That sounds promising and a little like the "Firehedge" option that was supposed to work in Firebird. Looking forward to seeing how it works.

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Hendrick, How do you read FirebirdSafe? It places a subgraph at the bottom of the chart. All lines are green -- some below zero line and some above. How does it indicate optimal trading type for Firebird?

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Perfect NS. I don't have the ability to code, otherwise I would have, but that's just what's needed some type of "anti trend" filter. I can test at least two versions here if needed.

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Session indicator — Here's an indicator that shades the background of a chart depending on what session you're in. You have to adjust the inputs for your GMT offset, but it might be useful for anyone trying to code Firebird to trade in certain ...

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Hendrick, what happens to positions that are already open when you enter one of your pre-set "no trade" times? Is it closed out or just left to run?

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ns, This is going to be somewhat subjective because you have to decide what ADX level you'll designate as the start of a trend. I think most people who use ADX consider readings of above 25-30 or so to be trending markets. But you have to also ...

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Lonespruce, that would be an entirely different EA. Firebird was never meant to be trend following. There are plenty of other EA's and methods that are designed to exploit trends and I'm sure there's threads here somewhere. I think this thread is ...

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NS Karthic, Can you open this one?

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Hendrick, Can you please post your latest version of EDEA and instructions on how to use it? Is it an indicator, or does it somehow get plugged into Firebird? Is it referencing platform time or my computer time. I'm running platforms that are GMT ...

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It's just an html document. Should open right up. Does anyone esle have it in another form?

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Here it is.What about applying something as simple as an ADX filter with a < or > variable. If the market started trending strongly, all trading would cease and open positions closed until it started ranging again. just thinking out loud here.

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Here's the picture I was trying to send.

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Something like this: The inside envelope is at .05 The outer envelope is .2 I'm not saying .2 is an ideal number, but you can see when it strayed into the .2 envelope Firebird trades were ill-advised until it returned to the optimal ranging ...

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Hendrick, What if we were to create an area where Firebird did not issue trades. What I have in mind is a second, wider envelope around the initial .05 envelope -- the thought being that if prices travels to this second enveleope it is more likely ...

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Hendrick, I haven't tried your tool yet, but it seems there's definitely a need for it or some type of filter. I've spoken with the originator of Firebird (Traderseven) and he gave up on it due to programming difficulties. I'm not ready to give up ...

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A major problem I see with Firebird is that it does not average the trades. If it averaged properly the large trending moves would not be as bad. The Firebird document states, in the examples section, picture 3, "In this example the trade goes ...

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I spoke to him yesterday 5 minutes before I posted my question.

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I know Joe, and was in fact speaking to him before I originally posted. He's the one that gave me the API idea. They are metatrader compatible for minis, but those clear through CFG's desk. I want the ECN model.

How to write strategy to an API?

Thx. I'm new to the forum, but not new to trading. I've always traded on either esignal or tradestation and recently found metatrader, and hence, this forum. Interesting platform, but still getting used to its nuances.

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