gaheitman wrote:

tex wrote:George,

i still have this issue that the P/L values in the indicator and the P/L Values of the open trades don't match exactly. They are closer now but they don't match.

Is the core account currency a problem ? I usualy run my account in Euro, but have tried to run it in Dollars too. Same problem. In the screenshot my account currency is US dollars and the values are still different.

Can you compare the price you entered at and the open of the 4:30 bar to see if that accounts for the difference? I am simulating taking the trade exactly on the open of the 4:30 bar.

George

gaheitman wrote:

tex wrote:George,

i still have this issue that the P/L values in the indicator and the P/L Values of the open trades don't match exactly. They are closer now but they don't match.

Is the core account currency a problem ? I usualy run my account in Euro, but have tried to run it in Dollars too. Same problem. In the screenshot my account currency is US dollars and the values are still different.

Can you compare the price you entered at and the open of the 4:30 bar to see if that accounts for the difference? I am simulating taking the trade exactly on the open of the 4:30 bar.

George

tex wrote:

gaheitman wrote:

tex wrote:George,

i still have this issue that the P/L values in the indicator and the P/L Values of the open trades don't match exactly. They are closer now but they don't match.

Is the core account currency a problem ? I usualy run my account in Euro, but have tried to run it in Dollars too. Same problem. In the screenshot my account currency is US dollars and the values are still different.

Can you compare the price you entered at and the open of the 4:30 bar to see if that accounts for the difference? I am simulating taking the trade exactly on the open of the 4:30 bar.

George

George, yes i openend the trades at 4:30 and 25 seconds. Thats the difference perhaps. Will try and open the next basket exactly on a candle open and compare again.

Do you include the spread in your indicator too ?

thanks

garyfritz wrote:George, suggestion: one thing that's always bothered me about this indicator is that it's a snapshot. It tells you the situation NOW but not how it got there.

Maybe people who actually trade this thing will think I'm crazy, but... what if you added a "history" plot to the display? I'm thinking something like this:

PBhistory.gif

....etc -- I've only filled in a few of the lines. The lines show the profit amounts in the past.

So this lets you see where things are NOW, AND how they got there. In this case the red (EURUSD) is on the bottom, but that's because of its past movement. Its recent movement has been UP, meaning it's heading the wrong way now. It probably won't be on the bottom for long, but you can't see that from the standard text indicator. Meanwhile GBPCHF (the green line) is way back in the pack, but actually it's the fastest-moving pair.

Does anybody think that would be useful? And if so, George, will you kill me for suggesting it??

gaheitman wrote:

garyfritz wrote: Unfortunately we only get 8 lines to draw with in a custom indicator. I could plot points manually, I suppose, but that would be a lot of objects and that seems to slow Empty4 down. I'll do some testing and see.

I was also thinking of having the indicator have two time frames defined so you can see how the order changed since the first snapshot.

George