Hi Friend,
Happy New Year! Are you still using Life Changer EA? What Settings are you using?
Would love to hear your insight.
The EA blew my account (practically), because of the current uptrend in EURJPY. The EA took a short just at the bottom of the reversal of the last down trend which then went into an uptrend.
This EA is promising, but either needs better settings or some tweaking in the way it works. Maybe it would be worthwhile if the EA starts opening trades in the opposite direction if the trend reverses? What do you think?
I don't mind sharing my settings, but clearly it did not work well for me lol.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and questions asked on this EA.
Well, first of all happy new year 2022 to you and everyone. Yes, I'm still using Life Changer EA. However, as much as I like to share my settings with you and everyone else, I believe it's not the right time yet to do so for now due to the following reasons:
1. To be honest with you, I have been testing many different settings in the past. Some were of my own, some were suggestions made by others. Sadly speaking, up to today I still haven't found one that is proven to be working well for the long term. Some of them worked ok for a period of time, then one day came when one of the currency pairs became too volatile and the EA seemed to place a lot of trades which caused quite a lot of risk to my account. As the result, I won't simply trust any strategy unless I have tested it for a much longer period of at least 6 months, 1 year or even longer than that. Just for your info, I have actually done the similar mistakes before with another EA called "Red Dragon MT5" which seemed to do quite well for the first two months or so. Yet to my great dissappointment and also a huge shock for me, that later it suddenly became such a risky EA within just one to two weeks time. I have regretted of sharing a lot info on that EA with everyone. I even made quite an effort to do a Youtube video sharing of how profitable it could be when using that EA. Too bad I was totally wrong about it. Now, I rather not make the similar mistakes again which might get others into trouble of losing their precious money like I did in the past.
2. Overall, what I could say about any EA is, I think the key is to find a good and reliable EA and also with settings that are able to control your risks well, so that your profits would possibly be much more secure in the long run especially when the markets do become super risky at times no matter what currency pairs you are trading with. I think Life Changer EA could be a good EA if it could continue to generate a consistent profit while at the same time maintaining a so called "manageable" risk during market volatility periods.
3. Although I can't share all my settings with this EA at this point of time, but what I could do for you and others is perhaps to advise or suggest for the following:
a.) Try NOT to use a very large lot size for your trading.
Yes, if you use a large lot size, you could possibly earn much more profit within a short period of time. E.g. using 0.01 lot for a $100 account. But you could also blow up your account easily whenever the market suddenly moves strongly against you. It happens not only with this EA but any other EAs (or even for manual trading) as well. If you only have a small account balance of $100 (by the way, please don't use any amount lower than $100, you are only putting yourself into much greater risks, simple as that.), there is no way for your to survive with a "standard" account. If you like to use a standard account, then perhaps it would be great if you have at least $10000 or more in my opinion for your better safety.
The only way (in my opinion) to survive with a small account of $100 is to use a CENT account which would immediately turn your $100 into 10000 cents as shown in your MT4 platform. With your 10000 cents, you then can use 0.01 lot (or maybe 0.1 lot or more if you prefer more risks) and I think you could be much safer and would possibly not easily get your account blown up when the market moves badly against you. Having said that however, there is no 100% guarantee for any best safety except God Himself whom I believe is the only one that could really bring me the best safety no matter what. No offense.
b.) Try to use a large leverage if possible for your better safety.
My best recommendation would be to use a 1:1000 leverage (do check with your broker on what large leverage they could offer to you, not many could offer you a 1:1000 large leverage. For your info, I myself use "Roboforex" as my broker because they offer 1:1000 leverage and it is a "fixed" leverage and not a "floating" leverage. "Fixed" means that they won't change overtime but "floating" means that when your account balance or equity has grown up to a certain amount, the leverage will then be "automatically" reduced. Again you would need to check the leverage info with your broker and make sure you understand well what they offer you with. If they don't have 1:1000 leverage, then maybe at least a 1:500 leverage you should have with your small accounts. Anything smaller than that to me would be "quite risky" for your small account. The larger the leverage, the better the chance you would have of surviving when the market goes against you. The smaller the leverage, the greater possibility of using up all your margins when the drawdown percentage is high. Once your margin is too low and your equity falls too low and can't support your ongoing trades, your broker will definitely "force close" all your trades and leave you with a "blown up" account. That's how most small accounts usually suffer and end up. Sad but true. Therefore, to keep you in a better and safer condition, by all means please do use as much larger leverage as possible. And if possible, please make sure that you use a "fixed" and not a "floating" leverage which could endanger you again once your account balance or equity grows. For your info, your broker normally won't inform you when they reduce your leverage. That is something you must keep in mind and always monitor your leverage closely from time to time (for your best safety).
3. Some other parameter settings.
a.) Multiplier Value
This "multiplier" is the settings for using the "martingale" strategy. If you think martingale is no good (too risky) and you do not like martingale strategy, you can simply turn it off by setting the value to 1.0. Yet the problem for this is, you might get quite a huge number of trades (maybe more than 15 concurrent trades or so) being placed by the EA and still not being able to recover your previous losing trades which in turn could eventually blow up your account with so many trades that lower and hurt your margin badly and caused such a huge risk to your account. For your info, the default multiplier value of the EA setting is set at 1.11 which is still ok in my opinion. So you can keep it as default if you like to.
b.) Max Trade each side
The default value is set at 50. To me that could possibly be too risky depending on your overall settings. If you prefer to have much less risks, then maybe you should try to reduce your trades from being kept opening concurrently all the time. Some would like to have the maximum of 10 trades or less, some would only limit it down to 5 or 4. It's all up to your preference to decide what works best for you.
c.) Max Pair Trade
The default value is set at 2. Meaning: only up to two maximum different currency pairs are allowed to be used and placed at one time. If you like more risks, you could simply choose to increase the value to 3 or 4 (not recommended by me anyway). But if you would like to reduce your risks, then you could set it to 1.0, that means you would only allow one currency pair to be used at one time for your EA trading. That I think is a good way to help reduce your risks.
Okay I think that's all I could say for this EA for now. Hope that helps. Whatever you do, please try to be safe and remain safe at all times. If you can control your risks well and if the EA is also capable of performing consistently well and stable too in the long run, then I think this EA could be one of the EAs that traders could rely in the long term.
Take good care, again happy new year of 2022 to you and everyone else, and may God bless you all
Regards,
Chong.