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by sbank
Thu Oct 22, 2015 2:05 am
Forum: Mechanical Systems
Topic: Systems Workshop: "Buttonwood" E-mini daytrading system
Replies: 116
Views: 423680

Re: Systems Workshop: "Buttonwood" E-mini daytrading system

My next thought on improving the signal. Since we are focusing on a trend following style with this discussion, I created another timing signal to go with the MA crossover. This is a basic channel breakout style. I created the following function: #length: 5 input:length; if (barnum==barsback) { sign...
by sbank
Thu Oct 22, 2015 1:04 am
Forum: Mechanical Systems
Topic: Systems Workshop: "Buttonwood" E-mini daytrading system
Replies: 116
Views: 423680

Re: Systems Workshop: "Buttonwood" E-mini daytrading system

Based on v4, I made a minor change to the additional filters, and would like to see what folks think. The idea is to only enter trades when the fractal trend indicator is showing the beginning of a trend. This the contents of my additionalfilters file: if (barnum==barsback) { frac_valley=1; frac_pea...
by sbank
Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:19 pm
Forum: Tools and Techniques
Topic: Energy Bar Fix, and SAR Dots
Replies: 7
Views: 8832

Re: Energy Bar Fix, and SAR Dots

Is there a way to get access programmatically via QScript the "real" price when using energy bars? For example, using the simple SAR example above, if I want to use buy/sell, I could do something like this: ref=buy(1,close,"market","onebar"); However, the close is not really the proper close, so I a...
by sbank
Tue Jul 21, 2015 10:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Welcome to the new board!
Replies: 2
Views: 4922

Re: Welcome to the new board!

Looks good on the ole smartphone!