v509 gone with the wind - MT4 indicators converted

version 509 is soon to be gone with the wind.... but hey, at least they aint burning Atlanta...... yet.....

adapt or die....... finally downloaded version 625 today..... something about doing it willingly before forcedly...... started converting years of code today....

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lately there have been several threads in the rookie and trading discussion forums about profit, loss, winners, losers, pips a day, pips a month and so on...... the replies are interesting to read but tend to keep my mouth shut......

when trying to increase my win/loss ratio, it seems to help me by focusing on each trade to see just what, if anything, i might have done differently that could have avoided the loss..... the history indicator below plots all closed trades.... run the pointer over the line to see lots and profit/loss.....

i ask myself, was my losing trade entered too fast, exited too slow, against the trend, out of boredom, just prior to major news , extreme leverage, out of revenge, and so on.....

habitual mistakes should be obvious..... correct them......

and just as important....... once you have gone thru all the losers, go thru all winners..... with equal seriousness.....

habitual mistakes should be obvious..... correct them......
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sooooooo, 7 pips a day is easy you say...... i'll keep my mouth shut and the profit or loss indicator below do the talkin...... place on any daily chart....

teamsky tripled their account in one of the first metaquotes contests with only a 6 pip profit target.... but they did not hit it everyday......

don't put yourself under undue stress trying to achieve the possibly impossible....
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any indicator or ea that i upload in this thread should work in all versions 625 and below and will be directly related to threads in the rookie or trading forums....

and many will follow......h
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Wise words indeed my friend... it should be in everyone's itinerary to do quarterly checks....optimise good habits and cut loose the bad.

you've just made my life a bit easier...thank you.

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hey j...... not sure why they moved this from trading discussion to platform tech...... rookie forum would have been better....

will try to post several more this week.... spread tracker, basket trader heat map, sorted strength and such.....

just occurred to me why i was kicked out of trading discussion...... cause my post was absence of rap music and cartoons...........h

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since these not teaching how to fish , but to be a user . sure basket is a heavy user too , but they start cutting it years back . here some toons >

hayseed, really appreciate that your effort update your "library" to v6xx... looking forward to your additional posts!

Meanwhile, your time permitting, could you please add the necessary code to the Deinit of 625 history indicator so that it properly removes from chart? Tried myself but was not successful....

Cheers

Good luck my friend, you have more staying power than I do!

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hey hanover..... .... my plans are to stick it out...... but ya know what they say about plans...... .......h

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hey mobthehop....... here ya go.....h

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while back, in the rookie section someone asked about the range's of pairs.... more to the point, which pairs where the most volatile...... their hopes were based on choosing the pair that moved to most and thereby assure they made the most...... if it were only that easy.......
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below are some charts of an ea of mine that traded macd signals.... all trade functions have been removed, so now it's just 'gee-whiz' type info..... but it still would go in the experts folder.....

place it on any chart, just make sure it's a blank chart..... the pairs are sorted by their atr.... the next 3 boxes symbolize the current price's relation to the daily, weekly and monthly piviot.... if the first box is lime, the price is above the daily pivot, otherwise it must be below and red.... weekly next, monthly last.....

the first number is the average atr.... the second number is the current spread..... last number is the current bars atr..... the graphs are a visual representation of the average atr's value.....

the lowest two numbers are the totals for the atr columns...

if the pairs graph bar is lime, there was the common macd buy signal last bar.... if the bar is aqua, there was a macd buy signal 2 bars back..... if red, sell signal last bar, magenta sell signal 2 bars back......

should be easy to understand.......

just flip thru the timeframes to see results for that period()..... you must have data.....

if you move down to the 5 minute charts you can see the atr/spread effect on low tf's...... often the spread will be larger than the atr.....

spread does not concern me, but others feel differently.....

mq4 in post 1 above..... 625v should work in all versions 625 and below.......h

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Thanks for the ATR graph indicator, 2 questions if I may

In the settings, there is options Input for atrperiods and periods; default is 10 and 20 - however, there is only display of 1 ATR on the chart, the first column of numbers, correct, am I missing something?

Also, in regards to column of number 3, you have labelled as current ATR, I think this means Today's Range, unless I am mistaken?

Regards, John

hey john..... the atrperiods only adjusts the first set of numbers.... iATR(symbol,tf,atrperiods,1)

and yes, by atr , i mean the current bars (high - low)..... Today's Range , as you mentioned would be a more accurate definition.....

the input periods is not used..... it was for something else, the tsr..... it should have been removed, i just forgot.....

this was a huge ea that i broke into 3 parts, this is one part..... there where just too much graphics and information for most users.....

the timeframe input allows you to be one chart but see some values for another period()..... it is something i should have removed also..... it's best left at 0.....

i will post the other parts when possible.......h

Much appreciated - Thanks!

Good evening,
i put the Atr in the expert folder but i get nothing in my screen. did i do anything wrong? please help

hey allammof..... the way it is currently written, it will not chart the graph until the market is open and you receive a tick..... ordinarily i'll include the specific lines of code to force a tick into each ea or indicator that require them...... but did not here.....

the reason is, you must also edit your WinUser32.mqh for that code in the link to work ..... editing winuser32 could compound the grief brought on by versions above 509.....

so bottom line is, it will only work during regular market hours.....

chart below is current weekly readings.......h

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I just want say thank you for the indicator. Now I can track my progress and evaluate my performance and leverage easier.

He could try to use mt4ticker ( https://fx1.net/mt4ticker.php#download ), it should do the trick during marketclose hours also

hey gridmaster and macd123..... got you pm..... trailing pending orders need to trail something.... give it a lot of thought.... do not make it overly complicated....

in the picture below, imagine a trailing buystop riding up fxigor's version of the hma..... the green line.... that's an example of simple.....

a more complicated manner would be on the top far right..... here the ea keeps the selllimits trailing the fibonacci retracement levels of the zigzag.... as the zigzag extends the retracement values based on fib numbers change, so the trailing limits must change..... that's an example of not simple......

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give it a lot of thought and trust me, keep it simple...... post the idea here..... if i have time i'll code it.....h

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Hi Hayseed, Thanks for the ATR Graph EA---installed it on 3 brokers MT4 platforms and works on 2 of them. Does not work on Tallinex as they have a suffix added to their pairs (Example EURUSDecn)---tried to add it to the suffix line in the EA but don't know the syntax so didn't work. Please advise (it is build 646)---Thanks, Carl