Hi @all.
TDesk, Desky, the Universal Drones, buffers and indicators - I admit it can be confusing. I totally understand those of you telling me they don't know where to start. This thread shall be a starting point for you.
Those of you interested in some theory and understanding, please read the following section. All others just wanting to set up a working TDesk/Desky system for now, skip part 1 and go directly to part 2.
Part 1. Overview
First I want you give you an overview how all the parts work together:
If you go from left to right, there are the following components involved:
Indicators
Indicators written to directly send signals to TDesk (called drones) like here:
TDesk Drone Indicators Collection
TDesk User Indicators Playground
EAX-PINs which TDesk can read directly, explained here:
https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=568595
https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=730416
Conventional indicators which can be read by Universal Drones:
TDesk Universal Drones Examples
Indicators written and optimized for Universal Drones:
Peaky Buffers
Slopy Buffers
Universal Drones
Universal Drones are interfaces between TDesk and conventional indicators or indicators written and optimized for them. You can find them and their documentation here:
TDesk Universal Drones
TDesk Universal Drones - Usage Lessons
TDesk
TDesk is the machine that collects all these signals, displays them as a dashboard and crunches all signals into one resulting signal of FLAT, LONG, SHORT or EXIT (the Super Signal). You can find it and the documentation here:
TDesk Announcements
Welcome to TDesk. Read this to get started.
Signal Receivers
Desky is a higkhly sophisticated masterpiece of Steve. It reads the Super Signal of TDesk and then trades the market. You can configure it to every thinkable strategy. Find it here:
Desky. TDesk's trading drone.
TDesk Viewer and TDesk Player are tools to visualize and optimize TDesk settings and strategies. They are only available to members of the "TDesk Whispers" group.
Further insights
All available documentation can be found here:
Welcome to TDesk. Read this to get started.
TDesk Universal Drones - Usage Lessons
Part 2. Example - Slopey Peaky Desk
There is a somewhat profitable expert setup that I like very much - Slopey Peaky Bob. With the setup tested under the name FXT-SPB3, it made constant progress of 10%-15% per month over more than 15 months now. Thus we will use that as our example strategy to implement.
The ingredients you will need for the receipt can be found in the following threads. Download the bits and pieces and copy them to the right directories:
Peaky Buffers
Slopy Buffers
Universal Buffers Drone (UBD)
TDesk
Desky
Now here are two templates for you. Please load them on two separate XAUUSD charts. The first loads TDesk in a configuration that is appropriate for our strategy, the second loads Desky and two instances of UBD using Peaky Buffers and Slopey Buffers. All configured properly and ready to use:
Now what will happen is this: The two instances of UBD will call Peaky Buffers and Slopy Buffers to read their signals. The indicators themselves have not to be on any chart. Then the two UBDs send the signals to TDesk. TDesk will compute the Super Signal and send it to Desky. And Desky will trade like FXT-SPB3 would.
The assignment of the parts to the two charts is irrelevant. I did it this way to use the space on the charts as best as possible.
The above is all you need. But if you want to go into details or use just parts of the system, I have attached the setfiles for all parts here:
Let this be our starting point for some experiments. I have configured Desky to send the results under the new name "DESK-SPB" to the FXTestify database. You can play around with the settings and we will soon be able to compare results on FXTestify.
Please don't deviate too much from the original concept by deleting signals or adding more than one. It wouldn't be "DESK-SPB" anymore. When in doubt, contact me in advance.
This thread is open to discussions.
Have fun.