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Woodie's CCI, DYO Color Based on Value, QnA |
August 23, 2006
15:55 Ensign Howard: Training class will be in the Support chat room in 40 minutes: Topic will be a new template for Woodies' CCI Club which has latest Sidewinder and CZI indicators.
15:58 bg: Wow that's great Howard. Woodie mentioned he spoke to you.
16:19 Ensign Howard: Discussion will be on the WoodieCCI template which has been added onto by me today......
16:21 Ensign Howard: New 08-23 Ensign version, and the WoodieCCI template has just been released, download template using Internet Services form.
Moving Average Calculations
16:25 Jo: Howard: Are the calculations for your moving average proprietary, or have you published them somewhere? I will use either Howard's or Hull's averge in an ESPL program soon. Coding the hull now.
16:25 Ensign Howard: Hull is on web -- Howard ave is proprietary -- other moving averages are in Help documentation
16:25 Jo: Thank You.
Plotting Hs Ls Prior Days
16:20 T!H0: Howard is there a simple way to plot 3,4,5 days back L and H? I mean Low and High more than 3 days back
16:21 Ensign Howard: tiho, did you want the lowest low of past 5 day, and highest high? Or are you wanting low days back plotted at current bar position. If you just want the low and high from 3 day back shown for today, you put on simple moving average, parameters as 1, and bar offset as -3
16:23 Ensign Howard: correction, offset is +3 not -3
16:23 T!H0: I am using the Daily Price Lines and I 'd like to plot each of teh 5 days H,L but it is up to 3rd day h.l
16:24 Ensign Howard: ok, so you want horizontal lines, 5 of them for past 5 days high values, etc
16:25 Ensign Howard: 1 moment
16:25 T!H0: I'd like to add 4th and 5th day HL
16:25 Ensign Howard: 1 moment tiho
16:26 T!H0: ok
16:30 T!H0: is that a 4th day 5th day HL?
16:30 T!H0: I can't understand the logic ? It lloks like 4th bar 5th bar HL
16:31 Ensign Howard: Tiho, the DYO reads bar values based on the Bar Offset, which is -4 and -5 to read values from the bar that many bars back. These values are then used as the levels for the labels as shown.
Woodie's CCI
16:30 Ensign Howard: Welcome to today's training class with Howard....... have lots to show you today
16:31 Ensign Howard: So it will be a great day, particulary for our Woodies CCI Club members who are here to learn the details of a newly released WoodieCCI template. Please upgrade to the latest version of Ensign which is 08-23 in case I put in some DYO features to support stuff I wanted to accomplish in the template. The template is named WoodieCCI and can be downloaded using the Internet Services form, 1st tab, Template drop down list. After selecting the template name on the list, click the Download button. The template will auto save to your Templates folder and show on the template panel so you can add it to a chart.
16:33 peterg: k thanks
16:33 bg: great job on it Howard
16:35 Ensign Howard: This is what the template will do for your chart, and will be the topic of discussion for the next hour
6:37 Ensign Howard: I appreciate the help from Woodie patrons in providing me with their templates over the years, and one of them served as a starting point for the grooming that I have done to make it more efficient, more like what woodie uses for colors and locations, and added more stuff to it. Now if you have other things you like to see, go ahead and add them to this template, or vice versa, see how I did things in this template and add them to your template.
16:38 Ensign Howard: Let's begin discussing the items in the posted chart picture, and those more familiar with Woodie methods than I am, please contribute and keep the discussion true to form.
16:38 @ JayScat: cool
16:38 Ensign Howard: I may have an incorrect perception
16:38 w@back: whoooa ...that last ghost pattern didn't work!!!
16:39 Ensign Howard: Woodie typically does not show the bar chart portion, rather he watches just the CCI study which is a sub-window in our presentation. However, some of the values being referenced are better shown on the bar chart, so for the sake of training, I have shown the chart with the study sub-window.
16:40 w@back: Good looking chart Howard
16:40 w@back: Nice job -- that last ghost pattern didnt work cause 34ema was flat as template said
16:41 Ensign Howard: On the chart we have an Exponential Moving Average, and its parameter is 34. This is the blue and pink line..... we are using the Above Below format and the above/below is comparing the 34 line to a 9 period 2nd line which is not shown.
16:42 Ensign Howard: The 2nd study line on the chart is the LSMA which is a linear regression moving average line with a 25 period parameter. This line is being plotted in Green and Red using the Rising/Falling format.
16:42 Ensign Howard: When we reference 34EMA and 25LSMA, we are refering to these 2 study lines.
16:43 Ensign Howard: In the sub-window, Woodie follows a CCI spread line which is plotted as the thick black line, and it oscillates above and below the zero center line.
16:44 Ensign Howard: A histogram style is used with this CCI line with 4 different colors to the histogram bars.
16:45 Ensign Howard: When the CCI line crosses zero line, as it did at 10:00 in the example, the histogram changes to a dark gray to indicate the crossing. If the CCI is still on the same side of the zero line 5 bars later, the gray color changes to a yellow color to indicate we are at the threshold of a trend.
16:46 Ensign Howard: subsequent bars after the yellow boundary bar will be colored red when below the zero line, indicating trending, or blue when above the zero line and trending.
16:46 Ensign Howard: Woodie students, please correct me if I misstate anything.
16:46 Ensign Howard: This presentation of the CCI with the colored histogram in Ensign matches exactly as far as I can tell the visual presentation Woodie follows and uses.
16:47 Ensign Howard: This primary CCI line in black uses a 14 parameter, and in Ensign it is a 67 multiplier.
16:48 Ensign Howard: A 2nd CCI line is plotted as a thin yellow line to indicate a leading CCI which gives clues of what change might be forthcoming in the 14 CCI line.
16:48 Ensign Howard: In the chart, you see the labels for the lines as 14 CCI and 6 CCI.
16:49 Ensign Howard: Now, there are lots of additional labels to show various values, and colored grid lines which indicate some status. Let me explain each in turn.
16:50 Ensign Howard: Starting with the big yellow blocks at the top and bottom of the CCI window.... these big yellow block markers are showing when the 14 CCI line is exceeding the +200 or the -200 levels.
16:51 Ensign Howard: These alerts are not shown on Woodies charts at the current time, but may have been part of his visual materials in the past. Anyway I thought they were helpful and have been retained in the template I worked on. If you do not want these alerts for high or low CCI levels, the alerts can be unchecked or deleted from the template. The labeling in the chart example is >+200 and <-200 by the yellow blocks.
16:52 Ensign Howard: Nearby are small yellow pegs, and the pegs on the top of the chart show when there is a first occurance of a new bar high sequence.
16:53 Ensign Howard: The yellow pegs on the bottom of the chart shown when there is a new bar low, but only for the 1st bar in the sequence of being a new lower low.
16:54 Ensign Howard: Again, these helpful visuals are not on Woodie's charts at the present time, and I am unsure if they were shown in the past. But I like the markers so they are retained in the template.
16:54 Ensign Howard: Now, On the center line of the CCI panel, right hand side is a price of 11298 This is the current bar price and matches the cursor price in the chart above. Remember that woodie often does not have the bar chart showing.... he sees just the study window.
16:55 Ensign Howard: Above this current price are a pair of prices, and these 2 prices are the values of the prior bar's high and the current bar's high. The template will change the color of these 2 prices to be a green color when the current bar has a higher high.
16:56 Ensign Howard: Below the current price are similar 2 prices for the prior bar's low and the current bar's low.
16:56 Ensign Howard: And as shown in the example, these prices, normally shown in white, will change to be shown in red when the current bar has a lower low.
16:57 Ensign Howard: So, in the center of the window one can quickly see the current price in the range of the prior bar and the current bar, and whether the current bar is breaking higher or lower than the prior bar.
16:58 Ensign Howard: Moving up the screen, above the 2 highs, I have added a new tool for showing the time remaining in this bar in seconds. In the example there are 4 seconds left in this bar. The bar is a 5-minute bar, and when it was a new bar one might have seen 300 seconds remaining.... and then number counting down with the arrival of new ticks. The number is normally shown in black in my template, and will auto show in yellow when there are less than 20 seconds left to complete the bar. I think this is a good equivalent to the time remaining that shows on woodies chart and I like the addition of the color change effect to catch your attention the bar is about to complete.... kind of like the low on gas light coming on in your car.
17:01 Ensign Howard: Above the timer, are a pair of numbers which are the net distances the current price is away from the nearest Woodie Pivot lines.
17:02 Ensign Howard: On the chart you will see a S1 pivot line at 11314, and the current price below that
17:02 Ensign Howard: The top number will be the net distance the current price is below a pivot level
17:02 Ensign Howard: The 2nd number will be the net distance the next pivot line is below the current price.... this is shown as a negative number. As the current price approaches a pivot line, one of these values will approach zero.
17:04 Ensign Howard: At the top of the column of labels, is a value of 11392 which is the day session high value, and the 94 is a net distance the current price is away from the daily high.
17:04 Ensign Howard: The same information for the daily low and the net distance the current price is from the low is shown at the bottom of the chart. In this case, the daily session low is 11282 and the current price is +16 higher at 11298
17:05 Ensign Howard: Above this daily low information is a piece of information shown as 33 degrees, Flat.
17:06 Ensign Howard: Woodie has a trending indicator that is watching the slope of the 34 EMA and the slope of the 25 LSMA He calculates an angle from these slopes and sums the two angle values to get an indicator for trendiness.
17:08 Ensign Howard: Now, I have looked over the details of the math he used to get his angle information, and I consider the Pyrapoint angle technology we have in Ensign to be similar enough to be used as a substitute. And it is a substitute for 2 reasons....1) I consider the Pyrapoint angle math to be superior and more generalized at arriving at a consistent angle regardless of the chart time frame the tool is applied to. His angle calculations are dependant on the chart time frame, etc., which is fine, but our method works very well also.
17:10 Ensign Howard: 2nd reason for the substitution is that the math for our Pyrapoint angle calculation is built into the program so it compute very quickly, faster than I could implement using a lengthy DYO sequence to calculate the angle as per woodie's method.
17:11 Ensign Howard: Anyway, I have watched and compared our angle values with woodies all day long, and in general, our angle values tend to be smaller numbers. Therefore the 44 degrees for the 25 LSMA and the -11 for ethe 34 EMA might be smaller values than woodies calculations, and these are added together anyway, which cancels out some of the difference.
17:12 Ensign Howard: The message of Flat, Normal, or Trending that is shown by the 33 degrees total value, comes from certain levels of the angle sum.
17:12 Ensign Howard: The line to the left of the 33 is a color representation of the message that was shown at that point in time for the bar.
17:13 Ensign Howard: The red dashes are shown when the angle sum is below 50 and thus the word Flat is being displayed.
17:13 Ensign Howard: 50 is the threshold I found to use that makes my dash coloring match quite well the same visual shown on woodie's charts.
17:14 Ensign Howard: Sums between 50 and 70 are the Normal zone, and shown in Yellow and would show the message label of Normal. Angle Sums that exceed 70 shown in green and post the message of Trending in green.
17:16 Ensign Howard: Again, this is slightly different math, but sure accomplishes an equivalent trending indicator...... please compare our YM chart as shown with woodies' chart for YM for today.... They look really similar for this trending indicator and messaging.
17:16 Ensign Howard: His indicator is using the name Sidewinder, and shows the coloring on the -200 grid line and the message in a separate place.
17:20 Ensign Howard: on the -100 grid level is an added piece of information of the number of ticks in the current bar. Woodies material does not show this piece of information.
17:20 merlin: Super job, tks Howard
17:21 Ensign Howard: The -100 and the +100 grid levels are a visual of the relationship of the close to the 34 EMA
17:21 Ensign Howard: the 2 lines are colored the same
17:21 Ensign Howard: 1 moment
17:22 art48: Howard , much thanks, it's perfect.
17:22 Ensign Howard: Sorry, I have my example chart mislabeled.
17:22 @ JayScat: Very nice Howard. Brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for the temp.
17:22 Ensign Howard: The lines on the +100 and the -100 are the CZI study, which is basically using colors to indicate the nearness the Close is to the 34 EMA. This is the study he calls the CZI
17:23 Ensign Howard: The color of the line at +200 should be labeled C vs EMA and is just an above or below indicator. When the close is above the EMA the grid line is colored green. When the close is below the EMA the grid line is colored red.
17:24 Ensign Howard: And that brings us to the markers on the zero center line.
17:24 Ensign Howard: These are also green and red dots, and their color indicates the close begin above or below the 25 LSMA line.
17:25 Ensign Howard: So in the picture, I need to swap the CZI label with the C vs EMA label. The CZI uses multiple colors, and the C vs EMA uses just 2 colors.
17:23 Kongfuzi: The timer does not appear to change except when a bar ends or a trade posts is that correct?
17:25 Ensign Howard: correct kongfuzi -- the time is driven by the chart update event of receiving a tick. On an active chart you see the time update every second or two.
17:26 Kongfuzi: thx, slow now cuz globex, thx
17:26 Ensign Howard: In after markets it will be a skippy clock
17:27 Ensign Howard: I think we have all key elements used by woodie in place in this template and some minor tweaks for added visual effect such as the timer changing colors. All in all, I am pleased with the close emulation this template provides
17:27 bg: it's great Howard -- this template is perfect
17:28 Ensign Howard: if you are familiar with Woodie's room, let me know as you use the template how it works for you and if it is a complete as it needs to be.
17:28 Randy: there you go -- label switched
17:28 Ensign Howard: thx randy, you have magical abilities
17:28 bg: lol
17:29 Randy: yes I do sometimes
17:29 Ensign Howard: I have a few trades I need you to switch the L for S and vice versa -- lol
17:29 Randy: :-) don't we all
17:29 Ensign Howard: ok, any questions about the template or feedback
17:30 bg: Again great job Howard
17:30 Dominick: look forward to using it thurs thanks
17:30 T!H0: You said something about angles in the pyrapoint tool, could you explain more
17:30 Ensign Howard: tiho, yes let me explain what I do for angle calculation. I cannot go into great detail about Woodie's math because of a non-disclosure agreement. And in the template you will note that the CZI has privatized enabled, again because I think the non-disclosure agreement would not want you to see its implementation.
17:32 Randy: Too bad cause it needs fix'in too for Range
17:32 Ensign Howard: The angle math for Pyrapoint does this...... pyrapoint does a normalization of the price to 3 digits, and uses the square root of price to calculate time..... This gives us 2 dimensions, a price and a time, which are used to make a square. The corner diagonals of the square define the 45 degree reference. We can take the slope of the study line and linearly compare it to the slope of the 45 degree definition line and determine a relative angle of the study slope
17:34 Ensign Howard: So our determination of the 45 degree reference line using Pyrapoint technology gives a consistent way to compare angles of study lines on any chart, any time frame, any scale range, and decimal format for the price.
17:35 T!H0: Bit difficult to understand
17:35 Ensign Howard: I consider our approach to be mathematically grounded in Ganns' time and price theory, and it sure works well from what I can determine. And Pyrapoint has stood the test of time by being in our program for several years and valued by those that use it. Thus my confidence in the Pyrapoint math for mathematically calculating a 45 degree line for the chart is high.
17:35 Randy: That 45* moves when price is scaled using the Autotrendline tool. Is this the same?
17:35 T!H0: I know that but how you define 45* def line?
17:36 Ensign Howard: yes Randy should be the same
17:36 Randy: well it moves alot
17:36 Ensign Howard: tiho, sorry but I just explained how I get a 45 def line. It is the corner to corner diagonal you see when you put on the pyrapoint tool
17:37 T!H0: Where can I find more about its implication? I mean the angle.
17:37 Ensign Howard: Search our Help web page for the topic of Pyrapoint. I have articles in past trading tips newsletters about the math of Pyrapoint. Angle is derived from arc tan function of the rise divided by the run, which is slope but this is all relative to the slope for the 45 degree def line, which needs to be a 1 for the arc tan to return a 45
17:38 T!H0: so we compare the angles of the two MA's and evaluate the trendness right? aha
17:39 Ensign Howard: yes, and the compare is to sum the angles of the 2 lines.
17:39 Randy: This is an example of what scaling does to it
17:39 Ensign Howard: In the example the LSMA line was sloping upward and given an angle value of 44 degrees and the EMA line was sloping downward so it has a negative 11 degrees. So the one is canceling out some of the other. The total is 44-11 = 33. And 33 is still a relatively small sum, so the evaluation is that the market is FLAT and has been flat for several bars as indicated by the red dashes on the -200 grid line.
17:41 Ensign Howard: Pretty cool indicator in my opinion as many of you have sought some kind of trend indicator
17:42 T!H0: What about the N of bars in the Hist why 5?
17:43 Ensign Howard: That is what Woodie tracks and apparently likes
17:43 Randy: New scaling post for auo trendline (pyra math)
17:43 Ensign Howard: Let me take a 5 min break to rest my hands, then want to show you some cool color control added tothe DYO. You will like the new DYO cleverness -- so stick around but need to rest my wrists from typing for 75 mins
17:44 T!H0: ok, I can imagine how is it..
17:44 Randy: back to your post... thx H
17:54 Ensign Howard: back
17:55 T!H0: Howard I just realized the greatness of the ema sum angles:)
17:56 Ensign Howard: great tiho
17:56 Ensign Howard: Let me use this property form from the WoodieCCI template for a little bit of training on DYO
17:56 Ensign Howard: We have a value that we want to show in one of 3 colors and with 3 different messages. The value can be positive or negative, and it is just the magnitude of the value that we are interested in using for selecting a message and a color. If the value is near zero, ie less than 50, lets show the message Flat in red and draw with a red dash marker.
17:57 Ensign Howard: Line C and D accomplish this..Line D will only be executed when the value is < 50
17:58 Ensign Howard: Then it gets more interesting for the yellow zone test which is the range 50 to 70. First we do the lower limit test on Line E to be assured that the value is above 50. Then we turn around and test the upper limit on Line F, that is is also below 70, and when this is True, we plot in yellow and show Normal message.
17:59 Ensign Howard: This is a great example of two tests to qualify the value is between two thresholds.
18:00 Ensign Howard: Then finally line G will test for the value begin above 70 and plot the message Trending in green.
17:59 T!H0: They overlap -- can we do that in a message location
18:01 Ensign Howard: Possibly, but I would have to investigate handling the 3 colors and 3 messages in the Message location... you can try
18:01 Ensign Howard: But the implementation as shown served the purposes I sought to color a grid line on the 20% level and show a message in the right side margin
18:02 T!H0: yes that's great
New DYO Feature for Selecting Color Based on a Value
18:02 Ensign Howard: Now let me show a new cool color feature implemented in the 08-23 version
18:03 T!H0: BTW why not having a colorfull histograms by default in the Marker properties? like the blue/red round line but Histogram
18:04 Ensign Howard: ok, here is a dummy example for the sake of illustration. Oft times I have seen users stuggle with selecting a color based on some value. The current method has been to use a bunch of Do Next If flag tests to skip a line when the test fails and the multiple Do Next If line pairings are being used to basically plot the same marker in different colors.
18:06 Ensign Howard: Well, it all just got easier to do with the 08-23 version after seeing what some of you are trying to do with color.
18:06 Ensign Howard: So in this example, Line A through Line D are tests and when they are true, they do not plot any marker, yet I have the Show box checked.
18:07 Ensign Howard: What they are accomplishing is setting the color in a global paint can used by this DYO only.
18:07 Ensign Howard: So when Show is checked, and the Marker is BLANK, we will use that combination to remember the color from this line.
18:08 Ensign Howard: So, say our value is 2.5 and we start done through the DYO logic.
18:08 Ensign Howard: Line A is True, and the color loaded into the paint can is the orange color.
18:08 Ensign Howard: Then Line B is evaluated and is also True, so the color loaded into the paint can is the darker orange, replacing the orange.
18:08 Ensign Howard: Lines C and D are false, so no color transfer is done.
18:09 Ensign Howard: Now for the trick, when a color box is BLACK, and the paint can has been loaded through the use of the blank marker, we will use the color in the paint can instead of the color BLACK.
18:10 Ensign Howard: So Line E is painting its curve segment in one of 4 colors from orange, to dark red.
18:10 Ensign Howard: It will never paint it black.
18:10 T!H0: why?
18:10 Ensign Howard: Black is just the tag color to use the loaded paint can.
18:10 Ensign Howard: So in this example we have 4 tests, 4 colors, and a single line to plot the Value
18:11 Ensign Howard: It has nothing to do with GV 0. The value tested and plotted is coming from GV [2]
18:11 T!H0: ah ok
18:11 Ensign Howard: What I am teaching is the special effect you can implemente by having Show checked, and the Marker blank. This loads a special paint can, remembers this lines color, and can be used later by any marker trying to paint with the color Black. If you do not load this special paint can in this manner, painting with the color black will indeed paint with black. The special paint can is preloaded with black.
18:14 Ensign Howard: So, in this example, if Value is a zero or negative, none of the tests will be true and the curve will be painted with black and if Line E had a label, the label would have used the loaded paint can color
18:15 Ensign Howard: Any questions?
18:15 Ensign Howard: So in summary, pick the color by having Show be checked, and Marker be blank.
18:16 Ensign Howard: Use the selected color by selecting Black as the color for the marker after the color has been picked.
18:17 sojournern: that's cool Howard, thanks
18:17 Ensign Howard: If the color has not been picked, black will paint with black as the default
18:17 Ensign Howard: Should be backward compatible, and lead to DYO code reduction for selecting from multiple colors.
18:18 Ensign Howard: Let me post another simple example.
18:20 Ensign Howard: Here is an example of plotting the average line in Red or Green. Yes we can do it directly on the study property form, but am using DYO example to teach about color selection.
18:21 Ensign Howard: Line A primes the paint can with Red.
18:21 Ensign Howard: If the Line B test for the study line to be Rising (ascending) then this line will change the color bucket to green.
18:21 Ensign Howard: Now Line C plots the curve using the selected color, which will be either Red or Green, but not black and the visual result is our EMA line in the chart (top curve line) is red when descending and green when rising
Back Testing Study Alerts
18:23 Ensign Howard: ok, that is the material I wanted to cover in class, time now for Q&A and sojournern, you are first. Press CTRL+Q keys to raise your ? hand and I will call on you.
18:24 Ensign Howard: sojournern your question please
18:24 sojournern: Howard... I am wondering what I am doing wrong on the study alerts. I am trying to create an alert for the purpose of backtesting. I can only get the option of stop and reverse to work. I want to create a test where you are not in the market all the time. SAR only allows you to be long or short. If I use the other options I get no trades
18:26 Ensign Howard: ok, you will need alerts to implement Buy and different alert to implement Sell and different alerts to implement exits
18:26 sojournern: I tried that...but when I use an option for buy only -- I get no trades. I don't understand how to exit out and then go back to the same direction. Is there some trick to having just long trades and then exiting out?
18:29 Ensign Howard: No particular trick
18:29 sojournern: Which option on the trading system wil go long and then flat?
18:29 Ensign Howard: sojournern, sounds like the best way to help you is for you to package your implementation as a template and then e-mail me the template file with details of what you are trying to do. I will see if you are going down the right track and advise what needs to be changed to get it to work. ensign2@ensignsoftware.com
18:30 Ensign Howard: Option would be Buy if Out, or Buy if Short, etc -- and Exit can be Exit Any Position -- or Exit if Long, etc
18:30 sojournern: I have used that option..and I get no trades. It must be me...obviously
18:31 Ensign Howard: ok, need to see your work, and investigation time is probably longer than is appropriate for the class room.
18:31 sojournern: I understand
Request for New Features
18:31 Ensign Howard: lets move on to next users question
18:31 T!H0: Howard I have 3 requests:
- 3 Color Message Locations ,
- Color Histogram Marker by default,
- Show/Hide Subwindows shortcut
Is that possible?
18:32 Ensign Howard: what do you mean by color hist default?
18:33 T!H0: the Hist marker is single colored and I am using momentum/do next if each time. It would be easier if it was just colored like the red/blue Line Marker thus incorporating momentum in itself
18:34 Ensign Howard: 1 moment
18:35 Ensign Howard: Dual color markers are quite tricky to implement, and the marker list is alreay lengthy. So show me your DYO for the histogram coloring and it might be a candidate for the new color bucket selection and we might make your code more efficient.
18:36 T!H0: At themoment the way around is to use MA of the value 1/1 and then color the spread. OK one moment
18:36 Ensign Howard: yes, that would be one way to color the histogram. This new color picker might be better/easier
18:37 T!H0: Yes, I will try this lesson today
18:38 LB: Thanks Howard for the great new template and the new features re coloing on DYO....have a good evening.
18:38 Ensign Howard: thx lb
18:38 T!H0: The other thing I 'd like to have 4th and 5th day High and Low in the Daily Price Lines tool
18:39 Ensign Howard: tiho, see this example of one histogram marker plotting black, which uses the selected color form the test lines. Histogram now in red or green. I think this will be sufficient example for your DYO
18:39 T!H0: yes this is from today's lesson - it is great
18:39 Ensign Howard: DPL probably will not have 4th and 5th day references added.
18:40 T!H0: What about if we could do it with a single lline in the DYO props
18:40 Ensign Howard: The request for show/hide sub windows can be added to list of ideas to work on at time permits. The DYO messages support 2 line logic, plus blank if neither are True, but I do not plan on supporting 3 choices in the message location. To do that yourself you will have to resort to using 2 separate DYOs to do the 3 messages or more.
18:40 T!H0: Ok. Like the today's new logic
Sim Broker
18:42 Ensign Howard: ok Gator, did you have a question about sim broker? If sim broker results are always negative, I suspect you have incorrect entry for commission and it is the commissions that are overwhelming the profit results. Commission is per contract, not total. So if you pay $10 per contract commission, and trade 10 lots, you enter a 10 not 100. Otherwize program will deduct 10 * 100 as the commission and that might be why you have no profit, ever.
18:45 Ensign Howard: ok, guess gator is away, hopefully he will read the reply and my guess as to his problem hits the nail on the head.
DYO for Wave File
18:45 shawn: Can a DYO condition trigger a .wav file?
18:46 Ensign Howard: shawn, the DYO cannot play a wav file, but it could set a flag in a GV and then put on a study alert that reads the flag, and does the wav file playing
18:47 shawn: Then read with a reg alert? ok thx
18:47 Ensign Howard: If you can tolerate a simple Beep instead of a wav file being played, the DYO does have Beep capability in the Global Action category
18:47 shawn: oh
18:27 Ensign Howard: Here is a picture of the Woodie chart for YM today. You can compare the Sidewinder on the -200 grid line with our Angle coloring
18:45 Ensign Howard: Any one else with a question? If not, we will call it a day and wrap up the class.
18:46 Ensign Howard: Thanks for attending, and have a good week.... bye
18:46 Jo: Thank You Howard. Time was weel spent tonight.
18:46 bg: Thanks a million Howard
18:48 sum_1: Thx Howard.....
19:00 happy: thx gn
Thanks for the great class and welcome additions to DYO!