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Different perspectives. Mutual assistance. Coding help.

To others who are interested in working as a team, yes.

"Compounding is the reinvestment of earnings over time. You do not get any compounding from day trading - that it just absurd. You need a fixed cost basis and a rising price over a period of days, weeks, months, years. decades, etc. " It kinda depends on how you look at it. If your account is...

Yea, it's eating up a good chunk of my day. Glad you were able to figure it out... if that's what happened.

I'm looking to work with and bounce ideas between other like-minded traders/coders. In person, via email, skype, etc. Specifically looking for those who have been diligently coding, testing, backtesting, etc. for a while, with an end goal of an mechanical/automated trading system (not...

OB/OS indicators are usually oscillators. Oscillators work best in steady state conditions like ranging conditions. That's why they don't work well in trending conditions. The trick is to know when it's about to trend or range.

Trades that immediately go against me and stop me out to the tick in a flash move, then immediately go in the direction I had originally planned. Even if I get back in and make a profit on that trade, it's still profit minus the previous loss, minus slippage (if any) and commissions.

Seems there are a good amount of free form traders here who trade off of experience and a keen eye. But for a mechanical trading system (especially automated), it would still require some form of an indicator to generate buy and sell signals. Likely something proprietary.

Ehler's Supersmoother is quite nice, but it has a small amount of overshoot (estimation) to compensate for the lag, which in rare cases, can cause false signals in certain systems. Still very useful though. Even better (in my tests at least) is the Arnaud Legoux Moving Average (ALMA). At this...

Mostly a lurker on this site, but I frequently see others who state they "don't use indicators". Their reasoning is usually something to the effect of "indicators are great for showing what has happened"...which I agree with. But unless one has a crystal ball, all anyone can see and react to...

Can anyone here convert code from Metatrader (or Tradestation) to Thinkscript? Many thanks in advance if so, Jeff

What do you need coded?

Panzerman, Did you ever get anywhere further on the zero lag filters? Of course, I'm still under the impression that true zero lag is impossible in real time, but look incredible nonetheless...which has led to much research, coding, and testing in the hopes of coming up with something as...

Trading is not easy at all. Systems that seem to work when back tested or paper traded (especially standard indicators that everyone else uses), don't nearly work as well in the real world and in fact, may break you. You need something above and beyond standard indicators, as well as a keen...

Looking for the same. Have you found anything yet? -Jeff

I don't believe there is an "established" indicator for this. However, this is something that could be coded very easily in any of the platforms available. But I'm with tommcginnis on this one. It will likely not show you anything you can "use" to be profitable long term. In my...

Which platform do you need this in?

I code thinkscript indicators. If you need help, let me know, and I'll see how I can help.

Perhaps I'm not understanding this correctly. On either approach, there are two values on the Excel spreadsheet that are coming from the future, but in "real time", we wouldn't have this information. And when these values are removed, the average line breaks down. I built some test code...

Amazing concept, but seems a bit too good to be true since you need 2 inputs from the future to keep the average line intact. If you remove the last two inputs (which would be from the future) on the Excel spreadsheet, the average line breaks down. Still beautiful to look at though. It may...