Hi guys,

I have tried to load a couple of my indicators from MT4 which are crucial to my Live strategies, so I need to make sure these work on your platform before I can start to rewrite my strategies. Naturally without these indicators working anyway there is no chance of trying to convert my mt4 strategy.

First the DTOSC indicator - there are 4 verisions. DTOSC 5 / DTOSC 8 / DTOSC 13 / DTOSC 21 I have compiled them and they seem to compile ok, but when I add them to a chart there is only one line instead of two in the indicator window and both values are the same for 0 and 1. They should be different - essentially there is a fast and a slow line.
I think the issue may be related to the use of iMAOnArray for the SD and SK values.
If I just change the setting in the indicator for for SD and SK I then get two lines and two values. But they are actually a moving average of the array values.
I have copied the iMAOnArray function details from MT4 for you below. Can you cater for this?


Is there a way for me to see how jforex has converted the code into the jfx file - ie can I somehow convert this back to a .java file? As at the moment the only way to see the code is as the mq4 files.

Second, I have a SCS_Swings indicator which is very similar to the ZigZag indicator, but instead of input variables Depth/Deviation/Backstep I can select Minimum bars and then either a Minimum No of points per swing or a minimum percentage. It seems to compile ok, but then nothing appears on the chart, and I then start to get other error messages.
Is there anyway to see the code for the ZigZag indicator?



Also in the indicator setting what do the following mean (I can't find this in the wiki or help)
Tooltip,
Value,
Recalculate on new candle
Then all the references to Connector eg Connector lookback, Connector shift etc



Thanks

Simon


double iMAOnArray( double array[], int total, int period, int ma_shift, int ma_method, int shift) Calculation of the Moving Average on data stored in a numeric array. Unlike iMA(...), the iMAOnArray function does not take data by symbol name, timeframe, the applied price. The price data must be previously prepared. The indicator is calculated from left to right. To access to the array elements as to a series array (i.e., from right to left), one has to use the ArraySetAsSeries function.
Parameters:
array[] - Array with data.
total - The number of items to be counted. 0 means whole array.
period - Averaging period for calculation.
ma_shift - MA shift
ma_method - MA method. It can be any of the Moving Average method enumeration value.
shift - Index of the value taken from the indicator buffer (shift relative to the current bar the given amount of periods ago).

Sample:
double macurrent=iMAOnArray(ExtBuffer,0,5,0,MODE_LWMA,0);
double macurrentslow=iMAOnArray(ExtBuffer,0,10,0,MODE_LWMA,0);
double maprev=iMAOnArray(ExtBuffer,0,5,0,MODE_LWMA,1);
double maprevslow=iMAOnArray(ExtBuffer,0,10,0,MODE_LWMA,1);
//----
if(maprev<maprevslow && macurrent>=macurrentslow)
Alert("crossing up");

To fix DTOSC please replace the following code

#property indicator_buffers 2

with:

#property indicator_buffers 4

And here is modified SCS_Swings:

Thank you support

I have loaded these onto my demo account and compared back to my MT4 ECN. (I appreciate their will be slight pricing differences, but as you can see from the chart examples they are fairly close so I would expect a close resemblance between the two for the indicators.)

There seem to be some differences.

On the DTOSC - I am not sure why I needed 4 buffers - I only need 2 values? (Essentially a fast and slow line). However none of the values seem to marry up to my MT4 platform. This can be seen from the screen shot comparisons.

On the Swings indicator, it seems to be quite close, until i try changing the settings.
I should be able to adjust Minbar and MinPoints (leaving minpercent=0) or Minbar and MinPercent (leaving Minpoints=0) and the swing shape should change accordingly. It does to a degree but if i drop it down to lower settings eg minbar=1 and minpoints=30 (as per screenshot) Jforex doesn't seem to change to pick up all the smaller swings.

please could you take another look?
thanks for your help so far...

This issue is fixed now and it will be available with the next DEMO release.

thanks support - is that in reference to the issue with the DTOSC or the Swings indicator, or hopefully both?
when is the next release due?

The release is scheduled next week.