my plan for making index charts was to use them with my calendar bot but Im also thinking about some volume edges that could be had. just messing around here cuz OBV comes with the platform, but based on the divergences EVERYWHERE I doubt its ...

Index Charts

EUR and USD were easy enough but I couldn't get JPY to work with mt5's built in system. probably something to do with JPY being the counter ccy of ever pair. I uploaded my own data and it looks good, now I just need to figure out how to get mt5 to ...

Index Charts

Turns out it’s even simpler to do it straight in MT5. Only draw back is it looks like the historical bars on low time frames wouldn’t be quite as accurate. And it would likely refresh like that with every time frame change. but still, nice and ...

Index Charts

ticks resampled up to 1 second with the volume saved. shwing! image def _request_ticks_and_resample(pair, days): _from = datetime.now() - pd.Timedelta(f' days day') _to = datetime.now() ticks = mt5.copy_ticks_range(pair, _from, _to, ...

Index Charts

tick request from mt5. 30.6 million rows in 4.4 seconds on a HDD. image

Index Charts

Just FYI you can get mass historical ticks from FXCM. But the python wrapper for mt5 is super fast for current stuff url

Index Charts

ahhh!

Index Charts

Has anyone written any indicators that get plotted on an mt5 chart?

Metatrader5 and Python

Just an FYI for anyone potentially reading this in the future and wondering about FXCMs python wrapper. I've been using it and while it works, it's kinda weird and has some limitations. Nowhere near as nice as accessing a local MT5 platform. I'm ...

Metatrader5 and Python

How many currencies have you made the indices for?

Trading fx fundamentals

Totally agree. I had an interesting experience not too long ago while I was on some strong pain medication and was right on the edge of falling asleep. It was like I perceived the presence of my subconscious as a unique entity. I’m a visual person ...

Trading fx fundamentals

also, got the strangest error I've yet seen in python. a more experienced friend of mine said it's likely an encoding problem but mt5 doesn't tell me where in the program this error is happening

Metatrader5 and Python

hey could someone help me out... I moved my program over to an older win7 machine to use as a server and, while I can get the basic MetaTrader5 from pypi installed and working, pymt5adapter won't work. I got python on my machine through anaconda and ...

Metatrader5 and Python

scraping data is such a pain.... for some stuff ( url ) all I would be able to do is take a screenshot and then use a python program to find the text inside the pic.

Trading fx fundamentals

What was your news trading strategy? Were you getting a directional bias based on the next few days forecasts, or were you actually trading the news?

Trading fx fundamentals

Ok I'd been thinking the correlation between bonds and ccy's lately had been a let down so glad you agree. A bot that will combine everything I know in order to derive a buy/sell rating for each currency. 1. price action, levels 2. economic data 3. ...

Trading fx fundamentals

Looks like an awesome project. I’m doing similar things but was a student with Ian so my focus is slightly different different. If intraday gov bond data is being used for your analysis, where are you getting it? I have a gsheet to pull the data ...

Trading fx fundamentals

22 trades in 8 hrs. Some excellent, some terrible. Gives me some ideas for filters though like.... don’t open a second trade if price is still within some atr of the last entry image check for opposing price action. Currently this isn’t part of ...

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17 trades during LDN

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Decided to have trades be entered automatically when a signal is fired. So rather than trying to quickly get in trades I like I’ll have to quickly close trades that I don’t like

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