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  1. At least we've spotted it now, but i've probably been confused by this, from time to time, for the last 4 years 🤪
  2. I'm not sure if you can change the title of this thread, but if it said something like "Moving Averages on IG don't match other platforms", that would alert some other people to this issue. To be honest, i'm mildly disturbed by this discovery!
  3. I think you're comparing the NASDAQ Composite with the NASDAQ 100 🙂
  4. For S&P500 and NASDAQ 100, i'm using 250, 185 and 125 on IG to roughly match 200, 150, and 100 on TradingView...but nothing beyond those 2 indices, This is not critical for me, but lately i have been completely misled by the IG curves compared to what market commentators were saying/showing. I think it may have been confusing me for years without me realizing it! Sad, but true.
  5. I called IG helpdesk myself, and I got a similar answer to you, Billbot. Maybe Kodiak, above, is right, but I haven't done the maths myself! Either way, if we look at our own 200-day SMA on IG, we are getting a different perspective to much of the trading world out there. Here's my solution (which perhaps is what many others do?). Change the day count setting from 200 to something higher (or lower in other circumstances?) so that it matches more closely to the 'standard' curve that the rest of the world is looking at! As of today, a 250-day SMA on IG looks close to the 200-day 'normal' SMA on other platforms! I'm guessing other 'standard' curves, may need adjustment, not sure.
  6. I have just discovered this problem myself. I've been looking at the S&P 200-day SMA, and on the IG charts, it has already been breached last Friday and the price is well above now. However, on TradingView, MarketWatch, and the rest of the trading world(?), it has not reached it yet! WTF! And the discrepancy is not tiny, it is 'non-trivial', and therefore misleading.
  7. When you open a new chart, the system remembers the display changes you made on the previous chart you used. This I find incredibly annoying and inappropriate for the way I work. I would like to be able to switch off this functionality whereby the system makes guesses of what you want now, based on what you did previously. I would like to be able to have a 'new chart' template, or 'initial default chart' template, that gets created by default every time, and which I can define and update as I so wish.
  8. I am constantly getting what I call 'zombie' alerts - these are Price Level alerts on a market, that keep on triggering long after the first (and only) time they are meant to, long after being de-activated by the system (greyed out), and even after being deleted. And they keep going at random intervals, for the rest of that day that they were set. I can even log out of IG, then go back into the Spreads system, and it will trigger immediately for that alert. Note, I am NOT talking about Indicator Alerts that are set to occur more than once, I am talking about one-time-only Price Level alerts. This phenomenon happens regardless of what browser I use, and has been going on for a long time, maybe a year. Has anyone experienced this, or can explain why this might happen?
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