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Bonds will also rarely extend to historical charts. However, individual stocks and index’s can
extend to weeks and even months which means trends that began as a short term trade on
intraday charts are finally exited many years later. The appendix in Trading Time shows such
an example of riding the Australian stock market rally from 2003 to 2007 and over 4000 pts,
with began on a 30 minute chart and ended on a weekly. The use of both Peak Range and
Peak Volume act as the trailing stop to such Step trades.
For a more detailed description of these studies, go to the CQG Web site at
http://www.cqg.com/Docs/Trading_Time.pdf.
MacdSt Parameters
Name Default Definition
Display Both Dictates whether both Steps or just individual ones are shown.
Value to Record Bar Dictates whether the bars value or the indicators value is used.
Price Close Dictates what value is recorded if the bar value is selected.
MA1 Period 13 First part of the oscillator.
MA2 Period 26 Second part of the oscillator.
MA3 Period 9 Third part of the oscillator.
Signal Period 9.000
OB/OS Parameters
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