Since installing v1.4, it hasn’t traded at all. I installed it on the eurusd with default settings as well.

Andrea, with V1.4 trend filtering don’t you think it is better to set frequency to 1 or 0 ? Seems to be safe enough to me ?

thanks !

Hi Andrea

Firstly, let me say what a great EA I think this is. It’s basically been profitable since the day I started using it. Even the losses I incurred at the time of the problems in Japan (where I should have turned it off and didn’t) have now been recovered.

I have a question about v1.4. I am trading Crescendo on a Smart Live Markets spreadbetting account. It’s like a mini account but they have adjusted things internally so that 0.1 lot equates to £0.10. I notice that with 1.4, my target_profit of 4.00 and lot_size of 0.1 resulted in a win of £2.98 (on a GY trade). With 1.3 and the same settings, I was consistently getting aggregate wins of £4.00 (on the same account). Do you think that was down to slippage or is the program now doing a currency conversion?

Hi Andrea,

Thank you for the 1.4 crescendo..now I am running live all the 5 pairs with IBFX. However, I have one question… I don’t seem to understand or comprehend the value shown on the chart with regards to Breakeven Level. Following are the details of the level shown displayed on the left hand side of the chart:

1. GBP/USD… I have two orders @ 1.58195 and @ 1.59324, the Breakeven Level displayed on the chart is @0.32965
2. GBP/JPY … I have one order @ 126.213, the Breakeven Level displayed on the chart is @ 14.288
3. EUR/USD… I have three orders @ 1.38420, @1.39252 and @ 1.39944, the Breakeven Level displayed on the chart is @0.63096
4. USD/CHF … I have one order @ 0.83109, the Breakeven Level displayed on the chart is 0.9409
5. USD/JPY … I have one order @ 79.310, the Breakeven Level displayed on the chart is @8.978

With the above I cannot see the Breakeven line drawn on the chart.

I would appreciate if you could kindly advise confirm whether the Breakeven Level displayed is right or wrong.. is there a bug in the program. I have downloaded twice from your link… I still get the same results as above. Please check and advise.

Brgds.
Farouk.

Andrea :
yes it should be a slippage problem as the procedure is exactly the same.
Please check and eventually report it to me so I can double check.
… unless you are using the trailing procedure. If so your closed orders value will go from 2$ to “unlimited”.

Hi Andrea
I’m not using the trailing stop feature and I can’t see any sign of slippage. The trade has closed with a profit of 29.8 pips (at £0.10 per pip) giving a total of £2.98.

I have included some log extracts below. Please let me know if you need any further information.

Thanks,
Greg

Here’s an extra from the log showing the trade open and close:
12:00:00 Crescendo_v1dot4 GBPJPYSB,H1: OrderSend(GBPJPYSB,1,0.10000000,125.82100000,100,0.00000000,0.00000000,Crescendo v1.3,130907,0,255)
12:00:00 Crescendo_v1dot4 GBPJPYSB,H1: open #401787 sell 0.10 GBPJPYSB at 125.821 ok
12:00:00 Crescendo_v1dot4 GBPJPYSB,H1: OrderSend: Success! Ticket: 401787
22:13:53 Crescendo_v1dot4 GBPJPYSB,H1: OrderClose
22:13:53 Crescendo_v1dot4 GBPJPYSB,H1: close #401787 sell 0.10 GBPJPYSB at 125.821 at price 125.523
22:13:53 Crescendo_v1dot4 GBPJPYSB,H1: OrderClose: Success!
22:13:53 Crescendo_v1dot4 GBPJPYSB,H1: —> Max Floating DD: -10.38 (-2.08% of the equity)
22:13:53 Crescendo_v1dot4 GBPJPYSB,H1: —-> Average Max Floating DD: 0.00 (222)

…and here’s an extra showing the EA load (from the last Sunday evening):
23:06:51 Crescendo_v1dot4 GBPJPYSB,H1: loaded successfully
23:06:51 Crescendo_v1dot4 GBPJPYSB,H1 inputs: note0=”AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS”; username=”greg@globeplus.co.uk”; password=”FWPXRYEC”; note1=”STRATEGY SETTINGS”; initial_balance=500; note1b=”— Order Step —”; order_step=60; adjust_order_step=false; note1c=”— Target Profit —”; target_profit=4; note1d=”— Trailing —”; trailing_note=”0 – none; 1 – by profit;”; trailing_strategy=0; trail_start=4; trail_step=2; note1e=”— Frequency —”; frequency_note=”0 – always; 1 – every hour; 2 – every 3 hours”; frequency_noteb=”3 – every 6 hours; 4 – every 12 hours; 5 – every 24 hours”; frequency=3; dd_based_frequency=false; dd_step=1; note1f=”— Trend Score —”; trend_threshold=3; check_TrendScore_add_trades=true; additional_entries_threshold=1; trend_timeframe_1=60; trend_timeframe_2=60; trend_timeframe_3=60; trend_timeframe_4=60; trend_timeframe_5=60; trend_period_1=60; trend_period_2=240; trend_period_3=1440; trend_period_4=10080; trend_period_5=43200; bars_note=”0 – actual bar (not yet closed); 1 – first closed bar; 2 – second closed bar … etc.”;

Andrea :
I know now… You are using £!!!
Ok the new version automatically adapts to the account currency.
You put 4$ in the target profit and it translates it into £ as your account is based on £.
So that you no longer have to “calculate” the equivalent but it does that for you.

In my case, I think it was easier to work with the way it was before. The Smart Live Account is like having a Mini Lot account but based in £. For example, in a dollar based mini account, your staking advice would translate as 0.1 mini lot ($0.10) per pip with a target of $4 for every $1000 in the account. This was easy to translate to my £ based account, as I could set the lot_size to 0.1 (£0.10) and the target_size as 4 (£4.00) for every £1000 in my account. Now, to achieve the same, I think I will have to multiply lot_size and target_size by the exchange rate; i.e. approximately 0.16 per pip to get 6.4, which the EA will then convert back to 0.1 and 4.

Cheers,
Greg

Dear Andrea,

Thanks very much for answering my questions before. Due to the upgrade of Crescendo and the change of my initial balance, the figures of “Closed Orders Profit” and “EA Balance” are not exactly the same as they are displayed on my charts. Are there any ways that we could amend those figures or reset them as zero if I would like to start afresh?

Thanks.

Regards,
Benny

HI guys, I know you are working hard behind the scenes. I was wondering when we might see your thoughts on hedging with 1.4. I have a buy only and a sell only running on a few pairs. It seems to me there is probably a more profitable way I just have not figured it out yet. Looking forwad to your response.

Hi Andrea

Can I add take profit manually in Cres V1.4?..I am not using VPS and I am using home internet and some time face some little disconnetivaty if there is any open position and I add TP manually so it will close when it reached at its profit…Is it possible with Cres V1.4?
Thks

I’ve been trying to figure out Breakeven Level on the screen display, esp now with 3 GBPUSD legs trying to recover. It’s not a BE price (which would REALLY be nice), it’s not the number of pips from the bid, it doesn’t vary with bid… please advise.

dear Andrea ,
i am trading the new version live for 2 weeks now. the trailing system works great so far. it is true that it takes a while before all conditions are met..but when..than the direction is almost always correct. what brings me to my question for you Andrea.

what is against setting frequency to 0 . that way as soon as the conditions are favourable C starts trading. why wait for 6 hours ?

thanks for your advise

edwie

HI Andrea Help please
Lately I downloaded CRESCENDO to my new Laptop and i have a problem with AUTINTECATION because of username which is my email address.The problem is i could not type the key(@) in username space. For exsampel my email is mbenhamida@hotmail.com Crescendo would allow me to type only mbenhamida and would not allow (@ ) to be typed on the username space. this was at VPS OF iamfx broker where my account is. The key @ works well everywhere else. Can you help me?

Hi Andrea,

When will you be sending us the new trend indi with mq4? It would be great to have that.

Thanks

Peroni

Hi Andrea,

I have set up C V 1.4 with default settings & it has taken a couple of trades but there appears to be a couple of issues. The main issue is that for some reason when it reaches the profit target it doesn’t take the profit. I have Trailing Note set to 0 which I presume means no profit trailing? It has reached the TP a number of times but so far not closed one trade. Also, I have noticed that if C is in a trade & I want to change a specific parameter the on screen info disappears. Any Ideas?

Regards,

Paul

Hi Andrea

I have been backtesting the EA using different pairs and one of the best performers is GBPJPY.

I have set the lot to 0.01 in a $1000 demo acct and it produced $136 profit from 01/05/11 to 30/06/11. if I increase it to anything higher the results is less than $136

That is 13.6% return in 2 month or almost 7% a month

Realistically what sort of return should we expect from crescendo on a monthly basis

Thanks

Hi ANDREA The @ key problem
I was able to solve the @ key problem .It happened because my key board is (AZERTY)french.i found out how to make it work and type the key @ and the full username in the username space.Second problem appeared! Crescendo does not authenticate I CHECKED all the values every thing is correct,the username the password etc the four checks.The smiley face is there no other data appears. I am using crescendo 1.3.Any suggestion?

Hi Andrea.

I had the problems with FXCM and their suffix “aud” after a pair, and the version 1.4 not recognizing volume correctly.

Have those problems been addressed, as I have an account sitting idle wait for your fix.

Thanks

David Nethercott

I’m about to put it also in the download are along with the automatic installer.

A presto.

Andrea that was 3 weeks ago, wonder what “presto” means in English?

Thank you for the EA, brilliant EA and creator!

Hi Andrea,

Since installing v1.4 it hasn’t traded at all.
The parameters i checked are the same as yours given.

Please kindly advise.
Thanks.

Hi, Andrea,

I would like to use this EA at Japanese Yen account, May I use it? and any setting notes required?

Hi Andrea,

Can you explain what the Entry Trend Score is on the C1.4 EA interface?

The Trend direction I understand, it is determined by the algorithm that is selected, e.g. for the trend_algo = 2 the Trend direction will be + or – 5 as explained in the manual. But I can not find how the entry trend score is calculated and what is means?

Regards,
FrankB