Software Used to Trade Jack Hershey Methods

I found that BarCheck did not work properly on daily charts and have fixed it. Sorry...

I tried to add lateral formations however, NT does not seem to allow drawing them underneath the price & other indicators. I am hoping they can identify a solution; however, one may not be available until NT v7.

 

I also found a mistake in VolumeSCT which left PRV bars sticking up on old bars occasionally. I fixed that too.

 

LostTrader,

Did you try using Graphics.Draw.... It allows to put an object anywhere based on x and y coordinates.

Regards,
redduke

 

Ericta,


I think OpenQuant is the best affordable ATS development platform at the moment. I had no prior C# esp. before starting, but it's not that complicated. It's rather easy to develop simple stuff (examples on their website), and you can go as complex as you want. The entire .NET environment is available.

The Perpetual License gives you the program for life, and all updates in the next year. At the moment they release a new version 1 & 2 times a month.

Let me know if you have any more questions

Besides the equities stuff, I'm also looking into if it's possible to automate the futures trading. A bit more advanced though..

 

Short answer: no.

Long answer:
I can draw the rectangle using bar & price coordinates, which at least means NT will keep it in the right place as the chart is updated, I am just annoyed that it lays on TOP of the inside bar pennant drawing (and price).
I suspect I can drop into raw C & override NT's methods to do it, but it would also make the indicator harder (for me) to maintain.
I could also separate the lateral from the BarCheck and place it on the chart so that it is underneath BarCheck, then add another indicator to redraw price bars... It starts to get ridiculous (at least in my mind) and churns CPU workload unnecessarily (again IMHO).

In theory, layering of objects will be supported by NT in v7
Since I would rather NT simply fix it, I will wait. I am supposed to working on calculating pace, and keep procrastinating because I do not know much about collections. Everytime I start to break down the strategy, I start thinking that would be the better way to handle the data sets. and now I am way off-topic. sorry...

 

Hi Munck,

Thank you for the info.

As for automation, I think it will be much easier to start with indicator, alert and trigger one at a time. And piece by piece, you will have your fully automated system without even knowing it.

BR
ericta

 

Does anyone have "Wealth Lab 5.0"?

According to their "Quick Start Guide", there should be a WealthLab script --> C# conversion tool included. I'm very interested in a C#'ed version of Spyder's original RANK SCAN http://www.wealth-lab.com/cgi-bin/WealthLab.DLL/editsystem?id=37966, as a basis for my own work in this area.

 

This is a C# class that can be called to get the symbols off the Stocktables webpage directly. No need to download a file anymore.

Code:

static List<string> HentSymboler(string url)
        {
            List<string> tmpret = new List<string>();
            string html = HentHtml(url);
            string startmønster="NORMAL&Symbol=";
            string slutmønster = "\">";

            int startpos = 0;
            int slutpos = -1;

            while (startpos > -1)
            {
                startpos = html.IndexOf(startmønster, startpos + 1);
                slutpos = html.IndexOf(slutmønster, startpos + 1 + startmønster.Length);
                if (slutpos > -1 && startpos>-1)
                {
                    string tmpsym = html.Substring(startpos + startmønster.Length, slutpos - startpos - startmønster.Length);
                    if (!tmpret.Contains(tmpsym))
                    {
                        tmpret.Add(tmpsym);
                    }
                }
                
            }


            return tmpret;
        }

 

Unfortunately, the conversion tool isn't out yet. WL 5.0 is currently available only for Fidelity customers, but the international version should be out "before summer". I think the conversion tool will be out some time after that.

Also, it'll convert to WL's version of C#, not OpenQuant's, so only the 'pure' C# bits would be directly transferable...

Thanks for providing your work here. I haven't had a chance to start playing with it, but hope too this weekend.

 

Palinuro,


yeah, but I reckon the conversion would be easier. I don't know WL Scripting, so Spyders work makes little sense to me.

If you're into C# perhaps we should hook up using IM?