Harmonic Patterns Indicators....to be corrected

[Shax]

Hi,

I have found in my archive this formula in Easylanguage, which allows to identify different Harmonic Patterns:
Butterfly, Gartley, Crab, Bat, etc ..., but Tradestation reports some errors that I do not know how to solve;
if someone can correct the formula,.....I thank you in advance.

 

[Shax]

In this image you can see the error that Tradestation reports, and the code is green
because there are several open curly brackets: { that have not been closed and therefore exclude most of the code;

if someone can correct the formula, I can reciprocate with several Technical Analysis books (pdf and epub).

 

[ph1l]

In this image you can see the error that Tradestation reports, and the code is green
because there are several open curly brackets: { that have not been closed and therefore exclude most of the code;

if someone can correct the formula, I can reciprocate with several Technical Analysis books (pdf and epub).

Your file is corrupted with extra characters like the ones past the ");" in this line close to the end.

if bestConfirm > 0 then plot56(bestConfirm,"p56");  2 @# F  [0 V, }$ i3 W . y! \; ^  G! @8 E2 o$ oEND;

I found a better looking copy on http://www.0762jr.com/thread-43114-1-1.html, but bad characters are just hidden and show when lines are highlighted or copied and pasted. So I tried to parse the code from the page source with

cat pagesource.htm | fgrep '<li>' | perl -p -e 's/<li>/\n<li>/g;' | grep '^<li>' |
perl -p -e 'use warnings; use strict;
s/&nbsp;//g; s/<li>//; s/<.*//; s/ +\r?\n/\r\n/;
s/&apos;/\047/gi;
s/&quot;/"/gi;
s/&nbsp;/ /gi;
s/&amp;/\&/gi;
s/&lt;/</gi;
s/&gt;/>/gi;
s/&#([0-9]+);/chr($1)/gie;
s/&#x([0-9a-f]+);/chr(hex($1))/gie;
s/[^[:ascii:]]//g;' > harmonic_patterns.txt

and put the output in the attached harmonic_patterns.txt

 

[Shax]

I thank you for inserting another formula of Harmonic Patterns, but unfortunately this one contains errors too;
the first error is the word: BatSetup() that Tradestation reports as: "Word not recognized by Easylanguage" (see image), and then I think that also the other words:

BatConfirm ()
ButterflySetup()
ButterflyConfirm()
GartleySetup()
GartleyConfirm()

etc..., will be considered as errors.
If someone could correct the formula,....I thank you in advance.

 

[ph1l]

this one contains errors too;
the first error is the word: BatSetup() that Tradestation reports as: "Word not recognized by Easylanguage"

It looks like you have already seen another version here, and the only non-whitespace and non-comment differences between the version I posted before and that one are the use of "input:" vs "inputs:"

diff -w harmonic_patterns.txt harmonic_patterns2.txt
14,15c11
<     p83 bar low
< }
---
>       p83 bar low }
20,42c16
< { The pattern rules are from
<     Harmonic Trading Vol 1 & 2, Scott Carney
< }
<
< {
< Revision History:
<     2013-01-10: Initial release (MarsallaMarceau)
< }
<
< input: zigfac(2);
<
< input: ShoBat(true);
< input: ShoButterfly(false);
< input: ShoGartley(false);
< input: ShoCrab(false);
< input: ShoDeepCrab(false);
< input: ShoFiveOh(false);
< input: ShoABeCD(false{AB=CD});
< input: ShoBars(true);
<
< input: ShoFibLabel(false);
< input: ShoZigZag(true);
< input: ShoZZBands(false);
---
> { The pattern rules are from Harmonic Trading Vol 1 & 2, Scott Carney }
44,45c18,22
< input: BearishColor(darkred);
< input: BullishColor(darkgreen);
---
> { Revision History: 2013-01-10: Initial release (MarsallaMarceau) }
>
> inputs: zigfac (2), ShoBat (true), ShoButterfly (false), ShoGartley (false), ShoCrab (false), ShoDeepCrab (false),
>                ShoFiveOh (false), ShoABeCD (false{AB=CD}), ShoBars (true), ShoFibLabel (false), ShoZigZag (true),
>                ShoZZBands (false), BearishColor (darkred), BullishColor (darkgreen);

But you wrote TradeStation gives the same "Word not recognized by Easylanguage" error pointing to BatSetup for that version. So, the issue could be something unsupported in your TradeStation.

 

[Shax]

The words contained in the formula:

BatSetup()
BatConfirm ()
ButterflySetup()
ButterflyConfirm()
GartleySetup()
GartleyConfirm()

are not part of the Easylanguage, in fact using Tradestation's official online help:

http://help.tradestation.com/09_01/tsdevhelp/subsystems/elword/elword_Left.htm

and looking for them by clicking on Index, they are not found;
probably they are Functions created by the author but not inserted in the formula and therefore the formula is not complete.

 

[ph1l]

The words contained in the formula:

BatSetup()
BatConfirm ()
ButterflySetup()
ButterflyConfirm()
GartleySetup()
GartleyConfirm()

are not part of the Easylanguage, in fact using Tradestation's official online help:

http://help.tradestation.com/09_01/tsdevhelp/subsystems/elword/elword_Left.htm

and looking for them by clicking on Index, they are not found;
probably they are Functions created by the author but not inserted in the formula and therefore the formula is not complete.

I think the code is trying to define methods like BatSetup, ButterflyConfirm, etc. From my very limited knowledge of EasyLanguage, I don't see anything that looks like an error with those method definitions. Perhaps user-defined methods like NearestFib, ratio, and oo_iff need to have their definitions in the code before being used? For example, you could try the attached harmonic_patterns3.txt which has NearestFib, ratio, and oo_iff defined before BatSetup.