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List of Easy Language Reserved Words

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I'm not sure which forum this should be in ... so I figured I would start here. I was wondering if anyone had a list of reserved words (for example: Market, Close, If, Begin, BuyToCover, etc.) that are used in TradeStation's Easy Language? I've been searching, and can really only come up with the books offered by tradestation, or tutorials on Easy Language. I'm really just looking for a reference chart ... and if it has brief explanations that would just be the icing on the cake :)

 

Thanks

 

Travis

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Why don't you just click on the "help" button then go to Tradestation Help, where it gives you the user guide and a full comprehensive explanation on ALL reserved words.

 

Hope this helps

 

Blu-Ray

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I'm not sure which forum this should be in ... so I figured I would start here. I was wondering if anyone had a list of reserved words (for example: Market, Close, If, Begin, BuyToCover, etc.) that are used in TradeStation's Easy Language? I've been searching, and can really only come up with the books offered by tradestation, or tutorials on Easy Language. I'm really just looking for a reference chart ... and if it has brief explanations that would just be the icing on the cake :)

 

Thanks

 

Travis

You can download an ebook from the Tradestation site giving you all the reserved words and functions

 

https://www.tradestation.com/support/books/default.aspx#easylanguage

 

On the same page you can also download for free an ebook on easylanguage essentials.

 

The other materials and hard copies need to be ordered

 

Charlton

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I'm still having problems finding the reserved word for the Current Price.

 

I am trying to have a position enter/exit if current price is less than or greater than (depending on the position) a variable.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

Thanks

 

Travis

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Current price is simply the reserved word....

 

Close

 

-fs

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I've got yet another question about EasyLanguage I hope you all can help me with ...

 

Is there a way to step through the program (strategy, indicator, etc) to test your logic? I am currently not having any luck with having trades trigger ... so I remembered long, long ago programming in other languages the compiler allowed you to step through the program to find the If/Then , or other logical statement that wasn't working as intended. Is this possible? or anything that would accomplish the same thing?

 

Thanks

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hi ;

can anybody tell me about how to download free book for easy language

I am getting lot problem with the syntax of the easylanguage

 

Try reading this thread. Your answer is in the 3rd post.

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I'm having a hard time finding how to plot the current price? Its probably as dumb a question as the first ... but I would appreciate any help :)

 

Did you get the answer to this. I am having the same problem.

If I use Price it does not give the current price.

 

BTW, anyone else having problems using the Forum Search ?

 

Malcolm

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Did you get the answer to this. I am having the same problem.

If I use Price it does not give the current price.

 

BTW, anyone else having problems using the Forum Search ?

 

Malcolm

 

The answer was given in post 7 of this thread.

 

Anway here is the answer with a little more explanation

 

 

 

Used to plot values (numeric, boolean or string) in a price chart or in an grid-based analysis window. Plotted values can be standard bar values (such as Close or Volume), inputs, or variable values resulting from a calculation or an expression.

 

PlotN(Expression[,"<PlotName>"[,ForeColor[,Default[,Width]]]]);

 

N is a number between 1 and 99, representing one of the ninety-nine available plots. Expression is the value to be plotted and <PlotName> is the name of the plot. ForeColor is an Easy Language color used for the plot (also referred to as PlotColor), Default (reserved for future use), and Width is a numeric value representing the width of the plot. The parameters <PlotName>, ForeColor, Default, and Width are optional.

 

So in summary to plot the current price would be something like:

 

Plot1(Close, "Curr", Black);

 

Charlton

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Perhaps I should have given more explanation.

I am aware of the Open, High, Low and Close prices and their use, but what I am after is the current Tick Price. If I run an Indicator on a 5 minute chart, the Indicator executes a number of time for each bar (as seen using FileAppend to log the executions of the indicator). This seems to tie in with being able to see the bar update as prices come in, Note: the current price shown on the right hand side of the chart.

 

Any thoughts?

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Perhaps I should have given more explanation.

I am aware of the Open, High, Low and Close prices and their use, but what I am after is the current Tick Price. If I run an Indicator on a 5 minute chart, the Indicator executes a number of time for each bar (as seen using FileAppend to log the executions of the indicator). This seems to tie in with being able to see the bar update as prices come in, Note: the current price shown on the right hand side of the chart.

 

Any thoughts?

 

If you watch a 1 min bar you will notice that the closing line will move up and down and show the current price during the creation of the bar.

 

The same happens if you plot an indicator provided that you have formatted the indicator on the general tab as "Update intrabar (tick by tick). So in this case the indicator would be acted upon on every tick and the close at the time would be the tick price.

 

Obviously if you are plotting a 1 min or above bar then these tick prices become "absorbed" into the 1 min bar such that you can only see 4 of them once the bar is complete (O, H, L, C). The only way of recording what they were during the formation of the bar would be to use the print to the easylanguage output bar.

 

The problem is that the date/time that can be included in the print is not sufficiently precise, although you could use the current computer time (COMPUTERDATETIME) to get more precise.

 

Within an indicator easylanguage code you can set up logic that is interval dependent (see bar type below) and you can also force the indicator to act only on certain ticks (see bar status below). Thus you can decide whether to print out price on a tick within a bar or just on completion of the bar.

 

Of course the other possibility is to plot a tick chart, in which case you will get the tick prices,

 

Having said all this I am not sure what the question is. What are you actually trying to achieve ?

 

Charlton

 

 

 

Returns a number indicating the type of bar (chart type) that an analysis technique or strategy is applied to.

 

This chart type is set by the user in the Select Interval section of the Settings tab within the Format Symbol dialog for a chart.

 

Remarks

The number returned is based on the interval selected. BarType will return:

 

0 = TickBar

1 = Intraday

2 = Daily

3 = Weekly

4 = Monthly

5 = Point & Figure

6 = (reserved)

7 = (reserved)

8 = Kagi

9 = Kase

10 = Line Break

11 = Momentum

12 = Range

13 = Renko

 

Refer to Chart Type Reserved Word Values for examples of values returned for various chart types.

 

Examples

BarType returns 0 when applied to a Tick chart.

 

BarType returns 2 when applied to a Daily chart.

 

Additional Example

To assure that a statement is executed only on a daily chart we can write:

 

If BarType = 2 then Sell next bar at market;

 

This reserved word is used to determine whether the current tick is the opening or closing tick of a bar, or whether it is a tick ’inside the bar.’

 

BarStatus(DataNum)

 

DataNum is a numeric expression representing the data stream that is being evaluated. 1 refers to Data1, 2 to Data2 and so on. DataNum can be between 1 and 50, inclusive.

 

Notes:

This reserved word will return one of four possible values:

 

2 = the closing tick of a bar

1 = a tick within a bar

0 = the opening tick of a bar (relevant only for strategies using Open Next Bar order actions)

-1 = an error occurred while executing the reserved word

 

When used with multi-data charts the data series referenced must be applied to the chart. For example, to use BarStatus (2), a second data series must be applied to the chart.

 

Example

To perform an operation at the closing tick on the last bar you could write:

 

if LastBarOnChart and BarStatus( 1 ) = 2 then

 

{Your Operation Here} ;

 

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Perhaps I should have given more explanation.

I am aware of the Open, High, Low and Close prices and their use, but what I am after is the current Tick Price. If I run an Indicator on a 5 minute chart, the Indicator executes a number of time for each bar (as seen using FileAppend to log the executions of the indicator). This seems to tie in with being able to see the bar update as prices come in, Note: the current price shown on the right hand side of the chart.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Have you tried plotting CLOSE? What happened?

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