meanVel's Oanda MT4 Theme and Indicators

It takes a bit of work to get a clean low eye strain visual theme set up in Oanda MT4. These are my indicators and they are all hard-coded. You can only change the colors. If you want something with custom periods or custom deviations... You have to ask!

Add mvCandles after mvRange for proper layering.



A little on how to read price action... Everyone here should already know this! Best way to trade a uptrend is to buy during the pauses as people are cautiously taking profits, then take profits during the push as bulls start bidding price up and people are getting sucked in.

This chart might be indicator overkill for some people, but here is the middle mean for the range and the primary crossover mean I use. These are added after the prior two indicators. Add mvPrimaryMean before mvMean if you use both.

This is the full Oanda MT4 chart setup I use nowadays. Btw, just in case anyone asks about the candles... The open is the prior close to eliminate candle to candle micro gaps which are common in low timeframes like the 5M. My bottom indicator is a range based deviation indicator for measuring the intensity of crashes and frenzies.


I try to get it to match my SierraChart setup as closely as possible. It was a real trick to simulate a background fill in a program that doesn't have fills...

Here is the grid script modified from a old public one. Nothing copyright in the code... Included is the .mq4. Grid levels are automatically set for each timeframe. Sorry I posted this last, it's supposed to be placed on the chart first!

Blue light contributes to digital eye strain

http://www.allaboutvision.com/cvs/blue-light.htm

Here is mine


Background is warm color, candle is red for alertness.

Edit:
To prevent eye strain at night:

https://justgetflux.com/

Very interesting... Redid my colors based upon your background base color. Going to try this and see if it gives me a headache or not. Many color combinations give me a headache, especially too many colors on screen. Other people may see these colors differently because my Samsung screen is set to Warm2 color tone.

I am interested in colors too. Here are some website with great color theme (for programming, long working hour on computer)

https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox

http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

https://material.google.com/style/color.html

Been playing around with gruvBox for a bit... Really love these colors! They might look bright, but they feel really good on the eyes for some reason...

I'm glad you like it.

GruvBox is default color theme for Eclipse, MetaEditor and others in my computer.

A couple more hours playing around with colors at night in the dark... Managed to simplify down to a dual color scheme.

It's just a bit of a modification of the gruvBox colors. I just realized how much eyestrain the prior colors I was using caused...

Final theme for now... Good luck with trading tonight everyone!

Slight update to theme and filtering math used in my fast mean. These colors are great when combined with f.lux! No headache and easy to go to sleep after I'm done trading for the night. I'm only trading the EUR/USD and USD/CAD until this week is over. Then, next week it's back to GBP/USD!