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Hi guys I've had a few people email support regarding this - and at this stage we do believe the market conditions forced bad closures on the trades. I've created a simulation and explained a little about how the copier works - hopefully you find this helpful. I'm frustrated you had poor execution but it looks to be very related to the market
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Originally posted by WhiteApe View PostThanks Will. It looks like the problem resides with poor MT4 functionality. You'd think it would be easy enough for them to upgrade it to allow simultaneous closing of a basket rather than 'one by one'?
We're very close to releasing cTrader as an option for you guys. The live tests we've been running on FX Viper are very promising, so this may help alleviate it in the future.
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Originally posted by WillT View PostHi guys I've had a few people email support regarding this - and at this stage we do believe the market conditions forced bad closures on the trades. I've created a simulation and explained a little about how the copier works - hopefully you find this helpful. I'm frustrated you had poor execution but it looks to be very related to the market
http://www.youtube.com/embed/pFxWtASDODk
Does ctrader overcome these issues? I'm guessing if the market takes time to execute the orders it doesn't matter whether it comes from ctrader or mt4?
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cTrader CAN multi task so we will be developing the bot to multi task where it can.
The beta version was a copy of the MT4 EA for sanity reasons because we utilise our same infrastructure. However as we progress through builds we are starting to utilise the power of what cTrader is capable of.
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Hi guys, we've been in contact with Tomas and we've suggested that we setup our own live account and run cTrader to see if this alleviates any problems.
From what I can see the issue lies here:
The signal has a good amount of followers, with a basket of 10+ trades all closing at the same time. So you have X Followers * 10+ trades all trying to close at the same time. In simple terms, the handful of brokers get flooded with requests to close thousands of trades in a single second
Whats the plan?
- We will initially setup a live account using cTrader and upon next basket close we can compare to see if there are any benefits. cTrader does still use the same liqudity providers, however each broker is running a seperate server to run cTrader software so it is possible this is more to do with slow response from the brokers server and not liqudity (I am more inclined to say liquidity as we have seen this before when FX Amp had large number of subscribers)
- We are also going to run some tests on MT4 in the background trying to simulate the signal. This is a lot harder than it soundsd and we might not be able too - as effectively we need a lot of seperate account setup all running the same test signal.
- We will be in contact with IC Markets to see if they can see any delays on their server end at the time of this closure yesterday
Please be aware that we want this to work for both Tomas and his clients - so this is of utmost importance to us. That being said, we must approach this with an open mind. The forex markets are complex, and it is possible that the shear nature of the markets is causing slippage to occur.
I'll keep you all posted.
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To update further on this - This signal had 2 trades close this morning at 2014/08/14 09:45:13 - almost the exact same time as yesterday morning (not that this is relevant)
Looking through all the closures on our system - we have 95% of people closing in an acceptable timeframe. I class acceptable as 2 seconds:
- EA recieves command to close
- EA closes
- EA reports back to our system
So generally I say that 2 seconds equates to more like 1.5seconds to actually close the trade as there are a few extra bits that the EA does before it tells our system that its closed.
So in this instance - with just 2 trade basket everything closed without issue. So now we will wait for a larger basket to see if this happens again.
* our ctrader live acc won't get setup for about 24 hours
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Originally posted by Big River Man View PostI follow this signal, and to be honest I'm not sure if I will continue for much longer. I feel it's a matter of WHEN and not IF it will have a 40% blow up
Sent from Uranus
I am the provider of the signal.
40% DD can never happen as there is equity protection at 33%.
Anyway the master account is running for year with stable performance and usual DD less than 10%.
Peak DD was about 30% which is not much considering 15-20% monthly profit.
BR
Tomas
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Originally posted by WillT View PostHi guys, we've been in contact with Tomas and we've suggested that we setup our own live account and run cTrader to see if this alleviates any problems.
From what I can see the issue lies here:
The signal has a good amount of followers, with a basket of 10+ trades all closing at the same time. So you have X Followers * 10+ trades all trying to close at the same time. In simple terms, the handful of brokers get flooded with requests to close thousands of trades in a single second
Whats the plan?
- We will initially setup a live account using cTrader and upon next basket close we can compare to see if there are any benefits. cTrader does still use the same liqudity providers, however each broker is running a seperate server to run cTrader software so it is possible this is more to do with slow response from the brokers server and not liqudity (I am more inclined to say liquidity as we have seen this before when FX Amp had large number of subscribers)
- We are also going to run some tests on MT4 in the background trying to simulate the signal. This is a lot harder than it soundsd and we might not be able too - as effectively we need a lot of seperate account setup all running the same test signal.
- We will be in contact with IC Markets to see if they can see any delays on their server end at the time of this closure yesterday
Please be aware that we want this to work for both Tomas and his clients - so this is of utmost importance to us. That being said, we must approach this with an open mind. The forex markets are complex, and it is possible that the shear nature of the markets is causing slippage to occur.
I'll keep you all posted.
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Originally posted by WillT View PostTo update further on this - This signal had 2 trades close this morning at 2014/08/14 09:45:13 - almost the exact same time as yesterday morning (not that this is relevant)
Looking through all the closures on our system - we have 95% of people closing in an acceptable timeframe. I class acceptable as 2 seconds:
- EA recieves command to close
- EA closes
- EA reports back to our system
So generally I say that 2 seconds equates to more like 1.5seconds to actually close the trade as there are a few extra bits that the EA does before it tells our system that its closed.
So in this instance - with just 2 trade basket everything closed without issue. So now we will wait for a larger basket to see if this happens again.
* our ctrader live acc won't get setup for about 24 hours
Are you able to set up a mt4 account running on the same server/broker etc for direct comparison? Just to see exactly what the difference is between the platform
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