Sierra Chart - Automated Trading

FCXoptions

FCXoptions

Has anybody on here used Sierra Chart to code an automated strategy? I have a specific setup I want to program to try and use. It requires a pretty fast hand to place the orders without missing the fill and I wanted to see about automating it so I can eliminate that issue. It is just a basic setup with a couple moving averages for context that I need to code.

Just looking for some input on using SC for it.

Thanks
 
Where to begin with ACSIL or spreadsheets pretty much lol. I have never done any type of automation and am looking for a good place to start. It looks like SC has a decent write up on the spreadsheets but obviously not ACSIL. I'm just trying to decide which would be the better route for me to go really.
 
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Where to begin with ACSIL or spreadsheets pretty much lol. I have never done any type of automation and am looking for a good place to start. It looks like SC has a decent write up on the spreadsheets but obviously not ACSIL. I'm just trying to decide which would be the better route for me to go really.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cjuA-cZFSY
 
There are several example trading programs and their source code that come with sierra chart. Check out studies1-7.cpp in the ASC_Source folder
 
If you have never programmed, ACSIL will probably not be for you. It's based in C/C++ btw. No worries though, SC spreadsheets will work fine for you until they won't.

Spreadsheet studies, alerts, and autotrading...
http://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=doc/doc_SystemsAlerts.php

Just in case...
http://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=doc/doc_CreatingDLLs.html

Learn by tackling something small (but useful to you).
Make a sound when price is equal or less than X.
Then build on that that.

The SC support board is quite active and there are helpful people there. :)
Most important, you are not alone. Dig in!

Trade On!
 
Thanks for the input guys. I will see what I can do with the spreadsheet studies and piece everything together so I can try to get this thing somewhat automated. I at least can then use it to further backtest over a larger time frame much faster.

I forgot to add earlier, I am using range bars so that should hopefully make things a little easier since it will eliminate the variations in bar size.
 
Hi Sc users. I am a SC newbie and have 20 charts open, each w a spreadsheet study to move values onto Excel. Issue is my Excel gets so slow since it receives new info every time a tick comes into any of the 20 charts. Is there a way to tell SC to just put values to excel every x seconds instead of real time? Thanks in advance.
 
Next question pertaining to coding this strategy, if I was to find someone at my school who could code C++ would they be able to help me on this project without any trading knowledge or would that be necessary?
 
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Hi Sc users. I am a SC newbie and have 20 charts open, each w a spreadsheet study to move values onto Excel. Issue is my Excel gets so slow since it receives new info every time a tick comes into any of the 20 charts. Is there a way to tell SC to just put values to excel every x seconds instead of real time? Thanks in advance.
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Definitely post this on SC support board.
 
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