I would praise you (maybe even pay you if its succesful). So if anyone could make that change to the MT3 that would be great.

Shahin, I am sticking with MT3 right now. I am more used to it and MT4 is still not stable enough for my taste. First I need to fix this for MT3.

Thank you all

[Shahin]

I just checked version 2 and Tidy visually and by backtest.
Tidy has a different exit logic (loser).
Version 2 is more profitable.

[gazuz]

I fixed the tidy script, I use the settings of take profit at 5 pips or 10 pips and a very low stop loss (in case I get disconnected).

The Version 2 is more for long term investments. Version tidy like I'm doing right now creates roughly 30 trades per month and gets about 200 pips with 10 pips profit and about 100-150 with 5 pips. Im testing out to see if I did the coding right then I'll put it on a real account. By the way I use the CCI setting of 350 with my tidy version, and take profit of 5 which results in rather good results.

I uploaded the new mql so you guys can check it out

[scorpion]

Shanin, what's tool do you use to backtest?