Not a clue what this thread is about any more

[RockyJ]

Don't know about that.
TrueTL is on version 1.06 now. They use a server that verifies your password and the trend lines are generated by their server.. Who knows, maybe they would help out.. but I have never seen a auto TL generator that always does what I would do.. and I have the latest TrueTL indicator. But for consistency it would probably work .

[SteveHopwood]

Hey Steve,

I think unless we find an indicator which draws the same trendlines for all of us ( something like http://www.truetl.com/) , we are unable to learn from each other and furthermore we are unable to compare our trades with this system, because everyone of us will draw some other trend lines.

That is the easy bit. All a coder needs to do is code so that a trendline is only drawn when x Fractals are all higher than each other. Suppose x = 5, then the indi would look back through the swings, and draw, say, a downtrend line when if has found five fractals of increasing height. There might be lots of intervening fractals that are lower, but those would be ignored.

I could code that, and indi code usually baffles me. Whether it would draw the trendlines than another experienced trader would draw is a different matter.

Coincidentally, one of our members and I are working on an ea that draws the lines in exactly the same way as the De Mark indi, then trades the break of either. It is one he has paid me for, but wants to share it once we have finalised the details.

Bernard's EA has Slope built in, although it is not part of his trading strategy (Slope is omnipresent these days ). It would be simple to extend this as I described earlier and then to combine it with our little helper code.

I initially thought that SAFT cannot be fully automated because of the need for drawing a trendline on the OBV indi as well, and Fractals cannot be added to this. After thinking about it, I realise that this is actually possible by using the Time[x] points of the trendline.

Incidentally, any of you guys have the code to read which window is hosting the OBV indi? It will save me some time and screaming if I do not have to dig it out for myself.

So, automation of SAFT is possible. Whether it would be profitable is another matter. First thing to do is to make sure the little helper is bug-free.

[roger-write]

Hey Steve,

Incidentally, any of you guys have the code to read which window is hosting the OBV indi? It will save me some time and screaming if I do not have to dig it out for myself.

You should be able to just do:

int window_index = WindowFind("OBV");

[SteveHopwood]

Hey Steve,

Incidentally, any of you guys have the code to read which window is hosting the OBV indi? It will save me some time and screaming if I do not have to dig it out for myself.

You should be able to just do:

int window_index = WindowFind("OBV");

Fantastic. Worked first time. Thanks.

[Evaluator]

This is totally Kool!!!

I hope I can contribute even with me beng a programming novice.(i.e. dummy) I certainly wish you all much success!!!

Evalautor.

[SteveHopwood]

V 1c is in post 1.

The ea was sending a tp of sl * 3, not 2. I have no idea why. To make sure the take profit is exactly correct, the ea first sends the trade without sl/tp, then first inserts the sl, calculates the tp and inserts it.

I have just manufactured a trade, and these functions appear to be working correctly.

[lhDT]

Hi guys,

I was working a bit on the SAFT system with Eval lately.
Here is what I found.

In the past I was working on CCI+MA (applied to CCI data). I decided yesterday to give a shot to OBV+WMA (on OBV data).
Here is a screenshot.

We can see that the 21 period WMA on the OBV gives "almost" same result than drawing a trendline.
On the main window (price bars), I added a 50MA.

Idea is to go long when MA is trading below the price (so trending up) + an OBV/WMA cross up.
Opposite for short.

Same SL & TP. Risk:Reward 2:1 at least.
I was working today on a EA and the results are slightly positive on backtest (which is still a good sign for an Empty4 backtest).

Feel free to post your ideas and thoughts about it.

Cheers,
LhDT

[harry45]

Hi guys,

I was working a bit on the SAFT system with Eval lately.
Here is what I found.

In the past I was working on CCI+MA (applied to CCI data). I decided yesterday to give a shot to OBV+WMA (on OBV data).
Here is a screenshot.

We can see that the 21 period WMA on the OBV gives "almost" same result than drawing a trendline.
On the main window (price bars), I added a 50MA.

Idea is to go long when MA is trading below the price (so trending up) + an OBV/WMA cross up.
Opposite for short.

Same SL & TP. Risk:Reward 2:1 at least.
I was working today on a EA and the results are slightly positive on backtest (which is still a good sign for an Empty4 backtest).

Feel free to post your ideas and thoughts about it.

Cheers,
LhDT

Right you are.Have a great sense.
Regards

[lhDT]

Hi Harry,

What is the third indicator you have ? TL are drawn automatically ?

Cheers,
LhDT

[harry45]

Hi Harry,

What is the third indicator you have ? TL are drawn automatically ?

Cheers,
LhDT

our Russian coder "diver" has made this great indi, hope it helps who likes diver. and conver.
IMO you are in right road.
Regards
P.S. Another indi by "diver" after Andrews Pitchfork see pic.