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amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Carl Sanders" <traden4x@xxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have been looking for a similar thing and have found a provider
that does
> something called volume profile. Very much similar to what is done
by ensign
> charts or what you talk about.
>
> If you watch the first 30-60 seconds of this swish file, it will
show you
> its use and how you can change time frames and see the volumes
there. Very
> useful in finding where actual support and resistance is while trading.
>
> Carl
>
>
>
> > TJ,
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > "True", or "Classic" Market Profile if you like, works like this...
> >
> > Clasically a day is split into 30 min segments. Each "letter code"
> > represents a 30 min segment. You can also define each 30 min segment
> > by a graphical block of a different color as per,
> >
> >
http://fin-alg.com/MPSmall.png
> >
> > But truthfully "letter codes" are much better because they form a
> > chronological order which is important. A letter is placed on the
> > histogram at each price point which traded during that 30 min period -
> > from the leftmost column forward. Thus building a typical bell shaped
> > horizontal histogram.
> >
> > I am not sure about the full functionality offered by the NinajTrader
> > plug-in that Pete uses... Pete, can you comment on this...?
> >
> > But I can imagine that it would allow such things as user defined
> > periods (i.e. the 30 min segment is variable), the ability to form
> > composite Market Profiles... i.e. you can combine a number of
> > concurrent days (still with 30 min segments) to appear in one market
> > profile that way building a bigger picture of the market place,
> > returning information about he profile built such as the width (in
> > number of segments) of the widest point of the profile etc...
> >
> > I think if you look at this diagram you will see what I mean...
> >
> >
> >
http://fin-alg.com/mp.jpg
> >
> > Again, love to be able to achieve this on AmiBroker. The more
> > experince I get as a trader, the greater my desire to move away from
> > the vanilla price charting. Maybe that's a trend that will grow more
> > widely.
> >
> > Would this be hard to implement TJ?
> >
>