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Indicators use intra day You do not have permission to vote on this poll.
Accumulation/Distribution	0	0%
Bollinger Bands	3	18.75%
Choppiness	1	6.25%
Commodity Channel Index	2	12.50%
Liniar Regression	2	12.50%
MACD	4	25.00%
Money Flow	0	0%
Stochastic	2	12.50%
Rate of Change	1	6.25%
Proce Oscillator	1	6.25%
Total:	16 votes	100%

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NoDoji

Registered: May 2008
Posts: 8120

07-31-12 04:41 PM

Quote from oraclewizard77:

The indicators I use are special and not standard.

I second that!

Quote from oraclewizard77:

Other than that analysis, I use a magic indicator that predicts the future

XXXOOO

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SteveH

Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 146

07-31-12 09:40 PM

Excellent project! Thanks for sharing your code base.

A lot of these types of projects tend to not reinvent the wheel. Instead, they'll incorporate the TA indicators from the ta-lib.org project. They have a Java interface.

I think a very useful addition you could make to your project is to allow the trading of options based on price triggers from the underlying stock.

As far as backtesting goes, I can understand if you want to expand that out just for possibly the fun of rolling your own. But honestly, is there anything you would want to do in backtesting that, for $279, Amibroker doesn't already do and is way faster than you'll ever be able to achieve in Java?

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FreakofNature

Registered: Jun 2011
Posts: 1073

07-31-12 10:31 PM

Interesting, you left the most used indicator of them all out.

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murray t turtle

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 6300

08-02-12 09:58 PM

Quote from james2hunt:

I'm building and open source trading platform that currently uses IB TWS (back testing and live trading) or Yahoo Finance (only for back testing) to get its data.

see
http://code.google.com/p/trade-manager/

I've added the following indicators Volume, Moving Average, Pivots what other indicators do people commonly use for intra-day time frames?

As I want to add the most common ones.

I've been trading for 5yrs full time but I only use SMA, Volume, Support/Resistance, Pivots as for me its all about price.

Please vote

Thanks
James

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Well james;
those you mentioned are great.PSAR is worth a mention;
50 period/day moving average, on volume, & price................................

Momentum is a great indicator if one likes to get out of a trend WAAAAAY early. I hate it & seldom use it for that reason.

I enter all my trades intraday or close;
& close most all of them intraday or@ close, but seldom daytrade-too many comissions/slippages..............

Wisdom is profitable to direct

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Handle123

Registered: Aug 2007
Posts: 1051

08-03-12 05:33 AM

I use TSI, True Strength Index, for very long time, it is a slow indicator, I don't want anything fast, fast to me means short lived trades and over trading. Also use EMA and Bollinger Bands, but trend is different for me in some methods. One of the methods I use day session data of ES and couple of EMA's, then I use 24 hour data and different idea for trend, so if both don't offer same trend, there are no trend trades. This concept allows me to seek very conservative trend trades for day trading. This stops me from trading caused by huge gap moves, when in doubt, don't.

You watch same indicators long enough, you should be able to know what it will do in next couple bars, when it does something abnormal, THAT is a form of divergence, and good to take notes as to why.

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oraclewizard77
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Registered: Jan 2006
Posts: 2324

08-03-12 06:32 AM

And that is why you make me wear shades when I trade. LOL!

XXOO back to U....

Thankfully these Noobs keep using standard indicators so you are able to keep making $ thousands everyday trading against them NoDoji.

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I second that!

XXXOOO

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