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@Big Mike: Please let me know if this is still politically correct.

In my opinion it is a pretty chart, and people over here would certainly not be offended. It was not easy to find the appropriate background in line with price action.

Today Gold showed a rare double top & spike pattern as can be seen from the 5 min chart. I would qualify it as a reversal pattern.



@Fat Tails

To help you out ... I'm willing to review all these types of pictures you have concerns about .... yea, it's a dirty job...
but someone has to do it ...

Besides ... if that is real fur she is laying on .... you just offended a whole new group of folks....


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This was a national ad ... so I'm guessing it meets the rules...

Please don't push it... let's not make this a "thing".

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Damn! Did I miss something?

It was just a picture of a beautiful woman. It seems that beauty is offensive.

There is a significant difference in cultural norms between Europe and the US. The plots of US films are often predictable as infidelity or adultery is worse of a crime than murder. The women who have committed that crime are typical eliminated during the film, while the hero continues to shoot around and kill people for good.....

I could follow the example of @ThatManFromTexas and post some of the national ads, but why should I?

The deleted message stands for a difference in underlying values. I have now replaced it with a non-offending one.



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It was a picture of a topless woman, and again, nudity is not allowed. There is no need to turn this into a 'thing'. Lets be mature and simply acknowledge nudity is not allowed on the site.

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It was just a picture of a beautiful woman. It seems that beauty is offensive.

There is a significant difference in cultural norms between Europe and the US. The plots of US films are often predictable as infidelity or adultery is worse of a crime than murder. The women who have committed that crime are typical eliminated during the film, while the hero continues to shoot around and kill people for good.....

I could follow the example of @ThatManFromTexas and post some of the national ads, but why should I?

The deleted message stands for a difference in underlying values. I have now replaced it with a non-offending one.



@Big Mike

I take full responsibility for getting @Fat Tails in hot water. He looks up to me like an older brother and was just trying to emulate my style .... it's not his fault ... please forgive him... since @lolu and I need him to write some code for us ....

@Fat Tails

You have to understand the difference in culture.... the USA was settled by Puritans.... people that left Europe because they considered Oliver Cromwell and John Calvin as just too liberal for their tastes ....

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Actually I have a question.

The little indicator which I have coded always plots the background

-> behind the price bars and DrawRectangle()
-> but in front of DrawRegion() thus covering the shaded zones

Does anybody have an idea how plot the image behind the areas shaded by DrawRegion()?


That was also the main reason that the pretty woman appeared nude. It was a technical problem with the indicator, as the shading did not work as expected.

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Actually I have a question.

The little indicator which I have coded always plots the background

-> behind the price bars and DrawRectangle()
-> but in front of DrawRegion() thus covering the shaded zones

Does anybody have an idea how plot the image behind the areas shaded by DrawRegion()?


That was also the main reason that the pretty woman appeared nude. It was a technical problem with the indicator, as the shading did not work as expected.

@Fat Tails

It involves using FillPolygon, but I don't know how to define the current points which are integers.

Graphics.FillPolygon Method (Brush, PointF[], FillMode) (System.Drawing)


 
Code
public void FillPolygonPointFFillMode(PaintEventArgs e)
{

    // Create solid brush.
    SolidBrush blueBrush = new SolidBrush(Color.Blue);

    // Create points that define polygon.
    PointF point1 = new PointF(50.0F, 50.0F);
    PointF point2 = new PointF(100.0F, 25.0F);
    PointF point3 = new PointF(200.0F, 5.0F);
    PointF point4 = new PointF(250.0F, 50.0F);
    PointF point5 = new PointF(300.0F, 100.0F);
    PointF point6 = new PointF(350.0F, 200.0F);
    PointF point7 = new PointF(250.0F, 250.0F);
    PointF[] curvePoints = {point1, point2, point3, point4, point5, point6, point7};

    // Define fill mode.
    FillMode newFillMode = FillMode.Winding;

    // Fill polygon to screen.
    e.Graphics.FillPolygon(blueBrush, curvePoints, newFillMode);
}

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@Fat Tails

It involves using FillPolygon, but I don't know how to define the current points which are integers.

Graphics.FillPolygon Method (Brush, PointF[], FillMode) (System.Drawing)


 
Code
public void FillPolygonPointFFillMode(PaintEventArgs e)
{

    // Create solid brush.
    SolidBrush blueBrush = new SolidBrush(Color.Blue);

    // Create points that define polygon.
    PointF point1 = new PointF(50.0F, 50.0F);
    PointF point2 = new PointF(100.0F, 25.0F);
    PointF point3 = new PointF(200.0F, 5.0F);
    PointF point4 = new PointF(250.0F, 50.0F);
    PointF point5 = new PointF(300.0F, 100.0F);
    PointF point6 = new PointF(350.0F, 200.0F);
    PointF point7 = new PointF(250.0F, 250.0F);
    PointF[] curvePoints = {point1, point2, point3, point4, point5, point6, point7};

    // Define fill mode.
    FillMode newFillMode = FillMode.Winding;

    // Fill polygon to screen.
    e.Graphics.FillPolygon(blueBrush, curvePoints, newFillMode);
}

But how do you know that FillPolygon will draw behind DrawRegion() and why would it do that?

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But how do you know that FillPolygon will draw behind DrawRegion() and why would it do that?


@Fat Tails

You have to use Z-order also.

I couldn't figure it out so I bought a program to handle it. I don't have the polygon code.


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