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hi Pervaz I use Finspread for one Futures system I trade - completely mechanical. Then I use D4F for spreadbetting stocks - I like their interface and narrow spreads. I was on holiday until last weekend so didn't do my scanning as normal. I did make money with a long on Aviva but I got out...

Hi Pervaz You are right of course, if all agreed we would not have a market! I suspect that we are both scanning but looking for something completely different. Looking at your chart it might be the time frame we use. I am looking to hold trades for 2 to 5 days (perhaps more) and the reason I...

Hi Pervaz Sorry, but can you run that by me again? I saw your post on another thread and thought I understood what you were doing but now I'm not so sure. The real reason for this question is that on the weekend I usually go through FTSE100 stocks looking for likely candidates for swing...

It seems that this new version of ZA has solved that conflict with NAV. I'm sure Oatman is right that the previous ZA had an Anti-virus element. During this install you are asked if you are using AV and I guess this gets around any conflict. I also run Adaware and have just updated to SE with...

Zone Alarm - new update and Norton I run Norton AV and Zone Alarm (free version) and a little while ago when I updated to ZA Version 50_590 it caused a conflict with Norton when scanning e-mails so I uninstalled and reverted to the older ZA version 45_594. I think there was a mention in a...

Sorry - I'll try to be a bit clearer. I code one MACD as an IF - such that if it's less than zero it's the value ( Mov( C,12,E ) - Mov( C,26,E ) ) - Mov( ( Mov( C,12,E ) - Mov( C,26,E ) ),9,E ) other wise it's Zero. It looks like the second image. Then another one also as IF - such that if...

Just in the properties box - it's not code. BTW - I have used the weekly MACD for some time now mainly as a "trend confirmation" as it crosses zero. How do you use it?

Not as simple as it looks! Zambuck's code will give a histogram all right but not the fancy colours or the enclosing lines, at least not in V7.02 which I use. The way i found to do it was to code two histograms - one with values greater than zero and one less than zero. Apply both to the chart...

Hi again. I've just flicked through the stocks I do have and found this one: AVR - Avitar inc - quoted on AMEX with stock value below $1 (This is old data because I stopped downloading data for all these odd stocks) The P&F chart comes up as usual. with default box size set to 0.03 and i...

Hi Harriet I'm a bit dumb! Just noticed you're posting from OZ. AEX is an Australian stock? I'll have a look through my data (UK and US) sometime today.

Statistically 2 standard deviations contains 95% of the data. This is the normal setting for Bollingers and reducing the band width to 1.8 Std.Dev. can be easily done in Metastock by changing the Band properties. A snapshot of the properties window attached here. However NOT being a...

Can you give an example. It seems to work for me, but I'm using V7.02 so it may be different.

"Envelope" in Metastock will do all this EXCEPT guarantee that 95% of the price is inside the envelope. Parameters: Time periods, Vertical shift (%), Horizontal shift (Periods), MA Method and Price field. However this is not a channel as I understand the definition. Metastock has a Standard...

Hi Not sure if this is what you are looking for but Bollinger bands at 2 standard deviations (the default setting) encloses 95% of the price. However it normally uses the close as the price array and therefor ignores hi/low figures. You can of course change this to give slightly different...

Try this as a chart.