irusoh, It isn't always the first Friday in the month, though I think thats the norm they try and keep. If you want to find out the date and result of any news report (it seems since the beginning of time), then visit this link: url You can click ...

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Well, if one arrow is 8:30 and the other midnight on Monday, then your high line isn't in the right place. Draw with the absolute high and absolute low between those time frames. In reguards to the Sentinal question -- Long trades taken above, short ...

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Nice! — Excellent job all! I did some eye tests with Sentinal Index_SMA, and everything seems to be perfect. I've attached some sentinal data done by hand, 30 minute chart with the NZD removed (because thats what I calculated it with this last ...

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Bubo, I think that is a great idea. 1. As to verifying weather or not the indicator is correct, I'll take a look at iya's code and determine how his is calculated, and let you know something definate on if the same calculations were used in mine ...

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Hello~! — Hello to everybody I just got back from vacation from Canada, my legs are killing me, long flights and all. I'm just touching base, I'll be back a little bit later on today to answer all of your questions, and start putting up ...

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I'm very impressed with people's ideas and strategies based on the indicator! I didn't know discussion would be this high in the Sentinal's reguard, but I'm really glad it is. I'm headed home today (very sad about that), and I'll be home later on ...

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Well, I leverage 5% of my account. Meaning if I have an account worth 50,000, I'll be leveraging 2,500 per position (or 2.5 lots for both positions that I have open, 5 lots total..which is 10% total leverage). Then I just put the stops 100 pips in ...

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I simply factor. 30 minutes = 336 SMA You could use one time of day, but you would only come up with one point per day, and a straight line between them...also meaning you could only take a trade at that one point during the day, because only then ...

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Yeah usually I just ignore the decimal to normalize. My first attempts at a sentinal index were to create a base day (Jan 3rd of 2000) and take the first close of that day as a base number (insead of 1000). Then, for each day, subtract the sentinal ...

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mrmikal, I'm not withholding the Sentinal index from anybody. I'm going to make it freely available, but none of my work is here. If you want the rules to create the Sentinal index, something I worked hours a day for weeks to come up with in a ...

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Well, the Sentinal index isn't widely distributed as of yet. Joe Knight is the origional creator, and he let me borrow his idea, computerize and backtest it according to my NFP system. I am in the process of making a webpage that has real time java ...

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