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  • #321
  • Jul 30, 2008 4:53pm Jul 30, 2008 4:53pm
This can be downloaded from post #1 in this thread. Full installation instructions can be found there also.

Version 1.29 does the following:

-- Fixes bug described in post # 328;
-- Streamlines text output to MT4 charts. Help bubble no longer contains A:, F:, P:, R: text where Actual, Forecast, Previous and/or Revised From values are missing or irrelevant;
-- Default dates now extended form 2009 to 2019 (prolonging the software's useful life for another 10 years - LOL);
-- Zip file now includes Alert_News indicator also – see posts #321, #323 for info.

Please note that I have done my best to test all of the above on both my Win-98 and Win-XP platforms, which run firewalls and anti-virus software. However, you download and run this software at your own risk. I accept no liability for any damage or losses that you might incur.

Please feel welcome to report any bugs, and post queries or suggestions in this thread.

David
  • #322
  • Jul 30, 2008 5:50pm Jul 30, 2008 5:50pm
i haven't read the thread

i was thinking about modifying the EA to avoid news trading. has anyone talked about that or accomplished it? if news approaches, close all pairs pertaining to it within 15 minutes (or later) to the release.....
  • #323
  • Jul 31, 2008 2:04am Jul 31, 2008 2:04am
Quoting tdion
i haven't read the thread

i was thinking about modifying the EA to avoid news trading. has anyone talked about that or accomplished it? if news approaches, close all pairs pertaining to it within 15 minutes (or later) to the release.....
This isn't a news trading EA. It's merely an indicator that plots little circular symbols on your MT4 charts that show:

(i) what news occurred in the past, and when, so you can view the effect that the news had on price; and

(ii) what news is about to occur, and when, so that you can adjust your trading strategy, however you wish.

See post #1 in this thread for a screenshot.

Whether/how you use the info to trade news, or to avoid news, is entirely up to you.

David
  • #324
  • Jul 31, 2008 2:46am Jul 31, 2008 2:46am
Hey Hanover,

Am glad to see you're staying on top of things. Where else could you get an entire new version two days after the glitch occurred. You should really charge for this stuff.

Was off line for a while owing to "imposed border-line lifestyle" (for lack of better term) and have now tested my trading system for one month with reasonable (20% -- incredible for me) results. It's like the FF "Simple Scalping 5-min. System" only with 15-minute chart, plus EMA -crossover signal (with alarm) and a 15-minute egg timer just in case.

Maybe four years is not very long, but think by now I should be able to trade effectively. Still, people who are beginners apparently go from nothing with no knowledge and pass me by in their first couple of weeks. Maybe this system is the cure for "forex terminally inept" but will have to try for several months (if can afford to stay online) to see how bad the long-term out-of-money trades pile up.

I can send a zipfile of links & indicators if you wnat to try. B.
  • #325
  • Jul 31, 2008 7:17am Jul 31, 2008 7:17am
Quoting brucewhain
Hey Hanover,

Am glad to see you're staying on top of things. Where else could you get an entire new version two days after the glitch occurred. You should really charge for this stuff.
.......
Hi Bruce,

Plot_News started out very small, and was originally intended to be solely for my own use. If I’d known how many hours I’d spend enhancing it, and how many people would end up using it, I might well have marketed it as a commercial offering. However, having gotten this far down the track now, and in keeping with the community spirit of FF, it’s an on-going freebie, my gift to everybody here. The support will continue for as long as I continue to find it useful myself.

In any case, my goal has always been to generate a secondary income from trading, rather than product sales. Any programmer can write an EA and market it on the Internet, hence I don’t see any real challenge in that. I think I’m on the verge of trading profitably, even if the profits aren’t as consistent as I’d like. But profit is still profit, and I’m learning to lower my expectations and be grateful for whatever the market allows me. After two years of trial and error, it’s a case of sifting through the knowledge that I’ve gained, streamlining it into a workable trading system, and then writing an EA to trade it. IMHO any EA that’s genuinely long-term profitable is too valuable to be sold, at any price.

Anyway, it sounds like you’ve likewise been making good progress, and I wish you continued success.

David
  • #326
  • Jul 31, 2008 7:51am Jul 31, 2008 7:51am
hi Hanover,

Plot news already fixed,thanks a lot.

Hi Bruce ,

I use the simple scalping 5 min too ,imran system ,right.
why you not join us at trading rooms.

in case you don't know ;
install the software first at www.tradingrooms.com
then go to community trading rooms /simple method of scalping by imran sait
  • #327
  • Jul 31, 2008 10:28am Jul 31, 2008 10:28am
Thanks for indicator, is working like a charm.
  • #328
  • Jul 31, 2008 2:35pm Jul 31, 2008 2:35pm
Was just abouty to give my opinion on EA's around 8:30 ET this morning when the message came on saying FF was too busy, and suddenly realized it was time for... I did write it all down: "... but can't read it now "unemployment claims" or something. Luckily, dodged right away to my MT4 with the new tiny little trades and took big $1.50 or so on what is now $1237. I think the idea is that when the price finally reverses, one or two of these tiny little trades won't really matter if they're bad. (I should know the idea, it's my system. But oh well.) (This is Demo, by the way, but it's still working.)

The system does take quite a bit from Imram Sait's, esp. BB's and the two Laquerre's which is the the best indicator I've ever used. Didn't know there was a new forum since have been off web and am not necessarily the most extroverted web browser anyway. Of course, one thinks the way he trades, all you have to do is follow along and you'll be rich. Or even just looking at the system. But everything about forex is deceptively simple-looking. At least, for me. Still am tempted to try it. GBP/JPY is different now, huh?
  • #329
  • Aug 1, 2008 6:29am Aug 1, 2008 6:29am
Thanks everybody for the feedback, glad to hear Plot_News is working 100% once again.

David
  • #330
  • Aug 1, 2008 7:22am Aug 1, 2008 7:22am
I want you to ckeck the overnight configuration, we can not change the date anymore, if there is passed midnight over other the broker.
And I have some problems... This indicator insists that is PM (or + 12 hours in 24 markets), when all was configured at 1 o clock this mornig.
Probably due to the DST settings (Daylight Savings Time). We need something to take this in consideration if we want a very reliable system. I will try to see if I can find that.
:
Ths friday morning, my clock was 1:34, usa gmt (dst + 1) was 12:34
While my broker 7:34... OK.

THe problem there is:
Today the hour is advanced 1 hour, the time of news showswas PM.
(was happening AM)...

I dont have sure what is happening here. I will try configure again later.
Sure is a very complicated over the change of day/night with dst on usa, and dst off here in Brasil, while broker is dst is turned off too.

AS programmer, this would be a inimaginable big chalenge for me .

But would really good if we got something more automated like ffcall, but without any lmitations or automations for who wants to manualy change settings, like the impossibility to change dates over the last version, as problems if we installed metatrader over d:/ on hardDisk.

(the date refreshes with date from our clock in the txt_change or get_focus like events, this was not happening with other versions)

Check this out, I would love this to be a very reliable system.
This as so much people agree, is a great indicator, dont give up.
I will love to help as soon got some free time.

Thanks!

edited some unwanted link over there.

gfcgamer
  • #331
  • Edited 4:35pm Aug 1, 2008 4:22pm | Edited 4:35pm
Quoting gfcgamer
I want you to ckeck the overnight configuration, we can not change the date anymore, if there is passed midnight over other the broker.
And I have some problems... This indicator insists that is PM (or + 12 hours in 24 markets), when all was configured at 1 o clock this mornig.
Probably due to the DST settings (Daylight Savings Time). We need something to take this in consideration if we want a very reliable system. I will try to see if I can find that.
:
Ths friday morning, my clock was 1:34, usa gmt (dst + 1) was 12:34
While my broker 7:34... OK.

THe problem there is:
Today the hour is advanced 1 hour, the time of news showswas PM.
(was happening AM)...

I dont have sure what is happening here. I will try configure again later.
Sure is a very complicated over the change of day/night with dst on usa, and dst off here in Brasil, while broker is dst is turned off too.

AS programmer, this would be a inimaginable big chalenge for me .

But would really good if we got something more automated like ffcall, but without any lmitations or automations for who wants to manualy change settings, like the impossibility to change dates over the last version, as problems if we installed metatrader over d:/ on hardDisk.

(the date refreshes with date from our clock in the txt_change or get_focus like events, this was not happening with other versions)

Check this out, I would love this to be a very reliable system.
This as so much people agree, is a great indicator, dont give up.
I will love to help as soon got some free time.

Thanks!

edited some unwanted link over there.

gfcgamer
GFC,
If the software is faulty, I want to fix it for everybody.

But first I want to make sure that I understand what you're saying. Please see the attached image below.

OK, first you click the SETUP button (see black arrow) and the 'Initial Setup' screen appears.

See the red arrows/boxes. Please make sure that you enter the dates in mm/dd/yyyy format, and the times in 24 hour format (e.g. if it is 7:34 PM, enter 19:34). It's important that you get the dates correct, so that the software knows whether your broker time is currently one day ahead of New York, or the same day.

In the example you give, you say that the time in New York is 12:34, but in Brasil it is 1:34. But Brasil is GMT–3, New York is GMT–4, i.e. New York is only one hour behind Brasil. So if it is 01:34 in Brasil, it must be 00:34 in New York, not 12:34. I think that might be your first problem??

Then check whether your broker time is 07:34 or 19:34.

If you get all of this correct, then when you click OK, the software should automatically transfer the two numbers shown in the blue ovals back onto the main screen (see blue arrows).

Once those two values have been set up correctly, all of the numbered circle symbols should display under the correct bars on your MT4 charts. They should continue to do so until you need to run SETUP again to adjust for any change in daylight saving.

If the symbols are still not displaying correctly, please post a screenshot in this thread, and I will investigate for you.

Also, if you give me your broker's web address, and/or the URL link to where you downloaded MT4, I will download it myself and get all of this working correctly for you.

Finally, you say that "we can not change the date anymore". Do you mean the date in the green box? If so, you need to check the "Auto set" parameter OFF, so that the date is not automatically set for you.

Hopefully this will work correctly now.

Good luck,
David
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  • #332
  • Aug 5, 2008 6:27am Aug 5, 2008 6:27am
Thank you soo much for your incredible indicator it will help me alot...you have done an excellent job making this indicator and it will surely come in handy during news minutes as the server is sometimes overloaded here in FF i have successfuly downloaded it and i have also ploted it.

God bless you Hanover
  • #333
  • Aug 6, 2008 3:40am Aug 6, 2008 3:40am
Quoting split_unit
Thank you soo much for your incredible indicator it will help me alot...you have done an excellent job making this indicator and it will surely come in handy during news minutes as the server is sometimes overloaded here in FF i have successfuly downloaded it and i have also ploted it.

God bless you Hanover
Split_unit, many thanks for the feedback. I'm glad that you find Plot_News as useful as I do.

The function that grabs the data from the FF server is handicapped in much the same way, if the server is overloaded. There's no way around this, at least that I know of. The indicator is likewise restricted to the availability and accuracy of the data in the FF calendar.

Best wishes,
David
  • #334
  • Edited 1:56pm Aug 14, 2008 2:48am | Edited 1:56pm
I've added a note (in green typeface) to post #1 of the thread:

David
  • #335
  • Aug 16, 2008 12:30pm Aug 16, 2008 12:30pm
Hanindo2000 & Hanover esp.,

Just went to Simple Five-minute Scalping System to get another copy of ##Auto Pivots indicator, and found that Imran has not posted since March.

Apparently, the second investment pool he formed to trade on people's behalf tanked, a-la-forex, and all the money was lost. According to one person who put his money in the first pool, that attempt ended more successfuly and he got some profit, but his insistence on certain limits for drawdown, etc. resulted in Imran refusing to let him into the second pool.

The Simple Scalping thread - totally aside from the 5 or 6 related threads - now runs to 500 pages. The poster who said he made out alright in the first pool says he started warning (somewhere in the thread) about February of this year that poeple were going to lose their money, and was threatened with excommunication from FF because of it.

It was a very popular thread. I have never seen anyone (other than Hanover) who communicated on every little repetitive thing with helpfulness and willingness to explain at length, and often wondered how he had time to trade. Well, there you go. And it's for this reason that I find it hard to believe that Mr. Sait could have originally had any underhanded motive, and believe he actually did have consistent good results in his trading until he started with the trading of other peoples' money.

No doublt his system, which he says in the thread was taught to him by a professional trader-teacher, has helped many to their first taste of (at-least-sort-of) consistent success, myself included, and must say that the Laguerre indicater - the way he has it set up - is far-and-away the clearest and best of all, including my own Five Minute Fozzy. Will give Laguerre formula below.
  • #336
  • Aug 19, 2008 1:27am Aug 19, 2008 1:27am
Hi all,

I hope someone can help me.

I try to install the FFcal129 indicator but I cant unzip the folder because

I get a damage message from the Unzipper Programm. (Windows XP SP2)

Thanks in advance for your help
  • #337
  • Aug 19, 2008 4:58am Aug 19, 2008 4:58am
Quoting beno
Hi all,

I hope someone can help me.

I try to install the FFcal129 indicator but I cant unzip the folder because

I get a damage message from the Unzipper Programm. (Windows XP SP2)

Thanks in advance for your help
This has happened to a lot of us. The easy solution is to use Firefox (or maybe Opera) instead of Internet Explorer to download the zip file. There's something about either IE or the way the zip file is made or something about the FF server... which causes IE to only download (sometimes!) a partial file. Sometimes if I just try using IE a dozen times or so, it may eventually work. I watch the file size and when it looks like my downloaded copy is as big as the source file, it typically worked, finally! However, Firefox has no problem and is trivial for me to use since I have it installed (FYI, it's free).
  • #338
  • Aug 19, 2008 5:21am Aug 19, 2008 5:21am
Hi pips4life,

I have now download the file with firefox and it works fine now

Great thanks for your support

Regards,
beno
  • #339
  • Aug 19, 2008 11:39am Aug 19, 2008 11:39am
Hi David (hanover),

Since this problem with IE improperly downloading the zip file comes up so often for people, can you please update Post #1 in the Installation section?

May I suggest something like this:

Quote
1. Create a new folder, then download and unzip the attached ZIP file into it.

If your IE downloaded zip file is corrupted... Many users report problems using Internet Explorer to download a complete zip file. Please use an alternate browser such as Firefox or Opera. Google "Firefox download" (or another browser) to find a free download link.

It's your Post #1 so do whatever you like. Just a suggestion...

Pips4life
  • #340
  • Aug 19, 2008 5:17pm Aug 19, 2008 5:17pm
Quoting pips4life
.......
Since this problem with IE improperly downloading the zip file comes up so often for people, can you please update Post #1 in the Installation section?
.......
Done.
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