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you missed this post: http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f30/ohlc-red-green-tradestation-8-x-6136.html#post67528 p.s. typo should read: example is included.

Here's a thought: TradeStation and MultiCharts are Event-Driven programs. (so as many others on the market) Basically an event-driven program does not do anything... it just sitting there, not doing any calculations or re-calculations, not doing any updates... ... UNTIL a tick comes in. * when a tick comes in (i.e. a trade), the program will kick into action. It will update all the indicators, it will re-draw the trendlines, it will re-plot the price bars, etc... Bid and Ask are real time events, but they are disconnected with Trade (i.e. tick). in another word, many changes in bid and ask can happened within a period of time, however if a trade has not happened, the changes in bid and ask will not be visible to the indicator. *(or when a barinterval has passed)

look up PlotPaintBar in the manual. example is include. there is a search button at the top right corner of this page.

because CFD are not permitted in the United States, most Americans are not familiar with it.

Today's example...

yes please do .......

you can extract the prices at those times... but the values will be transient. i.e. -- if you do not have the chart open before those times, you won't get the values. -- after you closed the chart, the values will be gone. You can check out Global Variables. I have not tried it, but it might help. http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f46/global-variable-v2-2-a-6023.html

the keywords are: OPEN -- the opening price of a bar. CLOSE -- the closing price of a bar. i.e. if you have a daily chart, these keywords will give you the day's opening and closing price respectively. if you have a 30 min chart, these keywords will give you that 30 min bar's opening and closing price respectively. p.s. in real time, the CLOSE keyword will give you the current LAST price of the bar...

you have to provide more information if you are looking for useable answers. ...don't expect people to google smart money index for you.

I don't know of any charting software that cannot give alerts. e.g. for MultiCharts you can program/configure to do the following when a condition is met.: (like the condition you described above.) 1. send you an email 2. make a sound or a voice (user configurable. e.g. "IBM is going up") 3. pop up a message window 4. change a bar color 5. draw an arrow at a specific place 6. write a text message on the chart you can even get the program to send an order to your broker. I believe NinjaTrader and many others can do the same.

FYI... MultiCharts discontinuing support for TransAct Quote from Andrew Kirillov: http://www.tssupport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6404

it works ok in my MultiCharts. What symbol/resolution is your chart?

money was never the issue. if it were, then you have nothing to worry about, because these type are not going to get anywhere from here. if you read the threads in more detail, you will find that people just like to understand how things work... people tinker with indicators, not as a way to save money, or as a way to cheat, but to find out what makes a move that moves, and what makes a chop that chops. I am sure deep inside you, you are just as curious, unless you have a propensity to trust black boxes blindly.

yes, of course, this is for a strategy. it starts counting the bars when an order is filled. (i.e. marketposition <> 0) what you get is the number of bars you have been in a trade.

The more the merrier. I wish you had posted them during the week; when people's memory on the day's action was still fresh on their mind, people could relate to the signals better.

nah, I set it on AutoTrade... ;-) ...with the attached sound alert. cash.WAV

Coding it in EasyLanguage is not that difficult. If you can articulate your thought/logic in English, you can code it in EasyLanguage. I use the following process: 1. Write out one thought at a time, 2. Write out one action at a time, 3. Write out one action per sentence, 4. Write out one sentence per line. in no time you will have your strategy coded in EasyLanguage.

if you are not based in Hong Kong or Singapore... Stay with Interactive Brokers. It will save you a lot of headaches later on.

you can make the indicator to start counting anytime you want. right now the trigger is time/date based: if Time > start_time and date > start.date then begin you can change it to: if marketposition <> 0 then begin

Most indicators do that -- tells you what happened before. That doesn't mean it provides no useful data. Just like the speedometer in your car, it is telling you what happened before. When you are speeding toward a tight curve... what happened before can tell you what is going to happen soon. ;-)

here's a trading idea on ADX: Why ADX > 20 Is a Lie + Easy Trading Method http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f34/why-adx-20-lie-easy-trading-5839.html

if you are flat, a BUY command will enter a LONG trade, if you have a SHORT position, a BUY command will reverse your position. i.e. cover your short and go long at the same time.

EasyLanguage keyword matching: BUY... means to enter a LONG position SELL... means to liquidate a LONG position (you cannot go short with a SELL keyword) SELLSHORT... means to enter a SHORT position BUYTOCOVER... means to liquidate a SHORT position.

that's because the OP modified the code: in the last line of the code, see the comments in {} sell ( "jdn" ) next bar at market ; {original this line is: sell short ( "jdn" ) next bar at market ; }