CBOT Market ProfileŽ for TradeStation 2000i  and TradeStation 8

This one day profile shows most of all what you can see with the Professional Package.
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• 1.Market ProfileŽ Graphic Display Indicator Graphic Display Indicator Graphic Display Indicator

  • New in this version

  • All the inputs parameters and their use.

  • Some other Market ProfileŽ that you can get.

  • Market ProfileŽ Rainbow Color

  • Market ProfileŽ TimeColor.

• 2. Market ProfileŽ Expert Colors and Statistical Display.

  • Inputs and their meaning.

  • Rotation Index

  • Trade Facilitation Factor (Tff)

  • Expert Colors

• 3. Market ProfileŽ User Function.

  • Returned values

• 4. Technical support and ordering
  

1.Market ProfileŽ Graphic Display Indicator

1.1 A typical example:

Market ProfileŽ (10 min bars) using the default values explained below.

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1.2 New in this version
TradeStation2000i and TradeStation 6 only  

• Check the new inputs in the next chapter.

• The new version allows long term profiles, unfold display, all customisable.

• TPO counts with  two version ( regular CBOT and ours)

• The MP user function returns all the values of the profiles, including long term profiles distribution.

 
Long term profiles ( here weekly)
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 Unfold display
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1.3 All the inputs parameters and their use.

TradeStation2000i and TradeStation 6 only      TradeStation 4 and all versions above

• Color Codes: Black 1;Blue 2 ;Cyan 3;Green 4;Magenta 5;Red 6;
  Yellow 7;White 8;DarkBlue 9;DarkCyan 10;
  DarkGreen 11;DarkMagenta 12;DarkRed 13;DarkYellow 14;DarkGray 15;LightGray 16.

• Letters Sequence: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz,  
  then back to ABCDEF...sequence.

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1.4 Some other Market ProfileŽ that you can get.

This 10 min chart displays a 20 tick volume profile (VProfile=+20).
Each square or letter represents 20 ticks (rounded). Letter is displayed only
 when a change of letter occurs for a 20 tick volume move.

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Same 10 min chart with an alternate tick volume profile display:
 Here one vertical bar shows 10 ticks (VProfile=-10).

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You can also display to the left (Setloc=1). Still 10 min bars, standard Market ProfileŽ 
(displays again TPO letters because we set Vprofile=0).
We have removed Tick volume column (Vdisp=0)
 and set Volume area to 50% (Per_V=50) as shows the green vertical dashed line.

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You may also use tick bars (same data than above,
 but with a 40 ticks bars chart).
Again the standard Market ProfileŽ, but with a double resolution
 (resol=0.5 instead of 1 for previous examples).
MPtime was set to 15 min, so we have now twice more letters. 
First we use caps ,then normal letters ("a" comes after "Z").

Using fixed width fonts as above allows to have 
a true sight of the market distribution shape. 
You may choose any font available within Windows.

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1.4 Market ProfileŽ Rainbow Color

• A special user function (MPOscColor) that you put as 
  and input of the MPColor input above .

• This function has an interesting input: You can decide 
  to paint the Market ProfileŽ with a color sequence as above, 
  but based on the level of a given normalized indicator:

• The profile will show by its own color the level of this indicator 
  when the considered TPO (or Tick Volume)
   was updated for the last time at this TPO (or Volume) price level.

• The color sequence starts from black (minimum value)
   to Magenta (15 colors possible,excluding background color).

• You can even pass an indicator (externally calculated)
   to the Color function with a Global variable DLL (example provided).

Same data, 10 min bars resol=0.5. A Rsi (Close,5) is displayed below .

The same RSI drives the color of the Market ProfileŽ according to 
the RSI level when the considered Market ProfileŽ line was updated.
RSI was given as an example. A volatility indicator could be more meaningful.
TPO and tick volume numbers were removed for clarity.(Vdisp=0 and TPOdisp=0).

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We have just added a Tick volume profile (Vprofile =-10) to the left with 
TPO and Tick volumes numbers made visible (TPO_disp=1 and V_disp=1).
Open and close colors were allowed (Open is white (Ko=8) 
and Close is green (Kc=4) for the left Volume profile.
They were disabled for the right profile in order to stay clear with the right color code.
Obviously, we use here two Market ProfileŽ indicators to get this compounded profile.
You may save them as a TradeStation Template Analysis and apply after
 with one click to an other chart.

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1.5 Market ProfileŽ TimeColor.

• A special user function (MPTimeColor) that you put as and input 
  of the MPColor input above .
  Then the Market ProfileŽ display will change its color according to 
  a rainbow sequence based on time elapsed
   (15 colors, changing from Sess1Starttime to Sess1EndTime,excluding background color).

The very first example on top of this page uses this for the left profile.

Again all of this is optional, and you may compose the profile display that fits your needs.

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2. Market ProfileŽ Expert Colors and Statistical Display.

2.1 A typical example.

Some displays may overlap with the profile. 
So, you may use the zoom feature for a better reading if necessary.

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Inputs settings are the same than in the array below:

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2.2 Inputs and their meaning.

These inputs are merged in the same code with the Tradestation 2000i and Tradestation 6 versions

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Effect of "Backplot "input for both indicators (MarketProfile and Market Info).
Setting both to 1 displaces the figure one day back 
and let more room for the current day under construction

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Rotation Index:

Prices are observed through a grid where horizontal
 dimension is time and vertical dimension is price.
Each time that a price falls into a cell (means at a given price and at a given date),
 a "1" value is stored in the considered cell. Otherwise a zero value is stored for this cell.
Then all cells are summed and the result is normalized between 0 and 1.
A Rotation Index value below 0.6 means that a trend is occurring 
(price do not rotate very much, then have a direction), otherwise the trend is not declared.
As for any trend /trading range indicator, the response time 
is growing function of the window period used for observation (Here "Len X Agreg").
This indicator is originally from a daily concept, but it may be used 
with intraday data (gap removed and candlestick choices are better).
The Rotation Index do not give the direction of the trend 
(for that you may observe in what Quadrant falls the last price). 
This Quadrant of Close is expressed on a 0% 100% scale 
(see Qd% field on the Bottom display line).

For example:

Rotation Index =1. Qd%=100. Perfect Trend Up
 (Bars are moving higher without overlapping. Last close is in the highest Quadrant).

Rotation Index =1. Qd%=0 Perfect Trend Down 
(Bars are moving lower without overlapping. Last close is in the Lowest Quadrant).

Rotation Index =0: Qd%=75%. No trend at all, as all bars (or clustered bars) overlap.

From an article by Donald L. Jones and Christopher J. Young 
as appearing in Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, June 1990.
Original concept was applied to long term Profiles (Overlay Profiles). 
Adaptation to Intraday data and Market ProfileŽ by Pierre Orphelin, Sirtrade International.

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Trade Facilitation Factor (Tff):

This is the number of TPO's divided by the range. 
the higher the value, the less trend was present. Normal days have a high Tff value.

Displayed in the Top line.

Expert Colors:

Expert Color I: (Affects horizontal close line color and size)

Possible Usage: Trending days.

• Last price above TPO area and above Volume area: Horizontal line turns blue and thicker.

• Last price below TPO area and below Volume area: Horizontal line turns red and thicker.

• Last price above TPO area or Volume area: Horizontal line turns blue, default size.

• Last price below TPO area or Volume area: Horizontal line turns red, default size.

• Price Inside area(s) or disagree: Horizontal line has default color, default size.

Expert Color II: (Affects Top line color)

Possible Usage: Trading days (normal days) and trending days.

• if Trade Facilitation Factor<thresTff then:

  • if Qd%>50% and Rotation index<0.6 then Color=green; 
    (Rotation index is trending, Trade Facilitation Factor is below threshold 
    (trend possible) and Quadrant of close is above 50%).

  • if Qd%<50% and Rotation index<0.6 then Color=red; 
    (Rotation index is trending, Trade Facilitation Factor is below threshold 
    (trend possible) and Quadrant of close is below 50%).

• if Trade Facilitation Factor>thresTff then:

  • if Qd%>50% and Rotation index>0.6 then Color=dark green ;
    (Rotation index is not trending ,
    and Trade Facilitation Factor is above threshold (normal day possible)).

  • if Qd%<50% and Rotation index>0.6 then Color =dark red;  
    (Rotation index is not trending ,
    and Trade Facilitation Factor is above threshold (normal day possible)).

• Other cases: Color = Default color.

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Expert Color III: (Affects Bottom line color)

Possible Usage: Trading days (normal days).

• if percentage of TPO's above maximum of TPO's distribution>50% 
  of total TPO's and percentage of Ticks above maximum 
  of Tick Volume distribution>50% of total ticks then Color=dark green;
   (%T>50 et %V>50).

• if percentage of TPO's below maximum of TPO's distribution<50%
  of total TPO's and percentage of Ticks below maximum of Tick Volume 
  distribution <50% of total ticks then Color=dark red; (%T<50 et %V<50).

• Other cases: Color = Default color.

Same example than above, but Expert Colors I, II, III have been activated 
by using negative inputs (Hbar=-1, Kdh=-1, Kdl=-15).
The color displayed is the last known at the end of the day,
so this snapshot is meaningless as you can't see here how colors change during the day.
The Market ProfileŽ User Function below allows also you to write your own expert color display.

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3 Market ProfileŽ User Function.

• The function returns an array of values  with the Tradestation 2000i and TradeStation 6 versions (see below).

• This version allows to retrieve ALL the Market Profile  display ( TPO and Volume count) values in a second array.

• It also works with long term profiles.

TradeStation version 4 input description:

• This Easy Language function allows to calculate and export 
  to a TradeStation Array 21 calculations (21 variables stored in an array)
   into an indicator or a system of your own.

• Allows to use Market ProfileŽ results in your trading system.

• Build your own Market ProfileŽ expert, alerts, paintbars and so on.

• Speed of calculation. Only one call to the function per bar.

• Same inputs, same meaning than the Market ProfileŽ Display Indicator 
  (§1)and the Market ProfileŽ Statistics indicator (§2).

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Returned values: ( Tradestation 4 and above)

For example, in a system you may call the MP Function, then write:

if REST[3]<0.6 then begin {Rotation Index is trending (below 0.6)}

buy 1 contract at REST[17] stop;
sell 1 contract at REST[18] stop; {Buy/ sell at a TPO area breakout}

end else begin {Trend disappear because Rotation Index climbs above 0.6, so we exit the position.}

exitlong;
exitshort

end;

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Ordering: see the ORDER section of this web

PRICE:  Professional MP Package including:

• Market ProfileŽ (display)

• Market ProfileŽ I (statistics)

• Market ProfileŽ User Function (for use in your trading systems)
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is 400 €  yearly  +7US$ CBOT monthly fee (12 months due  in advance, not included).
2nd year and after  200 €  yearly  +7US$ CBOT monthly fee

VAT not included for EC users.
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TradeStation Code Š1997-2001 Pierre Orphelin.
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