Mike Medved

We were thinking of doing help as a Wiki at first, then decided to go the more conventional route - the standard Windows HTML help (hit F1 while running MT to see it). I do still have a tikiWiki set up on our site - are you familiar with it? If you like, I can give you access if you want to put your documents in there, then we can open it to others.

Right, none of the parameters are per symbol. They are all per chart. Chart *may* be associated with a symbol (let's say you double click on a symbol, that brings up a chart, you change some params, close the chart, double-click on the symbol again to bring up the chart, the params that were changed will be remembered). But if you navigate the charts by typing in new symbol in the chart or using the "linked" feature, then the chart is the chart and its params stay the same, but the symbol changes.

Oops. Of course I mixed up P&F and Renko in my reply - Renko is simpler to do in terms of % than P&F. Anyway - will do.

Sounds good. I will try to google around to see what the standard practice is for this (if there is any).

To follow up: for P&F box size as a % is easy, since it is always one box. But for Renko, each column may contain many "boxes". I presume each box within the column is the same size (although at different price levels). So - Does each column (whether an X or an O one) have its own "box size" - presumably fixed as a % of price at the start of the column?

Your previous question: Use High/Low is on historical charts. It doesn't apply to intraday charts, because there the calculation is done not by candles but by ticks. The BOX SIZE: on the Main tab of the ribbon menu allows you to change the box size for Renko. It is an absolute value right now. I will look into having % as an option.

The Shift will be in next release. As for real thing, we're working on the web site and the money-changing-hands machinery. Once it's done, we'll release that. Thanks for asking

I am working on that. It is easy to do that, but when tracing, the values of the indicators for the trace are taken from data points, and the data points in this case would be between the candles. Gotta fix that.

This is explained in more detail in our help file (press F1 in MT to access it) under Features - Charts - Tracing. Press and hold SHIFT and move the mouse - the crosshair/tracing and the data table will appear. There is a little gear at the top of it - click on it and select "Always Show". Or leave it as is and just use SHIFT when you want the crosshair to show up.

Are you trying it with the EMA or with some other indicator?

When you use up/down arrows to change the EMA period, it still will go in 1 increments. But you can now type in 20.5 and it won't change it to an integer.

Each side has MMs with Price. If there are 3 MMs with the same price, for "depth" it shows 3 levels. For "aggregate depth" it combines them all into one level.

Will change it.

Oh, ydfah, that's sweet Yes, when we were thinking what to name the program, we (well, I) tried sounding out "Weasel Trader" and "Mustelids United" or just "Wolverines!". But then we settled on the mundane name.

We're working hard to appease you with visual trading from charts. But yes, ticker tape in on the list.

"I'm also getting a better sense of how difficult it must have been for you to design a program that can handle dual indicators with such diverse scaling." There is a LOT of very complex stuff behind the scenes that works in order to present things as simply as possible.

From MT help (I know it is incomplete for now, but it is still useful :)) From Charts/Indicators - Linking section (at bottom) "The two (or more) indicators linked in this way will show up together and MT will attempt to have them share the same Y axis unless they have very different scales. In that case, the second scale will go on the other side of the chart." as you can see on some of your pictures there is another scale on the left. On others there is only one scale - on the right. Basically, MT tries to fit the two indicators into a "combined" scale if the two scales are reasonably close. Or it gives each their own scale if they are not close. That also gets complicated by the fact that for MACD the two lines that form the MACD (not the histogram) have their own, "floating" scale... I will need to adjust it a bit. Maybe flag some indicators (like MACD) that vary wildly in scale that MT should not even try to fit the scales and just always give MACD its own scale.

Ok - that's just the MACD code from someone. But what they are doing is instead of using some standard MA formula like SMA or EMA or ZLMA, they are using this 2*EMA-EMA(EMA) formula. In order to properly add that to MT, I would want to add that MA to the MAs available (under a proper name) and then include it in the list of MA types available for MACD. But I would need to know what its name is.

The "2*EMA - EMA(EMA)" formulation - that seems to be a different kind of moving average, under what name was it published?

if you pick ZLMA as the MA type for the MACD in MT, it will substitute ZLMA for the Moving Average in MACD formula. The ZLMA formula is here: http://user42.tuxfamily.org/chart/manual/Zero_002dLag-Exponential-Moving-Average.html

... or right-click on the vertical scale and set it to Absolute -500 to 500.

Will be fixed in next release.

will be in next release. Is 5000 enough?

When you export to send to us, include the data so that I can see your exact situation.

Sigh - my previous reply - was talking about indicators. Ignore. Will look at the trendline right click. If it is still not working for you - maybe there is something peculiar to your chart. Can you export your settings, with the chart showing, and send to us? Mention this post.