[Jay-r Yuzon]

Thanks for making it clearer Petko. I’ll keep that in mind.

[Jay-r Yuzon]

Glad to hear from you, Haliffa.

1. It’s clearer now =)

2. I see. And after switching the timeframes before exporting the data, it is no longer needed to press the home key again for every single timeframe?

3. I meant when pressing the Home Key, it was so slow. Is this normal when loading data from the live account? It was very fast with my demo.

Those were very good answers. Thanks Haliffa.

Best,

Jay-R

[Jay-r Yuzon]

Hi everyone. I’m new to algo trading and to this forum. Just wanted to know your thoughts regarding this subject. Thanks

Since the common acceptance criteria can be found under the generator (generator settings), and also under optimization (whether full data, walk forward, and normalization), what is the best way to make use of the common acceptance criteria?

Should we use it while generating strategies, or during optimization? Or both?

What are the advantages or disadvantages in using one method over the other?

[Jay-r Yuzon]

Hi Andi. I’ve learned this method through a VPS course by a person teaching algorithmic trading as well. In the course, there was no distinction given whether this would exclusively apply to a broker’s VPS, or an external one–although I do know that the teacher does not recommend using broker’s VPS. Currently, I’m using cheap-forex-vps, and it works just fine.

[Jay-r Yuzon]

Thanks @Petko. And thanks also for referring me to this forum. I’m sorry for not replying sooner, it took me a while to finish reading the comments to avoid asking questions that have already been asked before. I do have some additional questions based on what you’ve answered regarding data collection, and other matters related to it.

1. Regarding the data collection, wherein you mentioned…

“By the way, you can save the data from your Meta Trader as well. You can go to File – Open data Folder – history and select your broker’s server. Copy those hst files. You can do this every one month or two, to make sure you will not lose it.”

…how do I actually make use of those hst files that I will be saving? Do I need to convert the hst file to either json or csv for them to be usable?

2. As mentioned in the comments in the forum, one of the best ways to collect data is to simply open the MT4. Suppose I want to collect m15, m30, h1, and h4 timeframes for EURUSD, does this mean that I have to open all charts having those timeframes in EURUSD for me to gather the data? Or would it be sufficient if I’ll just open any one of those timeframes for EURUSD, say, the h4, and still be able to gather the data for the other timeframes?

3. I have noticed that gathering data from my live account, which has been existing for a few months now, is very slow compared to my demo account? Is this normal?

When I say slow I mean it took me more than an hour to gather m1, m5, m15, m30, h1, h4, d, w and m timeframes from XAUUSD. Since it was so slow, I decided to ask you I just thought maybe I’m doing something wrong.

Similar experience with EURUSD, USDJPY, and USDCAD.

[Jay-r Yuzon]

Thanks @Petko and @Cone D.

@Petko. May I know why you mentioned that “using Demo account would be useless and lost time”?

[Jay-r Yuzon]

Hi guys, after browsing through the comments, I found that there were at least 2 possible reasons why duplication of trades took place. One was through opening the EA from two different devices/sources, and the other was a potential broker problem.

There might be another reason for that, which would involve the VPS.

Sometimes there are technical errors when logging-off from the VPS, so much so that when logging-in once again, the VPS might recognize you as a different user, and thus, it creates a different session for you, considering you as different user (although you may not necessarily know this outrightly unless you go to Task Manager, and then go to Users, and check if there are more than 1 user). And being recognized as a different user, in effect, the number of MT4 terminals are basically doubled. Consequently, this will cause duplication of trades.

So how to avoid this?

1. Close all MT4 terminals in your VPS
2. Log-off from the VPS (don’t just close the window of the VPS)
2. Right click on the VPS shortcut
3. Go to Properties
4. Go to Target
5. Add (space)/admin to the address found in Target

For example:
C:\Windows\System32\mstsc.exe /admin

And that’s it. I hope this helps

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