WISH LIST & NEW FEATURES REQUEST
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Hi fxDreema,
I hope you know you have created arguably the best visual coder for MQL4 - and I've tried almost all of them!
Its actually more powerful than a certain Swiss bank's visual builder for their Java platform in many ways...no easy task. Its also the best looking EA builder. 8-)%(#8000BF)[For me, the most important things in a program (whatever it is, not just an EA builder) are:]
1. Powerful and versatile - it must be capable of doing almost anything a user can imagine within the confines of that field. 2. Easy to learn - Some programs are very powerful, but the steep learning curve is not worthwhile if its not something that is to be used daily. 3. Regularly updated - There are some great old programs, that unfortunately have become outdated, and so cannot be relied on in the future because of compatibility issues, and lack of new features. 4. Affordable - There is no point having a powerful easy to use software that cannot be afforded! 5. GUI (Graphical User Interface) - This is probably the most overlooked aspect in my view! No one really likes to work with a program that looks like it was created in the 1980s! There is something truly pleasurable working with a slick looking program! 6. Speed - Everything has to work very quickly, no lag, no freezing, no slowing down a high spec computer to the point that you are slowed down by the program. 7. It must always work - Last but by no means least, its easily the most important! All of the above would be rendered completely useless if the program was buggy, behaves erratically, produces undesired results, is unstable, or keeps crashing.So far so good! I will most definitely be subscribing to support your work.
%(#800000)[I want to create a wish list of some features I wish were available, but the one that stands out from the crowd is probably the only thing that - if it were available - would make fxDreema the only tool needed to work with MT4 for a non-programmer...]
And that is....
A custom indicator builder! In other words a wizard that allows you to point and click everything you want the indicator to show, and all you have to do is type the formula for the lines/bars/arrows....etc that you want displayed....
....then a set of blocks in fxDreema that enables you to trade on things that appear on the indicator....like a cross over, or an arrow or line appearing, a bar changing colour etc.
For me, tweaking the formulas of existing indicators is vital to gain an edge, and in reality, 90% of technical indicators are just very mild modifications of others. If you look at the formulas of technical indicators, you can see that usually only one operator was added/modified/subtracted.
I know many traders have ideas on how to improve an indicator, but they have never tried because of the difficulty of programming the indicator, even though they may know the formulas they need to input.
%(#008000)[So what do you think? Is this something you might consider? Is there enough interest in a custom indicator builder?]
%(#BF0000)[Cast your votes]
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I will be subscribing to the service soon when I have more time to work with it.
I think fxDreema is very busy now with his other interests and probably does not want to take on any more coding burdens. The most important thing for me is the ability for non programmers to be able to create EA's. So for me the indicator creator would not be a priority but if fxDreema had time in the future it would be handy but not necessary.
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I guess what I should have asked everyone is:
What would be your top 3 features you would like to see in the future?
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FxDreema....
Is an indicator builder something you would consider adding?
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My problem with indicators is that I don't understand them very well (because I was never interested in them) and I don't have very good picture in my mind how a custom indicators builder should looks like.
Otherwise I also have some features I wish to have:
- Pages - ability to show groups of blocks in pages, similar to those events above. Maybe it's better the project to be in pages, where you decide what event to associate to every page. Or maybe it's not better.
- Own backtester. In my greatest fantasies MT4 and MT5 are not used at all and everything is backtested in some integrated backtester. I want that because very often MQL4/MQL5 is not enough for what I want, but wha'ts good in MQL4 is that it is based on C++ (or it was only C?) and it supports dll imports.
- Ability to use Condition-like option (somewhere called Dynamic or Custom) everywhere instead on the regular input fields.
- I want most of the blocks rewritten
- Multilanguage support. This is very old request.
And other things.
Now I'm stuck a little bit, but I started to create my own PHP-based framework from scratch and I will probably rebuild fxDreema over it. I guess it looks that I waste my energy in not important background things, but when my code is not good I always reach some point of complexity where I can't continue. -
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Is an indicator builder something you would consider adding?[/quote:3tnt0t8f]
I know it will be great if there is an indicator builder as well, this is also one of the oldest requests. I don't want to lie to you, I don't know when will I start creating it, there are also many other things that are in my head from long time ago -
I definitely think pages is a great idea. So a group of blocks will show up in different tabs, kind of like in a web browser. That would save a huge amount of clutter in a single page, especially if a strategy has many blocks.
A built in back tester! Yes!! How about one that incorporates genetic algorithms and walk forward analysis? From a business point of view, this would attract a lot of people.
I'm not sure I understand the third one
An indicator builder is actually quite simple. It would only need a handful of blocks to implement. A formula block, and then a set of options blocks for how the indicator should paint on the chart. Most indicators are very basic formulas. All a builder needs is an option on how to display this formula - whether its a line, bar, arrows, or text - and whether to display it on the main chart, or as a separate window. Each object on the indicator would have its own formula block.
The best example for this is the software that is closest to fxdreema, that uses blocks as well. You know which program I mean? It's on the fxdreema alternatives page of this site! I think you could easily improve this. I have many ideas on what would be a perfect indicator builder!
I'm not sure if rebuilding fxdreema from scratch is worth your time! But I do understand what you mean!
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I would like to add one more feature as important as a custom indicator builder...
A standalone version. That is a version of fxdreema which you can buy outright. Sometimes internet connection is not available which makes it impossible to use fxdreema.
I would not mind paying a larger premium to buy fxdreema outright, and paying for updates for new versions.
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Is an indicator builder something you would consider adding?[/quote:25aus751]
I know it will be great if there is an indicator builder as well, this is also one of the oldest requests. I don't want to lie to you, I don't know when will I start creating it, there are also many other things that are in my head from long time ago :)[/quote:25aus751]Any update on the custom indicator builder? This would be really, really usefull 8-)
sorry, I've just seen the poll at top of thread, after I posted. So, come on everyone.... VOTE FOR the CUSTOM INDICATOR BUILDER -
Haha, it's not that I am looking at pools to decide what to do next. For the indicator builder I want to rebuild fxDreema first. I started this process months ago, now I think I am somewhere at 75%. A big part of the work was to create my own PHP framework, which is a totally different project by itself. There are PHP frameworks out there, but I always want to do everything myself
And meanwhile there are other things to do. Not to mention what happens when I get lazy, but this is normal for home based work And in fact the indicator builder is not my passion, I'm thinking more about some EA backtester, because I'm so tired of MetaTrader sometimes.
