What is “repainting”? Why is it important that the script you use does not do it? Repainting, generally, is re-drawing or changing visual properties. In the context of technical analysis and charting, repainting means the change of historical data, such as signals and visual plots, with the flow of time. Historical results, generated by scripts which repaint,...
In case you are looking for it , calc on order fill evidence of repaint. This setting is all over the place, once you load from realtime to bar history you can see it performs nothing like eachother so you can't trust any of the backtest results. JSFX recommendation: never use this setting unless it's for purely forward tested trading Calc on order...
Technical indicators are characterized by processing historical data, in a causal real world and for the sake of our analysis, we would expect indicators historical outputs to remain the same right? Well, we will see that this is not always the case, and that certain indicators can change appearance. 1. Repainting Indicators In Technical analysis repainting is...
Many traders, especially when starting out find themselves in a constant search of the best trading strategy. A quick Google search is enough to scare anyone starting out, as the number of indicators and strategies to use under different market conditions is overwhelming. In this article, we will discuss *1* indicators nature and the correct way to use it, *2* ...