I'm curious about how MC provides Heikin-Ashi candles. It looks like the calculation is correct, but why is the price different than the live market? This makes these charts unusable, correct?
Also, has anyone attempted to test anything automated on these charts? Since the close is not the close, the open is not the open, and the current price isn't the current price... I'm confused as to how anyone uses these.
The literature on these candles is located here: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... eikin-Ashi
Here are a few quotes from the page that seem to contradict themselves:
"-Auto trading orders on Heikin-Ashi Chart Type-
There are some differences between Regular and Heikin-Ashi chart types with regards to order generation in real time and backtesting."
"-Backtesting and Data Playback-
There is no difference between order generation on Regular and Heikin-Ashi chart types with regards to Backtesting and Data Playback."
"-Auto Trading-
There is no difference between order generation on Regular and Heikin-Ashi chart types with regards to Auto Trading."
This all came to me because a friend sent me a nice looking back-test of a fairly simple strategy on these bars and asked me to evaluate it. The back-test looks too good to be true so obviously there must be something wrong. I made sure that the strategy traded on the close of the bar which would make sense to me and then I watched the HA candles in real time.
Heikin-Ashi question:
Re: Heikin-Ashi question:
This describes the right way to use Heikin-Ashi, you can never substitue them for regular bars in trading.
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Re: Heikin-Ashi question:
Hello MAtricks,
The Heikin-Ashi chart type is constructed this way:
instead of using the open-high-low-close (OHLC) bars like standard candlestick charts, the Heikin-Ashi technique uses a modified formula:
Open = [Open (previous bar) + Close (previous bar)]/2
High = Max (High, Open, Close)
Low = Min (Low, Open, Close)
Close = (Open+High+Low+Close)/4
The Heikin-Ashi chart type is constructed this way:
instead of using the open-high-low-close (OHLC) bars like standard candlestick charts, the Heikin-Ashi technique uses a modified formula:
Open = [Open (previous bar) + Close (previous bar)]/2
High = Max (High, Open, Close)
Low = Min (Low, Open, Close)
Close = (Open+High+Low+Close)/4
Re: Heikin-Ashi question:
Andrew, thanks for the reply.
I understand the calculation behind the HA candles. The math is correct.
My question is: How is this usable and is anyone using them? The https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... eikin-Ashi link says "There is no difference between order generation on Regular and Heikin-Ashi chart types with regards to Auto Trading." and I guess I'm curious as to how this is possible.
When nothing about the bar is showing a real price, what's the point of having them?
I understand the calculation behind the HA candles. The math is correct.
My question is: How is this usable and is anyone using them? The https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... eikin-Ashi link says "There is no difference between order generation on Regular and Heikin-Ashi chart types with regards to Auto Trading." and I guess I'm curious as to how this is possible.
When nothing about the bar is showing a real price, what's the point of having them?
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Re: Heikin-Ashi question:
The similarity of order generation and in general script calculation between regular chart and HA charts means:The https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... eikin-Ashi link says "There is no difference between order generation on Regular and Heikin-Ashi chart types with regards to Auto Trading." and I guess I'm curious as to how this is possible.
- Auto trading and forward testing, no IOG = script is recalculated once per bar, on its close.
- Auto trading and forward testing, IOG is on = script is recalculated with every new tick.
- Backtesting, no IOG, no BM = script is recalculated once per bar, on its close.
- Backtesting, IOG is on, no BM = script is recalculated several times per bar.
- Backtesting, IOG is on, BM is on = script is recalculated on every tick/bar of detailed series (BM).
Take into account that i am talking about methods of strategy calculation, though they are the same as for regular chart, script uses prices of HA chart, that are different from regular chart prices.
Reasonable question, but i believe it should be answered by traders.When nothing about the bar is showing a real price, what's the point of having them?