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  • #521
  • Aug 22, 2024 9:27pm Aug 22, 2024 9:27pm
Quoting OAPDave
...Its from a very old thread that Swingman & Merka may just remember....
Young man, you have a memory!
  • #522
  • Aug 23, 2024 1:35am Aug 23, 2024 1:35am
Quoting SwingMan
{quote} Young man, you have a memory!
Yes I can remember that thread as clear as day, well nearly
But alas
I sometimes cannot remember
what I had for Breakfast

I guess, over the fullness of time
I know what to expect ?
  • #523
  • Aug 23, 2024 1:47am Aug 23, 2024 1:47am
Just a Test ?
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  • #524
  • Aug 23, 2024 6:19am Aug 23, 2024 6:19am
Quoting howard
{quote} Yes indicators folder {image}
Hi
Have you got it sorted now ?
  • #525
  • Aug 23, 2024 10:47am Aug 23, 2024 10:47am
Quoting SwingMan
{quote} Ah, so you might have wanted the indicator too... The indicators I use now: {file} {file} {file} {image}
Could you give alerts on open bar to the smallwick indicator please
  • #526
  • Aug 23, 2024 12:32pm Aug 23, 2024 12:32pm
Quoting OAPDave
{quote} Hi Have you got it sorted now ?

Hi
No luck, I even downloaded it from the thread which you posted above but it is the same, there should be some other issue.
Regards
  • #527
  • Aug 23, 2024 12:51pm Aug 23, 2024 12:51pm
Quoting howard
{quote} Hi No luck, I even downloaded it from the thread which you posted above but it is the same, there should be some other issue.
Try this one
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  • #528
  • Aug 23, 2024 3:15pm Aug 23, 2024 3:15pm
Quoting Kwt4x
{quote} last hours of the week, but this an update for last week GU heads-up {image} {image} {image}
update:

nice major move since the GU heads-up 2 weeks ago, around +/- 450 pips and still strong, breaking monthly and year highs and BB's upper bands.

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"the public is not yet ready for it" W.D. GANN
  • #529
  • Aug 23, 2024 7:46pm Aug 23, 2024 7:46pm
Quoting SwingMan
{quote} Ah, so you might have wanted the indicator too... The indicators I use now: {file} {file} {file} {image}
Even though I am using a universal alert indicator on the zero bar it still does not recognizes the signal, I have tried all the buffers, so maybe you can make it possible, please, when you have some time..
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  • #530
  • Aug 23, 2024 8:24pm Aug 23, 2024 8:24pm
Quoting lain7123
{quote} Even though I am using a universal alert indicator on the zero bar it still does not recognizes the signal, I have tried all the buffers, so maybe you can make it possible, please, when you have some time.. {image}
It also seems to repaint every time one changes the defeault moving average period settings
  • #531
  • Aug 24, 2024 3:44am Aug 24, 2024 3:44am
Quoting lain7123
...Even though I am using a universal alert indicator on the zero bar it still does not recognizes the signal, I have tried all the buffers, so maybe you can make it possible, please, when you have some time...
The buffer numbering starts with 0, try 0 and 4.

Post again if you have any comments. There are always problems with repainting, but you should document them if you notice them.
The indicator was programmed as a continuation of an older idea, was not intended for publication, so I have to develop it further.
  • #532
  • Aug 24, 2024 4:08am Aug 24, 2024 4:08am
Quoting SwingMan
{quote} The buffer numbering starts with 0, try 0 and 4. Post again if you have any comments. There are always problems with repainting, but you should document them if you notice them. The indicator was programmed as a continuation of an older idea, was not intended for publication, so I have to develop it further.
As I understand it, the entry and sometime the exit is done on the active bar. This means that the bar is under composing and will vary. This is not repainting. Once the bar has ended, then there is no changing in the bar and no repaint.
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  • #533
  • Aug 24, 2024 4:13am Aug 24, 2024 4:13am
Quoting lain7123
{quote} It also seems to repaint every time one changes the defeault moving average period settings
It also seems to repaint every time one changes the defeault moving average period settings.

I am not sure if I understand you correct - but if you change the conditions for an indicator, then the result will change - that is not repainting.

Repainting is if the result is changing on closed bars while the indicator is running and without any invention.
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  • #534
  • Aug 24, 2024 6:03am Aug 24, 2024 6:03am
Quoting RiskFighter
... As I understand it, the entry and sometime the exit is done on the active bar...
Sure it is.
For a long entry, the distance is calculated from the bar low, and the exit from the entry.

If the low changes, these values will change too.

The first condition is that (1) the entry is above the open.
Everything should be calculated and plotted only (2) if the MA directions match, and (3) the slope direction too.

(Note for @OAPDave, setting the parameters for the slope is more sensitive with 5/1 and not 5/2).
  • #535
  • Aug 24, 2024 6:13am Aug 24, 2024 6:13am
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My settings for the moving averages are 2 and 3, the idea is to make the signals close so that one can trade from buy to sell and visceversa, if this can be done this indicator would be no that far from a holy grail, just check the signals even when they repaint they are not too bad
  • #536
  • Edited 6:57am Aug 24, 2024 6:37am | Edited 6:57am
Quoting SwingMan
{quote} Sure it is. For a long entry, the distance is calculated from the bar low, and the exit from the entry. If the low changes, these values will change too. The first condition is that (1) the entry is above the open. Everything should be calculated and plotted only (2) if the MA directions match, and (3) the slope direction too. (Note for @OAPDave, setting the parameters for the slope is more sensitive with 5/1 and not 5/2).
Hi Swingman
Your Indicators
are good, in fact dam good
Thank you
Dave
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  • #537
  • Aug 24, 2024 7:17am Aug 24, 2024 7:17am
Quoting SwingMan
{quote} Sure it is. For a long entry, the distance is calculated from the bar low, and the exit from the entry. If the low changes, these values will change too. The first condition is that (1) the entry is above the open. Everything should be calculated and plotted only (2) if the MA directions match, and (3) the slope direction too. (Note for @OAPDave, setting the parameters for the slope is more sensitive with 5/1 and not 5/2).
OK. So for a Long trade it is when Close[0] - Open[0] > 0,5 * ATR. Make the Entry. TP = Entry + 0,5 * ATR (or let it run). SL = Entry - 0,5 * ATR.

And of cause the filters shall be positive. And especially the slope is important. I have never seen the Slope indicator. It must be handy for most robots.

I will make the robot for a test now.
MetaTrader 4 - so many advantages.
  • #538
  • Aug 24, 2024 7:25am Aug 24, 2024 7:25am
@SwingMan

Like this??

ATR = iATR(NULL, 0, 14, 1);

LongEnter = iOpen(NULL, 0, 0) + ATR / 2;
ShortEnter = iOpen(NULL, 0, 0) - ATR / 2;

LongExit = iOpen(NULL, 0, 0) + ATR;
ShortExit = iOpen(NULL, 0, 0) - ATR / 2;

LongSL = iOpen(NULL, 0, 0) - ATR / 2;
ShortSL = iOpen(NULL, 0, 0) + ATR / 2;

if(Close[0] >= LongEnter)
{Signal = 1;}
if(Close[0] <= ShortEnter)
{Signal = -1;}
MetaTrader 4 - so many advantages.
  • #539
  • Aug 24, 2024 7:42am Aug 24, 2024 7:42am
OK. I made the test robot. But the broker server is switched off. No more coding for the rest of this weekend.
MetaTrader 4 - so many advantages.
  • #540
  • Aug 24, 2024 7:43am Aug 24, 2024 7:43am
Quoting RiskFighter
{quote} OK. So for a Long trade it is when Close[0] - Open[0] > 0,5 * ATR. Make the Entry. TP = Entry + 0,5 * ATR (or let it run). SL = Entry - 0,5 * ATR. And of cause the filters shall be positive. And especially the slope is important. I have never seen the Slope indicator. It must be handy for most robots. I will make the robot for a test now.
- I posted two slope indicators a few years ago (April 2019). The log version seems to be a bit better...
smSmallWick AvgSlopeLog_v3
smSmallWick AvgSlope_v2

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Like this??

ATR = iATR(NULL, 0, 14, 1);

LongEnter = iOpen(NULL, 0, 0) + ATR / 2;
ShortEnter = iOpen(NULL, 0, 0) - ATR / 2;

NO!
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The entry from Open is @OAPDave idea...
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