[emptyvault]

hi , I am a newbie in MC . I used metastock before .
When in metastock , there was a function call trough value .
It can let me set to alert , eg , a dropping moving average stop dropping and then move upward when the downward and upward movement reached the extent I set , eg 2% , something like that .
There is a opposite peak function too .

I cannot find it after I browsed throughly in the keyword help , or MC used other name to label it ? Thanks .

[zdo]

check out the 'pivot' function and derived SwingHigh and SwingLow

Also there is an indicator called ZigZag that may have been ported over from TS to MC which will do your %'s

hth

[emptyvault]

hello , Zdo and other member .
I can find the indicators you said , pivot & swing , but when I tried to know more about it and open the help file but cannot find the it . I am using MC version 5 (latest update ) . I go through the pdf manual but cannot find them too .

How can I know more about the syntax of it if I want to .
There are ebook to learn easylanguage but are for TS only .
Sad that it is hard to find one in MC . The pdf manual of MC is very insufficient .

thanks in advance .

[thrunner]

There is a wealth of information on TS and MC. In general, MC is 95% compatible with TS and for your purposes, the tutorials should apply. Open the indicators and study the code. It may help other readers if you actually describe in detail how the original "trough value" Metastock function is coded.

tradestation and TS Support combined Knowledgebase:
http://www.tssupport.com/support/base/

Getting Started with Easylanguage:
https://www.tradestation.com/support...ng_Started.pdf

EasyLanguage Reference Guide:
https://www.tradestation.com/support..._Ref_Guide.pdf

tradestation EasyLanguage Extension Software Development Kit:
http://www.tradestation.com/Support/...ension_SDK.pdf

The essential EasyLanguage programming guide
https://www.tradestation.com/support...Essentials.pdf

---> At least, get the following two files, then make a shortcut to them in your quicklaunch bar.

The EasyLanguage Functions & Reserved Words Reference:
https://www.tradestation.com/support...dWords_Ref.pdf

Multicharts User Guide:
http://www.tssupport.com/multicharts...ulticharts.pdf

Also see:
http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=3339

[emptyvault]

thanks , Thrunner ,
In fact I have most of them but just cannot find some useful descriptions about pivot . I missed the last one about the reserved words of EL .This is one I should have .
I got the pages now and I will take a look . Wish I can get the solution I wanted .