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Fix indicator settings to match TV (or allowed manual changing)

I just got FTO and instantly noticed that you use a different smoothing method: TradingView uses Wilder’s method (RMA) and I am guessing you are using an EMA smoothing method (like most older platforms) which causes major discrepancies in the values.

On the daily chart for example (ADX period 7), EURUSD, 30th Dec 2022, your value shows 77.9 while TV’s shows 65.9. This is a huge difference and completely ruins any threshold I might have to indicate different trend strengths… For this to work I would need to build a table with FTO’s ADX data and compare it to that of TV’s in order to change my threshold accordingly, which quite honestly is way too much work for something this simple.

Please, either A. change your indicators (ATR for example seems to use SMA smoothing instead of RMA) to match that of TV’s (specifically the settings). Or B. (the better, more effort-to-implement option), make it so that you are able to change the settings yourself (what type of smoothing they use, like you can with most TV indicators).

Even though I can understand the reasoning behind developing your own charting platform, as it probably saves you money as you do not have to pay TV for a license (except that you have to spend a lot of time developing the platform which costs money), in order for people to want to use this platform over another like for e.g. FXReplay, you will need to implement most (if-not-all) features that TradingView offers. I like your software more, I like the fact that you have prop-firm challenges, I think that is a huge feature advantage, however, until you fix some of these problems (like also with the Sunday daily candle, while it does not affect me it does affect others), or the fact that the platform is slow (again, I haven’t had that issue but from what I have read it seems to be a common problem), to me the platform is unusable as it does not represent “TradingView-like market behavior” which is what I use and probably 99.5% of other traders.

Obviously you could make the argument that I could change my settings in TV to match FTOs, however, that is not how it’s supposed to work. This software is supposed to complement my real trading which takes place using MT5 and TV; TV is not supposed to complement my backtesting on FTO…

Sorry for the incredibly long response, thanks for reading and I hope you fix this soon.

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  • Yuliia Hladko

    Team•

    Dec 23, 2025

    Hello!

    We’ve checked this with our development team. TradingView uses Wilder’s Moving Average, which they call RMA (Running Moving Average). In MetaTrader this same method is known as Smoothed Moving Average (SMMA), and FTO has supported this smoothing type for a long time.

    Importantly, the calculation formulas for RMA (TradingView) and SMMA (FTO / MT) are identical. We are not using EMA smoothing for ADX.

    Differences in ADX values may still occur due to other factors, such as:

    • differences in historical price data,

    • daily bar construction (time zone, trading day start),

    • initialization of the first indicator values.

  • Diana Zhoshko

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    May 14, 2025

    Hi,

    Thank you for your detailed and thoughtful feedback! We truly appreciate the time and effort you put into analyzing these aspects of the platform. I will pass your message along to our development team so they can review your suggestions and explore potential improvements for Forex Tester Online.

    Your insights are invaluable in shaping the future of the platform, and we’re grateful for your support. If you have any additional observations or recommendations, we’d love to hear them! Thanks again.