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Getting Started with Tradestation EasyLanguage

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Hello,

 

I am looking for recommendations for books with EasyLanguage examples. I have many of the EL reference books which provide the correct syntax, etc., but read much like dictionaries. As a non-programmer, what I feel I really need are specific examples of code that I can modify to suit my needs. I.e., I am not looking for books to give me winning strategies per se, but books that provide examples of code already written in EL for a variety of strategies, that I can use to ensure that I am using proper logic, etc.

 

(One example is that I would like to look at two-timeframes - where there is increasing momentum after a low-adx period on the higher timeframe, and perhaps an ema-based entry on the lower timeframe. I know what I want to code, and I know it can be done in EL, but I need examples to pull from specifically in EL to understand how to do it correctly.)

 

With that in mind, can anyone recommend one or two books to get me started?

 

Much appreciated!

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Developing strategies based on two time frames is not really that straight forward in EL. I haven't used any of the later versions of TS, but last I checked you cannot have two timeframes on the same chart, which make it impossible to use standard EL to make use of two different timeframes. You will probably need something like ELCollections, or some kind of global variable dll for that so that you can refer to data in different charts/workspaces.

 

One book with a few examples is "Building winning trading systems with Tradestation" by George Pruit. Not so much for the "Winning Strategies", but there are a few decent coding examples.

 

If you are starting to learn a new language, this might be worth your time to learn one of the more flexible platforms when it comes to developing strategies. The trade-of would that the more flexible the language is, the steeper the learning curve. Some of the platforms I can think of are Amibroker (don't be fooled by the low price), Neoticker, Ninjatrader (although NT don't allow reference to multi timeframes and is not quite there yet in term of robustness for strategy development, although version 7 promises to resolve that.)

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