Wavegarrick » Mon Jul 31, 2017 4:06 pm wrote:

I suspect that I need to wait for the candle with the arrow to close but on this set up am I waiting for the close of the H1 (my chart TF) or H4 (my CSS TF)? Looking at history the moves seem to come in the hour after the arrow, and the move is often mostly done by 4h later so I would miss it if I waited for the 4h to close.

SL - I see 2 x ATR(20) being recommended as SL but again is this on chart TF or CSS TF?

A very simple answer John. You set to Css on whatever time frame you like, the entry will only come at the next Bar as per your broker when you trade superslope, so four hour will be at the next bar four hours late or I hr will be 1hr later,,,,, so if you are trading small timeframes against the higher timeframe super slope, always wait for the next bar on the higher timeframe before you look for your entry on the smaller timeframe.

All in all grasp this concept and you will go ahead in forex.

Hope I make sense.

Cheers
Leon

Right, so the arrow doesn't mean 'take a trade', it means 'wait for confirmation on CSS TF bar close then take a trade if it's still there'.

Wavegarrick » Mon Jul 31, 2017 4:30 pm wrote:

Right, so the arrow doesn't mean 'take a trade', it means 'wait for confirmation on CSS TF bar close then take a trade if it's still there'.

Yes correct John. Only then do you look for confirmation on the smaller time frame.

Cheers
Leon

nathanmosvich » Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:57 am wrote:Which would be the theoretically correct way to only calculate on new candle

option 1
Use a default of 0 and hope that this works to mean null



option 2
set an arbitrarily high second count and never reach the threshold

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//|                                                                  |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
bool IsNewReadTime() 
{
   bool NewReadTime = false;
   bool IsReadEveryNewBar = false;
   
   if(userEveryTickMode)
   {
      NewReadTime = true;
   }
   else
   {
	   if(userReadEveryNewBar)
      {
	      if(lastBarTime < iTime(_Symbol, _Period, 0))
		   {
		      lastBarTime = iTime(_Symbol, _Period, 0) + 1;
            IsReadEveryNewBar = true;
		   }
      }
      
	   if(nextReadTime <= TimeCurrent() || IsReadEveryNewBar)
      {
         if(userReadEveryXSeconds > 0)
            nextReadTime = TimeCurrent() + userReadEveryXSeconds;
         else
            nextReadTime = TimeCurrent() + 5184000; //5.184M seconds = 60 days
            
         NewReadTime = true; 
      }
   }
   
   return(NewReadTime); 
   
}//IsNewReadTime()

gprince66 » Sun Aug 20, 2017 2:38 pm wrote:
Hi Nathan,

Replace the current function with the code below. Set the inputs as follows for new bar calculation...

EveryTickMode = false;
ReadEveryNewBar = true;
ReadEveryXSeconds = 0;

Cheers,

Gary

Code: Select all

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//|                                                                  |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
bool IsNewReadTime() 
{
   bool NewReadTime = false;
   bool IsReadEveryNewBar = false;
   
   if(userEveryTickMode)
   {
      NewReadTime = true;
   }
   else
   {
	   if(userReadEveryNewBar)
      {
	      if(lastBarTime < iTime(_Symbol, _Period, 0))
		   {
		      lastBarTime = iTime(_Symbol, _Period, 0) + 1;
            IsReadEveryNewBar = true;
		   }
      }
      
	   if(nextReadTime <= TimeCurrent() || IsReadEveryNewBar)
      {
         if(userReadEveryXSeconds > 0)
            nextReadTime = TimeCurrent() + userReadEveryXSeconds;
         else
            nextReadTime = TimeCurrent() + 5184000; //5.184M seconds = 60 days
            
         NewReadTime = true; 
      }
   }
   
   return(NewReadTime); 
   
}//IsNewReadTime()