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Bathrobe - on some of your charts you mention that trades have divergence (specifically in your post on page 97). Just curious what you use to confirm divergence. (I took the same trade but wasn't using any indicator to confirm divergence). Thanks again for all your posts in this forum and actually providing the charts to show where your entries are. That is truly invaluable information I can't say i've ever seen replicated anywhere else.

dah i'm an idiot! i figured it out for the most part. once again... tams kicks me in the right direction. you are going to be horrendously drunk when you visit omaha.

Is this a place to use All Date Everywhere (ADE) Tams? I've never used that before so is there another more basic way to accomplish this?

I'm trying to store a prior scalper swing high or low in an indicator so I can reference the swing high or low to check the bar that breaks through that level for a candlestick pattern. But i'm a little bit stumped because in a show me indicator its only comparing the current bar... and without knowing how far back the prior H/L was I can't code up a comparison if/then statement. Any ideas on how to form this? The baseline scalper code is as follows: {Scalper Buys and Sells 7/18/2007 Written by Luis Gomez inspired by John Carters "Mastering the Trade" This plots swing highs/lows with a strength of 2 bars on each side, on the condition that there is a close above/below the high/low the bar after the said swing bar......whew that's a mouthful! } inputs: buyColor(magenta), sellColor(cyan); variables: highBarsAgo(1), possibleHighBarsAgo(1), possibleHigh(-2), hightoBeat(-1), barsSincePaint(1), lowBarsAgo(1), possibleLowBarsAgo(1), possibleLow(10000001), lowtoBeat(10000000), triggerPriceSell(-1), triggerPriceBuy(1000000), trend(1), _UP(1), _DOWN(-1), _ON(1), _OFF(-1); //*************************************************** //****** Find and plot the highest swing high ******* //*************************************************** if trend = _UP then begin if swingHighBar(1,H,2,barsSincePaint+2) > -1 then begin possibleHighBarsAgo = swingHighBar(1,H,2,barsSincePaint+2); possibleHigh = H[possibleHighBarsAgo]; end; if possibleHigh >= hightoBeat then begin highBarsAgo = possibleHighBarsAgo; hightoBeat = possibleHigh; triggerPriceSell = L[HighBarsAgo - 1]; end; if C < triggerPriceSell and highest(high,highBarsAgo) < hightoBeat then begin plot1[highBarsAgo](H[highBarsAgo],"",sellColor); alert("Scalper Sell"); trend = _DOWN; barsSincePaint = highBarsAgo-1; hightoBeat = -1; lowtoBeat = 10000000; triggerPriceBuy = 10000000; triggerPriceSell = -1; highBarsAgo = 1; possibleHigh = -2; end; end; //*************************************************** //****** Find and plot the lowest swing low ********* //*************************************************** if trend = _DOWN then begin if swingLowBar(1,L,2,barsSincePaint+2) > -1 then begin possibleLowBarsAgo = swingLowBar(1,L,2,barsSincePaint+2); possibleLow = L[possibleLowBarsAgo]; end; if possibleLow <= lowtoBeat then begin lowBarsAgo = possibleLowBarsAgo; lowtoBeat = possibleLow; triggerPriceBuy = H[LowBarsAgo - 1]; end; if C > triggerPriceBuy and lowest(L,lowBarsAgo) > lowtoBeat then begin plot1[lowBarsAgo](L[lowBarsAgo],"",buyColor); alert("Scalper Buy"); trend = _UP; barsSincePaint = lowBarsAgo-1; possibleLow = 10000001; lowtoBeat = 10000000; hightoBeat = -1; triggerPriceBuy = 10000000; triggerPriceSell = -1; lowBarsAgo = 1; end; end; barsSincePaint = barsSincePaint+1; if trend = _UP then highBarsAgo = highBarsAgo + 1; if trend = _DOWN then lowBarsAgo = lowBarsAgo + 1; Thanks for your input and advice!!!

could you explain what constitutes a "springboard entry"? I searched quite a bit in the Wyckoff forum and the entire forum for that matter (as well as google) for an explanation to no avail. Just curious what makes a springboard entry. Thanks!

Dahhhh... i'm an idiot. Thanks for clearing that up.

I got it to work... using Alert(Text(BarInterval, " Alert") ); Thanks as usual!

I'm reading it! I keep trying stuff like: Alert("Alert" + BarInterval); Based off their example of Alert("A New High has been hit for ” + GetSymbolName); But keep getting this Data Type Mismatch error....

Would their be anyway to add the timeframe to the alert notification box? I have a bunch of open charts all with the same indicators in them (watching like the same currency pair, but on 4 different timeframes) and when I get an alert of a potential signal, I still have to search all 4 timeframes to tell where it fired off in because the alert box only tells me what symbol it is in. So is it possible to add any kind of code to the Alert( "Signal "); statement? I was thinking maybe the use of BarInterval? I tried adding it as a string with the + numtoStr(BarInterval,2) stuff to no avail. Any ideas gents?

You are freaking brilliant. If you're ever in Omaha i'm buying you dinner.

Yea, thats what i'm trying to do... IE if the customerid matches the one in the code, make the indicator work, else, don't work. Trying to stop redistribution of indicators in the future.

In TS I would use: If CustomerID = 123456 then begin Plot1(Close,"Close"); End; When I use the same code to my CustomerID in MC (I put the code after my inputs and variables) it kills the indicator? It still stays on the chart and says its on, but nothing appears. I comment out the code and it comes back. Any ideas?

Dude. That fixed it... holy crap. I'd click the "Thanks" button 100x's if it let me. 1 Thanks just doesn't quite do it. I seriously can't thank you enough... i had been trying everything to no avail. Can I ask what was the logic flaw? Every if statement needs a separate begin and end statement?

I know its almost impossible for you guys to help on this but I have a question that I can't seem to crack. I have a simple show me indicator that checks for the bar to be an inside bar and then checks to see if it closed up or down through 78.6% of the candle. If so, plot a dot and alert me... Heres the code... //Plot for shorts if High[1] < High[2] and Low[1] > Low[2] then begin //This Calcs the Fib Retracement Step1S = High - Low; Step2S = Step1S*.214; Step3S = Low + Step2S; if Close < Step3S then //If the bar closes below the 78.6% retracment, print a dot and alert. Plot5(Step3S, "IB FO S 78.6", IBShortColor ); Alert("IB FO S 78.6"); end else NoPlot( 5 ); The problem is that i'm getting alerts from bars that don't close through the 78.6% (I check for both instances in the code). Here is the instance for regular bars... //Plot after a fakeout for shorts if High[1] < High[2] and Low[1] > Low[2] then begin Plot3( Close, "IB Fakeout S", IBShortColor ); Alert("IB Fakeout S"); end else NoPlot( 3 ); My problem is that in the following example I will only get the one dot signifying the correct signal (a non-78.6 insidebar) but my alert actually goes out as a 78.6 inside bar... Anyone got any ideas on what stupid thing i'm missing? It can't be much but it sure as hell is driving me up the wall. I'm probably staring right at it. I need a new fresh set of eyes. Thanks for your help gents as always!

OEC does have basic EL compatibility as well... I've gotten basic stuff to work with it... but it gets a bit more complicated if your indicators use functions a lot.

Nevermind gents... daddy cracked it! I was having issues because depending on which way the retracement is going you either need to multiply X .786 for longs, or by its inverse .214 for shorts. Step1S = High - Low; Step2S = Step1S*.214; Step3S = Low + Step2S; Step1L = High - Low; Step2L = Step1L*.786; Step3L = Low + Step2L; //Then just check if the close is > < the 78.6 value of the candle.... if Close > Step3L then //go long If Close < Step3S then //go short Thanks for the help!

I've been referencing this page for calculating it.... Fibonacci method in Forex - Calculate Fibonacci Levels Have I done wrong?

I'd like to qualify a study to check and see if the close of a candle is below or above the 78.6 retracement value of that candle. Except I can't seem to calculate the value to check correctly. {C = B + (A — B) x N%} This is for a downtrend candle. Step1 = High - Low; Step2 = Step1*.786; Step3 = Low + Step2; Plot4( Close, "IB FO S 78.6", IBShortColor ); Plot9(""+ numtoStr(Step3,5),"78.6 Value"); Alert("IB Fakeout S"); end; NoPlot( 4 ); So that is what I was doing, which obviously doesn't quite work. Am i thinking about this wrong? Fibonacci is simply a measure of percentage of a given length in a market. Thus, if I want to measure a candle I need to measure the From the High to the Low, and then multiply that by .786 to get 78.6% measure of the candle right?

Are you frickin' serious? For comments made on this forum or on theirs?

^^ Exactly. Which is why i'm gonna avoid the swing points and trendlines. That stuff is much more subjective IMO and i'd rather just wait for solid areas on a chart to look for reactions with as little interpretation as possible. Thanks again for your help gents.

Yea I am looking at using these in conjunction with prior s/r and db/dt's, and possibly clean swings with fib retraces. Entry on the break of the high/low of the bar in the opposite direction of the wick (obviously). Thanks for all the comments and help gents. I've got some massive reading to do with the dante thread. I had read most of the James16 thread about a year ago before it ballooned to 2200 pages. Good stuff in there.

drrr... I just found it.

I can't seem to find the plug in to download anywhere?

Nope? Is that on this forum? Got a link? I'm off to google it

^^ Thats the only thing I didn't know about. I tried their demo but the demo doesn't allow the importation of .eld so I couldn't confirm if any of my indicators worked or not in the platform. I would like to think they would as basically they are just basic candlestick show me's written with High, Low, Close comparisons in IF THEN statements....