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[Samsara]

Quote from Arthur Deco:

I look forward to reading of your madventures. Please leave a breadcrumb trail.

P.S.: 600 lines? That's heavy. My largest is only 300, and I thought it was complexicated. Can you say roughly what that's doing for you, if it's not properiotary?

It's basically my entire strategy. Calls a set of symbols (max eSignal allows is 7, but that's not ideal, so I'm just now trying to test if I can concatenate a few to call up in arrays via efsexternal), turns them into various oscillators, and then I run them through a maze of if statements with a few calls to other studies to define entry, add and exit. Endless if statements that probably could be cleaned up if I were less lazy. Also paints everything on the chart.

The rest of my scripts assist in visualizing what's going on, like monitoring bid/ask pressure real time, so I can frontrun my own signals and throw money away for absolutely no reason. This is why full auto would be nice.

I probably should have invested more time in putting the entry/exit criteria themselves into efsexternal callable scripts, but it works fine as it is. Hopefully Kinetick has the same scope and Ninja can layer studies as well as efs2.

 

[Rodney King]

Quote from Arthur Deco:

madventures

complexicated

properiotary

Can you say roughly what that's doing for you

It's a spell-check script. He could license you a copy if you'd like.

 

[Arthur Deco]

Thanks. That should give the oscillator crowd some encouragement. All my trade stuff is purely statistically-based, but like you, I cannot resist cluttering up my screen with studies that tempt me to outsmart my own systems. I just love all kinds of market internals and support and resistance.

Depending on the rate at which you chart, you might try getting more symbols by charting all the ones you want on separate windows, or calling them in separate studies in one window, and using the set- and get-global value functions to call them into your grand-and-glorious mess code.

 

[Samsara]

Quote from Arthur Deco:

Thanks. That should give the oscillator crowd some encouragement. All my trade stuff is purely statistically-based, but like you, I cannot resist cluttering up my screen with studies that tempt me to outsmart my own systems. I just love all kinds of market internals and support and resistance.

Depending on the rate at which you chart, you might try getting more symbols by charting all the ones you want on separate windows, or calling them in separate studies in one window, and using the set- and get-global value functions to call them into your grand-and-glorious mess code.

Serves me well: a few simple, nontraditional oscillators. I imagine pure statistics-based trading could allow the deepest levels of drill down and testing. Someday it'd be great to get to that point. Do you export anything to a SQL database or use R?

Set and get global value functions, not familiar -- are they calling charted series data while operating within a script? I basically need to run their values through standard math stored procedures and compare them to each other to create the main study. Pretty simple stuff, just annoying I can't call more than 7 right in the efs itself. Not sure how charting those symbols would allow them to be called in a script elsewhere. I'll have to look that up -- many thanks.

 

[emg]

i didnt realize there are so many esignal haters

 

[Arthur Deco]

Quote from Samsara:

Serves me well: a few simple, nontraditional oscillators. I imagine pure statistics-based trading could allow the deepest levels of drill down and testing. Someday it'd be great to get to that point. Do you export anything to a SQL database or use R?

Set and get global value functions, not familiar -- are they calling charted series data while operating within a script? I basically need to run their values through standard math stored procedures and compare them to each other to create the main study. Pretty simple stuff, just annoying I can't call more than 7 right in the efs itself. Not sure how charting those symbols would allow them to be called in a script elsewhere. I'll have to look that up -- many thanks.

May be making a bigger than usual ass of myself, but I thought the symbol limit was in a single efs script. If so, one way around it is to have as many studies like this as you want, each with seven calls:

var eurothedollar;//etc
function preMain() {setComputeOnClose(true);}
function main()
{
eurothedollar=close("6e #f");//etc
setGlobalValue("eurothedollar",eurothedollar);//etc
return;
}

and use getGlobalValue to snag them all in one script. Or you could use setPriceStudy(true) to hide them. But I might be wrong, maybe you can't call more than seven, period, in one window.

 

[Arthur Deco]

Quote from emg:

i didnt realize there are so many esignal haters

It's more like my relationship with my ex: love/hate. Hang around a woman (or a software) long enough, and even her most minor idiosyncracies drive you nuts.

 

[Samsara]

Quote from Arthur Deco:

May be making a bigger than usual ass of myself, but I thought the symbol limit was in a single efs script. If so, one way around it is to have as many studies like this as you want, each with seven calls:

var eurothedollar;//etc
function preMain() {setComputeOnClose(true);}
function main()
{
eurothedollar=close("6e #f");//etc
setGlobalValue("eurothedollar",eurothedollar);//etc
return;
}

and use getGlobalValue to snag them all in one script. Or you could use setPriceStudy(true) to hide them. But I might be wrong, maybe you can't call more than seven, period, in one window.

Thank you kindly, miss. I'll give this a whirl.

 

[Arthur Deco]

Remember if you set compute on close that the global values will set on close and be retrieved on the open of the new bar, which may be a problem. When I use them I make compute on close false.

BTW. don't waste your time fucking with version 11. It is sooooo not ready for prime time.

 

[ProfLogic]

Quote from FaithTrader:

Completely New eSignal 11 Offers Advanced Performance And Intuitive, Customizable Interface

Award-Winning Flagship Software Re-designed to Help Active Traders Navigate an Increasingly Complex Marketplace

Why wasn't the Data Manager updated to 64bit with the rest of the program?