BlowFish

Load less bars (so maybe only a day or two). If you can set to only calculate on bar close (I guess thats what re-calculate every 2 minutes will do in CQG) that should improve things. Calculating every 2 minutes dosent present a problem in most charting packages, it should not in CQG either. 28 period recalculation ios going to be quite a bit less acurate. Yes 2SD is 2*1SD.

A slight off topic .... Personally I have a pretty poor opinion of lawyers, like any profession the large majority (Pareto principle would say 80%) are a waste of space. Having said that I am fortunate enough to know a handfull that are pretty sharp usually the only fee involved is who buys the beers or advice for advice. Anyway as you have decided not to go that route thats all academic! I have always wondered how enforcable those guarentees are. Less so for systems (as those don't interest me particularly) but more so for ebooks and courses. Some don't attach conditions "money back if you are not delighted" is about the extend of it. Over the years I have become pretty good at spotting the wheat from the chaffe, I can see how black box systems present a unique set of challenges. Extra care needed.

Good Luck will try and visit!

if there are a lot of creditors first to sue usually gets there money, well in the UK at least. It can be quite cheap to litigate over here for small claims however. maybe the threat of litigation might be enough to put you to the top of the list? The squeaky wheel gets the oil. I would keep squeaking. Good luck anyway.

Ahh OK thanks for clarifying that Frank. The fact remains that the easiest way (by far) to increase equity is by increasing size provided you have a consistent edge. The limit of course is the size you can trade without getting excessive slippage. Having said that some traders never trades more than 2 cars and when thier account gets to a certain size they essentially start again. Most traders have psychological hurdles at certain sizes that can be problematic too. The main point I am trying to make (and to answer the question in your first sentence) you can use small leverage and take small pieces of the market and still making massive returns without ever incurring extra risk (as a percentage of account equity) or needing excessive leverage. That is the wonder of compounding. Increasing leverage increases the risk of ruin so increase size whilst keeping leverage constant (or even reducing it slightly over time as your account grows).

Yeah they always 'worked' for me in the past. There are so many valid lines you can put on your charts that 'work' though. Confluence is always interesting and tends to add weight, for example if the globex high is at yesterdays POC and last weeks mid point. Instinctively the Globex levels will be 'fresher' having just occurred but perhaps less significant as they tend to form on low(ish) volume. e.g A 3 day H/L represents a longer struggle with more protagonists.

Rolling your sleeves up and diving in isn't a bad approach. Maybe modify some of the many many things in the public domain, looking at other peoples code is helpful.

Yes, SoulTrader who is the founder of TL. I think he uses or has used CQG. have you tried there support people, premium prices I would expect premium support.

Hehe better be careful before I exhaust my repertoire of tricks.

Frank logical post except for the final step. Without knowing the size he trades it is pretty hard to tell % of range. Not sure who the guy is or how he trades but it is quite likely that he would increase his size as account equity grew. I seem to recall a spreadsheet that shows taking one point a day, with one contract, and adding contracts to maintain the same risk as equity grows, gets your account to over a million in a year...might be off on the fine detail but compounding is a fearsome thing. What I am trying to say is that it is much easier to make more by correct position sizing than eeking out a few more ticks here and there. Having said that looking at return against range is an interesting concept. I think it was in one of Elders books I was first introduced to it. I guess if you want to push yourself in that direction it is handy but every single time I would go for less range and more consistency and let compounding do its job.

Just out of interest are Globex extremes still good to trade against? I used too in the ES with fairly good effect. Not sure why I removed them from my charts to be honest. I guess there are so many lines that 'work' often enough to be useful. Are you using them as potential S/R areas? Maybe now I have the indicator I should watch them again!

Excellent! I was probablly the worlds worst programmer when I started out (if thats any comfort). The first proper job I had after university they sent me to be re-trained on the stuff I was supposed to know. Like most things the way to get better at coding is to code. No surprises there then.

James is probably your man guess he's not round right now.

Looks like separate symbols though some are fungible (a bit like the ES and S&P). It looks like a couple aren't in the small print, to be honest I couldn't work out why, something to do with margin it appeared.

That may well work too, I am not sure about tick and constant volume I think it might be possible to have two bars with the same time stamp.

Inputs: Session_Start(930), Session_End(1615); vars: G_H(0), G_L(0), Globex(false); If Globex and Time >= Session_Start and time < Session_End then Globex = false; if not Globex and Time >= Session_End then begin // Should only execute first tick of Globex session G_H=High; G_L=Low; Globex = True; end; If Globex then begin If High>G_H then G_H=High; if Low< G_L then G_L=low; end; Plot1(G_H,"G-High"); Plot2(G_L,"G-Low"); Hows that? Might still be wrong as I don't have Multicharts to test on right now. (and I have tied my brain in a knot too but it seems plausible!) It is looking for regular session first and resetting on regular session end. (I changed the variables to session start/end rather than globex start end as I find that easier to visualise.)

Your quite right I used >= so it would be OK with other chart types (tick,volume, range etc.) changing that to = will fix it for time based charts i think but it will not work for bar types that don't line up exactly with the start time and end time. Let me ponder a bit.

It is a neat idea. This could easily put a dent in the bucket shops business if liquidity builds up. One to watch.

Here's a possibility rather than dividing the session in two it uses a flag for moving in to and out of globex hours. Just edited the original code and didn't test it but should work (or only need a minor tweak). Inputs: Globex_Start(1615), GLOBEX_END(930); vars: G_H(0), G_L(0), Globex(false); if not Globex and Time >= Globex_Start then begin G_H=High; G_L=Low; Globex = True; end; If Globex and Time >= GLOBEX_END then Globex = false; If Globex then begin If High>G_H then G_H=High; if Low< G_L then G_L=low; end; Plot1(G_H,"G-High"); Plot2(G_L,"G-Low");

when it comes to HTML tags so am I...one day I will learn a handful of the important ones So many things to do so little time!

Oh noes! I am a sucker for stuff like this (really!) perhaps you could save me the trouble of reading the review and just let me know the 'winner' so I can send them some ebucks? Guess that's not possible now, Damn I guess I'll just have to do my own due diligence....I thought this trading lark was meant to be easy?

No not Bollinger bands, maybe standard difference bands, standard variance bands? As I said I don't use CQG so this is possibly mis remembered form a post that someone else made about a product I don't use (i.e. perhaps not reliable). Edit: had a quick search and couldn't find anything maybe I dreamt it.

Every now and then I get nostalgic about the good old days. (most people move to the next post about then) Many many years ago I used to work as a software engineer. Coding in assembler (and working with smart people) exposes you to all sorts of neat tricks and tips. Actually after a while you actually start to think differently when it comes to programmatic problems. Multiplying and dividing by powers of two (2,4,8,16 etc.) can be achieved by bitwise operators, rotate left, and rotate right. Rotating and adding was a common way of doing arithmetic in the days before processors had dedicated hardware to do floating point arithmetic.

The way I would do it is double the original price round it to zero decimal places and half it. I think the syntax should be correct....didn't check it. value1 = round(2*close,0)/2; That's just me...contrary Edit if you want quarters replace 2 with 4 - eighths replace 2 with 8 etc.

Never used CQG but don't they call SD bands by another name? Seem to recall SoulTrader making a post about them. Can't recall the name tbh would it be difference bands or something?