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[Sergey Golubev]

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Sergey Golubev, 2016.07.13 11:36

How To Trade - Heiken Ashi indicator and How Does It Work (adapted from the article)

Heikin-Ashi chart looks like the candlestick chart, but the method of calculation and plotting of the candles on the Heikin-Ashi chart is different from the candlestick chart. In candlestick charts, each candlestick shows four different prices: Open, Close, High and Low price.

But Heikin-Ashi candles are different and each candle is calculated and plotted using some information from the previous candle:

1- Open price: the open price in a Heikin-Ashi candle is the average of the open and close of the previous candle.
2- Close price: the close price in a Heikin-Ashi candle is the average of open, close, high and low prices.
3- High price: the high price in a Heikin-Ashi candle is chosen from one of the high, open and close price of which has the highest value.
4- Low price: the low price in a Heikin-Ashi candle is chosen from one of the low, open and close price of which has the lowest value.

So candles of a Heikin-Ashi chart are related to each other because the open price of each candle should be calculated using the previous candle close and open prices, and also the high and low price of each candle is affected by the previous candle. So a Heikin-Ashi chart is slower than a candlestick chart and its signals are delayed.

The Heikin-Ashi chart is delayed and the candlestick chart is much faster and helps us to make more profit. Why should we use a Heikin-Ashi chart then? As it was already explained, because of the delay that the Heikin-Ashi chart has, it has less number of false signals and prevent us from trading against the market. On the other hand, Heikin-Ashi candles are easier to read because unlike the candlesticks they don’t have too many different patterns.

Free to Download

There are many Heiken Ashi indicators (and EA) on MT5 CodeBase, for example :

Trading signals module based on Heiken_Ashi_Smoothed indicator

Heiken_Ashi_Smoothed_HTF_Signal

Heiken Ashi Smoothed

Heiken-Ashi

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An Example of a Trading System Based on a Heiken-Ashi Indicator

Heiken Ashi based EA

[Sergey Golubev]

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[qasd]

GE Mladen and Mtiwana Sirs

i have found the following indicators in this forum

1. TriangularMA centered bands - mtf - alerts......Does this repaint as i read it somewhere?

2. EMA extrapolated keeps on changing 

If these do repaint could you help and tell some other indicators

Thank you in advance'

[Mladen Rakic]

qasd:

GE Mladen and Mtiwana Sirs

i have found the following indicators in this forum

1. TriangularMA centered bands - mtf - alerts......Does this repaint as i read it somewhere?

2. EMA extrapolated keeps on changing 

If these do repaint could you help and tell some other indicators

Thank you in advance'

Of centered TMA - check this thread : https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/181241

Of extrapolated EMA : any extrapolation is a subject of changing - there is no extrapolation made (yet) that does not do that if the underlying data changes

[qasd]

Mladen Rakic:

Of centered TMA - check this thread : https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/181241

Of extrapolated EMA : any extrapolation is a subject of changing - there is no extrapolation made (yet) that does not do that if the underlying data changes

Sir

What i felt was that the line crossed some candles and then after some time the line moved away from them and then came back again and crossed them. IF a postion is taken based on this then the criteria followed get changed . is this the way postion shud be taken or is it bad?

thanks

[Mladen Rakic]

qasd:

Sir

What i felt was that the line crossed some candles and then after some time the line moved away from them and then came back again and crossed them. IF a postion is taken based on this then the criteria followed get changed . is this the way postion shud be taken or is it bad?

thanks

That is a fitting indicator

As with all fitting indicators you should not trade it as signals, but as estimation

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You could read this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrapolation for some more information of what is extrapolation and how could it be used

[qasd]

Thank you so much.

I am reading the links. Meanwhile can u suggest any other band indicator which can be used as a signal and which wont change postion later

Thanks and Regards

[Mladen Rakic]

qasd:

Thank you so much.

I am reading the links. Meanwhile can u suggest any other band indicator which can be used as a signal and which wont change postion later

Thanks and Regards

Try some like :

1. Bollinger bands
2. Standard error bands
3. Keltner channel
   
4. Kalman filter with asymmetric bands
   

and so on and on and on ...

[Sergey Golubev]

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Sergey Golubev, 2017.09.16 05:40

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