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| The RoboMiner and RoboMiner II EAs Questions about the RoboMiner series of robots |
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QUESTION:
I found this explanation on a forum. Can you comment on it? Quote:
That EA simply changes the magic number so RoboMiner thinks there are no open trades, and then RoboMiner will open more trades. As a result, instead of RoboMiner opening a trade every 40 pips per the grid, they will start to overlap the other previous trades. What that means, of course, is for every batch of newly opened trades, you need to have sufficient equity to be able to carry those positions should the market move against you. It is absolutely a high-risk strategy IF that is what it is doing. In my humble opinion, it is same as increasing your lot size, which you can already do with RoboMiner. It’s not some magic system to make more money, it just adds more trades to the robot. Of course, what it does do is have more “action” because you will have trades at every 10 or 5 pips instead of 40, so it will appear to be doing more. In reality, it’s just the same as opening a double or triple lot and then waiting for it to close. Of course, there may be a difference if the trades stay open over the weekend or you get hit with swap, but that's an accounting issue with the brokerage, so you'll have to research that on a case-by-case basis. Pay close attention to what is being said: it MUST open the trade with a Take Profit and you MUST not be on a FIFO account. If you don't have a TP, then the trade will hang open forever because RoboMiner won't manage it IF the MagicNumber of the trade does not correspond to the MagicNumber RoboMiner is looking for. Remember, the MagicNumber only identifies which trades belong to the robot. This means two robots can trade on one account if they have two distinct magic numbers, and they will only manage their trades. If you change it, then the robot won't touch the trade because it thinks the trade does not belong to the robot. |
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