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  • #81
  • Jan 18, 2012 9:41pm Jan 18, 2012 9:41pm
Hi Jhonny ,can i know which time frame are u ref to for EUR/USD yest?
NEVER go against the Daily trend
  • #82
  • Jan 19, 2012 12:54am Jan 19, 2012 12:54am
Quoting shr5
Hi Johnny,

Is that Bufu_Trend_Signals.v.1.2 that you are using...because all I am getting are yellow lines in it.....while the rest of the chart looks exactly the same as yours....

Looking forward to your reply.

Thanks and regards,

Raza
Raza

Yes it is Bufu signals. Be sure to download the new HAS indicator. Load one chart with Heiken_Ashi_Smoothed DoublecciWoody then attach BuFu_Trend_Signals. Then wait a minute. When I had this problem the chart wouldn't load for a minute or two but it will unfreeze. Also you may want to check metatrader help>about for your mt4's build. If it doesn't say build 409 in the bottom left hand pop up the indi wont work properly.

Quoting shaikjun
Hi Jhonny ,can i know which time frame are u ref to for EUR/USD yest?
1H TF at 20:00 EST
  • #83
  • Edited 3:17am Jan 19, 2012 3:08am | Edited 3:17am
Quoting johnny2pips
Raza

Yes it is Bufu signals. Be sure to download the new HAS indicator. Load one chart with Heiken_Ashi_Smoothed DoublecciWoody then attach BuFu_Trend_Signals. Then wait a minute. When I had this problem the chart wouldn't load for a minute or two but it will unfreeze. Also you may want to check metatrader help>about for your mt4's build. If it doesn't say build 409 in the bottom left hand pop up the indi wont work properly.



1H TF at 20:00 EST
Hi Johnny,

I am attaching three screen shots one is for the HAS input properties, other one is for BUFU input properties while the last one is just to show that i m using a broker with 409 build MT4. So do I need to change the inputs for either of the indicators to make BUFU indicator work? Anticipating a prompt reply...thanks in advance

Best Regards

Raza
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Raza
  • #84
  • Jan 19, 2012 3:23am Jan 19, 2012 3:23am
hi your HAS property should be 1,40,1,1
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NEVER go against the Daily trend
  • #85
  • Jan 19, 2012 3:39am Jan 19, 2012 3:39am
Quoting shaikjun
hi your HAS property should be 1,40,1,1
Thanks bro,

but it still is the same for me...can u check if your USDCHF 1 hr chart has all yellow signals for BUFU? Thanks again

Regards

Raza
Raza
  • #86
  • Jan 19, 2012 4:30am Jan 19, 2012 4:30am
Quoting shr5
Thanks bro,

but it still is the same for me...can u check if your USDCHF 1 hr chart has all yellow signals for BUFU? Thanks again

Regards

Raza

USDCHF
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NEVER go against the Daily trend
  • #87
  • Edited 10:29am Jan 19, 2012 5:43am | Edited 10:29am
Hi all,

I've been taking a look at this system for the last day or so and it certainly seems interesting. However, I found the DoublecciWody and Heiken_Ashi_Smoothed to be fairly poorly implemented as they were crushing my cpu trying to reevaluate every bar on every tick (The HAS was evaluating the entire bar array 5 times every tick!). Also, the Trends_And_Signalsv1.2 seemed to be looking at the TrendCCI value and not the "histogram color" as specified in the original post.

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Buy Signal:

1. CCI 236 is green, HAS turns green, CCI 61 above 0 enter at candle close.

Sell Signal:

1. CCI 236 is red, HAS turns red, CCI 61 above 0, enter trade at candle close.
I've gone ahead and fixed the HAS/CCI indicator issues I found. I changed the signal indicator to show the trend histogram based on the entry rules and also added a signal line which indicates the exact entry bar. While I was at it I implemented a simple EA that can be used for back-testing. I wouldn't use the EA for live trading as it's not nearly robust enough for that.

Cheers!

PS: no offense intended to any of the original authors. I have the utmost respect for everyone who takes the time to contribute.
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 DoublecciWoody_v2.mq4   5 KB | 625 downloads
File Type: mq4 Heiken_Ashi_Smoothed_v2.mq4   4 KB | 553 downloads
File Type: mq4 BuFu_TrendsAndSignal_v1.mq4   6 KB | 722 downloads
File Type: mq4 BuFu_Advisor_v1.mq4   8 KB | 618 downloads
File Type: tpl Marks_BuFu_Template_v1.tpl   3 KB | 504 downloads
  • #88
  • Jan 19, 2012 7:21am Jan 19, 2012 7:21am
Quoting Mark1213
Hi all,

I've been taking a look at this system for the last day or so and it certainly seems interesting. However, I found the DoublecciWody and Heiken_Ashi_Smoothed to be fairly poorly implemented as they were crushing my cpu trying to reevaluate every bar on every tick (The HAS was evaluating the entire bar array 5 times every tick!). Also, the Trends_And_Signalsv1.2 seemed to be looking at the TrendCCI value and not the "histogram color" as specified in the original post.

I've gone ahead and fixed the HAS/CCI indicator issues I found. I changed...

Hi Mark1213 ,i just download your indicator and templete,but i guess im missing something else also,could you kindly advise me if im missing anything else....
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  • #89
  • Jan 19, 2012 7:40am Jan 19, 2012 7:40am
at this moment, looks like all train has left e station. too late to enter any trades.
  • #90
  • Jan 19, 2012 7:56am Jan 19, 2012 7:56am
Quoting shaikjun
Hi Mark1213 ,i just download your indicator and templete,but i guess im missing something else also,could you kindly advise me if im missing anything else....
Howdy shaikjun, It looks like the DoublecciWoody indicator did not load. When I updated that one I changed the parameters around a bit so any existing compiled .ex4's you might have won't work anymore. Be sure to manually re-compile all the indicators in order to get the new versions active.

I probably should have changed the file names a little to avoid confusion like this, sorry about that.

Here's how it looks for me:
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  • #91
  • Jan 19, 2012 8:37am Jan 19, 2012 8:37am
Hey Mark, you f_____ up Heiken_Ashi_Smoothed!!! It no longer works on W1 and MN charts. Like a damn fool, I downloaded your "improvement" and overwrote the correct version. Spent the last hour backtracking and getting ther old version. When you make a change to an indicator, you must give it a new version number. You seem to be a good programmer -- you should know that.

Quoting Mark1213
Hi all,

I've been taking a look at this system for the last day or so and it certainly seems interesting. However, I found the DoublecciWody and Heiken_Ashi_Smoothed to be fairly poorly implemented as they were crushing my cpu trying to reevaluate every bar on every tick (The HAS was evaluating the entire bar array 5 times every tick!). Also, the Trends_And_Signalsv1.2 seemed to be looking at the TrendCCI value and not the "histogram color" as specified in the original post.

I've gone ahead and fixed the HAS/CCI indicator issues I found. I...
  • #92
  • Edited 9:22am Jan 19, 2012 9:13am | Edited 9:22am
Quoting EasyRyder
Hey Mark, you f_____ up Heiken_Ashi_Smoothed!!! It no longer works on W1 and MN charts. Like a damn fool, I downloaded your "improvement" and overwrote the correct version. Spent the last hour backtracking and getting ther old version. When you make a change to an indicator, you must give it a new version number. You seem to be a good programmer -- you should know that.
Thanks for letting me know, but there's no need to be so hostile about it. I don't use W1 or MN timeframes so they got overlooked. Like I said I've only been playing with this for a couple days.

Not sure why it took you an hour to 'backtrack' to the first post and download the originals, but whatever, sorry for the trouble.

PS: I found the error, just a couple small typos

On line 77 change the second MaPeriod to MaPeriod2
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if(Bars <= MaPeriod * MaPeriod2) return(0);
On line 110 change the '<' to '<='
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for(int i=0; i <= limit; i++)
  • #93
  • Jan 19, 2012 9:25am Jan 19, 2012 9:25am
If I am "hostile" about what you did it is because you are wasting my time and probably the time of others through bad software practice. Have you retracted what you did so that others don't download it? Heiken_Ashi_Smoothed originated on the TSD forem. Anything that comes off that forem tends to be pretty good stuff. The version of HAS that you "corrected" uses the IndicatorCounted function, and only calculates bars that have changed, after the initial population of the bars.
I will not respond to any more posts on this topic.



Quoting Mark1213
Thanks for letting me know, but there's no need to be so hostile about it. I don't use W1 or MN timeframes so they got overlooked. Like I said I've only been playing with this for a couple days.

Not sure why it took you an hour to 'backtrack' to the first post and download the originals, but whatever, sorry for the trouble.
  • #94
  • Edited 9:52am Jan 19, 2012 9:40am | Edited 9:52am
Quoting shr5
Hi Johnny,

I am attaching three screen shots one is for the HAS input properties, other one is for BUFU input properties while the last one is just to show that i m using a broker with 409 build MT4. So do I need to change the inputs for either of the indicators to make BUFU indicator work? Anticipating a prompt reply...thanks in advance

Best Regards

Raza
I'm sorry bro I just don't know how to help. Anyone have ideas? Have you tried Marks indi?
  • #95
  • Jan 19, 2012 9:45am Jan 19, 2012 9:45am
Hey guys lets not argue please. I appreciate both of your willingness to help.
  • #96
  • Edited 10:03am Jan 19, 2012 9:49am | Edited 10:03am
BuFu generated another great signal! GBP/CAD 30M sell for 29 pips that's almost all of the down move before the big buy bars One more percent and I'll be back to where I started before the major losses trying to scalp with a different system early January. God I love BuFu!

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/...01-19_1030.png
  • #97
  • Jan 19, 2012 10:00am Jan 19, 2012 10:00am
Please let me give you some ideas on finding out what is wrong:

1. Open the BUFU_Trend_Signals parameter box and set "HAS_Color_Enable" to "false". If you get signals when you close the box, then you do not have the correct version of "Heiken_Ashi_Smoothed" loaded in your experts/indicators directory. There are now two of his indicator posted on this forum having the samew name. Make sure you get the one that Johnny2pips posted. You must have a version that is exactly named "Heiken_Ashi_Smoothed".

2. Go to the experts/log/compatibility-files directory and open the log file for todays date. Scroll down the file and it will tell you which file it cannot find. This is a good thing to learn how to do.

Try this and I think you will find your problem.

Quoting shr5
Hi Johnny,

I am attaching three screen shots one is for the HAS input properties, other one is for BUFU input properties while the last one is just to show that i m using a broker with 409 build MT4. So do I need to change the inputs for either of the indicators to make BUFU indicator work? Anticipating a prompt reply...thanks in advance

Best Regards

Raza
  • #98
  • Jan 19, 2012 10:04am Jan 19, 2012 10:04am
please explain what in bufu trend signal wht the colors stand for , yellow red and green ???
  • #99
  • Jan 19, 2012 10:15am Jan 19, 2012 10:15am
Red == short, Green = long, yellow = no signal. Signals are based upon the parameters that you select from the parameters box. When you select more than one signal, all that you select must be red to get a red signal, or all must be green to get a green signal. If the signals are mixed, you get a yellow signal.

Quoting unimak
please explain what in bufu trend signal wht the colors stand for , yellow red and green ???
  • #100
  • Jan 19, 2012 10:15am Jan 19, 2012 10:15am
Quoting EasyRyder
If I am "hostile" about what you did it is because you are wasting my time and probably the time of others through bad software practice
I'm not sure how my efforts to help have "wasted your time", I was always taught that we're all responsible for our own actions. Did you even notice that was my first post here ever? Is everyone else on this forum who posts systems that aren't profitable or bug free "wasting the time of others"? I'm sorry but we all make the choice to try voluntarily contributed open source code at our own risk, there's no warranty expressed or implied.

Quoting EasyRyder
The version of HAS that you "corrected" uses the IndicatorCounted function, and only calculates...
The use of IndicatorCounted is pretty standard to avoid unnecessary overhead, and the last bar is always re-calculated (not just when it changes). There's nothing I could see in the formula that would required a full re-calculation (it's just an MA of an MA), have you noticed any values that differ from the original? If there's a reason every bar needs to be reevaluated I would be interested in learning.

Quoting EasyRyder
Heiken_Ashi_Smoothed originated on the TSD forem. Anything that comes off that forem tends to be pretty good stuff.
I personally don't think code like this is 'pretty good stuff', in fact I think it's gawd awful...
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int i;
for(i=0; i<Bars; i++) ExtMapBuffer1[i]=iMAOnArray(ExtMapBuffer7,Bars,MaPeriod2,0,MaMetod2,i);
for(i=0; i<Bars; i++) ExtMapBuffer2[i]=iMAOnArray(ExtMapBuffer8,Bars,MaPeriod2,0,MaMetod2,i);
for(i=0; i<Bars; i++) ExtMapBuffer3[i]=iMAOnArray(ExtMapBuffer5,Bars,MaPeriod2,0,MaMetod2,i);
for(i=0; i<Bars; i++) ExtMapBuffer4[i]=iMAOnArray(ExtMapBuffer6,Bars,MaPeriod2,0,MaMetod2,i);
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I will not respond to any more posts on this topic.
It's a shame you're not willing to be more constructive, because I'm more than willing to take a little criticism. I've taken the "advice" about renaming the files to heart and will change the relevant files asap.
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