Jim Dean Sage     Posts: 3433 Joined: 3/13/2006 Location: L'ville, GA  User Profile | Best place to start is the Help Manual. It's not comprehensive but will help with some things. There is a long explanation about dynamic, previous, and forming bars. Do a search on any of those terms in the forums and you'll find a lot of discussion. Nutshell: 1. Do not use forming bars. They "cheat" at the HRE, so backtests are unrealistic. The option exists only for "legacy" purposes. 2. Dynamic bars are cool but significantly slow execution. Afaik they work ok with SW, but slowly. 3. I strongly recommend using previous bars. They are fast and they are intuitively similar to how people "think" of higher timeframes. 4. Signals are calculated at the completion of each current bar, regardless of which curr+N bar you select. Hope this helps! [Edited by Jim Dean on 7/23/2016 9:25 AM] | |
