I consider myself a newbee as well I have started two projects, one for equities, and one for futures. The equities part (which I have posted bits and pieces off here), is at a state were the program can grap data from Stocktables, cull data from Yahoo and compare it to my current Final Universe. The next step is integrating Spyders RANK SCAN... and the DRY-UP calculations. I'm not nervous about the trading part, as I'm sure it'll work. The key is the 65 day avg. vol - I'm still looking into this. I got the right number/code, just need to put it into the right context. For fortures, I have a model running using indicators (Stochastics and MACD), which I have tested profittable on historical data. The plan is to evolve this into channels, gaussians, M-A-D-A, WMCN etc., but this is to be considered somewhat long-term, as my C# skill aren't quite there yet
LostTrader, I added lateral lines to your indicator and found it didn't bother me that they cross over the subsequent bars ... perhaps it depends on the color you use? I also added lateral area shading, using max transparent black, and that works quite well too (imho). Also bar painting, but you already have that...
palinuro, thanks for letting me look at yours... Here's of picture what mine looked like (alongside yours). I guess it just bothered me that the inside bar colors get dull. Hmmm, so I guess I am hearing that I am too stuck on perfectionism and I should relax... Currently mine stops at FBO's & I do not want it to. Yours continues until an actual BO. I need to fix mine. I finally broke down and ordered a C# book. If I actually learn the language maybe I will get better at this stuff... Thanks for sharing!!
mikeytrader's Stacked Volume Bar code in EasyLanguage. (for Tradestation and MultiCharts) http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1297418#post1297418 The code is defaulted for 30 seconds intervals (for a 5 min chart) but can be used on any fractal. It chops a bar into 10 equal parts by seconds, change the input to the number of seconds per interval.
Hi Palinuro, I tried your script on friday and thought I would share an enhancement to your script. I like to annotate laterals strictly as ones that have the second bar of the lateral as a inside bar (ie a lateral is created after a pennant formation). Without that criteria, I found your script was marking a lot of laterals when price ticks were coming in. Attached is the updated code. I briefly tried it and it looked good but I will test is out tomorrow as well. I have also added code to color the bars in a different scheme (exactly the same as the QT paintbar code I posted a while back). To keep the code clean I put the original bar painting code and my additions in two different functions to so it is pretty easy to switch to either scheme.
OK, I finished adding the lateral to BarCheck. Y'all can decide how you like it. The laterals are more faded than the inside & outside bars, which helps some. Laterals stop at a BO only (not an FBO) and don't start until the third bar (i.e., the bar after the inside bar has not broken the 1st pennant bar). Sorry I don't have more time to work on this stuff. I've got a few other things to finish as well...
I've tried viewing the Camtasia videos and have tried a whole bunch of codecs with windows media and real player with no luck. Any ideas on which codecs work?
You could also try using the free VLC player, it works with anything - even the most stubborn files. - EZ http://www.videolan.org/