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COULD IT BE that a new idea has emerged in this thread? I’ve been using Renko charts for over 10 years myself. I consider them the most promising approach to trading. I’ve found the most successful combination of strategies for myself (in my view): Renko + Volume. And so I decided that was ‘it’ for me. I’ve run out of ideas because the current results are more than effective, and no new ideas are coming to light in either direction. It’s as if everyone’s gone mad over AI. There’s so little that’s new. It’s like trying to build a racing car with a steam engine. The market isn’t about maths; it’s about people. Let’s all get back to the creative process. Thank you so much.
As I understand it, the bricks are mainly formed by changes in the EMA on the M5 timeframe.
The others adjust the total price every 15, 60 and 240 minutes.
On the H4 timeframe, the closing price may change by as little as 0.01000. Taking the 20 EMA into account, the price movements will be smaller, for example 0.00100. In that case, on your chart with bricks of 0.00010, 10 bricks will be drawn in one direction when the H4 period begins – simply because the system waited for 4 hours and finally recalculated.
The optimisation may be tuned specifically to these recalculation ‘bricks’, as they occur regularly every 4 hours. However, the actual price will not pass through 0.00100 in a fraction of a second when the TP is triggered. The result will be random, minus the mark-up.
The same applies to H1 and M15, but there will be fewer ‘bricks’ arising from their recalculation.
I think they just introduce distortions. Trading solely on the M5 EMA seems more promising.
If I’ve misunderstood, please clarify.
I found the settings (FastMAPeriod=300, SlowMAPeriod=400) rather odd – there’s a massive time lag between the signals and actual price movements.
Furthermore, with StopLoss=700 and TakeProfit=100, it looks as though the system is holding on to losses for too long.
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Imagine the market through four windows: M5 — the nervous twitches of speculators; M15 — the breathing of intraday traders; H1 — the intentions of position traders; H4 — global trends. These realities exist in parallel, but they do not interact. The trader switches between charts, searching for alignment, like an orchestra without a conductor.
Standard Renko does not answer the question of what is happening on higher timeframes. The market is multi-layered: M5 whispers of momentum, H1 — of medium-term rhythm, H4 — of a major wave. The idea: a unified Renko that breathes at all frequencies. It is a bridge between noise and structure, filtering out fluctuations and revealing the direction of capital.
Markets are fractal: chaos on minute charts gains meaning on hourly charts; trends are made up of micro-trades. Classical analysis is sequential: the global trend on D1, entry on H1, timing on M5. It requires subjective judgment.
Multi-timeframe Renko is parallel synthesis: signals are weighted into a single decision, like a neural network. The EMA acts as a direction indicator, with greater weight assigned to recent data. The four opinions converge into a consensus, creating a synthetic symbol in MetaTrader 5. It receives ticks in real time, draws bars, and appears in the symbol list. An approach for testing strategies, indicators, and automated trading based on a filtered market reflection.
Author: Yevgeniy Koshtenko