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  • #121
  • Sep 29, 2014 7:30am Sep 29, 2014 7:30am
Quoting hannele
you were using Fahrenheit 451 indi in one of them. I have searched for but can not find... is it available or your private property ? Also your average zigzag length ? is it based on 12, 5, 3 or do you use other values..
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hey hannele.... i'm not sure which video your referring to, possibly the impossible angle ea or this angle video..... those, or any in that line, were ever published......

i use both the 5,5,3 and 12,5,3 settings on the average zigzag values per timeframe....

the zigzag values such as the ones on the chart below will differ considerably depending on other factors...
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quite a few years back whether or not it was possible to calculate angles/degrees in the charts was a highly contested issue.... one particularly arrogant , pay pal coder for hire, vehemently insisted it was impossible on several forums...... ....... and he had quite a few coders that agreed with him...... their reasons for the 'impossibility' were limited but still they trashed and burned anyone that disagreed..... typical......

it's my nature to stay out of such shallow discussions but when they began attacking some of ff's best, coders for free, it was too much.......

most probably know, but some might not, the book fahrenheit 451 ...... a favorite of mine...... there were several parallels in the book and the forum discussions.... arrogance, degrees, abusive power, burning knowledge, german, and more...... so that name was chosen more as a subtle joke that no one would probably get except me.......h

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  • #122
  • Sep 29, 2014 8:12am Sep 29, 2014 8:12am
WOW thank you, I'll be back, thank you I think I had epiphany....
  • #123
  • Oct 3, 2014 8:33am Oct 3, 2014 8:33am
ibfx's metatrader's demise has come to be..... it was a real party...... but as the bartender says at closing time, " you don't have to go home but you can't stay here"..... it's a small matter......
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all ibfx explorers on ff have now been 'deactivated' due to their servers being shut down.... so even though mine was public, odds are it can not be seen by anyone but me..... picture below.....

looks like just over 44k profit on just under 4k trades in 44 weeks...... that figures to roughly 1k a week on the original 25k starting balance...... the number of trades is high due to the account balance being low at first, so trades were frequent and small..... the highest balance was just under 80k.....

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hunting season started 10/1/14 here.... .... a happy hayseed is a productive hayseed.....

bought my latest office..... picture below.....

and..... anyone dumb enough to buy 1 dozer, is dumb enough to buy 2...... and..... anyone dumb enough to buy 2, is dumb enough to buy 3............
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moved 30k to etradefx.... to keep things simple, beginning 10/1/14, my goal will simply be to continue the +1k a week..... roughly +4k a month.... which suggests the account should be 42k by years end..... or 0.00...... etradefx uses fxcm's marketscope platform......

will explain in more detail later...... along with indicators and ea's that will work on fxcm's metatrader platform......h
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  • #124
  • Oct 3, 2014 6:31pm Oct 3, 2014 6:31pm
That is an awesome blind ... . When my dad (who is now 75) built an ice shanty like that several years ago and towed it out on the ice and dropped it, I thought he was kinda nuts ... . Now you can basically ice fish stark naked the way he's got the stove rigged up in the thing ... . ... Course you'd have to go out that way into the cold if a fish triggered a tip-up ... .
Fireworks are fun ... as long as you don't blow your fingers off.
  • #125
  • Oct 5, 2014 9:21am Oct 5, 2014 9:21am
Quoting ZebraSquirl
That is an awesome blind ...
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hey zebra..... thanks..... course it's more for the rugrats personal comfort than mine...... ..... kinda doubt they would find huntin as fun if they had to sit hanging 40 feet up on the side of a tree in the pouring down frezzing rain in an amacker climbing stand...... there'd be no place to put their crayons and their coloring books would get all wet.....

ice fishing is high on my long range 'to do' list.......h
to trade and code, keep both simple... no call to impress....h
  • #126
  • Oct 5, 2014 10:28am Oct 5, 2014 10:28am
going thru a dozen computers and many dozens of usb flash drives lookin for a particular ea/indicator i wrote long ago...... one of the things it did was to measure the zigzag's repaint length, if any, in pips....... and calculated the minimum, maximum and average...... this would give you an idea of what to expect.......

it also calculated the maximum and minimum price excursions of various signals...... again, it would give you an idea of what to expect......
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Quoting hayseed
to keep things simple, beginning 10/1/14, my goal will simply be to continue the +1k a week....
last week would be a short week, only 3 days...... still managed to eek out 3819.80 .....

several eur pairs had a well deserved bounce...... this is a good sign......

when considering reversion-to-mean, erosion such as in the grand canyon or the melting of the artic will not reverse in a tradable timeframe...... the eur erosion against the nzd, aud and cad can be..... it was far too oversold even for a downtrend......

the average monthly eurnzd monthly atr is almost 1000 pips..... the weekly pin bar has my full attention...... at least for a week......

the euraud and eurcad monthly atr's run about 700 and 600......

july 2012 lows are my long range targets..... it's a downtrend until the monthly psar says different.....
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have 2.4 standard lots currently open divided between the eurnzd, eurcad and euraud..... in the hole little over 200..... will continue to carefully short all three......


have high hopes for this week and this month......h
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  • #127
  • Oct 13, 2014 8:51am Oct 13, 2014 8:51am
Quoting hayseed
have high hopes for this week and this month
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euraud seems bound and determined to make me eat those words.... eurusd not helping matters any..... currently in the hole about 700..... high hopes and in the hole often go hand in hand.......
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cleaning house, so to speak, while waiting on things to turn in my favor..... below is something i wrote for the girls.... but might be useful for others also.....

it's an ea, goes in experts folder, but does not in any way send or manage orders......

it lists some pairs along with the margin required to open a order..... it also lists the daily, weekly and monthly atr..... and pips required for the set goal...

to the right is the input values for account size, percentage goal and lot size..... along with the goal in dollars and your accounts leverage.....

you can adjust the inputs to get an idea of the pips required to achieve your goal on each pair.....

using the default settings and the euraud, to bring up a bad subject, as an example, the 10% goal would require 114 pips..... seeing how the average monthly atr of the euraud is 627 pips, one would think it should be achievable there.... and using the eurchf as a comparison, it would not be reasonable to expect to make the required 95 pips in a week due to the atr is only 59.....

so, step 1 was to choose every pair in which the single trade goal was possible given the atr's......

step 2 was somewhat more difficult...... they then weeded the pairs down to best choice scenarios ....... as example, if the eurgbp had already made it's weekly atr of 99 and was overbought, would it be reasonable to buy it on thursday expecting to make the required 62 pips..... odds are not......

they would do this at the beginning of the day, week and month....... later made this a little more in depth to where it would critique their selections.......h
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update, several hours have passed between the time i wrote this post and now at actually posting, the euraud is teasing me with gains......h
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  • #128
  • Oct 13, 2014 5:18pm Oct 13, 2014 5:18pm
hi hayseed

Thank you for the ea

cheers for now
hannele
  • #129
  • Oct 14, 2014 12:23am Oct 14, 2014 12:23am
Quoting hayseed
{quote} //----- euraud seems bound and determined to make me eat those words.... eurusd not helping matters any..... currently in the hole about 700..... high hopes and in the hole often go hand in hand....... //---- cleaning house, so to speak, while waiting on things to turn in my favor..... below is something i wrote for the girls.... but might be useful for others also..... it's an ea, goes in experts folder, but does not in any way send or manage orders...... it lists some pairs along with the margin required to open a order..... it also lists...
That's pretty darn neat ... .

That late session Euro "pop" didn't help much with my positions either ... . Day was looking quite good until then. But then what can I expect from a holiday trading day -- weirdness.
Fireworks are fun ... as long as you don't blow your fingers off.
  • #130
  • Oct 14, 2014 12:24pm Oct 14, 2014 12:24pm
Quoting hayseed
{quote} //----- euraud seems bound and determined to make me eat those words.... eurusd not helping matters any..... currently in the hole about 700..... high hopes and in the hole often go hand in hand....... //---- cleaning house, so to speak, while waiting on things to turn in my favor..... below is something i wrote for the girls.... but might be useful for others also..... it's an ea, goes in experts folder, but does not in any way send or manage orders...... it lists some pairs along with the margin required to open a order..... it also lists...
Cool...Thanks h...
Memories caught in time but never forgotten
  • #131
  • Oct 16, 2014 10:43am Oct 16, 2014 10:43am
would have thought nowotny's comments might rank higher than low impact.......... what are they tryin to say......

currently 4, and climbing, standard lots short across 5 pairs.....

will risk 10k aiming at 10k.....

we should know which within 5 days.....h
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  • #132
  • Oct 19, 2014 8:30am Oct 19, 2014 8:30am
got drug thru the brush pretty good last week.... only 2400 made in etradefx with still 800 in still open trades......

etradefx accounts can not have explorers..... as much as we like to bitch about it, metatrader is still and likely will be the best and easiest platform for computer trading...... or at least it's the best for me.....

have decided to fund a fxcm account, 10k or less, and restart the now dead ex-ibfx explorers here.....h

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  • #133
  • Oct 19, 2014 10:14pm Oct 19, 2014 10:14pm
Got dragged about a bit myself, but managed to endure quite the intratrade drawdown (21% or so) and come out on the back end somewhat okay, although my accrued EUR/CAD short positions still appear a bit tattered at the moment. Naturally, I hope things will settle a bit this week, but you never know ... . Kinda wasn't prepared for oil prices to have such an effect on CAD ... .
Fireworks are fun ... as long as you don't blow your fingers off.
  • #134
  • Oct 26, 2014 5:24pm Oct 26, 2014 5:24pm
hey saint..... here ya go, wrote it in the deer stand this morning.... plotting multiple opens or anything to do with time is a real pain..... probably the most difficult area of coding cause so much comes into play.....

the best we usually can hope for is a rough estimate unless we code with extreme depth to consider every possible aspect that might throw the time vs lines off....

one thing to note, 4 times a year the quarter and month would be the same so they will overlap..... october is one such month.... in this case the qtr is not ploted but the month will reflect "month and quarter"..... multiple objects can occupy the same space at the same time but usually the will overlap so only one is seen.... there are ways to overcome that but it's not worth it....

occasionally others might also overlap.... such as day, week, and month..... in those cases it will just overlap, as i did not code to consider it.....h
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  • #135
  • Oct 26, 2014 5:40pm Oct 26, 2014 5:40pm
Quoting hayseed
hey saint..... here ya go, wrote it in the deer stand this morning.... plotting multiple opens or anything to do with time is a real pain..... probably the most difficult area of coding cause so much comes into play..... the best we usually can hope for is a rough estimate unless we code with extreme depth to consider every possible aspect that might throw the time vs lines off.... one thing to note, 4 times a year the quarter and month would be the same so they will overlap..... october is one such month.... in this case the qtr is not ploted but...
I like your office.... you put old Arnold (hasta la vista guy) in shame
  • #136
  • Oct 26, 2014 7:12pm Oct 26, 2014 7:12pm
Quoting hannele
I like your office....
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hey hannele...... thanks...... there is just something nice about being out in the open like that..... course when it rains, i go indoors..... for the computers sake ya know......h

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last week was another rough one..... managed to squeak out little over 4700, withdrew 3k so profit was reduced to only 1700..... currently 4.2 standard eurnzd lots short about 800 in the red..... some really bad manual timing on those trades........

after looking into fxcm's marketscopes code abilities, it's clear i must move back to the more flexilbe metatrader platform...... it is impossible to reproduce my ea's mq4's code in marketscope......

funded my 'designated' ibfx/fxcm metatrader account last week..... plan is to pull part of each weeks profit, if any, from the etrade account and start explorer again at 1/1/15...... or might start early.....

like this year, beginning balance might be 10k, possibly more...... possibly less..... my goal will to be , at least briefly, in the number 1 explorer spot..... made it to seems like 7 this year just prior to ibfx pulling the plug on us......

admit upfront it will be a tough long shot goal..... my risk tolerance does not lend itself to contests..... but there is always the tortoise and hare chance.....h
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  • #137
  • Oct 26, 2014 8:18pm Oct 26, 2014 8:18pm
Love the office, I'm very jealous!! Is that a Remington 300 win mag?
Learning is all about about asking the right questions!
  • #138
  • Oct 27, 2014 5:20am Oct 27, 2014 5:20am
Quoting reeeen4
Is that a Remington 300 win mag?
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hey reeeen..... 300 wsm browning with leupold vx-3l ..... finally had time to set out that antlershed deer stand yesterday evening....h
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the e/u, e/c, e/g, e/n, and e/a all seem to be waiting for something..... so took a 200$ loss on the 4,2 eurnzd standard lots minutes ago, the etrade account..... spread the money around all 5 rather than just the e/nzd..... safety factor.....

let the smaller fxcm metatrader account trades stand... at his point it's small lots in a small account so will give it plenty of rope.....h
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  • #139
  • Oct 27, 2014 5:42am Oct 27, 2014 5:42am
I like this theme! I subscribe to learn your way of seeing the market.
a question, as is called the indicator mark on you with points trend changes?

sorry for my bad english.
  • #140
  • Oct 27, 2014 9:18am Oct 27, 2014 9:18am
Quoting Clipi
a question, as is called the indicator mark on you with points trend changes?
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hey clipi..... i know of nothing that would reliably forecast or point to a trend change..... with the exception of a price vs momentum divergence indicator with conditions for average true range and standard deviation.....

in the chart above, the circles which are similar to a highly filtered 3 level semaphore are pointing to price extremes using the zigzag.... the evenly spaced lines above and below the moving average are similar to the vegas tunnel.... here i am using atr deviations off the tsr......

i would have to make a video of it running in real time for things to be clear..... but the idea is to take only trades at the extremes and only in your favored direction..... my favored direction for the eur is down, so i only sell the high extremes..... my preferred direction for the usd is up, so i only buy the low extremes......

the best example i have on this computer is the october 3rd gbpusd chart.... the gbpusd was at low extremes on 5 timeframes, so someone wanting to buy might and someone that was already short might consider a partial/full exit or some sort of profit protection.....

the unfinished ea in the chart below looks at all the timeframes on each pair in four separate manners..... seen as the red, lime or gray dots 2 thru 5.... the first dot ties up some loose ends with conditions...... when it turns purple, as seen on the gbpusd, it's a screaming buy.....

there is a little more to it but that's the general idea...... h
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