Okay here is the deal. I got tradestation b/c I have a strategy that alerts me to stocks that are forming specific technical intraday patterns. No other scanner can do what I want so I went with tradestration. Now The online help manuals suck at EL, and they basically force u to buy the book...... SO I did. 3 weeks later it is still stuck in the mail (3 phone calls placed), and now that edition is discontinued So I go online, and there are so many damn threads, that refer to over threads, which refer u to other threads, etc.. etc. Can someone help point me in the right direction and help with my frustuation? I even be willing to pay a small fee for you to code the patterns and explain a little rather than pay $50/hr to the Tradestation guys. So until my book comes, or if it even does, I am trying to sort it out. thanks in advance.
Try this book, it will help a lot with your coding. The actual strategies that are described work more or less, but it offers a lot of interesting coding ideas: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...104-6535424-5241568?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
In TS there are serveral ways to do the same thing. This gives flexiblity for down the road but makes it confusing at first. Go to a seminar of theirs. There you will learn when you have to do certain things and when you don't. Take the advanced seminar. I did, it was easy and I had not read any material before hand. JOhn
There are a couple of free TS books here (as well as the pay for book)... https://www.tradestation.com/support/books/default.aspx There are a number of tutorials here... https://www.tradestation.com/support/tutorials/ If you've already posted on the TS Support Forums here... https://www.tradestation.com/Discussions/Forum.aspx?Forum_ID=213 ...then let me know which post it is and I will see if I can help. The TS forums are usually very helpful although if you are asking for lots of code they can be slow. Cheers
LOL.. I checked the first link and i believe the book I ordered that is "stuck in the mail" is now available online for free as of yesterday. (I noticed this b/c right after I ordered it, it said in red letters "no longer available". It just gotreplaced by the "bootcamp" book due to be released early Oct. B/c the website has been updated w/in the 2-3 last days b/c it looks diff. So basically I ordered a book which is now free Those bastards should have warned me.. Let me download the now free stuff and hopefully that will help me out. I posted my question on teh TS forums for 2 days and know one has gotten back to me. And yes, I already did those tutorials. Thanks!