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Thanks xux99! It’s working flawlessly.
Your help in this means a lot to me. I want you to know that.

I’ll keep you posted 

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Thank you!

I loaded up the currency strength alerts indicator and it’s not updating with the rolling timeframe option enabled. Same with the option enabled on Orcus.
I’m posting a screenshot with reference to another indicator that rolls the H1 timeframe as well. Idk if the calculations are incorrect or if it’s just a matter of it not updating because of the weekend. If you could take a peek that would be awesome!

Thanks again!

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Here is a screenshot showing what I’m talking about.

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Hello xux99!

So I’ve been testing Orcus rigidly the past two weeks. Btw I looked up what or who Orcus was and I laughed. You have a little bit of gamer in you huh? 
Anyways I was out of the game with a personal injury for awhile so that’s why I didn’t update you, but I’m back on the charts again thank goodness.

So, back to business. I was watching Orcus and I noticed it always took heavy losses in the afternoon. The lower the timeframe, the heavier the losses (default settings).
I did some research and found out exactly how the Currency Strength Alerts indicator works. It works on a calculation that uses the bid ratio.

It’s Achilles heel is that it starts again at the onset of the Daily bar. The reason that this is a big issue is because the closer that current price is to the high and the low of the bar, the more influence smaller pip movements will have on the calculation of the strength for the currency. This is gonna throw a ton of false signals until price moves further away from the low or high and things will naturally settle down later in the day. This is why Orcus was getting hammered no matter what every single afternoon 

Ok now I thought about ways that I can mitigate this weakness in the indicator. Heres what I came up with.

1. Avoid trading the first few hours of the daily bar, until things settle down
2. Implement a rolling timeframe into Orcus

Orcus is doing much better by just skipping the first few hours of the D1 bar but I think it implementing a rolling timeframe would be a better way to go about it.
Say you took the bid ratio (currency strength) of 24 H1 bars to get a rolling representation of the last day. This way it would be consistent, rather than fully resetting every day. Basically, instead of working from the D1 bar, it will work from the last 24 H1 bars. By doing so, the calculation is always done on 24 hours of data…not however long through the daily bar that time happens to be.
The results will be different at the beginning of the day but will match exactly by the end of the day! 

Let me know what you think! Thanks!

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Wow thanks!

This weekend is gonna seem like an eternity before Monday rolls around!
I’m so excited to start testing it! 
If you’d like, I will keep you posted with results.

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Hello xux99!

First off I just want to express gratitude towards this that you have built and shared with everyone. It says a lot about you 
I recently started running this and I have built a mental picture of how the trades executed would look like on an oscillator based interface.

That being said I wanted to run some ideas by you 
The take profit by pips or percentage of account balance etc is great. However, the EA being in sync with the market would prove a more effective way of closing trades. In order to do this, I suggest closure of trades when the strong and weak currency have reverted back to the middle of the specified range.

So, for example, let’s say that the strength limit is set to 6 and the weak limit is set to 3.
AUD breaks 6 and JPY falls below 3 so now a buy is open on AUDJPY.
Let’s say that AUDJPY trends up for 100 pips, great trade now it’s time to get out should the market show weakness.
If you have the get out on the opposite signal enabled on the EA then you would have to wait for AUD to break below 3 and JPY to break above 6 for the signal to reverse and get you out of your buy trade. By this point, the market might have wiped out all of your profit and then some.
To avoid this I recommend adding an exit option to get out of the trade when the strong currency (AUD) has reverted back to the range between 6 and 3, or the strong currency AND the weak currency (JPY) have both reverted back into the specified range between 6 and 3. This way you’ll take smaller losses and secure more profits 

This is what came to mind to make Orcus more profitable. Let me know what you think and also whether or not I made any sense haha. I’d love to hear from you. Thanks again!

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