garyfritz wrote:

Any crosses that take place without the green having "just" entered from outside the bands, would not be a trade. I define "just" as having occured since the last cross.

That makes no sense to me. How could it cross inside the pink lines **WITHOUT** having crossed from outside? You'll have to re-phrase that one.

spyderman wrote:My original intent was not to fully describe the EA's operation but to throw the strategy out there to see if anyone would be interested.

I've attached a screenshot of E/U with a few trades marked. Hopefully that will make it more clear.

spyderman wrote:Sorry again guys.

My original intent was not to fully describe the EA's operation but to throw the strategy out there to see if anyone would be interested. Hoped to clear up any questions upon further discussion.

I've attached a screenshot of E/U with a few trades marked. Hopefully that will make it more clear.

Steve,
Don't know if it might help but I've attached another TDI version written by Hanover that can give an alert when specified criteria is met. Might help with the EA...might not

garyfritz wrote:Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. Makes perfect sense now. Somehow I had totally missed the "green cross red" bit and was just looking at "green crossing inside pink."

SteveHopwood wrote: I need to be able to code this: enter a trade when the cross back inside the bars by the green, and the cross of the red by the green, have occurred within no more that x candles.

x can be a user input, just to add to the chaos, but I need a workable figure to start with so: what is the max number of candles that you look back before a green/red cross becomes invalid.

spyderman wrote:

SteveHopwood wrote: I need to be able to code this: enter a trade when the cross back inside the bars by the green, and the cross of the red by the green, have occurred within no more that x candles.

x can be a user input, just to add to the chaos, but I need a workable figure to start with so: what is the max number of candles that you look back before a green/red cross becomes invalid.

Steve,

Good question. To be honest, I don't invalidate a cross if it's been "x" amount of candles. It just has to be the first cross after entering the bands. (perhaps that will prove to be a mistake)

Looking back at some history it typically doesn't take long for the cross to come after entering the bands. In fact, as mentioned to Gary earlier, some entries come when both green and red are outside the bands. (hope that can be coded.

Guess that would mean the actual entry criteria would be the first cross after green leaves the bands...does that make sense? :

One other thought. Contemplating volatility bands, it would seem, logically enough, that the wider the bands (higher volatility) the better the resulting move. Could we have a user defined entry for band width?

SteveHopwood wrote: I cannot pull a value for the green line from this blasted indi, there is nothing I can do.

SteveHopwood wrote:O
The attached indi is merely Hanover's indi with most of the externs removed; the fewer externs an ea has to call, the less chance LUC has to call around. I leave the unfinished EA for other coders with more patience than I to play with. Go to void GetTdi() to see how I managed to drag the bands from the damn thing but am unable to drag the value of the blasted green line from the wretched indi. Good luck.