thank you Eight i am not very interested in learning any new language, i find EL very powerfull and i am able to master it now after a while, my scripts uses most of the time many loops and arrays inside arrays; i do not think i could learn to do this in a couple weeks using C#. another reason would be if i will decide next year or so to subscripe to current version's TS software or open an account with TS, i will be able to make use of tradestation's huge tick data database, which provides me with up to 6 months of tick data. i do not know of any other other software which provides this kind of history. if the TS2KI software is full of errors it will be a different story i will not be interested anymore.i am using a EL compatible software at the moment from TradeSignal which is not very famous outside germany this is what i use for trading but can only be driven online and the data history is pretty weak, i was hoping to find something which will let me do programming only in EL letting my other software do the trading, that is all i want. i have found someone who is selling TS2KI incl a "Permanent License Key", will this not be enough to run the software permanent ? is it possible to import intraday-data and run this piece of software offline, i have read somewhere it lets you import eod data only ? if so i lose interest. i am offered a history cd with 10 years future data for most eq indices in tick and intraday format but my question is if it even is possible to run TS2KI ?
http://www.hypertrader.it/ the above have all you need for very reasonable price. History plugin for yahoo data will cost about 100 euro and they are very helpful in doing remote assistance etc if need be.
I am still using Supercharts for eod data. I tried a few times to install my copy of Tradestation but there was some security block program that would never find it.
I taught a friend some basic EL (as much as I knew, anyway) in 2000i. From what I saw, 2000i was limited to 4 plots per indicators, vs TS8.x which has at least 100 (could be more). Not a big deal, but nice to have. 2000i is missing some newer declarations, like intrabarpersist, which is useful on intraday stuff. 8.x has more color selections than 2k, and the chart axis can be grabbed and expanded/contracted, whereas 2k is not interactive that way. 2k doesn't show current price in the price margin as a highlighted text either. If you are going to be working just off daily bars, 2k is probably enough.
i am not that much into indicators, the plotting doesnt borther me to much but i should be able to programm intraday strategies with downloadet historical third part data preferable ticks. the intrabarpersist will not be of any value as no realtime data would be used. i simply need to be able to use arrays and the normal reserved el words for testing purposes, so the question is does ts2ki let me work with downloadet or bought historical tickdata without any isues / errors and if yes will the Permanent License Key be enough to keep it running all the time
Probably the "permanent license key" is the same as "good forever password" If you have a good reason to stay with EZ Language then you have a good reason... I have not found that I can do more with C# than EZ Language, just C# is generally better for me and all the newer stuff uses C in some form or another.. Tradestation and Multicharts are the only users of Easy Language, some others provide easy conversion of Easy Language scripts to C scripts... If you are not going to use Radarscreen I recommend "On Demand Server" from tssupport.com. I was a beta tester for that project actually, sort of proud of that, like I made a small contribution to the industry... it works fine, you open a chart in TS2000 and it pulls in the data history and gets you realtime data too... they have other data utilities that may be more directly applicable to what you are doing too...
I have done the self-taught route also in C#/NinjaTrader, to the point I have moved some indicators I watch off TradeStation into Ninja. C# can be a bit more involved, since it involves more accuracy (case-sensitive) and clarity of data-type (as I found out using Math.Ceiling and Math.Floor). Usually people will not bother to invest the time into learning a new coding language unless they have to - too much work involved. So if you're going to do it, at least C# has uses elsewhere, so you're not stuck putting all that time into learning something that's then trapped in just one stinking charting package.
I am rusty now with TS2ki but know for a fact that I did testing with offline, intra-day data that I purchased then from TickData. Can't recall if I ever used tick level data.
Didn't TS2k import ASCII data? If you have a broker and can connect to them with free Ninjatrader you can upload data from the broker and export it as ASCII from Ninja...
so ts2ki is able to import intraday-data and will let me work with it. thats what i wanted to know.thank you