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- #925
- Jul 26, 2007 8:27am Jul 26, 2007 8:27am
I'm on different time zone, understand?
Look all I'm saying is that you have been asking over and over about this, and then after more info is given, you're still asking. It's just sort of funny.
- #928
- Jul 27, 2007 4:33pm Jul 27, 2007 4:33pm
I noticed you never got an answer to your question. I don't use EFX but I have seen this exact same thing with a different retail broker's feeds. I not only saw it, I got burned on trades several times because of it (demo only). I am still looking for a reliable charting package. I have taken screen shots of the same chart after the close of the daily candle and it changed. Why would it change after its close? Shouldn't it be closed?
Something really weird happened today with AUD/USD.
Below are my two screenshots. I'm using NY timezone (instead of my own timezone), to make it easier to see exactly what time this happened.
On my Intellicharts there was a spike downward to .8780 at the 20:00 (which is 8:00 p.m. NY time). For some reason the Intellichart feed was not coinciding with EFX Navigator, so I went to look at the FREE Intellichart site (http://efx.tradesecuring.com/misc/freeefx.asp) to check if that chart showed the same data as my chart.
When I looked at the FREE chart, I noticed that there wasn't a spike like my chart showed. I thought this was really strange, because why would my chart show the spike and not the other one when they should both be using the same EFX data feed.
Not only that, but while the spike was happening, I saw the EFX data go to where the spike went so I knew that it had actually occurred (I was in AUD/USD at the time, so I saw the numbers jump when the spike happened. It didn't affect me though, because my TTO wasn't hit by the spike).
Anyway, because my Intellichart wasn't showing the same data as the FREE chart, I decided to exit the program and reopen it to see if that fixed what I thought might have been a glitch or something.
Sure enough the spike disappeared and my chart now looked like Intellichart's FREE one (without the spike).
I then just dismissed it and figured since I didn't take a screenshot, I couldn't show any proof of what had happened.
Well, several hours later, I was looking at a different timeframe for the AUD/USD chart and noticed the spike back again. I flipped back to my previous timeframe and the spike wasn't there. I thought, how weird!
Anyway, this time I took screenshots, lol. I have them both at the same timeframe, so you can see exactly at what candlestick (see arrow) the spike shows and where it's not there (I took the "no spike" one first, then refreshed my chart to show the one with the spike).
So, did anybody else see/experience this?
Justin - why would the spike disappear for several hours then reappear? This is not the first time this spike-disappearing-act, lol, has occurred. It happened once before (a while back), but that spike never reappeared (or to where I had noticed, anyway), so I did not bring it up that time, mainly because I didn't have screenshots to prove what I had seen, lol:
*edited - Oh, I forgot to mention ... the FREE Intellichart also shows the spike now, lol.
http://leighswishingwell.com/efx/spike.gif
http://leighswishingwell.com/efx/nospike.gif
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I noticed you never got an answer to your question.
Why would it change after its close? Shouldn't it be closed?
For those who use trading strategies which involve reading candlesticks and also high/lows, this is very important to not have the candlesticks change like it did. This is why I posted my question/concern.
At first I only noticed the spike, however if you look at my screenshots again, notice that the 3rd candlestick from the right also differs in both screenshots. One show the candlestick closing short, and the other show it closing long.
Very bizarre.
Anyway, I thank you for noticing that my post never got replied to and for your support
.I really like EFX and will stick with them for now, however I would have appreciated some sort of answer to what is going on with that, because it does affect our trading strategy.
Justin - please read this following thread: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=40516
Although it says "(not EFX)" in the original poster's title, this affects EFX, as well, since there is discussion about Navigator's security issues.
In April 2007 I had emailed you regarding someone else logging in as me and you had me change my password. It continued to happen even after the password change, thus I've been changing my password numerous times, lol.
I thought it was just due to MBT "monitoring" us to see if we have "stops" in place, however this other poster had his trade messed with, so you need to read that thread.
It will also help with addressing any security flaws/issues that may occur with the new Omega project, since what we discuss there will be issues that Omega will want taken care of.
Thank you
Although it says "(not EFX)" in the original poster's title, this affects EFX, as well, since there is discussion about Navigator's security issues.
In April 2007 I had emailed you regarding someone else logging in as me and you had me change my password. It continued to happen even after the password change, thus I've been changing my password numerous times, lol.
I thought it was just due to MBT "monitoring" us to see if we have "stops" in place, however this other poster had his trade messed with, so you need to read that thread.
It will also help with addressing any security flaws/issues that may occur with the new Omega project, since what we discuss there will be issues that Omega will want taken care of.
Thank you
Oh, and regarding EFX's website ... for me, I'm more concerned with ease of use and navigation.
With some so-called professional sites, you can get virtually lost (and I'm speaking literally) in all the bad navigation links that take you everywhere but where you want to go (to the information you are looking for), lol. And then, once you finally get there, you then click on stuff for more details/additional info, then somehow you can't get back to where you were.
I like clean and simple and to where I can get the info I need fast and easy without having to go around the universe before I get to the page I need, lol.
Although EFX's site is not the best looking there is
, I wasn't turned off by it. It surely didn't make the difference for me on whether I was going to sign up with them or not. I felt their company looked stable enough and they had good reviews from customers, so they were worth giving a try .
With some so-called professional sites, you can get virtually lost (and I'm speaking literally) in all the bad navigation links that take you everywhere but where you want to go (to the information you are looking for), lol. And then, once you finally get there, you then click on stuff for more details/additional info, then somehow you can't get back to where you were.
I like clean and simple and to where I can get the info I need fast and easy without having to go around the universe before I get to the page I need, lol.
Although EFX's site is not the best looking there is
, I wasn't turned off by it. It surely didn't make the difference for me on whether I was going to sign up with them or not. I felt their company looked stable enough and they had good reviews from customers, so they were worth giving a try .
