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[2018-02-20 10:31:05] #50 [Go To First Post]
WarriorTrader - Posts: 245
Hello, I have updated the Custom Profile for the current version of SC. Deletion of the profile is not working yet so you will have to close your chart book to delete the profile. Should get that working this weekend. The Custom Profile Fill Space study is also included. Load it on the remote chart that the profile is displayed on so you will have one space added to your fill space every 30 minutes. This way the profile will never get covered and you don’t have to manually add fill space throughout the day. Good Trading, WT Go here for pictures of the study (post #33) Custom Market Profile Chart \| Post: 112291 Date Time Of Last Edit: 2018-02-20 11:05:48


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[2018-02-26 08:59:49] #51 [Go To First Post]
WarriorTrader - Posts: 245
Hello, Here is the final updated version compiled in v1689. The Custom Profile Fill Space study is also included. Load it on the remote chart that the profile is displayed on so you will have one space added to your fill space every 30 minutes. This way the profile will never get covered and you don’t have to manually add fill space throughout the day. Good Trading -WT Date Time Of Last Edit: 2018-02-26 09:04:02


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[2018-03-02 00:28:13] #52 [Go To First Post]
WarriorTrader - Posts: 245
Hello, I fixed a bug that will only show up if you use a small time frame like 5 minutes. Good Trading, -WT


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[2018-04-06 07:50:45] #53 [Go To First Post]
WarriorTrader - Posts: 245
Hello, Here is an update for version 1729 64 bit and the older 32 bit. Corrected an error where the profile would be deleted after regular trading hours. The Custom Profile Fill Space study is also included. Load it on the remote chart that the profile is displayed on so you will have one space added to your fill space every 30 minutes. This way the profile will never get covered and you don’t have to manually add fill space throughout the day. Good Trading, --WT Keep a look out for some other tools that I have used over the years. Will see if I can offer free trials to get some of the stuff out there. We will see. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2018-04-06 07:56:04


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[2018-04-06 08:12:43] #54 [Go To First Post]
User884550 - Posts: 149
my sierra becomes very slow when adding this tool, also only 1 period is displayed, can you please chare the screenshot of your study settings? thanks

[2018-04-06 14:32:22] #55 [Go To First Post]
WarriorTrader - Posts: 245
can you please chare the screenshot of your study settings? Posts number 10 and 33 have screen shots of possible settings. Custom Market Profile Chart \| Post: 112291 Custom Market Profile Chart \| Post: 56822 https://www.sierrachart.com/Download.php?Folder=SupportBoard&download=11248 Let me know if you have other questions. Thx, --WT

[2018-04-06 15:57:04] #56 [Go To First Post]
WarriorTrader - Posts: 245
my sierra becomes very slow when adding this tool, also only 1 period is displayed Never load this study on a chart that has the Market Profile (TPO Chart) study loaded. You have to load the study on a bar chart (30 minute for most people) then add the Market Profile chart number in the settings. I have not made this clear in the later postings - so I suspect many people are loading the study on the wrong chart. Good Trading, --WT Date Time Of Last Edit: 2018-04-06 16:20:35

[2018-06-21 22:52:05] #57 [Go To First Post]
WarriorTrader - Posts: 245
Hello, Here are two example chartbooks. The version used is posted in #53: Custom Market Profile Chart \| Post: 144707 Good Trading, --WT


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[2018-06-23 08:49:36] #58 [Go To First Post]
Rassitude - Posts: 33
Just can't make it work. Add Custom profile to q 30 mn bar chart and I get a black screen.. Any idea? Thanks

[2018-06-25 20:03:01] #59 [Go To First Post]
WarriorTrader - Posts: 245
Just can't make it work. Add Custom profile to q 30 mn bar chart and I get a black screen.. Any idea? Did you add the dll's to the data directory? --WT Date Time Of Last Edit: 2018-06-25 20:03:17

[2018-06-26 12:31:10] #60 [Go To First Post]
Rassitude - Posts: 33
Yes sure all done as per the instructions and it won’t work..

[2018-06-26 20:54:30] #61 [Go To First Post]
WarriorTrader - Posts: 245
Yes sure all done as per the instructions and it won’t work.. Rassitude, don't know what to tell you? I just used the dll's from post #53 using SC Version 1768 and they worked fine. Someone else complained that there were problem with Version 1743 but that worked also. http://www.sierrachart.com/image.php?Image=1530045142932.png http://www.sierrachart.com/image.php?Image=1530045210500.png Personally, once I get a SC version that is stable I just stay with that stable version. I went 3 year without upgrading (not recommended). Currently V1729 is it for me. But I do use the current SC version to test the Custom Profile and it looks good on my end (both 64 and 32 bit). If you have anything else, let me know. I could recompile it in V 1768, and I will do that if I keep getting complaints. But right now the V1729 version works fine for all versions, at least from what I see. Good Trading, --WT

[2018-07-01 21:39:48] #62 [Go To First Post]
marty_nv - Posts: 85
Hi WT-dvl, Thank you for all your work. I have mentioned elsewhere of mounting your study. You suggested re-doing SC. However, I run several instances of SC, different versions--switching is easy. In attachment one v1696 (one SC instance), I show the progression of a folder with the needed downloads, to copies of directories installed,an "add study" window that doesn't show your studies, so that 5. a chart doesn't show your study. In attachment 2 (different SC instance--v1771), your example chartbook is shown, with directories showing loaded files, but studies do not appear on chart (nor in add custom study dialog box, not shown). I don't know how to see your lovely examples on my computer (w7 64-bit), but it would really be fun to play with. I am not a programmer, but have tried to follow SC directions for adding custom studies. I love SC TPO Charts Thank you for your efforts.


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[2018-07-06 09:01:20] #63 [Go To First Post]
WarriorTrader - Posts: 245
Hello marty_nv, Please do me a favor. Try version 1689 and use the dll's in post #51 - link below. The example chartbooks may not work in that version but the custom study should at least show up. Custom Market Profile Chart \| Post: 141216 If that works then I can compile it for the current SC version. Bye the way, V1696 will not work because the 64 bit dll is compiled in 1729 (so you have to use v1729 and up) Good Trading, -WT

[2018-07-26 14:15:12] #64 [Go To First Post]
DogBone01 - Posts: 14
Hello WT. Thank you for creating this study. I am also a former WindoTrader client and have been working to make my profile chart the same as it was over there. I have attached a screen shot of what I have so far per your instructions. Cannot thank you enough for this study; it makes a significant difference to visually see the collapsed profile next to the expanded profile. DogBone01 http://www.sierrachart.com/image.php?Image=1532614453607.png

[2018-08-01 13:52:57] #65 [Go To First Post]
DogBone01 - Posts: 14
Does anyone know how to remove the vertical dotted line that separates the collapsed profile and the expanded profile? Thank you again for posting this study. DogBone01 http://www.sierrachart.com/image.php?Image=1533131541967.png

[2018-08-01 17:40:59] #66 [Go To First Post]
marty_nv - Posts: 85
Hi WT, Thank you for your input. Attachment one--2 dll downloads Attachment two--Rollback to 1689 per your instructions Attachment 3--PAT 180801-3 Candle,TPO charts, respective dialogue boxes 1689 allowed me to generate a chartbook with the 2 dll files in the "add studies" dialog box. But as seen in attachment 3, your study doesn't appear, even though the studies are listed in dialog boxes.


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[2018-08-01 17:50:13] #67 [Go To First Post]
marty_nv - Posts: 85
Hi WT, Continuing discussion, I have attached your 2 chartbook examples from post 57 and my chartbook for comparison. But your studies don't appear on your examples, nor mine. Any suggestions you may have, I appreciate. Marty


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[2018-08-03 20:34:09] #68 [Go To First Post]
WarriorTrader - Posts: 245
Does anyone know how to remove the vertical dotted line that separates the collapsed profile and the expanded profile? The line marks the overnight high and low. No option at this time to remove it. Maybe if you remove the overnight data from the bar chart? Glad you find the study useful. It makes a big difference to me also. marty_nv, You are using Windows XP right? I upgraded to Win 10 in early 2017, so any dll posted in 2016 will be compiled in Windows XP - you will have to find a SC version that will work with that dll (around V1587 the WinXP version stops working). Will look through what you posted but don't think there is much that I can do. Thx, WT

[2018-08-03 20:34:11] #69 [Go To First Post]
WarriorTrader - Posts: 245
Does anyone know how to remove the vertical dotted line that separates the collapsed profile and the expanded profile? The line marks the overnight high and low. No option at this time to remove it. Maybe if you remove the overnight data from the bar chart? Glad you find the study useful. It makes a big difference to me also. marty_nv, You are using Windows XP right? I upgraded to Win 10 in early 2017, so any dll posted in 2016 will be compiled in Windows XP - you will have to find a SC version that will work with that dll (around V1587 the WinXP version stops working). Will look through what you posted but don't think there is much that I can do. Could be a Windows 7 issue also, I just don't know. Thx, WT Date Time Of Last Edit: 2018-08-06 18:02:30

[2018-08-06 16:18:20] #70 [Go To First Post]
DogBone01 - Posts: 14
Thank you for replying WT. I tried removing the overnight session data from the 30min bar chart; thank you for the suggestion. Here is what I have now. For some reason it displayed a short vertical dotted line before the 1800EDT session print. http://www.sierrachart.com/image.php?Image=153357185787.png Trade 'em well, DogBone01

[2018-08-06 18:59:26] #71 [Go To First Post]
marty_nv - Posts: 85
Hi WT, As mentioned in post 63, I use w7, 64 bit--not XP. Thanks for your thoughts. Your study appears to have interesting possibilities. My current computer works great on w7, my next computer will have whatever MS OS has compatible with SC--finest platform available. Thanks for your study. Marty

[2018-08-07 04:26:31] #72 [Go To First Post]
DogBone01 - Posts: 14
I was able to remove the dotted line at the beginning of the evening session prints by changing the evening session start time from 16:30:00 to 18:00:00. The only prints that are missing now are the runoff; not an issue for me. Here is what it looked like after the 1800 evening session opening: http://www.sierrachart.com/image.php?Image=1533615796954.png

[2018-08-07 04:57:58] #73 [Go To First Post]
WarriorTrader - Posts: 245
As mentioned in post 63, I use w7, 64 bit--not XP. Thanks for your thoughts. Your study appears to have interesting possibilities. My current computer works great on w7, my next computer will have whatever MS OS has compatible with SC--finest platform available. Thanks for your study. Marty If the 1689 version worked, then I could of just updated everything to the current SC version and the problem would of been solved. But since the 1689 version did not work, something else is going on that is above my pay grade and SC will not give you support because it is a user study. There is an incompatibility somewhere. It is compiled in Visual Studio 2015 if that helps (probably not because you are not a programmer). Good Trading, WT DogBone01, Good-looking chart. How come you disabled the "break out coloring?" It makes thing just a little more interesting. --WT Date Time Of Last Edit: 2018-08-07 04:59:39

[2018-08-07 05:55:24] #74 [Go To First Post]
DogBone01 - Posts: 14
WT, thank you for creating it. I'm trying to get it as close to my WindoTrader display as possible; it's getter there. I am grateful you spent the time effort and energy to make it and posted it publicly. Regarding not using break out coloring (or any other coloring/indicator/etc), it's for 2 main reasons, the most important is psychological. Our minds are easily duped into fixating on visual objects, especially when we focus on them. Even displaying lines/zones on a chart should be carefully considered and kept to a minimum. Anything displayed in front of us has the ability to cause our minds to solely focus on that one data point, and stop considering all other relevant information, including the current context of the market. This takes our minds away from reading the order flow in the market, causing a long list of errors in decision making, bias, and judgment (from Daniel Kahneman's lifelong work "Thinking, Fast & Slow"). For example, if we display break out coloring, and the market starts to breakout above a horizontal reference, the chart will change the color appropriately and our minds will get fixated on that one scenario, causing us to only consider taking a long break out trade. This will work until the market prints a look above and fail, where a fade trade now has higher odds of working. Once the coloring has changed, our minds will not consider the opposite trade (look above and fail) and will cause us to stay solely focused on the upside breakout trade. This is where many traders can get into trouble, allowing the endowment effect to take control of their trading, trying over and over to take another long breakout trade, and they will continue to do so as long as their chart's breakout trade color is being displayed. This entire sequence of events happens without the trader ever considering it could be a look above and fail, due to that one data point of a color that changed on their chart. I believe the key to becoming consistently profitable in the markets is to fist study how the markets work and move, and then study how our minds work and learn how to take advantage of that information. Professional traders are killers, and they understand how our minds work, and will take advantage of it every chance they get. The second reason is due to simplicity and what I call the "process of subtraction". The more we remove from our charts, the more we are able to read the context of the market and just react to what we are seeing. For example, if we think a long breakout trade above a horizontal reference has higher odds of working, we take that trade when it presents itself, then get back to reading the order flow of the market, monitoring for continuation as Jim Dalton teaches. Then if the market prints an excess high with a rapid move back down, we immediately flatten our position, take a step back, and consider if the odds have changed from a breakout trade to a look above and fail. If we believe the odds are now higher for a look above and fail trade, we immediately execute that fade trade, then get back to reading the order flow of the market, monitoring for continuation. Forgive me if this seems confusing. It's hard to effectively write this type of stuff. Trade 'em well, DogBone01

[2018-08-07 21:36:39] #75 [Go To First Post]
WarriorTrader - Posts: 245
Here is the Custom Profile reposted. It is compiled in SC version 1729 64 bit (CustomProfile_U_64.dll) and the older 32 bit (CustomProfile_U.dll). It will work on any SC version 1729 and up. Sample chartbooks are also included in continuation post below this one.


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