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Spread widening during news and low-liquidity periods | RaidenWorks

https://raidenworks.com/2012/10/29/spread-widening-during-news-and-low-liquidity-periods

Spread widening during news and low-liquidity periods. Here’s some simple plots of the EURGBP spread during the course of a day. Initially tried to use Excel but R handles it much faster and leaner. You can evidently see the spikes during news releases and a general increase as the liquidity drops during the Asian hours. 2012-10-07, 2012-10-14, 2012-10-21 are Sundays. Line is the MEDIAN. Line is the MODE. (not in the R binaries base distribution). MetaEditor ‘corrupt’ compile. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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Broker-side feed disconnection | RaidenWorks

https://raidenworks.com/2012/04/27/broker-side-feed-disconnection

Occasionally, your connection to your broker’s price feed is disconnected, either because of your own terminal/router/modem issues, or issues arising from your internet provider/VPS service. This happens often enough that most programmers will consider how their EA’s will pick up and manage open positions when the connection returns. It is difficult to have any meaningful maintenance of trade logic with the lack of prices, hence it is virtually impossible to code in such a contingency, unless the trade l...

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MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal Build 482 | RaidenWorks

https://raidenworks.com/2013/03/11/metatrader-4-client-terminal-build-482

MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal Build 482. MT4 build 482, a jump from 451, has been released on 2013-03-09. Http:/ forum.mql4.com/54431. A key feature is item 2:. Most likely a by-product of the Signals Service, where more than one trade signal can come in at an instance, this added feature similarly benefits the situation where multiple EAs launched on one MT4 execute trades at the same time, or where a multi-currency EA is operated. Another feature is the One Click Trading GUI, which has hitherto been ava...

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Your specific counterparty risk is pretty much a crapshoot | RaidenWorks

https://raidenworks.com/2012/07/14/your-specific-counterparty-risk-is-pretty-much-a-crapshoot

Security and Due Diligence. Your specific counterparty risk is pretty much a crapshoot. With the latest debacle of Peregrine Financial Group Inc. CEO, Russell R. Wasendorf, Sr., misappropriating client funds, of which at least $200 million is currently unaccounted for, one has to really ask just how do you measure specific counterparty risk? So how do you gauge this specific counterparty risk? 1 Reuters – PFGBEST CEO Arrested 2012-07-13. 2 Zero Hedge – Full PFG CEO Suicide Note 2012-07-13. You are commen...

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Extern variables not updating after editing “Expert Advisors -> Properties” (F7 shortcut) | RaidenWorks

https://raidenworks.com/2013/08/02/extern-variables-not-updating-after-editing-expert-advisors-properties-f7-shortcut

Extern variables not updating after editing “Expert Advisors - Properties” (F7 shortcut). I see this tripping up MT4 programmers enough that it warrants a post. A quick background for the uninitiated, Metaquotes structured MT4 EAs with 3 main event processes. Init(), start() and deinit(). This is clean, minimal and logically sound. The horse’s mouth:. Http:/ docs.mql4.com/runtime/. Http:/ book.mql4.com/programm/execution. Start(){ if(Bars BarsCount){ / logic to be run on new bar BarsCount=Bars; } . }.

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Unified mql4 and mql5 MetaEditor | RaidenWorks

https://raidenworks.com/2013/09/03/unified-mql4-and-mql5-metaeditor

Unified mql4 and mql5 MetaEditor. It’s gratifying to see Metaquotes continue developing for MT4. I never migrated to MT5 due to my severe reservations about MT5’s position-centric (likely due to NFA’s nonsensical FIFO rule) vs MT4’s order-centric system. And while I’ve yet to find a tangible benefit of OOP over procedural coding, this unified MetaEditor will (or at least should) allow greater flexibility when the time comes that it is needed. Unused variables, etc. Liking it so far. What I would greatly ...

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Issues when determining GMT Offset using Windows system time | RaidenWorks

https://raidenworks.com/2012/04/09/issues-when-determining-gmt-offset-using-windows-system-time

Issues when determining GMT Offset using Windows system time. A quick post 2012-02-07:. I use the GetTimeZoneInformation function in the Kernel32.dll library to pull my system’s time, and hence calculate the broker time and consequently control my trading time window. Take home message is, even though you may have done everything correctly, some external factor can fly in and royally screw up your system. I’ve made it a point to manually set my GMT offset after verifying it separately online. Miscellaneo...

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Failure is as important as success (and possibly more so) | RaidenWorks

https://raidenworks.com/2013/02/15/failure-is-as-important-as-success-and-possibly-more-so

Failure is as important as success (and possibly more so). Keeping things trading related, many a times you will come across in a forum, or a publication, or been advocated to by another person, a technical system where a whole bunch of charts are shown how a setup is ideal for predicting the following profitable price movement. A highly compelling story of its success is painted by the evidence presented. What often is not shown are cases where the setup fails. Lack of evidence is not evidence of lack.

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Drawdown Percent Close EA | RaidenWorks

https://raidenworks.com/2012/05/31/drawdown-percent-close-ea

Drawdown Percent Close EA. This is a very simple trade management EA that will close all your Open trades (or Open AND Pending Trades) when your drawdown percentage exceeds a set limit. Eg Balance = $10,000, if “DrawdownPercent” is set at 20.00, if Equity falls below $8,000, all Open Orders will be closed. Http:/ www.myfxbook.com/community/programming/closeallatequitylevel/318979,1. With him starting 2 more threads and not getting any answers,. And was surprised not to find it, hence here it is. Advanced...

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Michael | RaidenWorks

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Michael has written 30 posts for RaidenWorks. GBPUSD spreads on 3 different profile brokers during Brexit day 2016-06-24. Quite a phenomenal past Friday (24th June 2016)… Below are charted spreads on 3 brokers with different profiles. 1. Saxo (institutional) 2. Alpari 3. ThinkForex Will add comments and labels to the post shortly. Saxo (institutional) Alpari ThinkForex. Patterns, patterns, patterns. Swiss National Bank introduces negative interest rates. MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal Build 646. The intere...