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Oscillators
Does anyone have a large collection of oscillators (works best in a trading range) that he/she put together? Maybe we could start a thread where all oscillators are gathered. And let's go a little beyound RSI and Stochastic
Length of the window to evaluate performance
I'm looking for ideas on how to decide what the appropriate size would be of the window to evaluate the dynamic performance of a system on. - One idea would simply be to take the last 20 trades and run your statistics on that to decide whether the system still works fine in the current market. -
Quote flow monitor
Hi I found this on the website of boston technologies, originally meant for brokers to know when a quote feed has stopped updating, so that the brokers know when traders are placing trades on feeds that don't work any more. If this is usefull for a broker, it is usefull for us too Boston
How about building a backtester
Hi, what do you guys think of building our own backtester , so any csv/tab delimited timeseries from text files can be accurately tested on a tick-by-tick basis with the standard .mq4 EA? How much work would that be? And what would it be worth... Would that be something you are interested in
100 SMA shift -50
Hi, If you shift a SMA of 100 periods half a cycle to the left (-50), you get a great picture, which other type of MA comes close to this curve? I've tested a lot of things already and it seems that a JMA comes the closest. What do you guys think
The ideal timeseries to trade
I would like to start a thread where we could dicuss econometrics, non-linear dynamics and chaos theory. There's a lot of info on wikipedia for the uninitiated, but I would appreciate feedback from people with a good background in these fields. I have a Master in economics myself and I only do
Visual cross, different values
Hi, how do you guys deal with the problem that arises when you put two different indicators in 1 window, and they seem to cross, but if you look at the values in the data window they are very different from each other? Do you just adapt one of the indicators? Like, dividing it by 10 or do you use a
Bollinger bands in a seperate window with steady size
Let's say you have a moving average (or a bollinger band, which is a moving average + and - 2 standard deviations ) on a chart, and you want to get that into a seperate window at the bottom of the screen, you would think that by just changing #property indicator_chart_window into #property