This submit will clarify the enter settings of the EA and supply some operational suggestions.
Boring Pips EA combines fashionable buying and selling algorithms with basic buying and selling methods involving momentum, provide, and demand. Regardless of this, it maintains simplicity and effectiveness in each setup and operation.
In contrast to many different EAs that overwhelm customers with an extended record of enter parameters, Boring Pips permits just a few settings changes primarily based on person danger urge for food. I spent 2 years optimizing entry and exit parameters of the EA utilizing 5 totally different variations of Boring Pips, integrating one of the best settings into the default EA and hiding them. This prevents customers from over-optimizing dangers and ensures consistency in EA utilization.
The everyday EA setup course of solely takes 1-2 minutes, with the settings file ready and despatched to you.
My recommendation is to make use of 3 danger modes: Boring, Low danger, or Medium danger for the primary 2-3 months. Ensure you are accustomed to how EAs work and perceive their settings earlier than making any modifications associated to “Personalised Settings.”
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B. Explaining the enter desk of Boring Pips
Boring Pips settings desk consists of 16 gadgets divided into 4 sections:
Introducing the title and model of the EA, customers may change the ‘magic quantity’ for the EA.
1. Skilled advisor: Title of the EA.
2. Model: Present model.
3. Magic quantity: the ID that positions of Boring Pips will carry, serving to the EA handle its positions individually. Should you use Boring Pips together with different EAs, make sure that the magic numbers of every EA are distinctive.
4. Buying and selling symbols: enter the foreign money pairs you wish to commerce with Boring Pips, some notes when coming into foreign money pairs:
– Enter foreign money pairs precisely as offered by your dealer, together with any suffix/prefix if relevant (e.g., AUDNZDf, AUDNZD.g…)
– Separate foreign money pairs with areas.
– The utmost variety of entries in ‘Buying and selling symbols’ is 3 foreign money pairs. Should you enter 1 or 2 foreign money pairs, solely these will probably be traded. Should you enter greater than 3 foreign money pairs, solely a most of three foreign money pairs will probably be traded.
– If you wish to commerce greater than 3 foreign money pairs, it’s endorsed to put in Boring Pips on greater than 1 chart, the place the ‘Buying and selling symbols’ on these charts will enter totally different foreign money pairs.
Please consult with query 28 within the FAQ for extra data.
5. Threat mode: select a danger mode that fits you, with 4 danger modes from low to excessive: Boring Mode, Low danger, Medium danger, Excessive danger.
Please consult with query 12 within the FAQ for extra data.
6. Base stability: is the idea for calculating the buying and selling quantity on your account.
– By default, the Base stability is ready to 0, wherein case your complete stability within the account will probably be used to calculate the buying and selling quantity in accordance with the method: Preliminary quantity = Account stability / 500 USD x 0.01 lot.
– If you enter any quantity right here, the EA will use it to calculate the buying and selling quantity, no matter how a lot stability is in your account, method: Preliminary quantity = Base stability / 500 USD x 0.01 lot.
– If the account’s base foreign money is USD (or EUR, because the trade charge of 1 EUR is near 1 USD), you’ll be able to merely maintain the ‘Base stability’ at default (0).
– Necessary observe: Base stability is measured in USD, in case your account makes use of a base foreign money apart from USD (or EUR), changing to USD and coming into it into Base stability is necessary to make sure the EA calculates the quantity precisely.
Please consult with query 22 within the FAQ for extra data.
III. Personalised Settings
The present parameters displayed on this part are being utilized in Primary Settings. Should you want to modify them, it is advisable to allow ‘Personalizing buying and selling model’ and alter the parameters as desired.
It is suggested to make modifications in Personalized Settings solely after working the EA for 2-3 months and understanding the way it features.
7. Personalizing buying and selling model: It’s essential to change it to ON first for modifications in Personalised Settings to take impact.
8. Order quantity: defines the Preliminary quantity of the primary place.
By default, it’s set to 0, which suggests the buying and selling quantity will stay unchanged in comparison with Primary Settings. Should you enter a unique quantity right here, the EA will use that because the buying and selling quantity.
Notice: the decimal half ought to use a interval ‘.’ (not a comma ‘,’), the buying and selling quantity ought to fall inside the vary of the minimal to most buying and selling quantity offered by your dealer, often from 0.01 to 100. Solely 2 digits after the decimal level.
9. Buying and selling frequency: Regulate the EA’s buying and selling frequency to Low/Regular/Excessive ranges.
10. Take revenue (pips): Set the profit-taking degree for the EA’s trades. Notice that that is just for the primary place, subsequent positions within the grid sequence will probably be closed primarily based on Fibonacci retracement ranges.
11. Cease loss (pips): Set the stop-loss degree for the EA’s positions.
12. Grid technique: Enabled by default. Should you flip off the Grid, every sign generated by the EA will enter 1-2 positions relying on the Threat mode in use.
13. Martingale technique: Enabled by default. Should you disable Martingale, the EA’s positions will enter with the identical quantity because the preliminary place. Martingale will probably be meaningless if the Grid technique is turned off.
IV. Threat Administration
The set up half permits the EA to execute some actions (shut positions/cease buying and selling) when reaching a specified most drawdown degree.
14. When getting this drawdown degree: Set the utmost drawdown degree within the base foreign money, then EA will take actions in sections 15 and 16 when this degree is breached. Notice that there needs to be no unfavourable signal ‘-‘ earlier than the drawdown quantity. For instance, if you need the EA to cease buying and selling/shut all positions when reaching a $1000 loss, merely enter ‘1000’.
15. Cease opening new positions: Sure/No. Choice to cease opening new positions when situation 14 is met. On this case, the EA will halt opening new positions whereas managing and shutting present positions usually.
16. Closing all present positions: Sure/No. Possibility to shut all present positions managed by the EA when situation 14 is met.
Notice that EA solely screens/closes positions that it manages. The drawdown vary in situation 14 can also be solely calculated for positions opened by Boring Pips.
C. Pause Buying and selling and Shut Positions Manually
Customers of Boring Pips may make the most of the Pause and Shut buttons on the management panel to Pause buying and selling or Shut all positions every time desired.
– The ‘Pause’ button
: in its regular state, it’s grey; when clicked, a affirmation dialog for Pausing buying and selling will seem. As soon as confirmed, the EA will quickly cease opening new positions, whereas present positions are nonetheless managed and closed as typical.
Whereas the EA is Paused, the ‘Pause’ button modifications to ‘Paused’ and turns pink.
You’ll be able to click on this button once more to return the EA to regular buying and selling mode.
Notice that in case you are unable to reactivate the EA (the ‘Pause’ button nonetheless reveals ‘Paused’ in pink), go to the settings and examine sections 14, 15 below ‘Threat administration’; the EA may need reached the utmost allowed drawdown and halted buying and selling. On this case, alter circumstances in part 14 and/or disable actions in part 15 first, then reactivate the EA utilizing the ‘Pause’ button.
– The ‘Shut’ button
: Used to shut all positions managed by Boring Pips. After clicking this button, a affirmation dialog will seem to verify your intention to shut all positions. As soon as confirmed, the EA will shut all present positions it has opened.
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