rogeryrogery wrote: Mon Sep 26, 2022 11:04 pm I don't think there is option for alert on semafor - As It moves every time price move in that direction. It's just look nice once price stop moving to that direction and you see woww wish I could take oppositie trade from here.

FourXXXX wrote: Tue Sep 27, 2022 1:26 pm I can write one if there is enough interest, same as the TakeProfit indicator posted way back. It will alert you every time the Semaphore appears or moves to a new bar.

normannasty wrote: Mon Sep 26, 2022 6:47 pm To answer to your question, yes I made a lots of backtest. I made videos also which I uploaded to here (I'm not sure they are still there).
First I was confused because It was not clear whats happening.
If you want to test the M1 add the M15 chart also. Look both at the same time as U can see on many screenshot here. Trade the 15M trend as XARD suggested. It means 15M t2MA is your roadmap. Follow that, but follow it down on the 1M chart. And yes you can test this with soft4fx.

samxtrader wrote: Tue Sep 27, 2022 7:08 pm Hi mate , do you still have the videos, can you post them again , they will be of great help.

Although someone did mention these videos before , I did search for them, with no luck

Please post them again or someone needs to make them again, there’s many many traders here who don’t fully understand the direction of the trend due to the repainting nature of the dots, I’m ever so battling everyday to understand it, all we get told is to read from page 1, but there’s so many variables in explanations that one loses himself, there is not a step by step guide for us.

Somebody really has to make a video , it will benefit every trader here without doubt. We will be ever grateful.

We appreciate mr Xard has done a lot for us, few have fully understood the direction of the trend , but we need that step by step guide or a video explaining the direction in real-time not in backtesting like the 2nd dot PDF guide. Somebody please intervene

Thanks

samxtrader wrote: Tue Sep 27, 2022 7:08 pm We appreciate mr Xard has done a lot for us, few have fully understood the direction of the trend ,

FourXXXX wrote: Tue Sep 27, 2022 9:11 pm The direction of the trend is shown by a second dot and a second dot is simply a higher low or a lower high. If the market is making lower highs and lower lows the trend is down, if it is making higher highs and higher lows the trend is up. So the reason we use second dots is that you have a confirmed trend as the second dot is a lower high or a higher low, add a second confirmation using moving averages and you have a strong signal to buy or sell.

The movement of dots is very predictable, if the market is making new highs and you have a larger dot appear it will move higher if prices are higher. You need to keep in mind that under every large dot are all the dots of every size smaller than it, but you only see the smaller ones appear when the larger one moves. A dot will stop moving higher if a dot of the same size forms at the low of a retracement. So when you see a large dot at the high and the market retraces and a small dot appears at the low of the retracement what will happen when the price moves higher than the previous high??? The large dot will move to the new high and a smaller dot will remain at that spot.

Another thing about dots is that size matters, each larger size is showing a high or low from a higher time frame. The bigger the dot the higher the time frame it is from and therefore the more significant is, each dot is showing levels of support and resistance. Also you not only have second dots of the small size, you also count larger dots as if the smaller ones are not there. Second dots from larger dots is a stronger indication than smaller dots.

When you look at a chart think about what will the dots do if the price moves up and what will happen if the price moves down. It is not hard to do if you follow what I have written above, soon it will become second nature and you will not need to think about it much.

FourXXXX wrote: Tue Sep 27, 2022 9:11 pm The direction of the trend is shown by a second dot and a second dot is simply a higher low or a lower high. If the market is making lower highs and lower lows the trend is down, if it is making higher highs and higher lows the trend is up. So the reason we use second dots is so that you have a confirmed trend as the second dot is a lower high or a higher low, add a second confirmation using moving averages and you have a strong signal to buy or sell.

The movement of dots is very predictable, if the market is making new highs and you have a larger dot appear it will move higher if price moves higher. You need to keep in mind that under every large dot is all the dots of every size smaller than it, but you only see the smaller ones appear when the larger one moves. A dot will stop moving higher if a dot of the same size forms at the low of a retracement. So when you see a large dot at the high and the market retraces and a small dot appears at the low of the retracement what will happen when price moves higher than the previous high??? The large dot will move to the new high and a smaller dot will remain at that spot.

Another thing about dots is that size matters, each larger size is showing a high or low from a higher time frame. The bigger the dot the higher the time frame it is from and therefore the more significant is, each dot is showing levels of support and resistance. Also you not only have second dots of the small size, you also count larger dots as if the smaller ones are not there. Second dots from larger dots are a stronger indication than smaller dots.

When you look at a chart think about what will the dots do if price moves up and what will happen if price moves down. It is not hard to do if you follow what I have written above, soon it will become second nature and you will not need to think about it much.