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I started learning C programming in 2010. From there I picked up many languages.
I have worked with MQL for just a year now. I pick up programming languages very quickly because I'm no stranger to programming.
I'm working on several indicator projects and EA concepts.
I have worked with MQL for just a year now. I pick up programming languages very quickly because I'm no stranger to programming.
I'm working on several indicator projects and EA concepts.

Conor Mcnamara
xauusd is no longer for trading, it's a casino now, it looks like there will soon be a new normal

Tiofelo Da Olga Gilbert Teles
il y a 8 heures
I believe in a "new normal"

Conor Mcnamara
It's fascinating how different engineering backgrounds can shape someone's perspective on market behaviour.Wilder, the person who created the Parabolic sar - had a background in mechanical engineering and he viewed markets as a vehicle that drive with prices. John Ehlers, the person who created interesting smoother non lagging moving averages had a background in Electrical Engineering, and he viewed market prices as electrical signals.


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Code publié PSAR Zigzag (Non lagging)
A zigzag based on the trend change of the parabolic sar
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A zigzag sharper than your ex’s mood swings.
A zigzag that made hedge funds jealous and your neighbor reconsider Forex.
A zigzag that would make your granny yell ‘BUY!’
It's a zigzag coming soon to a codebase near you...
A zigzag that made hedge funds jealous and your neighbor reconsider Forex.
A zigzag that would make your granny yell ‘BUY!’
It's a zigzag coming soon to a codebase near you...

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Conor Mcnamara
Lundi
Cheers. PSAR is not that great for trend sometimes, and it suffers in a ranging market. But this trend based zigzag code structure is nice and reusable, it could be reused on many trend indicators



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last night I was building a zigzag which is non lagging and continuous to the current bar. It's not so obvious to make this work correctly. The zigzag drawing should maintain straight legs, but if you don't delete previous leg values when new highs and lows come, then it will turn into a line chart... I have it working now and I base the zigzag trend this time on psar which is non lagging
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Code publié Ranging Market Detector
An indicator which attempts to highlight a ranging market area
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Code publié Trend Zigzag (on ma cross)
A static zigzag which connects the intersections of a moving average crossover
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https://soundcloud.com/jonathanlesnick/oceanlab-vs-reflekt-sky-falls this is a wonderous mashup

Conor Mcnamara
I built a zigzag which connects the legs from two moving average crossover points. It's nothing to do with traditional zigzag and is fully about trend of the ma cross. It's more difficult than one may realize to make this good without noisy crossovers ruining the cycle. Moving averages are victim to market noise as you know, especially on short periods. The vertices also should also follow the cycle of LL - HL - LH - HH in sequence for each connecting leg to be in harmony. Invalid legs are inevitable in this one, and I colour them gray

Lorentzos Roussos
2025.03.13
what if you only accept crosses of "leaves" that have reached a minimum % of the atr in delta

Conor Mcnamara
2025.03.13
definitely possible..I mainly just wanted to make a new zigzag template which could be used for many things and not just a simple ma cross, all the cycles are organized by an enum, the code is nice and simple, maybe I should publish it

Conor Mcnamara
At some point you have a folder full of random indicators. I try to organize it like this in MetaEditor, and in turn, this also organizes the indicators in the software. It's a bit of work, but it's very annoying to have random indicators all within the examples folder

mapdonemap
2025.03.10
cool categorization. I tend to create 4 folders: mine (contains anything I add manually. also contains folders of course), stock (anything comes preinstalled with MT that is not going to be needed as a include), market (anything Ive downloaded from the official market OR from the internet that I dont have the source code for it), downloads (anything that I have source code for it AND I have got it from somewhere else AKA "not mine")

Conor Mcnamara
Making a channel between zigzag points is easy, just map the peak and bottom zigzag buffers to two individual "draw_section" drawing styles

Conor Mcnamara
It's disheartening to see an EA scalping configuration working well on the OHLC model, but going to zero on real ticks model. I tried to discover the exact reasons. Initially I thought that the live floating spread and slippage are an issue, but this is actually not the issue. Live bid and ask prices are much more unpredictable. A tight trailing stop is then much more rarer to be profitable because of that. A wide trailing stop can be even more damaging to the account if the EA makes a few bad trades. What is the solution? After countless testing, it seems that you will have to use a modest take profit, and that is the real solution if you want to keep the drawdown low. Then use a trailing stop that feels right for the timeframe that the EA trades on.

Rajesh Kumar Nait
2025.03.06
"A trading system that takes longer trades on H1 could be unaffected by the volatility of bid and ask prices, but a trading system on M1 or M5 will be extremely affected no matter what the system is. " Its because spread is most effective on LTF such as 1minute timeframe, I trade crypto so i am saved with spread manipulation as in crypto brokers spread are negligible. Crypto brokers do not earn from spread unlike forex brokers.

Conor Mcnamara
2025.03.06
I tested a few different strategies and found that sometimes you will get a quite similar result on tick models & OHLC model if the strategy uses a higher timeframe like H1 or H2, this is mostly because the trades are held for a good time. The rule will always be that sell position can only close at available ask price and buy position can only close at available bid price, so OHLC model simulates a non-volatile spread, making it very easy to make a strategy look like it can turn 1k into 400k in one month. Now we have majorly unrealistic backtest graphs all over the marketplace.

Rajesh Kumar Nait
2025.03.06
True bro. Spread and broker makes a major difference in profits. Ohlc is only a way to backtest your strategy. Ohlc data can be consistent and may work according to logic but spread and bid ask tick data can never be consistent and it's very rare that any logic for studying may apply on it

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Conor Mcnamara
2025.03.05
one zigzag wants to talk about the peak, but the other one keeps talking about the bottom 😆



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If anyone finds prev_calculated confusing (like I initially did) in MQL5, have a look at this blog post https://www.mql5.com/en/blogs/post/760917

Conor Mcnamara
Now have this idea rattling in my mind for a zigzag that forecasts the next leg. Also a grey color that the leg changes to when it's deemed that no valid forecast can be made (during a consolidation period for example)


Conor Mcnamara
2025.03.04
that's nice to know, I guess it could be built in many different ways, it could be more reactive to the price (maybe based on a quant indicator), or it could be more about predictive techniques

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Code publié Autoscaling Zigzag
A zigzag indicator that uses a single input to adjust the step size for detecting wave direction changes
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If gold starts rallying now, it could be a great buying opportunity. It looks like a support is found on the H1 timeframe, but doji candles suggests indecision, and the trend is uncertain.

Conor Mcnamara
If it's hard to see the market sentiment, it's good to use these bears and bulls power indicators and color the histograms this way

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