DislikedWas looking at some numbers comparing the HA to regular candles. Since I am only interested in the High and Low from a past perspective they are the same. I also watched the numbers on the present candle and they were also the same. The open and close are some times a few pips different but those are not used in the CSTS, only the high and the low.
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a heiken ashi candle has always the open at 50% of the former HA candle-body. always. so sometimes the wicks of the "real" candles are "inside" the HA candles and not shown. pls see the screenshots. you see an eurusd M15 candle of today, 15:45 p.m. (gmt + 2).
on the first screen you see the HA candle, the high (and also the HA open) is at 1.39333:
http://hmso.hmja.de/trading/ha_high.png
on the second screenshot you see the same candle as "normal" candle, it has a wick with the high at 1.39259:
http://hmso.hmja.de/trading/normalcandle_high.png
in this case, the trailing stop would have been moved to 1.39259 -> inside the HA candle and not at the high (or open).
it's only ~8pips, but sometimes in strong moves there are much more pips between normal and HA candles as these few pips and this makes the difference.
mostly these differences appear in strong moves when the PA makes a short countermove. this countermove you can only see with normal candles, the HA candles have all the same color, but the normal "countermove" candles are of a different color and with wicks.
i hope you understand what i mean. sometimes it's very frustrating to tell my thoughts with my poor english, when i have the feeling, i cannot make understandable what i want to explain...
but anyways, if it's too difficult to implement this into the EA... i don't want to waste your time with this little thing. i find another way to get a good working trailing stop.