Mike Medved

Once I finish the documentation of how to write indicators (working on it now) you will be able to do this and almost anything else you can think of.

In MT, click on Fib Fan on the Draw Tab, then draw it on the chart.

I have to sit down and spend a few days writing a doc about how to write indicators in MT... It's a big project Will do that some time in the next couple of months.

Mid point - the bar in which there is the volume where volume above and volume below are equal POC - biggest volume bar

Hm... We could, for all indicators, add the "fixed range high/low" parameter that would allow you to set fixed range for currently dynamic indicators or change the fixed range for currently fixed ones... The only problem is complexity. This adds more "stuff" to that window. Users get scared when faced with so many choices.

The way we utilize SDATA.BIN file, unless you call up a lot of charts that have a lot of data, they do not eat up memory or slow things down. That is, data that is not being used (like showing it in a chart) just sits on disk, and doesn't figure into anything. So SDATA.BIN file can grow arbitrarily large and the only thing it will affect is when you export it or back it up...

Can you give me links to such indicators somewhere out there?

Ok thanks. That bug is now fixed and you will see the fix in next release. Here's the logic MT uses: 1. For the same indicator (that is, if you link two or more of same indicator with diff parameters), the axis is reused 2. For others, it looks at ranges. If one range is less than 4 times the other range, same axis is used. Otherwise, it splits off another axis. 3. 3 maximum axes' values are plotted. The other axes would still work but their values would not be shown. What you're seeing (some dynamic, some fixed) is just how each indicator is programmed. Some indicators have fixed ranges - like 0 to 100, always. Some are left to be dynamic.

will go look at that. On edit: looked and fixed it. Same indicators should always share an axis now. Will be in next release.

Hmm Can you give me an example of two indicators that, when linked, will show values on one axis and not spread it on two? That definitely needs to be fixed.

I will rephrase. I can possibly, in theory, show the values of EMA or the values of the pressure bars, not both (because it would be too jumbled together otherwise). I *chose*, when making the indicator, to show the EMA values because they are usually more significant.

I can show the values of EMA or the values of the pressure bars, not both (because it would be too jumbled together otherwise). The Pressure bars are too volatile - the values keep jumping - so the EMAs are more valuable to see. If you wish, you can set EMA period to 1 and then the value will be shown at the last pressure bar.

If you use Num of Trades as it is right now, put up two of them, set one to show "Only at Bid" and the other "Only at Ask" - wouldn't that do what you want?

1. Bring up a historical chart, for any symbol. Configure it the way you like it. 2. Link it by clicking on a little pin symbol in the caption of the window. Pick some color (let's say green) 3. Link your portfolio to the same color pin (that is, green) 4. Now clicking on a symbol in the portfolio will change the historical chart to that symbol.

Moving chart right-left - hover your mouse over the chart and use the wheel on the mouse. Zooming in/out - hover your mouse over the chart, press CTRL key and use the wheel on the mouse.

"Separate colours for Value (assume you are calling this range) and Mid" Can you explain? I am looking at VbP on intraday chart, and there is a range color and mid color. And I am not sure what "Value" is - "Range" shows the two bars that contain the "range percentage" of all volume between them. "Align RHS" Do you mean mirror them so they are drawn right to left instead of left to right? I haven't seen them done this way, and the "extend" lines - should they still go to the right?

VWAP: 1. added Weekly - will be next beta release 2. The width of the VWAP bands is multiplier times the standard deviation over a specified period. VbP Added weekly and monthly - but really don't see much value in the "weekly" ones.

I think when we do the Paintbars, one of the conditions of paintbars may be time-based, and one of the coloring options would be background color...

Sure, just create a custom time frame that includes those periods, and show the charts using it.

What should be the criteria for MT to decide at what precision to show those numbers?

If I understand you correctly, this is not a conventional method of calculating or displaying indicators... Can you link to someone doing this?

It encapsulates whatever hours are shown on the chart - that is, if you show pre/post market, it will take that into acct. The formulas are standard and can be googled. For example, this describes Standard and DeMark pivot points: http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:technical_indicators:pivot_points

supply/demand - i really would need some link that discusses the mathematical formulas for the indicator...

1. Made pivots extend into padding space on hist charts. Next release. 2. It is problematic to show intraday time scale beyond current day. The chart literally doesn't know if tomorrow exists. It may not - maybe it is weekend or holiday. The chart doesn't calculate this going forward and it would take quite a bit of redoing things to do that. Same thing with historical charts X tick markings on padded area - the hist chart literally has no idea on what days in the future the data should exist and on what days it shouldn't. The way lines are extended into padded area is that their anchor points' X coordinate is stored as "this day in the past plus N candles/days". 3. Some pivot systems depend on current day's data but for some yes it is true. The problem here is plotting the next day or period's X ticks as I explained above...

Candlestick pattern spotter is easily implemented either by paintbars or by coding a custom indicator (which users will be able to do fairly easily in the future) The problem: there are SO MANY patterns and so many ways to define them. So I would prefer to leave it to users to do that. Maybe we will host a sub-forum here where people can discuss and exchange custom indicators like that.