HGI

[forexmoments]

Dream on. They haven't got this stuff right since Windows 95. What makes you think they will suddenly start doing so now?

Hehe, perhaps the fact that every second release, Microsoft generally attempts to fix the mess caused by its previous consumer OS. E.g. Win98 was crap after 95. 98SE fixed that. ME was crap after 98SE, XP fixed that. Vista was crap after XP, Win7 fixed that. Win8 was crap after 7, so now I'm HOPING that Win10 manages at least some redemption.

[nanningbob]

I have updated pg1 post1 with more information.

Some helpful places here at the forum:
Getting Empty4 Market Window in Alphabetical order:
http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 370#p91370
How to read charts with no indicators CJ Thread:
http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... =59&t=1572
Trading open sessions by BoldTrader:
http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... =82&t=3745
Popular additional trading tools to HGI,
The most important trading tool I have ever used CSS:
http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... =38&t=3556
Trading lower Time Frames using Gann Ribbons by SlowKey:
http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... =38&t=3974
Hearst indicator
http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... =88&t=3993
http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 80#p108073
HGI Matrix, very good trading tool.
http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... =27&t=3973

[Pipstubborn]

For the past 10 days I have been testing the Hurst filter as posted by pedro2. It is extremely successful as a filter of not so good trades.

At some point, we may want to include the filter in the code of HGI and offer it as a selectable option.

I will not take a trade if Hurst doesn´t agree. It is practically infalible. You don´t miss any trades by using it. You are always offered a better entry later that is in agreement with Hurst.

Thanks Pedro for sharing it with us.

Hi Al,

Thanks for the exhaustive testing and Tomasso for improving HGI to become HGI v15.06.
Also thanks to Pedro for sharing Hurst as a filter, it's awesome, almost flawless. Been testing it for the week.

I support your idea to maybe include it in future versions.

Thanks Bob, for the update of Post 1 Page1.

Have you all a safe and Merry Christmas.

[Pipstubborn]

Wonder why we try to protect the indicator? Does this look familiar to some of you and the signals it gives?

http://forex-strats.com/

Because unscrupulous marketers will make a quick profit out of honest and hard working people just willing to share their knowledge with honest people trying to get out of the rat race and pursue the real financial fredom.

I rather to share my knowlledge or refer my close ones to this forum and donate to compassion or any charity rather to put money on the pockets of people that they have no mercy to get rich with others people money. Been a victim several times! I was very naive.

Marry Christmas Bob, family and all.

[spyderman]

Hi all,

here the update to the latest version. New it re-calculates after initializing only the signal on the last bar, this is for avoiding, that older signals will be changed in the chart, what former versions did. Many thanks to Al who pushed me to code this..
Too as an optional there is an ignoreFuture option using trueTma, this is indipendend from the new method of recalculation. This is only for informative use, as it was much requested, but it is clearly no advantge for your tradin, in contraire. Note that if you change the TF on the chart, or change settings ecc.. the indicator will reinitialize and re-paint and than restart to use the new calculation.
Please read too this post and the ff: click--> http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 55#p108055
You will find the file too attached to first post..


Cheers

Tommaso

Many thanks again for the hard work.

To be clear, for regular trading, do we want "ignore future" as true?

Thanks

[alorente]

Hi all,

here the update to the latest version. New it re-calculates after initializing only the signal on the last bar, this is for avoiding, that older signals will be changed in the chart, what former versions did. Many thanks to Al who pushed me to code this..
Too as an optional there is an ignoreFuture option using trueTma, this is indipendend from the new method of recalculation. This is only for informative use, as it was much requested, but it is clearly no advantge for your tradin, in contraire. Note that if you change the TF on the chart, or change settings ecc.. the indicator will reinitialize and re-paint and than restart to use the new calculation.
Please read too this post and the ff: click--> http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 55#p108055
You will find the file too attached to first post..


Cheers

Tommaso

Many thanks again for the hard work.

To be clear, for regular trading, do we want "ignore future" as true?

Thanks

No. IgnoreFuture must be False. If True, then HGI would be using TrueTma which doesn´t work well.

[milanese]

Hi all,

here the update to the latest version. New it re-calculates after initializing only the signal on the last bar, this is for avoiding, that older signals will be changed in the chart, what former versions did. Many thanks to Al who pushed me to code this..
Too as an optional there is an ignoreFuture option using trueTma, this is indipendend from the new method of recalculation. This is only for informative use, as it was much requested, but it is clearly no advantge for your tradin, in contraire. Note that if you change the TF on the chart, or change settings ecc.. the indicator will reinitialize and re-paint and than restart to use the new calculation.
Please read too this post and the ff: click--> http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 55#p108055
You will find the file too attached to first post..


Cheers

Tommaso

Many thanks again for the hard work.

To be clear, for regular trading, do we want "ignore future" as true?

Thanks

you should read carefull the post, I wrote

...This is only for informative use, as it was much requested, but it is clearly no advantge for your tradin, in contraire.

Cheers

Tommaso

[spyderman]

you should read carefull the post, I wrote

Cheers

Tommaso

Thanks Al and Tommasso.

Actually I did read the post. Sometimes I just get the true/false confused a bit...
like "Is it true that you didn't want the red box not checked if you weren't going to stop that buy position?"
Just my tired brain on Friday.

Thanks again.

[autoabacus]

I have started writing an EA to attempt to automate HGI, doing things differently from how Steve does them with HGB. I will post it to this forum when it is running, which will no doubt be many weeks hence.

Since we do not have access to HGI source code, an EA must make iCustom() calls to use HGI, as HGB does.

I was concerned about the efficiency of those calls, especially given what Steve had to say in 2012 here http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... ?f=8&t=494

So I ran some tests, and am pleased to report that these days Empty4 (Build 752) does a very much better job than when Steve wrote his warning about iCustom() use.

I found that if iCustom() call parameters apart from the buffer and shift ones are not changed from one call to the next, as they not when calling HGI thanks to the iCustom input, then:

• HGI is loaded only once, and is NOT unloaded after every call as Steve reported used to be the case

• HGI's start()/OnCalculate() runs only ONCE for multiple iCustom() calls to obtain different buffer values

which is good. So, with current builds of Empty4, making iCustom() calls is relatively efficient. Certainly it is far better than used to be the case as described by Steve.

By way of interest, I also tested what happens if iCustom() calls are made to the same indicator with different parameters values. (Not needed for HGI.)

That also is much better, and the indicator is loaded just once for each different set of parameter values. Each instance of the indicator runs its start()/Oncalculate() just once, no matter how many iCustom() calls are made to obtain different buffer values. Great!

So, this is an area where things have improved, and improved a lot, from how they used to be as described by Steve.

[slowkey]

For the past 10 days I have been testing the Hurst filter as posted by pedro2. It is extremely successful as a filter of not so good trades.

At some point, we may want to include the filter in the code of HGI and offer it as a selectable option.

I will not take a trade if Hurst doesn´t agree. It is practically infalible. You don´t miss any trades by using it. You are always offered a better entry later that is in agreement with Hurst.

Thanks Pedro for sharing it with us.

Totally agree that Hurst is a very nice addition to understanding when Price movement is over extended. I have incorporated it into all my templates. On the lower time periods along with Bollinger Bands it can be quite useful also. A very nice contribution by Pedro.

Great Job Tommaso on the new 15.06 HGI indicator... Really looks nice.

Thanks alorente for your contribution in sorting some of these issues out with the indicator.

Season's Greetings to All .... See you all in the New Year ... 2015
Doug