Originally posted by RickM:
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It's a bit too early to pop open the champagne bottle just yet, there may be some major issue I have missed in my testing. Talking about curve fitting, I have a good EA that makes some good pips but it only works within a totally fitted time period. For example GBPUSD works like a charm at present ( 2017 - 2018 ) but the previous year its a disaster. Just one small change of the simple moving average last year and its great again. It has made be think about a different approach for this EA. Could a EA work based on only running it on a fixed six month period. 1.. That means a EA that has a start date and a End date. 3.. Therefore in every six monthly period, the EA's charts will need to be optimizised over a weekend for the current market conditions. Is that just a bad strategy or a smart idea ? I certainly wouldn't plan this for other EA's but is this just dumb ?
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Hi Rick
I don't think that's a dumb idea at all. Time periods, including time of day, day of week, or months of the year are just another variable. My H12 EA has different rules for the AM bar and the PM bar, for example.
Cheers, Sharks