Kurka Suggest you try to establish whether control is getting inside the IF statement: if (TimeCurrent() >= eTime[eCount] - MinsPrior*60 && TimeCurrent() <= eTime[eCount] + 60) i.e. whether TimeCurrent() ever meets the condition. Hence have the code ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Isitrue, Dingo432 - thanks for the feedback....... — Dingo, you've put into words here exactly what I was trying to say: So each price bar is nothing more than a visual summary of a collection of sequential ticks. Rationalized likewise, the ...

james16 Chart Thread

Pin bars and additional timeframes — My understanding is that pin bars tend to work profitably, on balance, because they depict a price movement in one direction (from the “eyes” to “nose-end”), and then followed by a reverse movement from the ...

james16 Chart Thread

Some hints to help you get started — FFcal.EXE is not as complex as what it first appears. There are a lot of options, but most of these simply allow you to specify which news events you want plotted, and how you want them to appear (which ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

FFcal.EXE — Hi all The attached ZIP contains the first cut of FFcal.EXE, which will: (i) maintain its own “Events History” database of all news announcements in the FF calendar (the supplied history comes pre-loaded with all events from Jan 1, ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Thanks Merlin, Melpheos - yes, I have seen this. However, (as far as I can tell) it includes only the upcoming week's data, and hence/also doesn't contain the "actual" value announced. The philosophy behind Plot_News is not just to warn of all ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Automated news.csv builder will soon be here — Melpheos, many thanks for the feedback. You're correct, the screenshot did include the boxingislife stochastics. I'm currently working on an EXE that will build the News.CSV file automatically ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Kurka, this is just a guess, but is the problem being caused by the comma at the end of each line in your news.csv file? The code inside your FOR loop only allows for 4 items (time, currency, impact, text) per line, but the comma could be "creating" ...

News Function Filter

Attached: News.CSV 1 Jan 2007 thru 5 May 2007 — The attached ZIP file contains the following: plot_news.gif: a screenshot of an MT4 chart showing the Plot_News and Sessions indicators. Of course it’s not possible to show how the full event ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Plot_News indicator — Hi all My health has improved, and I will try to keep this alive and up-to-date again for as long as I can, for anybody who is still interested. I see, from Merlin’s post above, that there is now another news plotting ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

One further point....... — One further point: given that the goal is capital preservation, even more so if one is a beginner and/or is still in the process of forward testing the system, then a declining account balance may reflect that the ...

Dynamic risk allocation

Are you being too conservative? — Tom, by decreasing position size percentage-wise when your account balance falls, you are also slowing your recovery rate. While I fully endorse the fact that position size must be kept small enough to ensure ...

Dynamic risk allocation

Sorry, Tom, I’m speaking about markets generally, and most of my past research involves the equities markets, as opposed to Forex. My understanding is that you are correct. The Commitment of Trader (COT) charts illustrate graphically how the FX ...

Poll: Is successful trading more dependent on skill than luck?

Great question, Tom, but at a guess I think it could be more complex than that. As an example, if there are enough fundamental traders who try to anticipate the outcome of a potentially high impact news announcement, then they could create trend(s) ...

Poll: Is successful trading more dependent on skill than luck?

Mike, sorry if my posts sound dogmatic, but I get really frustrated when I see people implying “entry is completely irrelevant” or (another favourite) “method is unimportant because successful trading is all about psychology”. I suspect that there ...

Poll: Is successful trading more dependent on skill than luck?

Mbqb11 I’ve read “Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom”, and I also subscribe to Dr Tharp’s e-mailed newsletters. Sorry if this sounds high-handed, but simply quoting another person’s opinion doesn’t really prove anything. There needs to be readily ...

Poll: Is successful trading more dependent on skill than luck?

Being in profit after 10 trades is luck (even I’ve achieved that!); remaining in profit after 1,000 trades means that you have somehow established a proven edge. Almost everybody says that exits more important than entries, but nobody has ever been ...

Poll: Is successful trading more dependent on skill than luck?

Hi Johnny Sorry about the delayed response, I just noticed your post. I’m by no means an MT4 expert. The features I noted in the other post are simply the result of trial and error. As far as I know, the answers to your questions are: i) I’m not ...

Hanover - can you help me with MT4 qs please?

Many thanks, Igrok — Many thanks, Igrok, for your generous offer. My health is not good, and I owe it to myself to avoid stress, at least for the moment. Hence I guess I was really just curious, and although it's hard to give up something ...

Honest answers please! Are you successful trading on Forex or not?

Thanks, guys, for your responses. I've always wondered whether my approach from the beginning was completely wrong. It evolved as a result from reading maybe 30-40 "classic" books on trading (Schwager, Elder, Tharp, Pring, Murphy, Guppy, etc) and ...

Honest answers please! Are you successful trading on Forex or not?