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Yep, done.
I'm up and running now SG.
That helps SG. Thanks.
Got it. Thanks SG.
Thanks SG. I'm using the "every tick" method. Whether I slide it to 10 or 32 it's too slow for my liking, but if I just click in the space to the right in the slide after it starts, then it moves through the tester at several candles a second. I've got it at 32 now and I'll leave it there. A bit slower than I like, but still fast enough to be usable. What's the optimization button or check box all about?
I can sure see why you've used this feature for months now.
Maybe I'll get lucky and figure it out by the time someone else responds. Thanks anyway.
I'm really liking the Srategy Tester so far jav, but I can't fine tune the speed using the speed bar. It's either too fast or too slow in candle presentation speed. I have a slide bar too with my FXCM powered by BT MT4 but it doesn't seem to be very responsive. Any ideas?
THanks jav......I was just trying to figure out how to get the ST going. I need to add an expert advisor huh? Let me see what I can do to get one going.
I've never used an MT4 strategy tester jav, it'd be nice to have a decent tutorial on how to use one. I always use live real trading to test my losing strategies. lol
I am looking forward to seeing what you have to say regarding the 21ema pennies. It should be enlightening in relation to trading off the bollinger bands. In use with and consideration of fib levels, goodman waves and even EW counts, I think that watching for engulfing candles and doji's which take the price back inside the trending bollie lines are the best ways to determine reversal spots. I'm hoping you offer something even greater. I'll be watching for your post.
It'll be a happy new year for me SG if AU continues to fall during pre-market trading Sunday morning. The price hit my break even mark just after official market close, but of course I wasn't able to exit and reload with a lighter lot position.
Oh well.....either way, Happy New Year to you too SG! And to all us retailers that are trying to find our way swimming around in the dark pools of uncertainty which we call the forex.
AU is also bouncing off the extreme tunnel on the 5 minute chart. It's done so twice in the last couple hours or so. The quad tunnel is just 50 pips above. It'll be interesting to see how it plays off the two tunnels over the next hour or so.
Hey jav.....I hope you and pennies will post a chart of a dagger setup on AU if you see one forming. I'm still not sure I'd recognise one until it had already played out.
I'm not speaking to all brokers, but I wish Santa would leave a big piece of semi-formed reindeer doo in some of their stockings. That would give them something to chew on besides my wallet. Bastages!
You'd need two 60" screens SG......one to see the big red candles moving away from your entry and against ya, and the other to see the tens, hundreds or thousands of dollars dropping against you in great big flashing numbers. lol I'm sure the brokers could afford to buy each of their clients a new 60" monitor who's money they've taken from them for months on end and are in the hole during . Too bad the bad ol' brokers don't get a lump of coal in their christmas stockings. I'm thinking of one broker in particular, but I won't mention the name.
Your "Dagger" Reversal post is excellent pennies! The dagger doesn't necessarily put an end to the long sidetrending waves or failed reversals but sure gives good opportunity for profits once the dagger top or bottom has been broken. And they certainly can present reversals on the larger time frames when the dagger is located on the smaller time frames. Or so it seems to me. Definately worth spending time becoming extremely familiar with that pattern so one can recognise it quickly and accurately.
You too pennies and thanks for the pips!
Yep, some of us need all the visual aids we can get; not that any of us really want any aids at all. lol
Well you are wrong sometimes in the begining but you are always getting it right eventually and add when you do to get back to even and profit, whereas I sometimes don't get it right when I add. lol The only thing that saves me sometimes is controlled margin risk. And I even got that wrong recently and swore never to get it wrong again.
You were right about the next leg going pretty much straight up too! Sometimes you make it seem so easy. lol
Well there was the quick shake and following pop on AU that you were expecting pennies. Thanks for those pips!
Well SG, if you google the origin for the term "the gift that keeps on giving", you'll see where people are saying that it pertained to the phonograph or "talking machine". You're not exactly talking, but you're a machine! LOL
Seriously.....what I've learned from primarily you, pennies and git has been a gift that keeps on giving. Teaching someone how to trade successfully is a better gift than trading for them, though it's more stressful. I still have a lot to learn, but I'm finally begining to get a much better handle on wave counting despite the fact that consolidation waves still drive me nuts trying to put a count to the subwaves. And I've got a pretty good handle on how to scalp already off my template which is a combo of a couple of excellent semi-painting indis which are used in correlation with a few non-painting indi overylays which I can thank you for.
My FAVORITE and most relied upon indi below the main chart......the stochs (8,2,2) with TRIX (7,2) overlay! The only time it's of lesser help is times like right now on AU where the 1 hour shows a decent long entry based on the bottomed stochs/TRIX indi whereas the 4 hour is showing the opposite and indicating that AU is toppy here. It's probably reality based somewhere in between and that's why I'm not holding a position over the weekend to move in my favor somewhat in the first half of premarket only to go against me the last half of pre-market before I can close out.
I'm rambling.........have a good weekend! I'm looking forward to your scalping instruction off your template.
C'mon SG, won't you be our human EA robot? Just post your entries, and your exits and send your entries to us all via cell phone alerts? That would be timely and appropriate with the Christmas season that's quickly approaching. You could be that gift that keeps on giving! Now doesn't that sound like a great idea? HoHoHo....lol....
Glad to be of help SG.....I think you'll like this one. I'm just now getting familiar with it. Time will tell whether it crashes or not very often.
Re: backup MT4 platforms.....I don't know how reliable it is or how prone to crashing it is, but I loaded the IBFX MT4 demo charting platform and it has a copyrighted autochartist candle recognition pattern indicator among many others which make it easy to determine bullish or bearish patterns. May be very useful to apply with other charting TA for agreement and confirmation. Auto fib, auto pivots, and many other interbank fx indis are included with the platform.
Here's a youtube vid on applying the candle pattern recognition indi.
My pleasure; hope it helps. eom
All three indis estimator. But I'm in the middle of watching a youtube webinar of her setting up her own template of indis. Here's Raghee herself tutoring the setup of her template in person if you want to really make your chart look exactly like hers. It's an hour worth of 7 episodes and I'm in the 2nd part episode myself. I wish I'd come across this first.
Regarding the Raghee Horner method of trading, I came across her MT4 indis to load auto on an MT4 chart platform. There might be something of real value here to use in concert with other TA. Thanks for bringing up the use of the 34 ema git, it's a definate top 10 addition to the ema arsenal for usual S&R lines, even the top 5 for use in scalping.
http://codebase.mql4.com/6573
No RC, I won't visit that guy. Thanks for pointing his twitter page out for me. lol
LOl.....well if you follow him SG, then I suppose he's probably ok. I'll follow him too. lolol...
You shouldn't follow that guy SG......he's a shmuck, even worse than that Cramer guy on TV. LOL
J/K LOL.....
Can one of you provide me the link? eom
LOL.....yeah, I'm being sarcastic. Sounds good on paper.....one happy one world government, but there's no way in hell it could ever last.
Yep estimator, one happy little one world government. It can't help but be a good thing though, 'cause right now the whole world gets along great together, including all its separate governments. I can't see any problem with combining them all into one, can you?
Nice start to the day, FXCM charting was down! FXCMT MT4 powered by BT was still up and running just fine, but all their trade platform charting was unavailable. Seems to be running ok now, but a bit sluggish to respond.
Fortunately they did have a some separate charting by Netdania available at www.fxstatus.com.
Irritating as hell. I can't trade without the platform charting on my platform site page.
Hope that helps SG. I used Alpari for a while too but got phone calls from them and can remember one time when they were down. Can't really speak to any other broker MT4 platforms as those three are all I've used. A good back up can't hurt.
Hey SG, just an fyi....I thought it was worth passing on that as much as I don't like FXCM as a broker, and even though I'm moving my money over to Oanda for trading, I must say that I can't remember the last time that their MT4 platform was down. I don't have anything negative to say about their MT4 platform.
Thanks git, didn't think of that! Silly me huh?
Has anyone come across an MT4 indi that shows a chart turned upside down and side flipped to make it appear as it would in a mirror? Sounds like a silly request but I'm making it anyway. lol
Sorry jav, I've been away from the computer for the last hour and a half. I just checked in to see that AU is moving lower and even with the previous most recent active low on the hour chart so I'm assuming a new low is forthcoming here. I'm staying out till I see a great spot to go long or pennies give us a great entry based on his wave counts. Plus I'm still a bit busy so I can't watch the chart closely right now.