Coding for Sierra Charts

[mishnas]

Help! Does anyone on the forum know how to code for Sierra charts? They use the C++ language, and I don't have a clue!

[Hlm]

	Quote:	mishnas
	Help! Does anyone on the forum know how to code for Sierra charts? They use the C++ language, and I don't have a clue!

Everything you need to know is right here. Just be sure to read everything carefully.

Also their support board can be very useful and is pretty active.

I hope this helps.

[mishnas]

Unfortunately, I have no programming experience at all. So when the help files start talking about arrays and looping and interface variables etc. it's like you're talking Chinese to me.

If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it.

[Hlm]

	Quote:	mishnas
	Unfortunately, I have no programming experience at all. So when the help files start talking about arrays and looping and interface variables etc. it's like you're talking Chinese to me. If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it.

What exactly are you trying to program?

[mishnas]

What I need is an additional variable for the time-and-sales window that can calculate the difference between the actual buys and sells that have accumulated over 3 time periods giving me a positive or negative total for each time period (similar to the bid and ask difference available in Sierra but calculated for the actual sales).

I need the time periods to be easily changeable by typing a number in one box (e.g. 30 minutes, 15 minutes, 3 minutes etc) with the results appearing in an adjacent box for all three time periods chosen.

That's it. And if you can help much strength to you!

[tcast]

this looks like it could be complex, sierra will code it for you for a fee you can email them on the support site and tell em what you want.

[Hlm]

	Quote:	mishnas
	What I need is an additional variable for the time-and-sales window that can calculate the difference between the actual buys and sells that have accumulated over 3 time periods giving me a positive or negative total for each time period (similar to the bid and ask difference available in Sierra but calculated for the actual sales). I need the time periods to be easily changeable by typing a number in one box (e.g. 30 minutes, 15 minutes, 3 minutes etc) with the results appearing in an adjacent box for all three time periods chosen. That's it. And if you can help much strength to you!

A few questions:

Do you use time charts or tick charts?
Would it be okay for the results to be displayed in a lower chart region (below chart) and have the three time values displayed with lines (would give historic look)?

[Hlm]

Another question...

So pretty much what you are looking for is a "Bid Volume vs Ask Volume" on a tick chart that will determine the cumulative difference over three periods of time ?

[mishnas]

Yup Hlm, that's it.

[mishnas]

>Do you use time charts or tick charts?

I think time and sales works on ly on ticks

>Would it be okay for the results to be displayed in a lower chart region (below chart) and have the three time values displayed with lines (would give historic look)?

I think that would be ok.