deanz

Oh yes...... now that you mention it, now there is a chap with..... issues.

Thanks for the thought, unfortunately tick counter only works on tick based intervals, or so it says when I loaded it. I got this reply from a NT moderator so I will work through that: if(DateTime.Now.Second != the_last_second) { if(tick_max < tick_count) { tick_max = tick_count; } tick_count = 0; the_last_second = DateTime.Now.Second; } tick_count++;

I do not know much about programming but I would like to have a go at making a Ninja Indicator that adds up either the ticks or volume that occurs in 1 second, and if it is greater that the previous Max Count then plot it to the indicator. I will NOT use this on a 1 tick or 1 volume chart. My question is should I make a 1 second loop and if so how do I do that ? Dean.

I guess you are new to Trading forums, as unfortunately you approached your thread starting exactly as someone peddling a new system to sell does, which is why a few people said what they were thinking. I think luckily for all, you hung in there :-) and although I am a new poster I have been reading here more and more over the last 6 months and noticed people here are more civil and knowledgeable than what I have found elsewhere. Thanks for the Peter Steidlmayer hint, google returned enough to keep me busy for a while. Re: Bid/Ask volume-splitting. Would you consider volume that results in and up tick and calling it buying volume, to also be and erroneous assumption. Dean.

UrmaBlume are the CBOT guys ideas publicly available ? Dean.

honvly I would be cautious of using plain old bid/ask, as UrmaBlume has said in this post:

Here is a chart I posted earlier with one difference, the blue verticals are at 1 minute intervals, but this time I added the light coloured verticals every 1 second, anyone notice the Intensity..... :-) 185 trades in 1 second, contracts = 1342 now also don't dismiss the 1 second before the intense second. 52 trades in 1 second, contracts = 985 so I see 2 ways to inject volume in a very short time without it being obvious in higher timeframes, lots of smaller trades, or a few large trades. It's almost like the large spikes are a test.... of liquidly? You can see a similar thing happening if you use a 1 Volume chart and plot vertical line every second. I found this timeline indicator and changed it to display vertical lines every second instead of minutes like it was designed to do, unfortunately it is hugely CPU intensive now and pretty much unusable on my average home laptop. If anyone knows how to make it more CPU friendly, someone asked if there was another way of drawing a vertical line in this post: http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/vb/showthread.php?t=13440&highlight=vertical+line and here is the link to the indicator the moderator said to take look at how to do it. http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/vb/local_links.php?catid=1&sort=N&page=1&pp=15&keyid=86 I want to thank UrmaBlume for helping me to see this, and I would edit an earlier post if I it was possible, my apologizes UrmaBlume. Dean. TimeLines_Seconds.zip

Contracts traded are contracts traded..... the total over the same time period have to be the same no matter how you view it..... don't they ? I like to give people the benefit of the doubt but I think I'm with darthtrader, especially after visiting their website..... I think I smell a rat. Dean.

Here are UrmaBlume's first 3 posted charts shown here on NinjaTrader with Zenfire feed in 5 Tick charts and 1 tick...... the volume spikes are nothing out of the ordinary, looks like Ninja missed those trades, or maybe it just has a unique way of displaying them UrmaBlume throw us over that fiber cable would ya.... yeah that one just sitting over there.... Dean. [Charts are in EST Time and blue vertical dotted lines are placed every minute.]