Mickey Caine

Hi Swansjr I hope you are well, it is not like you to miss posting your daily journal. I really enjoy reading your posts, they have been an inspiration to me. Best wishes

Hi Just wondered if you must have unlimited broadband for using Tradestation. Anyone using TS that has say a 10gb limit? Thanks in advance.

Thought I might join you. Only took one trade on the Euro today. Shorted a gravestone after a 50% retrace. Took 5 ticks on one contract and one tick on the other. Not great, but that entry did not offer a lot more.

Just Tried it myself on the YM numbers for today. Worked for me!!

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Hi Tams Curiosity is not my strong point!! I Will have a play around with your suggestion after the close. Cheers MC

FYI .Re the code. The update value intrabar needs to be switched off, otherwise it plots incorrectly.

And also may I say. AS MAD AS A BOX OF FROGS.

Well it's not that great, but it works. So here it is if anyone is interested. var: gravestone(false); gravestone = (open = low) and (open = close) and (High >=Highest ( High,5 )); If Gravestone = True then begin Plot1 (Close, "Gravestone" ) ; Alert ( "Gravestone" ) ; end ; You have to alter Scaling to Sub Graph one. Also I changed it from a dot to a fat cross. Made it easier to see.

Thanks. I think she enjoys the peace and Quiet!! Will have a play with those:cheers:

Well, Praise the Lord and all the Saints and you too Tams. The darn thing only works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shame we did not get that nice little down arrow. Still very pleased here. Had a feeling this post was going to be as long and boring as all the arguements re VSA. Thanks again. Will probably write an indicator for dragon fly Doji's next. will only take me a couple of mins.:rofl:

var: gravestone(false); gravestone = (open = low) and (open = close) and (High > last ); If Gravestone = True then begin Plot1 (Close, "Gravestone" ) ; SetPlotColor (Red ,1); Alert ( "Gravestone" ) ; end ; Well this Verified. however did not work. got this error message:crap: This analysis technique attempted to change the plot information for a a plot which does not exist.

Really!!!! well in that case I will stop chasing the cat around so I could give it a big kick. I'll calm down and have another look.

On the contrary, I did look up the file "Gap Up Bar" in the show me section. Hence I moved a couple of things, but it did not tell me too much. It's probably not the file you meant. Currently looking at Gap & Reverse Up. Really don't know what i'm looking at or for:confused: Is it to do with BarNum as a variable or am I going down a blind alley. I do really appreciate your help, but on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being Eureka. how close am I to 10? Begining to think I might be under a dam gravestone before I get this right!!:frustrated: Cheers MC

var: gravestone(false); gravestone = (open = low) and (open = close) and (High > last 5 bars ago ) [1] ; If Gravestone = True then begin Plot1 ( Close, "Gravestone" ) ; SetPlotColor (Red) ; Alert ( "Gravestone" ) ; end ; It now verifys upto 5. Does not like it. Would I need to put in some sort of Inputs field re the no of bars back??

var: gravestone(false); gravestone = (open = low) and (open = close) and (High > Previous 5 bars) ; If Gravestone = True then begin Plot (Close, "Gravestone" ) ; SetPlotColor (Red) ; Alert ( "Gravestone" ) ; end ; Any better Tams (Yoda) ?? Thanks MC

Tams. Found a post you did re arrows. Have inserted the text you used. How does it look?? // state the condition gravestone = (open = low) and (open = close); // the evaluation: if gravestone is true and high > than previous 5 bar highs // the operation: then do this: -- plot Arw.point.Down Arw. size (18);

Tams. It was black when I posted in the file.

Thanks Tams. your help is much appreciated. I cut and pasted your code into a new easy language show me file. It did not like the word gravestone. i stuck a VAR: in front of it but that seemed to cause more problems. I also deleted the words "down arrow". Was that right? PS. I did leave school back in the seventies, hence my ignorance re computer programming.

Ok. Trying to run before I can crawl!! Here goes again. In English. gravestone = (open = low) and (open = close); and high > than previous 5 bar highs If both conditions met. Then plot a down arrow Down arrow to plot above gravestone Alert When down arrow plotted Any better??

Thanks. I will give it a go here. var: gravestone(false); gravestone = (open = low) and (open = close); Also Gravestone = If high > Highest (High, Length )[1] then Plot ( down arrow) Alert; End; Am I along the right lines? Copied highest high bit from breakout of X bar high indicator. Go easy on me. Have never even looked at this code stuff before.

Hi Tams Thanks for the speedy reply. The Gravestone is a bar where the open, low and close are all at the same price. Ideally I would like it to find that bar when the high of the gravestone is higher than a previous x number of bars. Meaning the gravestone is at the top of a move. When the gravestone occurs, I would like either a dot or preferably a down arrow printed just above the candle. Also I would like the option to have an audio alert attached. Is all this possible? Thanks MC

Hi Does anyone out there know the Tradestation Easy Language code for a Gravestone Doji? Or where I could get it? Am looking for an alert to sound when one appears on a chart. I know Tradestation has a show me indicator for Doji's. but was just wanting the Gravestone. Thanks MC

Nice trade there BF. I see your entry and boy did you show some patience to hold through some pretty big pullbacks to get out at that price. My only trade on the Euro today was whislt you were holding that short. I went long, looked a good entry at the time, but stopped me out. Found the Euro quite choppy today. Still there is always tomorrow. Also took a long entry on the YM, decided to reduce stop stop from 20 to 15. Great idea, price retaced 18 then went on to be a winner. Hopefully lesson learned.

Thanks Thales. Really appreciate your comments. You presume correctly. Fear really is my biggest problem. However thanks to your comments, have now patted myself on the back, as I always trade with a stop, I never move it away from price and I never average down on a trade. You may well have given my confidence a wee boost there. I shall read your post again on Monday morning before I start trading. I also liked the idea posted earlier re putting a post it note around screen saying "Follow your Plan" each time you do not follow that plan. I will make sure I can still see my screen by lunchtime. Thanks again.