Gann Ribbon 10.7 System

Post by **slowkey** » Tue May 06, 2014 5:06 am

Patnoter and others hang in there on the ribbon problem.

I have two Cowboy IBFX versions. One is working properly and other not. Same Broker. I could not uninstall the one that was not working. Turned off UAC. I changed my administrative rights to allow all users on drive C to make changes and finally was able to delete the installation on the instance that was not working. I am the administrator I should not have to do this but I read others were not getting full administrative rights also.

Now with the original version I had used for years I was able to go into control panel and uninstall. When I re-installed it again it worked just as before.

Now I am doing a file comparison. I will do a registry search but I may end up just copying all the files from the working installation over the one that has the crazy gone mad ribbons.

But first I will try a few more things to see if there is a solution to this madness. Metaquotes sure does not have this installation thing down. I wonder how many people do not realized that something is a muck.

Not so Cheery Doug

Post by **slowkey** » Tue May 06, 2014 5:13 am

Oh this is really funny. When I downloaded and re-installed over my old installation of Empty4 it installed V 646. So both got upgraded and one works and the other does not.

Cheers Doug,

Post by **fx800** » Tue May 06, 2014 7:46 am

Hi Doug,

Many thanks for sharing your system which I am studying with great interest.

Using the latest split templates which you uploaded over the week end, I am getting a chart without any ribbons in H4 time frame.

Is that correct ?

Thanks.
peter

Post by **padnoter** » Tue May 06, 2014 7:50 am

thanks Doug,
Well don't let it distract you too much from the ribbon analysis - that's the main thing, and I'm certainly here for the long haul... I run ubuntu linux, but privs/install might have something to do with it - my working FXCM is installed in the equiv. of a c:\ own folder... but ETX is under the equiv. of programfiles (i let Empty4 do the default)... I'll check another couple of brokers I have - luckily one in each location.

As I say, don't let it distract, as a quick check from 1 tf to another tells me something is wrong.... I think it's just more.... how does Steve put it?..... Empty4 ?!?!

Post by **padnoter** » Tue May 06, 2014 9:05 am

hi doug,

good news

i've found my ribbon problem - it is the broker & bar history bar.

despite "max bars" in options being set to max, and running the LoadHistory script, I only have ~5800 records in 5min AUDUSD.. and can't get anymore from etx live server - I'll ask them... but dooooh, they have only recently launched Empty4 as an option.

For the levelsUP=5 ribbon - that is the daily ribbon on the M5 chart, so I need at least 1440/5=288, 288 *54 = 15,552 records to allow T3MA to calculate it correctly, which I don't for ETX.

[confirmed with a 3rd broker, installed in the same place, same method. Ribbons were incorrect with not enough data, I force the data load, they had enough data, and hey presto, ribbons look cooool!]

cheers
Padnoter

Post by **slowkey** » Tue May 06, 2014 10:32 am

padnoter » Tue May 06, 2014 5:05 am wrote:hi doug,

good news

i've found my ribbon problem - it is the broker & bar history bar.

despite "max bars" in options being set to max, and running the LoadHistory script, I only have ~5800 records in 5min AUDUSD.. and can't get anymore from etx live server - I'll ask them... but dooooh, they have only recently launched Empty4 as an option.

For the levelsUP=5 ribbon - that is the daily ribbon on the M5 chart, so I need at least 1440/5=288, 288 *54 = 15,552 records to allow T3MA to calculate it correctly, which I don't for ETX.

[confirmed with a 3rd broker, installed in the same place, same method. Ribbons were incorrect with not enough data, I force the data load, they had enough data, and hey presto, ribbons look cooool!]

cheers
Padnoter

First try what fixed Padnoter, See in detail below

Now open up options-Chart under max bars chart and history type in a 9 with as many zeros as you can. Close it and open back up and you will see the real max of bars possible. 2147483647 You will not get this many so do not worry.
Now exit and restart and run force history download script. Open up the Experts tab on the bottom at the bottom to watch it run. It might take a while.
Restart again and see if this fixes youy problem if it does your done.

When Metaquotes installs the newer version it no longer puts history file in the old Empty4 install directory as below.

Screenshot 2014-05-06 05.08.18.png

But when it is there on installation it apparently copies all the files into the new data folder. So that is why my old installation worked and my new one did not. So copy this folder out onto the desktop if you want to install a second instance of Cowboy IBFX for instance because the following is simple and will save you time. That is the folder highlighted on my desktop.

Screenshot 2014-05-06 05.22.09.png

However in the new installation it does not have any history folder to pull files from. So it puts it default amount amount of files into the History folder in the new data structure. See below the empty history folder.

Screenshot 2014-05-06 05.23.57.png

Open up the data folder.

Screenshot 2014-05-06 05.25.03.png

Open up the History folder. Opening the name of the server you connect to.

Screenshot 2014-05-06 05.26.04.png

Replace all these files with the ones you put on your desktop. You could run force download first but it does not always give you as many bars as you already had.

Screenshot 2014-05-06 05.26.21.png

Now run force download as explained above. So why so much explanation. Well you might have a broker that is new to Empty4 and they do not have a lot of history. You see it has to be their history if there is a dispute on price because every brokers feed is a little different. So if you are not worried about this try copying the history folder you just improved above into the other brokers folder that does not have enough bar. If you get waiting for update just use your market watch to drag each pair onto their respective charts. It should update than.

Edit The pink text that used to be above did not look that bright in the middle of the night.

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Post by **slowkey** » Tue May 06, 2014 11:30 am

Greeting
See post one for a ribbon indicator that alerts you to a bar history problem. I am also going to put the script force downloads there.

Padnoter added this alert for us

Cheers
Doug

Post by **slowkey** » Tue May 06, 2014 11:52 am

OK
Traders

My next issue is rewriting a manual, making a video about where we are with the manual and hopefully I get a chance to trade some this week but not necessarily in that order.

But we got some things fixed and maybe the bar problem was causing some instability. Will See. Let me know how your installations are working and if this all helps.

Cheers,
Doug

Primodious · Post by **Primodious** » Tue May 06, 2014 10:54 pm

Thanks Doug and Padnoter for the detailed responses on this!

I just did a fresh Empty4 install from GP (ver 646) and these are my current charts using the v3.1 bundle and the gannbob final candle v3 template. Btw what is the gannbobfinal v3 test template intended for?

My 1H time frame looks fine.

I do seem to have a slight issue on 15m: Where I have marked on the chart I have what look like 2 ma’s, it’s a red and a yellow. I need to carefully slide the vertical scale to make the yellow line visible, otherwise all I see is one horizontal red ma. Which of the ribbons is this, or do I have a chart error still?
Thanks in advance for the assistance.

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ej1h.jpg

Post by **slowkey** » Wed May 07, 2014 2:41 am

Primodious » Tue May 06, 2014 6:54 pm wrote:Thanks Doug and Padnoter for the detailed responses on this!

I just did a fresh Empty4 install from GP (ver 646) and these are my current charts using the v3.1 bundle and the gannbob final candle v3 template. Btw what is the gannbobfinal v3 test template intended for?

My 1H time frame looks fine.

I do seem to have a slight issue on 15m: Where I have marked on the chart I have what look like 2 ma’s, it’s a red and a yellow. I need to carefully slide the vertical scale to make the yellow line visible, otherwise all I see is one horizontal red ma. Which of the ribbons is this, or do I have a chart error still?
Thanks in advance for the assistance.

You still do not have enough bars. Try running force down load again and watch it in the experts tab. If you notice and any failure repeat until there are no more. The sliver of a ribbon you are pointing at is most likely the Weekly on the 15 minute. What it should look like below. Even if you do not get enough bars for the Weekly on the 15 minute you need the lower bars. The weekly is far far below this consolidation area. The test templates are for using in the simulator I talk about in the third video.

Cheers,
Doug