Recent content by maxwell_e

OK, I didn't RTFM to find the print function. I have thus eaten my keyboard. Regarding the topic of backtesting in TS, I have eaten my mouse, which for some reason, tastes a bit worse. Perhaps my opinion of Amibroker's "ease" in backtesting will change once I become familiar with TS...

TS8.1 & EL doesn't appear to support backtesting (someone correct me if I'm mistaken, as I've only been on TS & digging into EL for a few weeks now). By backtesting I mean some sort of tick/bar/whatever replay (as in eSignal) or going back intraday or historically on a chart bar/tick...

If you want to check out the automation language that comes with TradeStation, you can download the PDF docs: "Getting Started with EasyLanguage" and the Ref guide here: https://www.tradestation.com/support/books/default.aspx EasyLanguage is better suited for on-programmers than Amibroker...

I found out that EasyLanguage can fire off VB scripts by posting here before (new to TS 8, no docs on this at the moment; So if you're willing to "port" to VB (to get your buttons), check out the attachment ("tsvb.jpg") from this thread...

Thanks Pro_Trader (& TGregg) for this great info. Exactly what I needed, and this is very good news. Will be on TS8 soon, in the meantime I can install that VB.Net compiler and brush up. Eh, may all your automated trades fill and be successful.

Exactly. I'd prefer VB, a "transferable" language. Spent many hours working with Amibroker AFL, which worked well and was very slick but did not have trading/automation support. (AFL supports IB for trading, but that's not a route for me at the moment). I'll be with TS by month's end, so I'm...

Anyone use VB and Tradestation? I'd like to bypass EasyLanguage. I've read in posts that EasyLanguage error handling is not as robust, among other things. Mainly interested in the "gotchas" when using VB w/Tradestation. Also, can anyone point me to a TS doc that covers this. (I have...

Picture is worth a hundred words. First of all don't give up on AB support. Just bug them more, as you're entitled to their help. They should at least ask you more questions about what you want to do (did you send them the images?). Second of all, there's a Yahoo user group mentioned on...

Try adding one line at the end of your origional AFL code. WriteVal( DateTime(), formatDateTime ); Btw, most likely you are looking at 'daily' results in your alert window. If you want intraday output, you'll need to use "GetRTData()".

Short(er) reply. If you look in the 4.60 userguide for AlertIf(), there's an example of writing a simple alert to the alert output window. Just add Name(4) in the output string.

Doable. There isn't a substitute for sifting through sample AFL scripts from the online lib, and dissecting the skimpy AFL reference in the userdoc. Most likely you'll have to write strings to the alert output window using the AlertIf() function. No HH:MM:SS with Automatic Analysis, as...

Not alot of (Amibroker) AFL fans on this forum, I've noticed. Not sure what you mean by "newest symbol that appears". If you're talking where you click the heading of a column (date/time) and the results then sort by that column. If that works with daily data and not RT data, then the...

Never tried Ramdisk, either Cenatek or SuperSpeed version, but I'm going to give it a go. Tweak XP has some useful features, Ive found more bells and whistles in it that don't have anything to do with performance. I run a "stripped down" XP pro system, with about 7+ Windows services...

Thanks cmaxb - looks like I'll be moving to eSignal, unless eSignal's data feed goes down repeatedly during my month's trial of their service. Nothing looks as slick as IB's API for automated trading; but for now I'm sticking with Cyber. If EFS is executed with every tick/bar, then that will...