Mike Medved

Ok I changed the definition a bit - it does catch it now. Jerry will release it in a bit.

do you mean just plot the Close - PrevClose for every candle?

The hotkeys were designed to be symbol-agnostic, so when you specify the order, the limit/stop values could be specified relative to the symbol's price, bid, ask, etc. Specifying absolute symbol, limit and stop values is counter to that idea. I mean sure you can do it but... BTW - we fixed the problem. Jerry will update the install and contact you to get it.

What backfill source do you have set up on that chart? Webull does not provide backfill data for options. Yahoo does. Webull, though, NOW provides L1 data for options (you need the latest MT version for that). So you should be getting it if you have it in portfolio - and then of course you'd get it on the chart.

Anyway, I looked up the definition and put it in MT. Email support@medvedtrader.com, Jerry will give you a version that contains the Hikkake pattern.

Hm in your link it says: "The third candle closes below the low in the first setup (or above the high in the second setup) of the second candle." but that is not reflected in the picture.

I will look it up

"Most good brokers will let you say "don't let me trade X,Y". - never heard of it (but that doesn't mean it's not true). Which broker do you know that does that?

You cannot get into graphics from paintbar. Paintbar can do either of 3 things. A. Draw a colored bar or shape either in a band or above/below candle B. Draw one line or a band - two lines with color in between C. Draw a straight line or several lines on the chart What you need is covered by A above. Just set the Color to green or red in the paintbar and set the shape to up or down arrrow. Then once you put the paintbar on the chart, tell it to display above or below the candle. Can't have the same paintbar display both below and above candle, but that's minor.

ydfah, if you're not sure, it is always you.

No prob. Am looking.

You'd have to do floor({fixed amount}/(current price - TodaysLow)) so that the # of shares is legit. And yes. You can place 2, 3, 10 orders with one hotkey, on different symbols and different accounts. I will put in the TodayHigh TodayLow and TodayOpen into the hotkey machinery.

I really gotta think how to do it. The SetDaysNeeded function is never executed - it is only detected in the pre-parser of the code and the flag is set that backfill is required. To make it dynamic like you say could make it tautological/circular - what if the condition under which you execute the backfill depends on some indicator that does not have the correct value if the data is not backfilled?

Hm doesn't happen to me. What if you clear/re-backfill?

The second one is in the future. If you remove the "future" padding on the chart it will go away

I could add "TodayOpen" "TodayLow" and "TodayHigh" to the variables that can be used in the hotkey. Would that help?

Also, you're doing this on a historical chart - MT doesn't do partial historical backfills. Let me see if I can do something about it. This will be probably in the beta after next production version (soon). For Historical scans it will still do backfills for all, but if you call a SetDaysNeeded(3) for example inside the scan code it will try to backfill only the last 3 historical days, making it a lot faster.

Um. Where?

Here's the deal. In order for lookup to work, MT has to have a list of all available symbols/names/exchanges to display it. Some sources supply this list. Right now it QuoteMedia and DXFeed (no, DXFeed has not been released yet). I am working on trying to get the information from IQFeed as well. Other sources, like Webull, TD Ameritrade, IB, etc. - we have no way of getting such list of securities from them. If we did we could easily add them to the lookup machinery. So yes, lookup exists in MT but only if you utilize a source that supplies the full list of its available symbols to us, and there are very few such sources at the moment.

Help me out here. In their Web application (which I hate with a passion) - in the lookup when I type in DJI or Dow Jones I cannot find the symbol.... Can you?

Just recently I added SetLine and RemoveLine to the functions that can display things from paintbar. SetLine, if you use a 0-width horizontal line, can be used to display any text you want. Just make sure you don't have 1000s of these lines, that would slow the chart down a bit.

Well conceptually it is kinda hard to do to mark them several different ways at once. Marking them one way is easy. 1. There is a Note column that you can edit 2. There are subgroups you can make in the portfolio (using ---something as a group separator) and drag symbols from one group to another, collapse/expand groups, have separate totals for groups etc.

Oh of course it is user selectable and the date is as well. Max Pain is not for option traders per se. It basically is the theory that on expiration days the price of the stock tends to be close to the level at which the option writers lose the least amount.

Will a lot of people want the Max Pain point shown on the chart? Something like this:

Yes, the guy got back to me and told me that But took him aback as well. Another thing he told me is that LULD is calced only at 30 sec intervals. If it ratchets up in between the intervals but goes down by the 30 sec calc, it won't move. Will have to look to adjust my stuff accordingly.