Indicators development for T101's not very simple method

Quoting FOREXflash

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Orest could you please do the folowing.....
Can you simplify code from T101_Anchor_Signals_Orest_v1.01.mq4(remove the visual part of code) and leave only logics so I can try to code a EA for this? I never reserched or coded a indicator so it is hard for me to get this right!

I know that this method makes money, Im using it for 2 weeks now,
and I know that the logics of this method will possibly never be coded totaly in EA, but from what i know, Ea based on your anchor signals could make some pips...not as many as manual usage, but it would be a great help when
Im on work or somewhere? Please can this be done?
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 else if (week_back==7) // hour ago
 {
     tf = PERIOD_H1;
     bars_back = 0;
     i_Open = true;
 }

 else if (week_back==7) // hour ago
 {
     tf = PERIOD_M1;
     bars_back = 60;
     i_Open = true;
 }

else if (week_back==6) // 4 hours ago
 {
     tf = PERIOD_M1;
     bars_back = 240;
     i_Open = true;
 }

else if (week_back==6) // 4 hours ago
 {
     tf = PERIOD_H4;
     bars_back = 0;
     i_Open = true;
 }

Quoting Ronald Raygun

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It was a relatively simple solution from my perspective: code one indicator which only draws one line =D. That screenshot on my post has 14 indicators in the same window =D

The part I'm most interested in is the ranking system. I'm not 100% sure how you did it, and I'm still looking through the code.

I figure if each indicator can simply give a value from 1-14 which corresponds to the ranking, we won't have to worry too much about all that "in-between" space, and more definitively determine which bar moved what pair where. I figure it's better than my current spaghetti setup.

At least, that's my thinking. I'm crap at coding indicators, so if you don't understand what I'm talking about I'll gladly explain it in further detail through Skype.

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Quoting icicle

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That is interesting:/. What were your settings?

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Quoting Orest

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RR,
I see your problem as well as your point very clearly. I mean your ranking by profit assignment. The reason we came up with "static" indicator was necessity to compare different starting points of the buy/sell trades. Okay, let's talk about ranking by profits. We could pretend we open trades in the beginning of the week as we normally do - the problem is over couple of days all buy and sell trades pretty much lined up and there is no much movement there. In contrary 1h time frame is too dynamic. So, we need everything (from week to 1h) on the screen to see the basket moves. So, again when you say ranking I'm asking what's your starting point. When you tell me your starting point I'll say it's probably not enough info to makeup your mind about market situation.

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Quoting dee

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Quick fix for those that know how...

this...

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 else if (week_back==7) // hour ago
 {
     tf = PERIOD_H1;
     bars_back = 0;
     i_Open = true;
 }

instead of this

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 else if (week_back==7) // hour ago
 {
     tf = PERIOD_M1;
     bars_back = 60;
     i_Open = true;
 }

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Quoting Ronald Raygun

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It seems--to me anyways--that the most resaonable movement comes around assuming that you opened the trades exactly 48 hours before (2 days). I only really see movement consistently when I reset my IA every 2 days.

What you're looking for is movement over time, assuming a fixed starting point.

I'm looking for movement over time, assuming a dynamic starting point.

Your method I strongly believe works for Phase II of the trading system where you trade all 14 pairs in whatever direction you choose based on the anchor pairs

My method I think works best in Phase I of the trading system, where you pay attention the border pairs and trade only the ones that jump as mentioned in the very first post of Trader101's thread. That's the main reason why I'm pushing for a line-based ranking system. A lot of time is being spent on Phase II trading, so instead of confusing the rest of the users with more Phase II indicators, I'm trying to develop Phase I systems.

I know there is a Phase III coming out and I'm wondering how to come up with an indicator for that.

I'm sure we can set up a variable in my proposed indicator to let the end user choose between fixed/dynamic start point.

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Quoting Orest

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I know it was a lot of confusion about how to trade this system. T101 was throwing his ideas, what's why that thread has been overflooded by confused
newcomers.

Let's make it clear. Phase II has nothing to do with whole basket buy/sell go. Phase II is about pairs relations, it should be traded in ranging market when all pairs go is very dangerous. GU & GJ, EU & EJ, AU & AJ, UCad & Cadj, remeber? That's Phase II.

Phase I is either some pairs or all pairs. All pairs seems more effective that's all... But I agree that original method does seem got forgotten, even T101 didn't mention it very often.

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Quoting giraia_br

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Orest, id like to give a idea to solve the problem with the delay of the indicator.

i dont know if it is easy or even possible to do but i think it is the solution for the delay, sorry if a am wrong.

the idea is to use a EA to open trades to use as refference to atualize the numbers instead of wait for ticks. There is a more radical approach: An EA to open even the initial trades but maybe it is necessary to open only trades to refresh the values, in this case the basket can be oppened at any moment, only to refresh.

sorry if this dont make sense but using ticks the lag/delay will be more than 30 seconds in some cases.

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Quoting Orest

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giraia_br,
thanks for the input. The problem is currently we only use fixed starting points for the Week and for This day. All other time frames are dynamic, they change every minute per say. We really need a script with endless loop and Refreshrates(), but it can't be used as indicator.

Is everybody catching 800+ pips SELL run since this morning?

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Quoting Orest

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P.S. 1000 pips now.
It seems to me that following 2 Weeks/Weekly/Daily trend on active day is pretty safe bet so far.

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Quoting giraia_br

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what exactly you saw at the moment you entered the trades? If it was London Session, i was sleeping. GMT+3 here

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Quoting lecsolo

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Hi everybody,

I have a problem with this indicator when I compile with Meta editor this put an error like this :

"WinUser32.mqh cannot open the program file"

I have check in the folder the file exist, I replaced with another one and nothing.

Can you help me please?

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