I've played with different charts and adjustment of the moment that the series of bars begins... it brings whole new meaning to what's random and what isn't...
RCG has agreed to your debate and I sent you an email right after this post agreeing to sit done with you as well. I've waited a reasonable amount of time (4 months) but to date, you haven't responded to either of us. I'll now post a response here as well, as long as you stick to your promise of focusing on content (as stated in blue above). I'm willing to sit down with you and go over exactly what I do and how it works.
Simple solution to candlestick woes - Switch to OHLC Seriously speaking, yes these feed issues are a pain. You just have to accept that you had no signal and move onto the next trade. Best you can do is make sure you have a good reliable feed, adjust your chart's session settings to what is optimal for the instrument and then move on.
Interesting conversation. I would like to mention two things related to the subject. Success with candlestick charts can be enhanced with examining the proper technical context the formation is happening in, so reading a particular candle is just a fraction of what one considers. If someone had a good grasp of market dynamic they would overcome an occasional wrong signal, besides _ HOW ABOUT THE INSTANCES WHEN THE WRONG CANDLE SAVED THEM MONEY? While I have never noticed candles to be appearing wrong (blissful ignorance), a number of years ago I was migrating between two or three platforms and to my surprise some of the common indicators did not plot the same way. I never thought of checking data integrity. In addition some of the platforms had preset features for some indicators that I could not access, whatever they had was not variable. For example one used last for a particular data point and another averaged HLC. I am almost certain this still exists. I contacted one vendor who had one indicator completely wrong and I flat out told him they did not know what they were doing. Quick way to make friends... Regards, bc
Create 10 identical time or tick based charts, on 10 different charting programs, looking back the exact same length of time, and use the exact same candlestick settings on each and feed them with 10 different data feeds and the candlesticks on each one will be different. Nuff said.
it used to bother me that when i reload my tick charts in trade station i get a different picture to the point that my setup often disappeared. and could not even be found if i upped and lowered to tick per bar slightly. right now it has become PART of how i explain to my self how it is possible that i am seeing something others smarter then me have missed. i like a setup with variables so unstable they are bound to disappear with a chart reload and tick recalculation cause it is in strange places like that where the nuggets maybe be found