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This is awesome. I just stumbled onto the Al Brooks stuff yesterday and have been re-watching his seminar many times. And whadaya know... the main man at TL mr BlowFish is already in here with a thread on the subject. Fantastic! Keep it up... i'm really trying to focus on this kind of minimalistic approach and I love to see examples of these types of setups (i'm a visual learner). Hopefully I can post up some trade examples and get some feedback.

Anyone getting this code to work in TS? It verify's just fine but upon adding it to a chart I get a error saying "Floating point invalid calculation". Ideas?

I agree commission and slippage should be accounted for but 30/rt is pretty high wouldn't you say? I brought up the 700 contract thing in another thread here and some one who was in with him as a memeber said he doesn't trade everything and only trades a few contracts each day but merely tracks everything in his videos...

Tasuki - Just curious how important the increase of big buyers and sellers (the dots on the line of the EOT indicator) is in getting in on good moves? Obviously we've recreated half of the indicator pretty well, but the other half is the dots the indicate when and how much big buying and selling is coming in intrabar. How important is it and how does that plot intrabar? Do dots only occur at the close of the bar?

Heres the real one... http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f34/commercials-very-active-today-filtered-intensity-6064.html UrmaBlume - I know they run in TS but I belive you said you had to create a new .dll to house all of the data, etc. right? Is there anyway to get a proxy of this information in a more simple, if not less accurate way?

I just think that is an awesome indicator. Thanks for sharing your screenshots honvly. Now if only I was smart enough to convert it to .eld....

I'm actually a bit freaked out by your post! I was just talking with another trader today about how helpful it would be to be able to display how many contracts were moving compared to time. It looked like you're using ninja, but could you at least explain the coding logic used so I might replicate it for Tradestation?

It would be easy to code up except I don't get what kind of inputs will allow for different timeframe inputs? If someone could explain how to handle using those as a variable it would be simple. Just a case of if Timeframe1Bias = Up and Timeframe2Bias = up, etc. = Blue else gray. Obviously not the exact syntax, but that idea would work. I just don't understand how to handle those inputs for the timeframes.

i'm sure it does... just search for heiken ashi for ninja.

Anchor and Sub Anchor Charts for Filtering Trades It almost looks like its just an RSI filter... or at least it could be used as a proxy to what was posted above. Thanks for that info on it. It sounds like from what carter explained in this latest video you're right on. To code that you have to set up your chart with multiple data feeds correct? Well aware of TTM's "Borrowing" (aka blatantly stealing) of the _BB Squeeze indicator from the TS forums... I don't use the indicator or plan on it but I just always get intrigued by trying to reverse engineer concepts that marketers like TTM try and keep secret.

Anyone got ideas on the new "filter"? I thought we could put our collective brainpower to work and might be able to come up with something. At first I thought it was Heiken Ashi Based (his previous video used the filter as a paintbar) but I was unable to replicate it... now i'm leaning towards it being momentum based... ie if the momentum is decreasing for a set period of time or increasing for a set period of time it goes to gray to avoid catching tops or bottoms? http://www.tradethemarkets.com/public/3444.cfm Cheers!

I've been following clayburg for sometime and I think the self adaptive indicator could really be the next "big" thing in systems trading. I have to give credit where its due, and its a fairly logical and elegant step to adress the underlying optimization issues all systems traders have. He eludes in some of his videos that you could even re-optimizes every hour during the day... I wonder how that would fair. It can't be the hard to code if we have the "beta" free version. Doesn't it just track the equity curve of 50 different settings in the indicator? If so, most of the parameters can be found in the free videos on his site and on TTM's site.

DO > Left Tick DH > Bar High DL > Bar Low DC > Right Tick

Thanks gents! Gives me somewhere to start.

thanks for marking up the entries... really makes a lot more sense now!

So what I want to do is be able to count the number of bars from a pivot high to a lower high. Basically I just want to be able to see how close swings are to one another. I tried modifying the TTM Scalper indicator to no avail and I had used the "Analysis Commentary" button before on programs like MTPredictor and thought that might be something that would work. The only thing is, I have no idea how that all works? Would it be possible to use the analyisis commentary to click on a bar and then just count forward from that bar on and put numbers at the bottoms of the candles... Or better yet, click once on the starting bar, and once on the ending bar and calculate the number of bars in between? Anyway, I know its a shitty pipe dream, but if you guys have any ideas on how I might accomplish this i'd love to know. Cheers!

this guy defines the term DOUCHE. Wow. And I love some of his statements like "no one knows the markets better than me" followed by I hit 50% win rates (even though he claims on his site 80%). Hell in one of his videos showing his collective2 record hes like "you can see how well i'm doing compared to the S&P" Well duh... sitting in cash was kicking the S&P by 50% at the time of his video... But the best part is his actual results he reads out... $24, $113, $34 $-813, and $67.... wait what? His equity curve is this tiny sloping up line with a MASSIVE drawdown. He claims it only happens once in awhile... well yea, but that once in awhile knocked out ever gain you've had since you started tracking with collective2. People like this give traders a bad name.

You'll have to forgive some of the mods... but like most trading forums its a full time job keeping the spammers and "vendors" from coming in here and spouting advertisements for their wares. Richard - I have attended many an EOT free thursday night webinars and did a trial run with the basic indicator set over a year ago and the entire EOT crew (you, bill, glen) is a truly standup and standout organization in the profession. The indicators ended up not being exactly for me at the time but I have (and continue) to recommend your site and service to people without reservation. Keep up the good work!

Just wanted to share this chart of blowfish's code that I let run on the 1min es today with a 50 contract filter... (thanks again blowfish!). Even in this "beta" state I can see some interesting interactions with volume and price. Particularly in high trending areas throughout the day. All I know is this... I took three trades today, two of which were losers and both were against the volume histogram at the time and the one that did go onto work had the backing of the histogram. Look at some of the divergence patterns you see as well as some of the cyclical timing. I think we (well mostly you, I haven't contributed much) are developing something that could be very helpful!

Thanks for posting it up swan! I'll play with it and see if I can make any appreciable changes for the better!

Thanks for the kind comments folks. I trade the e-mini's and just wanted to share with you the four trades i've taken over the past two days in the ES (including this last trade about 10 minutes ago). Today: Yesterday: My results were as follows: Par, +87.50, +125.00, +112.50. The first trade went +2 in favor but my target was slightly higher at +2.5. I don't know how you all want to manage them, etc... But I wil say this for the few things I've found to help me out. 1. I use a Keltner channel to skip trades that "break trendlines" but area already up or down at a band. Keeps me from getting in too late and catching trades that are going to retrace or reverse without giving me a chance to get to par. 2. The highest probability trades are the wedge setups (ie like the trade from today, H, HH, HL, LH, failure for entry. If the trade is an advancing setup, where you are taking a trendline break of a swing that is going H, HH, LH, HH, failure for entry the odds are less in your favor. I would recommend looking for some kind of divergence to further filter these entries. The end result is much less trades. But you know what? I'm perfectly fine with only taking 1 - 4 good trades a day and leaving it at that. Keeps my commissions low and my trade efficiency high. Since I've switched to this method over the past weeks while i've still been tweaking the method (adding keltner rules, and wedge vs. advancing attributes) i've traded basically like crap and am still making consistent money. Just keep things simple and you'll do just fine!

Very Cool Concept! Thanks Tams!

^^ Exactly what has been throwing me... I've never used the intrabarpersit functions and its been confusing me.

^^ Actually I ran it and it seemed to be working exactly how we wanted... Anything that came through the T&S window that was grater than the "blocksize" was getting recorded and added onto itself each bar... Now we just have to make it look like your histogram swan... and since it was recording all orders on both the bid and the ask I guess we have to modify it to take just bids greater than the block size and seperate them from the ask's greater than the block size right?

I'm pretty sure swansjr did filter the contract sizing as posted above. I failed to do even that with my attempt.