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Hi everyone. This is jerry7201. I am new to forums so I am learning as I go. Just getting back into trading. Looking to trade theE-mini. Using NinjaTrader. Starting with some strategies using bollinger bands. I am interested in finding friends to learn to trade with.
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
Hi, I am new to the site - looks like a load of friendly people so I hope I can find someone to help me out. I have been trading off and on for 20 years and hopefully have gotten over most hurdles though, of course, there is always something new to learn with the markets. I look at about one future in almost every group: a financial, a currency, a grain, a metal, a meat and an energy.
I coded my indicator in Think or Swim's language. But now that I am with a javascript outfit (Tradovate). I look at the examples of indicators in javascript and can't quite make sense of how to code in it. My ToS coding was only about 12 lines long - is there anyone who can put my math into javascript? Thanks, Ira
I am asking because I have a need for some help with javascript in order to code my indicator. Please let me know if anyone has helped out. Thanks, Ira
I just wanted to quickly introduce myself.
My name is Lutz Krauss from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 32 years old.
Trader since 5 years, I started with trading Forex via MT4 with little success. Now I want
to try my luck with Futures and Level 2 Market Data.
I hope to learn a lot from the more experienced Traders here.
hi trying to have this conversion from tradestaion to think or swim
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[LegacyColorValue = true];
if false then begin
{ dummy plots to allow user choose their own colors in the standard way }
plot1(0,"S1R1");
plot2(0,"S2R2");
plot3(0,"CS3R3");
plot4(0,"CP");
end;
If DataCompression < 2 { intraday or tick bars }
and Date >= BeginDate and Date <= EndDate then begin
if Date = Date[ 1 ] then begin { other bars in day }
For ii = kCP to kMax begin
TL_SetEnd( LineID[ ii ], Date, Time, SRValue[ ii ] ) ;
end; { for }
end { if Date = Date[ 1 ] }
else Begin { first bar in day }
pDH = HighD(1); pDL = LowD(1); pDC = CloseD(1); pDO = OpenD(1);
pDRange = pDH - pDL;
if PivotType = 1 then SRValue[ kCP ] = (pDH + pDL + O)/3
else if PivotType = 2 then SRValue[ kCP ] = (pDH + pDL + O + O)/4
else if PivotType = 3 then SRValue[ kCP ] = (pDH + pDL + pDC + O)/4
else if PivotType = 4 then SRValue[ kCP ] = (pDH + pDL + pDC + pDO)/4
else SRValue[ kCP ] = (pDH + pDL + pDC)/3;
For ii = kCP to kMax Begin
{ create lines }
LineID[ ii ] = TL_New(Date,Time,SRValue[ ii ],Date[ 0 ],Time,SRValue[ ii ]);
print("created line ", ii:0:0, " at ", SRValue[ ii ]);
TL_SetExtLeft (LineID[ ii ],false);
TL_SetExtRight(LineID[ ii ],false);
if ii = kCP then
TL_SetColor(LineID[ ii ],GetPlotColor(4))
else if ii = kS1 or ii = kR1 then
TL_SetColor(LineID[ ii ],GetPlotColor(1))
else if ii = kS2 or ii = kR2 then
TL_SetColor(LineID[ ii ],GetPlotColor(2))
else if ii = kS3 or ii = kR3 then
TL_SetColor(LineID[ ii ],GetPlotColor(3))
else
TL_SetColor(LineID[ ii ],StandardColor);
{ create text labels }
TextID[ ii ] = Text_New(Date,Time,SRValue[ ii ],TextLabel[ ii ]);
Text_SetStyle(TextID[ ii ],1,2); { 1: HAlign=right, 2: VAlign=Centered }
if ii = kCP then
Text_SetColor(TextID[ ii ],GetPlotColor(4))
else if ii = kS1 or ii = kR1 then
Text_SetColor(TextID[ ii ],GetPlotColor(1))
else if ii = kS2 or ii = kR2 then
Text_SetColor(TextID[ ii ],GetPlotColor(2))
else if ii = kS3 or ii = kR3 then
Text_SetColor(TextID[ ii ],GetPlotColor(3))
else
Text_SetColor(TextID[ ii ],StandardColor);
{ set line style of the "in-between" levels }
If ii > kS3 then
TL_SetStyle(LineID[ ii ],Tool_dotted);
end; { for }
end; { else }
end;
My name is Yan.I was born in Hengyang City, Hunan Province of China, in 2007，I graduated from Jilin University of finance major, then I joined a futures company in Beijing and working for six years. in 2012, I left the futures company with a colleague, and then as a partner founded a new company, we foucus on the Quantitive Trading and High Frequency Trading,We are also Internet finance technology company, our products services to stocks, futures, foreign exchange, foreign stocks, Hong Kong stocks, we study trading strategies, proprietary trading.
Thank you Big Mike,I look forward to learning more from this forum.
Hi I'm new at trading and hoping to find the right way to start with like minded people we can share things and learn from each other which is wonderful.
i am a lifelong student ,in business, investing and now trading and want to change my work as a traveling salesman for 30 years ,and to trade online as a futures trader.
I find the DOM trading to be very interesting after going through studying about charts and indicators for a while ,but the best thing I have picked up so far is to know that no one realy knows which way it goes.
So then is what to do then? we must find an edge and let the probabilities over time play out in our favour by position sizing each trade to be able to fullfil our expectancy .
I learned a lot in pyschology and must practise those things on a daily basis like part of my day schedual of living life and dealing with this world and the things that can happen good or bad.
I will like to be humble and want to learn as much as i possibly can and use it for my families benifit and if I can succeed as i want to ,i would like to share that with others when i'm ready to do so.and hope they too will benifit a good life and fulfillment by being a winning.
Been trading for 18-20 months now. Started with options, but found I was all over the place and losing money. At the time, I bought into a few training sites that provided recommendations. Didn't kill me, and none were sheisters, but I didn't like any of them for my own trading plan and found 2 of the 4 were fairly reckless. Unless I know why to enter and exit, I am just not comfortable and found too much discretionary trading, and plainly, I don't know enough to do that.
I read some of Van Tharp's books and I decided to focus my attention on stronger technical analysis with more mechanical trading. I am making money now, but am such a newbie that I am both excited and naive in lots of matters - an dangerous combo! I recently read Kevin Davey's book on Algorithmic Trading and find that it is a really good fit for my personality and work style. I have developed 4 futures trading strategies with positive expectancy - one each with Crude, Gold, Copper and the S&P E-mini. I would like to build 10. I've made a few mistakes that have cost me, but I have a small positive balance on the year right now.
I currently trade with thinkorswim. I just started with TradeStation and I really want to figure it out. I am very impressed with the breadth of capabilities, and I know that there will be a long learning curve with getting all the automation set up so I am comfortable with it. That will probably be some of my first questions to the group.
I am in my 40's. I have an engineering background including a bit of computer programming, but have spent most of my professional career in the non-profit world working with people. I had to decide what to do with some spare money, which led me to think about trading.
My general trading goals are: 1) Create a system of trading that I could do trading to provide a full time salary. I have the cash resources to do it, but not the expertise. 2) Generate cash resources to provide financial gifts to non-profit organizations, especially ones that help prevent human trafficking. For example, in April, I made one financial giving commitment that is a bit outside of my ability to pay for it, unless I (minimally) succeed in trading. This is one small thing that has kept me on track with trading, even when I get discouraged. I hope to be successful enough to make a second commitment within the calendar year. I am resolved to do #2 even if I never get #1 accomplished.
I am looking forward to being part of this community and hope I can contribute something to it. I've already gained a lot just by lurking around. Thanks so much.
Hi All, been trading a forex and CFD for few years now, still trying to find my feet and settle into my edge, mainly price action, S/R, ATR plays .. currently being taught by Tom Dante who trades the Bund so am looking to set up a stage 5 account and use bookmap. Have been looking at Market Profile and Order flow, early days yet, its a bit of a different setup than having a forex/CFD broker, so many costs associated. Really looking for the most economical way to get screen time and learn the art .. have seen some interesting threads already on the forum that hopefully will help .. I have a computer engineering backgroung and am currently learning python for data science and machine learning as a segway into quant analysis .. I have about 20 books I am slowly working my way through in my **not so** free time (jessie livermore, covel, douglas, schwager, elder) .. cheers ..
Hi !
Since it look like its a part of the tradition to make a introduction post, here it is
I'm Robinson Labourdette, i started to get interresed in Trading around 2 years ago, i'm trading with the modern elliot wave theory, on the CL.
Even if i created my futures.io account around a year ago, i never posted anything, and, with the journaling event of June, in which i'm really interresed (that's a great initiative by the way, bravo !), about having some feedbacks on a journal (i have a private journal for over a year), being enabled to share and speak with others traders is great. And i was also going to retry a 50k combine around september, so if i do finish in the winners, i could do a bigger combine that what i was planning. And, even if i don't win, i would have win some experience, some great discussion, and maybe the want to keep having a public journal, its a 999999 risk/reward
Anyway, i'm just doing this quicly, but i'm going to have a bigger introduction, of me and the modern elliot wave theory if you are interresed by this subject, you could check out the journal : Mastering Modern Elliot Wave for Consitent Profits Journal; in 2 days.
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