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  • #2,761
  • Jun 2, 2011 8:25am Jun 2, 2011 8:25am
I think you have too much Max Bars in History and in Chart.
Go to extras / options / diagrams and make a smaller value there.
How to opt out annoying user signatures ??
  • #2,762
  • Jun 2, 2011 8:52am Jun 2, 2011 8:52am
Hi Strat,

I have been trying to get your attention for some time , the clocks on your website is 1hour behind time, and so is the dashboard .
I am at EST and we are now on daylight saving time . so we are 1 hour ahead of the dashboard at the moment.
You might want to have a look at it
  • #2,763
  • Jun 4, 2011 12:59pm Jun 4, 2011 12:59pm
Thank you again for all you have done, especially the videos. They have helped me a lot. Have a big beer and enjoy the day.
  • #2,764
  • Jun 7, 2011 4:15am Jun 7, 2011 4:15am
Quoting Jeff Hocking
Hi Rob
I recently installed your Pipware suit and it works well. Very happy!
After watching some your videos on Utube I attempted to change the time as described using control I. Since then it is taking 3 to 5 seconds to change to another pair or a different template and all of the mini carts stay bunched over to the right for up 10 seconds. It also takes a long time for the MT4 template button to click. I have used the reset button and that has returned the settings I made back to the standard but the problem remains.
Please can you or anyone...
I get a slow down when I have Minicharts V12 with the suite. If I remove it my MT4 runs a lot quicker. Anyone else notice this?
  • #2,765
  • Jun 10, 2011 7:29pm Jun 10, 2011 7:29pm
you are correct ... now fixed. You may not realise the irony of this ... let me explain.

My trading strategy relies on data calculated from market sessions e.g when Tokyo, London and New York people are actively trading. I also like to avoid major new events like NFP.

Those that have followed me know that I consider a trading day as starting at New York 5 pm rather than GMT midnight. After all, most of our retail trading platforms have data feeds that start at NY Sunday 5pm and end at NY Friday 5pm. Using my method the trading week is split into 5 equal 24 hr periods.

The downside to MT4 is that when daylight saving occurs in any of the countries of interest, we need to make an adjustment in the dashboard market hours area. If you're a manual trader, that little bit of pain is tolerable i.e. pain vs benefit.

Indicators like this are not appropriate for back testing. A robot that uses market sessions needs very good algorithms to cope with changes in daylight saving. Also news events that have occurred in the past. This is an area I've spent a lot of effort trying to get right.

Why do I find your comment ironic? I'm being such a perfectionist with calendar issues in my robot but totally overlooked keeping the clocks updated on my website

Quoting Billco14
Hi Strat,

I have been trying to get your attention for some time , the clocks on your website is 1hour behind time, and so is the dashboard .
I am at EST and we are now on daylight saving time . so we are 1 hour ahead of the dashboard at the moment.
You might want to have a look at it
  • #2,766
  • Jun 10, 2011 7:50pm Jun 10, 2011 7:50pm
Further to last post on clocks and sessions ...

I needed to learn how java copes with daylight saving, time zones, gmt, utc etc.

Here's a summary of some interesting things I found:

 

  1. Originally, January and February weren't part of the calendar. So only 10 months March to December ("Dec"=10 aka decimal)
  2. July and August named after Julius and Augustus Caesar. July had 31 days and August 30 days. Augustus, not wanting to be seen as inferior to Julius made August have 31 days to match Julius
  3. Up until mid 1500 AD, the Julian calendar was used. Leap years were every 4 years. This was bad as by 1500, the seasons had slipped by a few days.
  4. In mid 1500, the calendar was changed to the Gregorian calendar where leap years are not always every 4 years. Bet some of you didn't know that! Also, 10 days were skipped in a particular year to realign the seasons with dates.
  5. GMT is based on solar methods i.e. rotation of the earth. The natural slowing of the earths rotation is not an issue to GMT as GMT time is sychronised with the sun i.e. solar time.
  6. For scientific purposes the duration of a second is measured using atomic clocks. The time being reported from an atomic clock is called UTC time.
  7. Because of the slowing of the earths rotation, the number of seconds in a year slowly increases! This means, every 3-7 years, a 'leap second' has to be added to the UTC calendar to keep it close to GMT (solar time).
  8. The rule is that GMT and UTC time are not allowed to differ by more than +/- 0.9 seconds. So for general public, UTC and GMT are equivalent ... for scientists that need accurate time measurement, UTC must be used.

  • #2,767
  • Jun 10, 2011 8:30pm Jun 10, 2011 8:30pm
If referring to the mini-charts that use the font file ... they really do bog your system down. Some very serious maths going on with the candles being made from many horizontal lines stacked on each other.

The mini-charts that don't use the font file certainly perform better. I have endeavoured to make all my indicators (apart from original mini) as efficient as they can be. Dependent on the number of charts open, speed of your PC etc each person will have a slightly different user experience.

I ran a test on my own PC with 16 MT4 platforms (from different brokers) running the dashboard simultaneously. Performance was very good.


Quoting specul8
I get a slow down when I have Minicharts V12 with the suite. If I remove it my MT4 runs a lot quicker. Anyone else notice this?
  • #2,768
  • Jun 11, 2011 4:35am Jun 11, 2011 4:35am
Interesting stuff indeed

i do hope the natural slowing down of the earths rotation doesn't grind to a halt before i secured my pension in pips

it can be a bugger when different programming languages treat time differently, though it's a blessing that manuals these days are only a click away..


Quoting stratman
Further to last post on clocks and sessions ...

I needed to learn how java copes with daylight saving, time zones, gmt, utc etc.

Here's a summary of some interesting things I found:
...
  • #2,769
  • Jun 17, 2011 9:47am Jun 17, 2011 9:47am
Hi Strat ,

Now that you have corrected the time on the website my dashboard is still wrong . How do i set about correcting the time on the dashboard?
Could you correct it and let us download the corrected version.

Thanks.
  • #2,770
  • Jun 17, 2011 10:54pm Jun 17, 2011 10:54pm
Quoting Billco14
Hi Strat ,

Now that you have corrected the time on the website my dashboard is still wrong . How do i set about correcting the time on the dashboard?
Could you correct it and let us download the corrected version.

Thanks.
It's not required to download a new dashboard. The dashboard has settings to adjust market hours to whatever you prefer.

Have a look at the settings and you will see options for changing timezone of New York, London etc whenever daylight savings changes for those locations. This is something that is not automatic .... a downside of using MT4 code.

I'm writing java code right now that solves this problem but that is for Dukascopy JForex platform.
  • #2,771
  • Jun 28, 2011 2:09pm Jun 28, 2011 2:09pm
Hi Startman,
Does Pipware Dashboard works on CFD & Stocks items too? We can attach Dashboard to multiple charts or restricted to one?
  • #2,772
  • Jun 28, 2011 10:26pm Jun 28, 2011 10:26pm
Exist one indicator what pipware-minichart for Ninja Trader 7.

Thanks
  • #2,773
  • Jul 3, 2011 9:58pm Jul 3, 2011 9:58pm
Hi Stratman,
I just wanted to drop by and let you know I've purchased the Pipware Suite. Must say, its exactly what I've been after. I can't even begin to imagine the amount of work that's gone into it. Look forward to getting involved in this thread. and I Look forward to using Pipware to help make better trades

Cheers

Seb.
- Look to the left, Trade to the right - I am the system
  • #2,774
  • Jul 4, 2011 3:18pm Jul 4, 2011 3:18pm
Quoting cybervaccine
Hi Startman,
Does Pipware Dashboard works on CFD & Stocks items too? We can attach Dashboard to multiple charts or restricted to one?
Works on any MT4. So depends on what "instruments"/"symbols" your broker offers.

Dashboard can be used on multiple charts.
  • #2,775
  • Jul 4, 2011 3:23pm Jul 4, 2011 3:23pm
Quoting pesteban
Exist one indicator what pipware-minichart for Ninja Trader 7.

Thanks
Sorry, no indicator for ninja. Currently putting effort into JForex.
  • #2,776
  • Jul 4, 2011 3:25pm Jul 4, 2011 3:25pm
Quoting Sebastiaan76
Hi Stratman,
I just wanted to drop by and let you know I've purchased the Pipware Suite. Must say, its exactly what I've been after. I can't even begin to imagine the amount of work that's gone into it. Look forward to getting involved in this thread. and I Look forward to using Pipware to help make better trades

Cheers

Seb.
Thank you. A lot of time went into the suite for MT4. Here's a glimpse of my current coding efforts:

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  • #2,777
  • Jul 4, 2011 5:57pm Jul 4, 2011 5:57pm
Hello,

how can I display Charts as normal candles ? All I get is bars like this:
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  • #2,778
  • Jul 5, 2011 1:10am Jul 5, 2011 1:10am
Quoting micmic
Hello,

how can I display Charts as normal candles ? All I get is bars like this:
I have not seen this problem. Has anyone else seen it and offer a solution?
  • #2,779
  • Jul 5, 2011 4:54am Jul 5, 2011 4:54am
Quoting stratman
I have not seen this problem. Has anyone else seen it and offer a solution?

It happens with Fxpro but not with Fxopen. It happens in all templates, even though they both use Metatrader 4.0 build 402. Any ideas ?
  • #2,780
  • Aug 7, 2011 1:01pm Aug 7, 2011 1:01pm
Hi,

I have been looking all over the place for a THV Coral with a custom MA period parameter but can't find one. Does it exist, anybody has any information about that or something that would be similar ? I am basically looking for a THV coral where I could enter any MA period I want.

Thanks a lot
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