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Often it can trigger preset buy or sell without the SP trend on the daily charts with their averaged plots of the closing price showing why it happened. Regardless of the chart inaccuracy due to averaging and delay our trades and triggers are based on real-time price action unless our trading platform or broker is also running on delayed data......which is highly unlikely imo.
My experience has been that this occurs with all TA indicators MACD included and it makes them less useful than they should have been in popular theory.
Mate, can you post up a chart of what you are saying. To me at the moment it seems that you are blaming indicator inaccuracy because of delayed data - mixing apples and oranges there.
The indicator doesn't know that it is delayed data, it simply responds to the data that it gets.
Also, an indicator set of parameters that are optimised for weekly data wont work accurately on daily or hourly data, each timeframe is different and requires a different approach (or indicators).
Indicators are only that, an indication of what has occurred but can be used to assist in recognising a potential pattern developement - totally useless for trading with as a stand alone buy sell system.