Fenlander, I guess my point was that, given sufficient programming expertise, hard work and attention to detail, any discretionary approach can ultimately programmed into an EA, eliminating money management and discipline from the trading equation. ...

Odds staked against us?

No offense, AK, but I think it's fairly easy to disprove that textbook cliche. Every EA (trading robot) trades according to strict money management rules, and with perfect discipline. If profitable trading was as simple as "enter any emerging move, ...

Odds staked against us?

Zero1, you can still configure "manually" by typing in the full path (along with the file name news.csv) in the field shown in the green area shown below. You must get the spelling, punctuation, spaces etc exactly correct, or you'll get an error ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Babatee, here's a link to the pivot indicators I use, and the reasons why I prefer them. http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?p=1641288 Nvwine is correct, there are lots of different pivot indicators available here. Use the forum search ...

Pivot Indicator

Thanks for your words of encouragement — Hi Corvas, Thanks for your words of encouragement. My responses to your questions in red typeface. Hope it's helpful to you. Best wishes, David [quote=corvas;1983377] I do have some suggestions: -it ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Hi all, Just noticed a bug - values of more than 10 digits (9.999 billion) are getting their rightmost digits truncated. Sorry about that. It will be fixed in v 1.27 David

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Further illustrated example — As a further illustrated example, here are the steps needed to load the TIC data onto a daily MT4 chart. The steps correspond to the numbered symbols on the screenshots below. 1. Click the "Plot_External_Data ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Nice post, Dopey, IMHO. An omniscient window into the intentions of all of the ("influential") participants would definitely allow us to "outsmart the others". In general, price action-type TA makes the assumption that if enough influential ...

Does the market trade against you?

Axioms, not cliches........ — If emotions were the only barrier, then every EA would be profitable. A game that’s completely random can’t be beaten indefinitely. Hence: -- If at least one trader has a demonstrably indefinite edge, the market ...

Does the market trade against you?

FFcal.EXE v 1.26 is now available.......... — Hi everybody, Please refer to post #1 to download v 1.26 This completes the functionality added in v 1.25. Here’s what’s new: 1. Bug fix – the "Numbers only" check value is now being correctly ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Rbrtsha, this indicator is merely a tool for plotting news times and values on your MT4 charts. How you interpret and trade this information is up to you. I'm a programmer, not a pro trader. My understanding is that high impact news events can cause ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Try downloading again. I just tried to download, and it happened to me also (seemed like only part of the file got downloaded, the ZIP file was around 100K in size). But when I attempted it a second and third time, it worked OK on both occasions. If ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Tom, thanks for the feedback. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know how to use economic indicators predictively, but hopefully others here will find this tool useful. Cheers, David

FFcal - Plot News indicator

More info on v 1.25 — Manually created files The first screenshot below shows two data sets (Unemployment Claims, Chicago PMI) that were created automatically from FFcal.EXE exports, and two (S&P 500, Gold Comex) that were created manually, on ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

FFcal.EXE v 1.25 is now available.......... — Hi everybody, Please refer to post #1 to download v 1.25 This adds the following functionality to FFcal.EXE (see the red area in the screenshot below): You can now specify which columns (Date, ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Mart, thanks for the link. Interesting to see the original poster's screenshot: the smoothed average appears to lag the price movement considerably. Probably largely due to the Heikin-Ashi process. David

no-lag-Triple exponential Moving average(t3) based on heiken ashi values

V 1.25 screenshot — Many thanks, Jodie. I appreciate the feedback. Below is a screenshot, illustrating v 1.25's capability. The data was sourced automatically from FF calendar. The Plot_External_Data.MQ4 indicator can also be used to plot ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

It’s true that the greater the lag, the less responsive the indicator is to sudden price moves, and the later the entry signal occurs. But a later entry into a move is not necessarily inferior, as it provides greater confirmation that a reversal has ...

no-lag-Triple exponential Moving average(t3) based on heiken ashi values

V 1.25 is not too far away......... — Hi everybody, I hope to release v 1.25 within the next few days. This will allow you to plot graphs of economic data (sourced from FF calendar) in separate windows on your MT4 charts. For example, it will ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Sorry Dave, I missed your post until now. Hope you're still around. Make sure that the code is outputting the records in descending date order, i.e. for(int i=0; i<iBars(ccy,tf); i++) // Use descending date sequence // for(int i=iBars(ccy,tf)-1; ...

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