What do you want to fill in the buffer ? You're saying that Dow (FXPair1) does not miss bars much, while SP500 (FXPair2) does. but you code is trying to read Dow Close price on a non-existent SP500 bar !

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What I am studying is the possibility of capitalizing on both up/down moves, based on the fact that most of the time the price is ranging rather than trending. These coiled moves (specially on higher time frames) have a lot of pips which is missed ...

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Great hint from a great person. The idea could do well in stocks/commodities.

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Thanks, I wish it was that easy ! unfortunately, not every high/low, or fractal is a valid S/R area.

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image Just playing around the concept image image

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Yes. Using Envelopes Indicator as shown in the chart. image

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Did I ? I remember placing much weight on expectancy ratio rather than win rate ! see post # 30, early in the thread.

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Apparently the posted chart (although covering around 6 months) is ranging more than trending, this is why swing indicators would do better than trend following indicators. Moreover, each of the 13 legs (10 daily candles each on average) can be ...

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Using default Stochastic, buying 20-level 1st touch, selling 80-level 1st touch, closing on opposite, would've yielded around 1050 pips. image

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Using default MACD Buy/Sell on MACD cross MACD SIGNAL would've lost around 700 pips. Too Bad. image

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Applying default BB, selling upper band 1st touch and close at lower band 1st touch + buying lower band 1st touch and closing at upper band 1st touch would get us around 1720 pips. Not bad. image

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Only Half of the above zigzagged path (around 1800 pips) is almost 3 times the straight path. Now, can we some how get 50% of the zigzagged path ?

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Simple Fact : Zigzagged path is longer than straight path image

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If you traded EU on my note above, you'd be in +100 pips profit by now.

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This is Euro , Monthly, Weekly and Daily -- it started a down trend in mid of 2014 -- image Any trend reversal EA on a lower time frame (H4, H1) in the direction of the primary MWD trend would've generated good profit or 2016.

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Hi zalimfx, I looked at the EA mql file. Unfortunately the source mq4 file is a de-compiled code (hacked), so I can not modify. As for brokers, I don't want to advertise any broker here, but I suggest that you look for Real ECN , commission-based ...

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Hi zalimfx, The problem with scalping EAs in that they never work in live like in back testing, due to the following reasons (among others): Execution Time : In back testing the execution time is 0 (zero) milliseconds, while in live trading it can ...

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Thanks for the Heads Up, I remember it was 8 and never used more. Nice to learn a thing or two every day. Here is the updated indicator with mid-line added. image

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OK I will. Thank you for your advice.

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MT4 supports max 8 indicator data buffers, so I sacrificed the middle line for the S/R zones.

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