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I wonder if it would be clearer and better to start a dedicated thread in the appropriate fio area and move the strategy development posts across to it?
I started it in the above thread so possibly there are more people to help with issues? But I am open to anything as long as we can keep working on our project.
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@jmh13, saw your new posts in Strategy for free and would appreciate you using a different - NEW - thread for this strategy.
The Want your strategy free is generally for members looking to get a base line strategy started. From there they usually would form their own NEW thread to discuss it further. If that create strategy thread gets bogged down with daily postings of this BOT then the contributors whom do most of the work there will likely become frustrated and possibly stop helping these initial strategy requests.
It is simple to create a new thread focused on this BOT. I recommend naming it based on the info about the bot maybe something like Unirenko MA Crossover BOT. I think this will take you to starting a new thread:
Perhaps take a look at the Percy methods threads to see how large these can become. And here is a view of how they can be documented into articles once some rules are established:
One other minor hint. If you posted something and you are the last post and it is less than 24 hours - it is easier to "edit" your last post than to create a new one. You can also delete a couple of the the posts you may have used for testing within 24 hours just to shorten the threads.
I wish you and all the traders here luck! Good Trading All !!!
That thread is not appropriate for you to move to. It was established so that a person who had an idea for a strategy could get it coded, exactly like the thread where you can have an indicator coded. It is meant for short, one-off programming requests addressed to the community.
If you switch your whole group and your discussion over to this thread, you will swamp it with something it is not meant for. You have had a couple of hundred posts so far in your discussion thread, with loads of charts posted daily. You cannot take that kind of activity into a thread that has a specific, long-established purpose that it will lose when you arrive.
Find a forum topic that fits what you are doing -- you can look at the main page of futures.io for ideas -- and then open a new thread there. Do not move into some thread that is already there.
I do not have a concrete suggestion right now, because I have not gotten into the details of what your thread has been, and may not have the time to for a couple of days -- I can look at it if you would like, but it's really your call, except for one thing: do not invade an existing thread with the massive volume of posts you have been making. That would be disruptive and the moderators would have to take action.
Also, you may not have considered this, but the strategy thread you suggested is in the Elite section, and if you have any non-Elite members who are contributing, you would have frozen them out. The current location is non-Elite.
I would appreciate it if, once you have an idea where you want to go, that you let me know first. While it's not really my call since it's your thread, it may become something the moderators need to adjust if it's not an appropriate place.
Thanks.
Bob.
When one door closes, another opens.
-- Cervantes, Don Quixote
I have had a chance to look into this thread's history, and I understand the situation much better now.
1. Initially, you opened it as a vendor review thread for the Targets Trading Pro bot, asking for any member experience with it -- which was totally reasonable.
2. It was subsequently brought out that there is a connection with veritas, which does have a review thread and which is extensively reviewed there. At that point, either I or one of the other moderators normally would have simply closed this thread, with a link to the veritas review thread. However, this was overlooked, and now we have a topic that is split between different threads, which we do not want to continue.
3. You then found a free trigger lines indicator, and you and several posters pointed out that the bot was just doing some kind of crossover system. This would have been the time to stop posting about Targets Trading Pro, and, if you wanted to move ahead with a new project using trigger lines or something else, you could have opened up a new thread for that.
4. Where we are, of course, is that the idea was taken up with enthusiasm, but in this thread, not a new one, and I am now typing what will be something like post number 236, instead of number 15 or 20, which is all the original review thread should have had.
So we have a duplicate topic, and members interested in specific subjects, whether Target Trading Pro or Veritas or your new project will have more trouble than they should finding posts that they are looking for.
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Here's what we need to do:
(a) You should open a new thread devoted to it. Do not use the name Target Trading Pro anywhere in the thread title. I will point to a few reasonable possibilities below, or you can find any others that you prefer. It should be a new thread, not someone else's existing one. (Once you have your thread up and running, if you want to make a request in one of the strategy threads for someone to help, and if you can specify your exact criteria, that would be OK. Just don't move the entire group that contributes to this thread into someone else's thread or it will cause more problems.)
(b) Put a link in that thread referring back to the first post in this one (or the last post, if you prefer), so members will be able to refer back to what has gone before.
(c) Post the link to the new thread in this one, so anyone following this thread will know where it is continued.
I will then close this thread. Closing it will leave it available for reading, but not new posting.
You will be re-launched.
There could be other ways to do this, but I am not, for example, going to manually move over two hundred posts from this thread to the new one. We have to work with the situation as it is now.
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You can locate your new thread anywhere that makes sense.
There are several possibilities in the general NinjaTrader category: https://nexusfi.com/ninjatrader/ . Use either the New Thread button in the general Ninja category, or pick a sub-forum. Note that some sub-forums that mention automation are specifically for programmers only, but not all are.
You are not limited to these, and just note that picking a location that is in the Elite category will limit who gets to participate. If you want to do this, that's fine of course.
You could check out a few others starting with the list of topics on the FIO main page and drilling down.
Let me know what you have decided, and we can wrap this up.
Bob.
When one door closes, another opens.
-- Cervantes, Don Quixote
Thanks for making all of us aware of how the threads operate. I have reached out to some of the participants and hopefully they will get back to me so we can start a new thread asap. Also it was a big help that you explained everything.
All relevant questions. I'll hit some of the high points, and try to basically touch on all of them in some way. Let me point out first that the proposed solution is to close, not eliminate, the present thread. A closed thread can still be read, just not added to.
My understanding from earlier entries in this thread was that Targets Trading Pro was actually sold by Veritas (Bob Amico). If so, then it really should not have a separate thread, but members who are interested in Target Trading Pro should be directed to the Veritas thread, here:
I Get email from and have seen his youtube videos here:
Trading a real account he says. It does look good! Does anyone have input?
If this is not so, then yes, there should be a separate thread for Targets Trading Pro, but it should not be filled up with the charts and posts that are not actually about the Targets Trading Pro product, but are the work of members who are creating a new set of ideas. I don't think more than the first handful of the posts in the present thread are directly about Targets Trading Pro, and the rest is about all the new material. At present, it is not a review thread for any vendor's product, realistically speaking. That's the problem with keeping this thread open.
If in fact TTP (I'll abbreviate so I don't have to always type it ) is not a procuct by Veritas or Bob Amico, its owner, and if it is not sold by them just under a different name, then sure, there should be a thread for it. Is this the case? I'm not sure, but I gathered that there is that connection. Tell me if there is or if there is not. If it is in fact just another Amico product, it makes sense that that is where it should be, in the Amico thread.
The moderator team, based on all the relevant information. Our concern is for the entire membership, such as the new member who comes in next year and is looking for vendor information on TTP. That person should find out about the connection to Amico, and should be directed to the vendor thread on his company so they can get a good understanding of who they are dealing with.
If we could untangle the many things that were tangled up in this thread (sorry to put it that way), then that would be fine.
By post #5, the connection to Amico (I gather he is who is meant by "Bang Bang" ) is made, and elaborated on in the next few posts, and by post #16 @sharmas is starting to post his charts using trigger lines and a LizardRenko bar. And we're off to the races. There are now 238 posts in this thread, and this one will be 239.
The charts and posts are interesting, by the way, and have made this an interesting thread. I am not trying to mess up what has been done, nor to dampen anyone from continuing.
But this is no longer a vendor review thread, the way I see it anyway. Anyone coming here looking for TTP is going to see mention of it early on, and yes, in some of the later posts where you show how to duplicate his entries, but mainly they are going to see these great charts and want to find out more about them. At the point when these became prominent, the focus of the thread had been lost as a vendor review thread.
They will not have found out much more about TTP than is contained in the first eight or ten posts, and that will mostly be that (1) TTP is Bob Amico, and (2) the same thing can be done better with freely or very cheaply available indicators and chart types, or at least that is the opinion of the contributors up to that point. Both of these are good to know. But the point was made early in the thread, and the rest was not really about TTP, but about the new charts and systems that might be better. And all that deserves and belongs in its own thread.
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I am not being the bad guy. I do not think I am being unreasonable. I do owe it to the community to make sure that vendor threads serve their purpose, and trading or development threads serve theirs, and that members can find what they need without confusion.
The proposed solution would leave this thread available to be read at any time so the posts and charts and ideas in it would not be lost, but, being closed (not deleted), it could not have anything new added to it. A link would be added to point members to the existing Amico/Veritas thread for anything related to TTP, and also a link to the new development thread where all new work on the new subjects would be done. Nothing would be lost, and what was being presented in the now-separate threads would be more clear and more accessible.
If we can find a way that takes care of the concerns and interests of all, that will be best. But the good of the forum as a whole, meaning, the ability of the members to find what they are looking for and to take advantage of the resources here, has to come first.
I am open to suggestions.
Bob.
When one door closes, another opens.
-- Cervantes, Don Quixote
I truly appreciate your through explanation. I totally understand what you are trying to do and you do a great job doing it.
I like jmont1's idea and will open new thread as he suggested. Thanks again for your time.
I will point to a few reasonable possibilities below, or you can find any others that you prefer. It should be a new thread, not someone else's existing one. (Once you have your thread up and running, if you want to make a request in one of the strategy threads for someone to help, and if you can specify your exact criteria, that would be OK. Just don't move the entire group that contributes to this thread into someone else's thread or it will cause more problems.)
We have to work with the situation as it is now.
) is not a procuct by Veritas or Bob Amico, its owner, and if it is not sold by them just under a different name, then sure, there should be a thread for it. Is this the case? I'm not sure, but I gathered that there is that connection. Tell me if there is or if there is not. If it is in fact just another Amico product, it makes sense that that is where it should be, in the Amico thread.