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Market
The main purpose of the Market panel is to provide us history forex quotes as well as statistic information and a simple indicator chart. The broker's fees - Spread and Swap numbers can be adjusted here
Toolbar
The toolbar holds four dropdown menus:
- Symbol - the instrument symbol
- Period - the data time frame
- Spread - the difference between the Bid and Ask prices in pips
- Swap Number - the swap number (roll-over fee)
When we change the Symbol or the Period new data will be loaded and the strategy will be recalculated. The changing of the Spread or the Swap Number also leads to recalculation.
The Swap numbers reflect the broker fee, we are charged when transferring an open position to the next business day. Here, we set the Swap number for a Long Position. FSB uses the same number, but with negative sign for a Short Position.
Loading of data
Forex Strategy Builder calculates the strategy results using history quotes. They are stored as files in your computer. It's not necessary to be online to load the data.
When you change the instrument symbol or the time frame, the new data will be loaded and the strategy will be recalculated.
You can download new forex quotes from here.
Extract the new data in the subfolder .\Data. If you want, you can use data from other sources or
to edit the existing files.
The file name consists of the symbol of the currency pair and the time frame period expressed in count of minutes. The file extension is csv (comma separated value).
The time periods are represented as follow:
| 1 | minute | - | 1 |
| 5 | minutes | - | 5 |
| 15 | minutes | - | 15 |
| 30 | minutes | - | 30 |
| 1 | hour | - | 60 |
| 4 | hours | - | 240 |
| 1 | day | - | 1440 |
| 1 | week | - | 10080 |
Examples:
| USDCHF15.csv | - | USDCHF | 15 | Min |
| EURUSD60.csv | - | EURUSD | 1 | Hour |
| USDJPY1440.csv | - | USDJPY | 1 | Day |
Data file format:
2005.06.02,15:00,1.2260,1.2263,1.2260,1.2261,23
2005.06.02,15:15,1.2262,1.2267,1.2260,1.2263,29
...
or
2005.06.02;15:00;1.2260;1.2263;1.2260;1.2261;23
2005.06.02;15:15;1.2262;1.2267;1.2260;1.2263;29
...
or
2005/06/02 15:00 1.2260 1.2263 1.2260 1.2261 23
2005/06/02 15:15 1.2262 1.2267 1.2260 1.2263 29
...
Year/Month/Day;Hour:Min;Open;High;Low;Close;Volume
Statistic information
Forex Strategy Builder calculates statistics based on the loaded data
- Symbol - the instrument symbol
- Period - the time frame
- Count of bars - the data size
- Date of beginning - the first data bar date
- Date of updating - the last data bar date
- Minimal price - the lowest instrument price
- Maximal price - the highest instrument price
- Average Gap - the average difference between price open and price close of the previous bar
- Maximal Gap - the maximal difference between price open and price close of the previous bar
- Average High-Low - the average difference between Price High and Price Low
- Maximal High-Low - the maximal difference between Price High and Price Low
- Average Close-Open - the average difference between Price Close and Price 0pen
- Maximal Close-Open - the maximal difference between Price Close and Price 0pen
- Max days off - the number of nonworking days
Price and indicator chart
A simple bar chart is provided in the Market panel. When you click over it the full chart will be displayed on a separate window.