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Big Lots Block Alert Feature(s) Addition 27 Aug 2010 23:06 #1

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Hello forum members,

I would like to incorporate the Big Lot Block Alert in my trading system. It is the volume reference that I need to help show the price push that I need. I trade the CL and the TF and noticed that the Lot size alert level needs to be set lower than in the examples I have seen (ES). I preferred the limit to be set at a 20 lot. That was the average threshold that I noticed that big buyers would start at. The problem is that it created a mess of the chart and I would start to lose the numbers and dots within each other. They would start to pile on each other especially on 11:28 6 Range bar. See the screenshot here:
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I was wondering if there was a way to modify the indicator to display the incoming lots and not lose the information in the midst of all the other data plots. I was thinking on dumbing down the indicator to show two numbers: the cumulative lot total and the most recent incoming lot size.

It would be nicer to keep the plots as close to price as possible. One restriction will be the spacing of the bars. I like having as much of price I can on my chart so that causes the dots to clump together (see above picture).

Is it possible to add a(some) features to account for this high activity and low alert level? Does anyone else have any ideas?
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Re: Big Lots Block Alert Feature(s) Addition 27 Aug 2010 23:15 #2

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Hi Ryan and welcome to the forums. I like some of your ideas and will be looking at implementing some of them when I get a chance. Thanks for the suggestions!

Dan
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Re: Big Lots Block Alert Feature(s) Addition 01 Sep 2010 22:11 #3

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Here is what I now have for NT6.5 and it seems to work nicely. If the Text mode is set to Compact_Text you will only see three numbers max; the number of block alerts, the last block size and total contracts of all blocks per bar. Also there is less overhead with the new mode.


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Last Edit: 02 Sep 2010 00:40 by eDanny.
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Re: Big Lots Block Alert Feature(s) Addition 01 Sep 2010 23:07 #4

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That was one of the ideas that I sketched out and you nailed it. It looks great. Even the normal mode looks cleaner. Overall, I say it is as perfect as it can get. Ill try it out and see how it goes.
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Re: Big Lots Block Alert Feature(s) Addition 02 Sep 2010 05:08 #5

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I am also a big user of this indicator and have had the same situation. I like how it looks now and can´t wait to test it.

Gerardo
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Re: Big Lots Block Alert Feature(s) Addition 02 Sep 2010 18:54 #6

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This indicator has been updated in the NT7 version also. Both have replaced the old indicators in the store.

Dan
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