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Member Since Nov 18, 2009 735 posts
speki
Jun 16 2011 at 12:30
From the sorting point of view, Tags could be better. You define your tags - BO, GMBL, PriceHitDailyPivot etc - and set it for your trades afterwards. They're less flexible, you can't improvise a reason like 'Bloomberg says Greece defaulted so I shorted EUR' etc, and they definitely need more development on the storage side. You have to store user's tags separately, provide a window for editing tags, etc etc.
Comments are already there but listing could be soo complicated ... the platform can include texts like [tp], Oanda MT4 stores the ticket number there, the EA can put its signature there too. So how would you want it? Get a list of distinct comments, like a list of traded currency pairs, so you can select which ones to include? That would be tricky considering the different ticket numbers stored by Oanda for example. You'd have a 25 page list, with different comments. So if we can have too many different comments .. then can we specify a text which must occur in the comments like 'SuperEA'? Yeah, but then you have to enter this search text before you can analyse. Which means you don't have the simple checkbox selection anymore. And we don't want to enter 'SuperEA-Strategy1' or 'SuperEA-Strategy2' every time we run a custom analysis, so we will want to save these search terms somewhere for convenience ... which is not far from using predefined Tags. You see it's not that simple, if you think about the possible scenarios ... ForexScam posted: speki, why would you not like this idea? It only makes sense for traders to analysis their trades by strategy It can also be used for System developers to filtering logic. The magic # is already implemented, so why not sort by Comment or Tag? Surround yourself with people whose eyes light up when they see you and who have no agenda for your reform. |
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Member Since Mar 28, 2011 666 posts
Trick or Treat (ForexScam)
Jun 16 2011 at 18:01
Same is true for Magic # as they can range from 1 -9999999 , but sorting Magics are incorporated.
Since the Comment field is designed to capture the EA's comment, sorting must be available in the future. Whether we have two comment fields, 1 for EA comments 1 for our comments and 1 for tags that we make and label for ourselves. The problem I see is that we would run out of room on the current History ROW. We then would need two more columns to include 1 more comment field button and 1 more button for tags. just do it! |
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Member Since Mar 28, 2011 666 posts
Trick or Treat (ForexScam)
Jun 16 2011 at 18:09
How about having the option to make the Comment become a TAG,
lets say an EA prints FGB in the comment field. This comment is repetitive through out the history, so having the option to TAG this one comment entry would then be available for the custom analysis. just do it! |
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Member Since Nov 18, 2009 735 posts
speki
Jun 16 2011 at 19:29
Hmm..... indeed, an additional column for user-defined comment data, could be useful. If it's not messed up by the platform or the broker or the EA, it could be used for different purposes ... tags, notes, whatever ... but the current Comment field is just so-so.
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Member Since Nov 06, 2010 29 posts
0AFK0
Jun 16 2011 at 21:21
Hmm... Speki has reminded me that Oanda uses the comment section to store the ticket number, which would make tagging using the comment section impossible for us Oanda users unless the comment section is modified... The idea of predefining tags and applying them to trades using a dedicated button seems more convenient...
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Member Since Nov 06, 2010 29 posts
0AFK0
Jun 16 2011 at 21:28
It could be integrated into the comments section - we click on the comment button, the comment window slides down, like it does now, and along with it the come the strategy tag buttons. Voila!
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Member Since Mar 28, 2011 666 posts
Trick or Treat (ForexScam)
Jun 16 2011 at 22:02
0AFK0 posted: It could be integrated into the comments section - we click on the comment button, the comment window slides down, like it does now, and along with it the come the strategy tag buttons. Voila! Aw good idea. then we wouldn't need the extra Column. just do it! |
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Member Since Mar 28, 2011 666 posts
Trick or Treat (ForexScam)
Jun 16 2011 at 22:05
0AFK0 posted: Hmm... Speki has reminded me that Oanda uses the comment section to store the ticket number, which would make tagging using the comment section impossible for us Oanda users unless the comment section is modified... I'm also facing the same scenario with Dukacopy to MT4. Comment field is overwritten by the broker making comments useless for EA's. just do it! |
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