The Green line in the chart below is the daily calculated Gold/Silver ratio (scaled to the right). Overlaid in Blue is the average annual percentage change of the Gold/Silver ratio (scaled to the left) for front-month futures contracts (GC and SI respectively). The percent change pattern starts January 1st, each year at 1.00. The long-term […]
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Here’s a new indicator for TradeStation 9.0 users. We have had this indicator for quite a while, since well before the new functionality in TradeStation was even known. So the product is a mature one. We have put much time into making it extremely useful to active traders as well as computationally efficient and robust. The […]
XLInputs can replace the free ELExcel.dll in the TradeStation forums, but the free dll does not replace XLInputs. XLInputs was designed to make working with Excel from EasyLanguage, very easy. Without any special code in your EasyLanguage indicator or strategy, using an XLI function, EasyLanguage can reference inputs in Excel even if you don’t know […]
TradeStation will likely resolve this and other legacy code issues, in time. Until then, be aware that there are some issues with legacy EasyLanguage code not working in TradeStation 8.8. Here’s an example function that uses math in a variable declaration, working in 8.7 but not in 8.8: The essence of the issue is not […]
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Here’s an example Equity-Curve Trading system, using an EasyLanguage Strategy for simulation and Order macros to keep an Account synchronized, while limiting slippage. For starters, if you saved a TradeStation workspace with RunCommand enabled, you will be prompted on reopening: Open with Strategies & Macros Enabled Overview: Example Equity-Curve System Explained Synchronizing: TSO.StratMatch Synchronizing Synchronization […]
Here is a video demonstrating how TradeStation macros, accessible to EasyLanguage through RunCommand, can be used to create a custom complex order for Limit to Market conversion at a specified time. TSO.Lmt2MktCustom function
In adding an ActivityBar study to multiple charts, you may want to setup default inputs as shown here: And upon insertion of an ActivityBar study, you may want to adjust the Activity Data interval and length of historical look back. To do this quickly, in the Insert Analysis Technique window, ActivityBar tab, set as default […]
ActivityBars – TradeStation’s way for an indicator to look inside bars historically and in real time
In real time, TradeStation studies can process data tick-by-tick as bars form. That way one can do things like determine the price at which there was the highest burst of trading volume or the price for which most trading occurred throughout the time of the bar. Historically, intrabar details are more limited for TradeStation studies. The way […]
