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Optimisation

Postby XIKON » 29 Feb 2012

Dear All,

I have had a problem with optimisation of the MA crossover and would like to narrow down the optimisation report to only those scenarios where the slow moving average (days) > fast moving average (days). Currently both genetic and exhaustive optimisation list scenarios where fast moving average is for example 200 while the slow moving average is 50. Is there a piece of code which can be embedded in the script of the signal as a condition that only if slow moving average (days) > fast moving average (days) to execute trade and therefore the optimisation will automatically exclude scenarios where fast moving average is larger than slow moving average.

Many thanks for all your assistance.

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XIKON

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Re: Optimisation

Postby JoshM » 02 Mar 2012

Hi Xikon,
Is there a piece of code which can be embedded in the script of the signal as a condition that only if slow moving average (days) > fast moving average (days) to execute trade and therefore the optimisation will automatically exclude scenarios where fast moving average is larger than slow moving average.
You could try something like this:

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Inputs:
LengthQuickMA(50);
LengthSlowMA(200);

Variables:
quickMA(0), slowMA(0);

quickMA = Average(Close, LengthQuickMA);
slowMA = Average(Close, LengthSlowMA);

if (quickMA crosses above slowMA) and (LengthSlowMA > LengthQuickMA) then begin

Buy ("EL #1") 1 contracts next bar at market;

end;
Edit: The following code would be a better solution, since it saves MultiCharts from having to calculate the variables when these aren't needed (i.e. when the strategy shouldn't trade):

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Inputs:
LengthQuickMA(50);
LengthSlowMA(200);

Variables:
quickMA(0), slowMA(0);

if (LengthSlowMA > LengthQuickMA) then begin

quickMA = Average(Close, LengthQuickMA);
slowMA = Average(Close, LengthSlowMA);

if (quickMA crosses above slowMA) and (LengthSlowMA > LengthQuickMA) then begin

Buy ("EL #1") 1 contracts next bar at market;

end;

end;

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Re: Optimisation

Postby XIKON » 05 Mar 2012

Dear JoshM,

Many thanks for your help. Much appreciated.

Best regards,

XIKON

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Re: Optimisation

Postby XIKON » 05 Mar 2012

Dear Josh,

I have tried a slight modification as MC does not recognise the function LengthslowMA for some reason so I am using FastLength, SlowLength instead. Although I can successfully compile the signal, when running optimisation still I am getting a report where some values of FastLength are larger than Slowlength. Not sure why this is happening. Would you be able to shed some light on this?

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inputs: Price( Close ), FastLength( 9 ), SlowLength( 18 ) ;
variables: var0( 0 ), var1( 0 ) ;

var0 = XAverage( Price, FastLength );
var1 = XAverage( Price, SlowLength ) ;

condition1 = ( SlowLength > FastLength );
condition2 = Date > ELDate (02, 01, 1984) and Date < ELDate (12, 31, 2011);
condition3 = CurrentBar > 1 and var0 crosses over var1 ;
condition4 = Currentbar > 1 and var0 crosses under var1 ;
condition5 = Date = ELDate (12, 30, 2011) ;

if condition1 then begin

if condition2 then begin

if condition3 then Buy ( "XIKON XMA2CrossLE" ) next bar at market;

if condition4 then Sellshort ( "XIKON XMA2CrossSE" ) next bar at market;

end;

if condition5 then setexitonclose;

end;
Many thanks for your assistance.

Best regards,

XIKON

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Re: Optimisation

Postby JoshM » 06 Mar 2012

Although I can successfully compile the signal, when running optimisation still I am getting a report where some values of FastLength are larger than Slowlength. Not sure why this is happening. Would you be able to shed some light on this?
No problems here - the optimization variants where FastLength is greater than SlowLength generate no trades:

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inputs: Price( Close ), FastLength( 9 ), SlowLength( 18 ) ;
variables: var0( 0 ), var1( 0 ) ;

if (SlowLength > FastLength) then begin

var0 = XAverage( Price, FastLength );
var1 = XAverage( Price, SlowLength ) ;

condition2 = Date > ELDate (02, 01, 1984) and Date < ELDate (12, 31, 2011);
condition3 = CurrentBar > 1 and var0 crosses over var1 ;
condition4 = Currentbar > 1 and var0 crosses under var1 ;
condition5 = Date = ELDate (12, 30, 2011) ;

if (condition2 = true) and (condition3 = true) then
Buy ( "XIKON XMA2CrossLE" ) next bar at market;

if (condition4 = true)
then Sellshort ( "XIKON XMA2CrossSE" ) next bar at market;

if condition5 then
setexitonclose;

end;
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Re: Optimisation

Postby XIKON » 06 Mar 2012

Hi Josh,

Many thanks. I think I had completely switched off and purely scrolling to the last column without taking notice of all those zero values. I was expecting them not to come up on the optimisation report at all so was ignoring anything in the previous columns.

Thanks a lot for pointing this out.

Best regards,

XIKON


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