[trbates]

Whenever I add a strategy to my tradestation charts nothing shows up. I thought that I was just writing the code incorrectly ... so I tried strategies that come with the platform. Nope, still nothing ...

Has anyone else seen this? It makes back testing a tad bit difficult

Thanks

Travis

[thrunner]

It would be more helpful if you just give specific examples, such as name of instrument eg @ES, 3min, 1500 bars back, name of strategy....

In general, the lack of signals is due to the lack of number of bars in the study. Try using more bars and format the strategy, Properties for all to use max bar study will reference to eg 100, 150, 200 etc. It is also possible that your strategy just doesn't generate any signals for the given period.

[trbates]

Thanks for the quick reply thrunner ... I'm trading the EURUSD spot on a 3 min chart (5 days back). I've tried messing with the bars back setting all with the same result ... no triggers. As to what strategy I'm using ... it doesnt seem to matter, none of them produce any triggers. I've tried strategies that I have written, strategies that other people have written, and strategies that are bundled with the platform ... none seem to work. I can only assume that the strategies that come with the platform would produce signals. (that they were coded properly)

Anyone else seen this? Its probably that I'm simply over looking something simple ... but I can't find what it is for the life of me

Thanks again

Travis

[bakrob99]

Change your symbol from FOREX to @ESZ08 and see if you get some trades. If you do - then your strategy is not handling the small values of the FOREX symbol. If not - then you have something basic setup wrong.

[FixMan]

Hi,

I use 3'd party data for strategy testing. On TS 8.2 evrithing was fine. But on the newer tradestation versions (8.4, 8.5 and 8.6) tradestation always waiting while load strategy on my 3'd party data.

The data example:
Date,Open,Close,High,Low, Volume
03/01/00,495.48,502.66,505.26,4 94.95,152718345
04/01/00,498.10,483.26,498.10,4 81.59,146669681

File name TA.csv
simbol name TA

Has anyone else seen this?

Thank you in advance,
FixMan

[TraderFoo]

you sure it's not disabled? .. if you right click on the chart and select format strategy, make sure the status is on.

[FixMan]

Once I add the strategy (and it's status is enabled), TS displays message:
"waiting for data"
"waiting for symbol attributes"
TS switches between these messages forever until I disable the strategy (by right mouse click->Enable/disable strategies->MyStrategy)

[barrybil]

I have the identical problem using TS 8.3 & 3rd party data