HAS Indicator revisted - Need help please!

Hello everyone. I'm new to posting to this forum, and have only been reading articles from it for a few weeks, but have been trying out Forex for months now, not getting anywhere.

I really appreciate the info, examples, indicators, charts, templates and info that people have put on this website - it's really eye opening, and I'm certain that I will be able to earn after seeing some of the systems here - THV, 5 Minutes, Big Dog, on and on, and the one I think I'll like the most is the Big Dog one, that I'll start working with on Monday


However, months ago, I came across the HAS method (probably not the correct name), but Don Steinitz introduced it back in March of 2007, and I have downloaded the templates and indicators that were in that (the ff section on this forum), only to not have the bottom portion (panel) work correctly for me.

http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...t=20954&page=1



It might be moot, and not needed anymore, with all of these newer (and perhaps better?) systems and methods out now, but I liked the fact that the bottom panel is supposed to show four timeframes of candles, based on which tf you're viewing at the moment, with red or blue candles, indicating which direction the various tf's are going, at that particular moment.

Well, my pc takes a long time to display anything, and when it does, it only shows all red candles, or it alternates with red, then blue, then red, then blue, which does NOT help me in the slightest.

I've closed down MT4, made sure the indicators are there on the platform, dragged the 1st one (HAS), then the HAS2 in the same pnl, and the same thing keeps happening. This is on two different platforms - ODL and FXDD.


I'm thinking that since MT4 is at release 224? now, and since these templates and indicators were released two years ago, that maybe that's why they're not working????


If anyone (especially you Don!), have any solutions to this puzzling display problem I'm having, I'm open to trying various things! Or should I just forget about trying to use this anymore? Does anyone use this method anymore, or is it too out-dated?


Thanks ahead of time for your help and information

Regards,
Paul

if its a build issue and you have the .mq4 files then open them in a build 224 MetaEditor and compile them and then save them into your indicators folder...this worked for a number of my indicators.

Thanks TRK for the suggestion, which I did - I opened the indicator with the metaeditor, clicked on compile, had 0 errors, saved it as another file with todays date appended, closed the platform, re-opened it, dragged the new indicators as I'm supposed to, and the same thing happened.

Oh, by the way, I was mistaken about the colors - I see either all red, or alternating red/green, or often the two colors are together in each candle at the bottom, for all four rows.

I even closed down the platform and re-opened it (tho I noticed the computer took a long time to open up the platform), but the messed up display is still there.

Has anyone been using this since 2007? If so, did you have to do anything different? I have no idea why it's working for you all, but not for me. I can understand why computers were freezing up, with less computing power back then, as my computer buzzes and almost chokes at I presume, trying to do the computations, but it does display the indicators, only they're not correct, and I'd really like to get them correct!

I am trying to include an attachment so you can see what I get - hope it works!


Thanks again ahead of time. I'd really like to get this working.

Regards,
Paul

I just now noticed that this post ended up in hte Programming Discussion section, and not the System section, where the original info back in 2007 was. I don't know if as many people look at this section, and I was hoping to attract the originator (Don) to see this post, so perhaps he could tell me what was wrong??

Anyway, I guess we'll see if I get any more suggestions from this area.

Regards,
Paul