Tuesday, May 28, 2013

CabEX EA | Finally A Good Cable Trader?

Hi guys, this EA is brought to us by the folks over at Phibase. You might already know some of their previous works, like Rayscalper and Synergy. These guys are very professional developers with excellent customer support.

The CabEx Ea is a cable trader which caught my attention because not many EA's trade exclusively on the Gbp/Usd pair. I believe the reason for this is a lot of "noise" and price spikes on the pair. There is not as much liquidity with this pair when compared to the Eur/Usd, so the price tends to behave more erratically. This makes development of a good strategy more challenging.

The CabEX trades on the hourly time frame and trades "near" moving averages. It does trade trends and has a reversal element to it, which is good for this pair.



CabEX tradex every signal. The following actions are taken by the EA under different circumstances during a signal trigger

No Open trades : long/short signal > New Trade Entry Executed

Long Open : short signal > Long Closed and New Short Trade Entry Executed

Long Open : Long signal > Long Signal Ignored

Short Open : Long signal > Short Closed and New Long Trade Entry Executed

Short Open : Short signal > Short Signal Ignored

Existing Trade Closed at Trailing SL/SL/TP during current M15 bar: long/short signal > New Trade Entry Executed

Below is a "tick data" BT provided by the vendor:


You will note the profitability is only about 47% hit rate. With this you will only win a trade a little less than half. Thankfully the Risk-to-Reward ratio is around 1:2. The profit factor is pretty high as well around 1.60.

You get a license for 2 real and 2 demo accounts for $350. You have the option to renew your license after a year for $35, to stay up-to-date with newer versions of the EA.

There is also a strategy analysis page set up by the vendor, which he does for all his products.

There forward test is shown below.

CabEX WEBSITE