MJ - My Indicators

Quite a shame but I want update the indi this weekend:

as I found some errors in the new:
ALPmullin86Var indicators (related to this thread: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=283291) and need to wait for live data to find where the error occurs.

No idea at the moment.

TUTORIAL: TEMPLATE FOR Alerter: Pmullin86 System

PART 1!!!


I decided to make a small run through (tutorial) how to create a template for the new upcoming Pmullin86 System Alert indicator.

See his thread: On My Way To The To: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=283291


Pmullin86 System Alert indicator:

ALPmullin86Var1 Indicator is an Alerter which combines four different Alerts into one indicator.


1 - MTF STOk Direction With OverBought/SoldLevel Options:
2 - MA Order:
3 - MA Touch Price:
4 - CHART STOk Level Check:


Because I have a relatively big screen 27" TFT I will add all the parts within one chart.


The final template will/should look more or less similar as planned: see pic below.

All the STO and MA will be used from my open bar value based version as the Alerter use also them.

TUTORIAL: TEMPLATE FOR Alerter: Pmullin86 System

PART 2!!!

(probably it's a good idea to open the help documentation I usually post for all indis so you know what the settings for each indi are.)



The easiest why to great a new template with my indicators is to clean up first the terminal.

1. Open the MT4 terminal and close all charts

2. Delete any Global Variables
Tools>Global Variables> Delete any Global Variables

The MT4 terminal should look more or less like the pic 1 below
No Charts open, No Global Variables

3. In case there are any Objects on the chart delete also all of them

Charts>Objects>Objects List

I select always all of them:

1. click the First on the top - so it gets blue
2. scroll down to the last
3. hold the SHIFT key
4. click the Last this should mark all

and then : delete

*** Close the Terminal

TUTORIAL: TEMPLATE FOR Alerter: Pmullin86 System

PART 3!!!


Now we do the Chart MA Line part.

1. IMPORTANT: first decide which indicator one needs to achieve what one wants.

pmullin86 uses 3 EMAs:
50 EMA, Close (Medium Turquoise)
100 EMA, Close (Red)
200 EMA, Close (Yellow)

We do on purpose not use the normal MA with close but use my open value based MA's.

NOTE: In a normal case (and also the smartest way) would be to plot the Ma's directly from the Alerter indicator.

But for this example I keep everything separated:

So to plot 3 MA's for a Chart interval we can use a number of my indi but the best one is: op3MA_0.00.ex4 which should do exactly what we need.

2. Open a new chart - M5 time frame
Just a note: I myself prefer for UP: Red based colors and DOWN: blue based colors (which differce from many ohter traders)

Apply the op3MA_0.00.ex4 indi

See pic 2.gif below: if you do this on a weekend like I, it will never pass the waiting as there are no new ticks are arriving.

I usually make two templates:
- one for weekend for Past data checking analysing.
- and one for Action trading when live ticks are received.


See pic 3.gif below: I set the: bExtStartDelay option to false for the weekend template. ( I will do that by all other indi we apply and not mention it each time)


See pic 4.gif below: afterwards it should look like the last pic.

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PART 3!!! continuation


1. We still need to adjust the MA settings: First think what you want.

50 EMA, (Medium Turquoise)
100 EMA, (Red)
200 EMA, (Yellow)

IMPORTANT: think which plot order you want them to have - so if the cross or overlap you have the one in the foreground (above the other) which you want.

I settle for this:

50 plotted above 100
100 plotted above 200


2. Adjust the MA settings:

*** Open the Indicators List:
Chart>Indicators List.

*** Choose the op3MA_0.00 and edit.*** Scroll to MA1 Defination 200 EMA, (Yellow)

Adjust the setting (read the info doc) See pic 5.gif below:


MA2 will be: 100 EMA, (Red)

and MA3 will be: 50 EMA, (Medium Turquoise)

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PART 3!!! continuation



1.To see the order better I adjusted the line width for display purpose.

See pic 6.gif below:


2. In the end it should look with correct line width (1) like the last pic See pic 7.gif below:


Also note: I opened the Global Variable tap and we have now one new entry.

This is later on an important part and gives sometimes errors at setup (if one does not pay attention to)

But more info later.


CONGRATULATION we finished the first very easy part of the template

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PART 3!!! continuation

FINALIZE it: save the first partial template:


To save this as a template we have to do a couple of things which are normally not needed with standard indicators.


1. delete all Objects of the chart

Charts>Objects>Objects List

I select always all of them:

1. click the First on the top - so it gets blue
2. scroll down to the last
3. hold the SHIFT key
4. click the Last this should mark all

and then : delete

2. Save the template

Charts>Template>Save Template...

I called it: ALPmullin86Var1_Tutorial_v1


Test the first partial template.

*** Clean up again the MT4 Terminal: see post #183
http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...29#post5083229

*** Open the terminal and add a new M5 chart

*** Apply your saved template
Charts>Template>Load Template....

I select the saved:ALPmullin86Var1_Tutorial_v1.tpl

*** normally it should work (it did at my test now)

NOTE: if you get errors you should read the docu info of Common errors. (read it anyway)

Sometimes there are Errors related to not having enough data in the chart history (especially with my MTF indicators -- in such case you get most of the time a quite self explaining error message.

TUTORIAL: TEMPLATE FOR Alerter: Pmullin86 System

PART 4!!!

Now more of the fun part starts One has to watch and take care now

Look what do we need next: post #182 http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?p=5082733#post5082733

MA ORDER ALERT Indi.

1. Think what we want and which indi best applies and what to do.

- 3 MA stack ordered Alert
- because we plotted already the MA lines we do not want to plot it again.
- we want the MA Order Alert in a SubWindow

There are two option:

1. Normally I would have chosen the: ALop3MAOrder_0.00.ex4
which also plots the MA and so the MA would not need to be calculated twice.

But for this tutorial I want to keep all separated so I use the:

2. OALop3MAOrder_0.00.ex4 (this is a OAL (Only Alert) indicator.


2. What to do for the SubWindow??
the OALop3MAOrder_0.00.ex4 does NOT provid a subwindow - so we need to create a 'artificial extra one'.

so we need to use my Helper indicator:
EmptySubWindow_0.00.ex4


3. APPLY EmptySubWindow_0.00.ex4

for the first we do not have to do much (this is a Weekend template)

- bExtStartDelay option to false for the weekend template.
- Change the two sDisplayTEXT1 sDisplayTEXT2 to something more useful

1. I use only the first sDisplayTEXT1 and write: MA ORDER ALERT
2. Change the Color to White (maybe adjust Size position ect..)
   
3. The second sDisplayTEXT2 I disable

NOW the chart should look like the pic: 8.gif


I save my work as a template (remember delete first all chart objects) like we did in the posts above

Small Note: when you delete all object the label we wrote: MA ORDER ALERT will also be deleted: that's ok as when we reload the template it will cleanly recreated.

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PART 4!!! continuation

APPLY the actual Ma Order Alert:
The Alerter has many option ( I think the write to file is currently broken I will have to check that sometime) read more in the docu

1. THINK what we want with the Alerter.
I decide on:

1. Alerts for Past data and Live data
2. Alert Only once per chart bar OR if MainMessage changed.
3. PopUp Alert
4. Sound Alert (works only for Live Data - we don't want thousand of thousands Past sound alerts)
5. VLine Alert only in the First SubWindow

Apply the OALop3MAOrder_0.00.ex4

- bExtStartDelay option to false for the weekend template. (last time I mention it)

1. VERY IMPORTANT: you need to set the MA settings the same as we did in the plotted MA indicator.

(Like I said before normally one would choose the Alerter which also plots the Ma for this purpose and would have to set it only once - less error prone to mix up settings and faster calculation)

VERY IMPORTANT
Because how the Alerter works (read it in the docu) this will produce upsidedown alerts: DOWN Alerts (for UP) and UP Alerts(For DOWN)
MA1 200 EMA
MA2 will be: 100 EMA
and MA3 will be: 50 EMA

We don't like this so we change the order for the Alerter like:
MA1 50 EMA
MA2 will be: 100 EMA
and MA3 will be: 200 EMA


2. ALERTER Setting:
I decide on:

1. Alerts for Past data and Live data
2. Alert Only once per chart bar OR if MainMessage changed.
3. PopUp Alert
4. Sound Alert (works only for Live Data - we don't want thousand of thousands Past sound alerts)
5. VLine Alert only in the First SubWindow

Alerts for Past data and Live data: Set
- bPastAlertsOn = true
- bLiveAlertsOn = true

Alert Only once per chart bar OR if MainMessage changed: Set
- iAlertOptionWhen = 0

PopUp Alert: Set
- bPopUpAlert = true

Sound Alert: Set
- bSoundAlert = true

Disable the this two Alerts: Set
- bEmailAlert = false
- bWriteFileAlert = false


VLine Alert only in the First SubWindow: Set
- bVLineAlert = true
- IMPORTANT: iAlertVLineSubWindowNum = 1


The final will look something like that

I will continue later or an other time

post the last template for than on the first post of the thread.

note: this uses the new updated indi which are not yet posted.

for creating the template...it has been my experience that each indicator will create three objects and one must delete only two for each of the indicators you created as there is a label object created and I've had problems when deleting that label for each indicator and so for template purposes I delete the error objects and leave the label...and the template typically works fine for me...

I don't know which problem you experienced. But anyway, I changed to delete all Objects from the template (until I find it causes problems - who knows).

Anyway, this way, it's the fastest I know and avoids deleting it manually (in an text editor.)

But in the new info docu I mention also the manual deletion.

But the most important as always is that the end product works correctly.

Continue from the last part.

PART 5!!!

Next we need is the MTF-Stochastic line subwindow. (http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...33#post5082733)

1. Start again a clean Terminal (http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...29#post5083229)

2. Load the previous template and we are ready to continue


3. THINK: what do we need for the MTF-STOCHASTIC lines SubWindow.

1. It's not always clear:
- from the templates as well from pmullin86 picture posts which color and how many MTF-Stochastic he uses - it seems to change at times.

- also pmullin86 uses MTF-SAtochastic indicators who do not plot till the active chartbar - which makes it more difficult to see.

Anyway: I settle for
- 5 MTF Stochastic (D1, H4, H1, M30, M15)
- Plus the Chart Stochastic (which is a not a MTF version)

PLOT ORDER:
Note for the MTF Sto Alerter the D1 and H1 are the most important
- so I want to plot them a bit more in front than pmullin86 does
- and the Chart Sto I want over all the others.


Best suited indicators: need two.

- op5STOk_MTF_0.00.ex4
- op1STOk_0.00.ex4


This indicator have there own SubWindows so no need to use an extra one here.

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PART 5!!! continuation

1. Apply first the op5STOk_MTF_0.00.ex4

This must be first as I said I plan that the single Chart STO is on top.

for all is KPeriod 14, Slowing 3


iMTFResourceIntervalSTOk1 = 15 ;M15
iMTFResourceIntervalSTOk2 = 30 ;M30
iMTFResourceIntervalSTOk3 = 240 ;H4
iMTFResourceIntervalSTOk4 = 1440 ;D1
iMTFResourceIntervalSTOk5 = 60 ;H1

Assign color and LineWidth.


ATTENTION: good example what I said somewhere before: I got an Error message I think is self explaining - it's long but I post it

look at pic 10.gif

[email protected] >>> OWN-ERROR: sMTFResourceNameSTOk2_MTF) NOT ENOUGH MTF DATA. _FirstMTFBarSHIFT_TIME: <2011.08.18 08:00> is after/later than _FirstChartBarSHIFT_TIME: <2011.06.08 15:50> Get more data in the MTF Period: scroll back in: <M30> - restart.


Basically for the MTF- Indi with such intervals and settings I need more data in my chart history - so it's a bit annoying especial as this message might appear for different Time Frames - but without the data it can not work correctly.

Of course there are other settings like: e.g. iExtPastStartChartSHIFT one could use for certain things - but I do not want to confuse anyone so read the docu for more info.

I will be scrolling back to get more data

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I change to the M30 Period to scroll back and get a new Error

[email protected] >>> OWN-ERROR: Chart Period: <M30> MUST be Lower THAN the lowest MTF(iResourceInterval): <M15>


This is nothing serious it just says that for the MTF-STOk indi the chart period must be lower than the lowest MTF period:

our lowest MTF Period was M15 and I changed the chart to M30.


NOTE:
To avoid such I could have opened a new chart (without any indi) of the same Symbol pair and scrolled back in that one.


Anyway: I know this is not serious and as soon as I switch back to M5 all is ok so I just continue on the M30 scrolling backwards like the previous Error message had said.

I got a couple of other errors too, saying about new history data (this is a check I use when the indi really runs to avoid errors when someone changes the past data - you can read in the links in the first post of the thread some background to it http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=291109 (IndicatorCounted() Twice all Bars? )


Anyway, first I disregard the other errors and get my needed data into the history.

To avoid many other such messages about missing data - I actually scoll all TF: M15,M30,H1,H4,D1 a little bit back before I restart the terminal.


TIP:
I find the fastest way to get data is to disable auto-scroll and chart-shift icon

and than write the time for about 1990.01.01 in the chart and press enter - so I get to the first data quickly and than scroll backwards to download more.

See pic below.

at the mouse pointer is are the two icons I disabled:auto-scroll and chart-shift icon

and at the bottom where I enter the date and press enter.

(maybe there are better ways I don't know - I do it like that)



ONE More thing I forgot: sometimes one needs to set also more data in the chart option:
Tools>Options>Charts Max bars ....

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PART 5!!! continuation


So after scrolling all TF backwards I switch back to the M% timne frame and restart the terminal.

And the MTF-STOk indi is applied - still need to adjust the colors etc..


NOTE TIP: if you use the LineWidth directly in the input tab you can set much higher values than just 5 - it works but I'm not sure if that is officially at least I did not see anything mentioned in the MT4 doc.

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PART 5!!! continuation

So this is my final adjustment for the 5 MTF-Stok

Mostly of it I used the color of some of pmullin86 charts:
- I changed the M15 to Dodger Blue
- and also changed the Display order with the H1 on top (red) and also greater width than H4 because it is more prominent in the Alerter.

See pic below.


Next we will overlay it with a single Chart Sto also Kperiod 14, Slowing 3 and this subwindow is ready.

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PART 5!!! continuation

As you see it's quite some work - and we still have a lot to do to finish the whole template.

Of course without taking screenshots and posting here it is faster - but still it is some good work.

BTW: this is still the weekend version - for the active trading version we do not have to redo all - but use a text editor and simple change a couple of option there.



1. OVERLay the SubWindow MTF-STO with a single Chart STO

for this we use the: op1STOk_0.00.ex4 indicator

You can NOT apply it like we applied indicators till now but to overlay it you have to:

open the Navigator window:

View>Navigator.

expand the: Customa indicator: click the +


NOW drag and drop the op1STOk_0.00 unto the MTf-STo SubWindow. and release it - the input tap should open.

I apply again kPeriod14, Slowing 3 and choose as color Tomato

Save a new Template version (previously delete all Object as already a couple of times explained.

This is important: as by now we also have a lot of VAlerts objects from the MA Order Alert


Final pic below.


BTW: if one does not like the many values on the top of the MTF-STOk SubWindow this can be disabled with the option:

bExShowIndicatorInfo = false

For the MTF-STOk SubWindow I leave it on (at least until I get used to the colours and which Time Interval it is assigned too)
If one leaves it on you can click on a particular MTF STOk line and see the extended info

So I leave it on for the start as I'm not used to the color and have to look sometimes and each lines additional info.

But in general I dislike such long info values I never use - that's why the option to disable it exists.

TUTORIAL: TEMPLATE FOR Alerter: Pmullin86 System

PART 5!!! finish it

To finish this part I have save (after deleting the objects) the new template - clean my terminal and restart.
Add a new chart and apply my last version of the template - and it loads without error and looks like this.


So that's all for today I will continue some other time.

One more finishing touch so far

I added for the MTF-STOk the Level Overbought/sold 80,20
And also the 50 Level on the single Charrt STO as I like it in a other style

That's it for now.