EasyLanguage training course summary

The purpose of this training course is to get you up and running writing TradeStation EasyLanguage programs as quickly as possible. Over the last 7 or so years I have created a huge amount of free training materials and downloadable programs. This course will take a more structured approach to EasyLanguage training by taking you through simple videos and providing example programs that you can copy and paste. In this way you will hopefully gain the satisfaction of creating your own programs which will, hopefully, encourage you to go on to write other programs.

If you go through the course, please email me feedback to martyn.whittaker@markplex.com. If necessary I can add new segments, videos and exercises to endeavor to ensure that concepts are explained as clearly as possible.

Basic Course

Things covered:

Topics

1. An overview of the desktop etc.
2. The difference between indicators, show me studies and paintbar studies.
3. How to create a new EasyLanguage indicator (or showme or paintbar study)
   
4. My first program. Print(“Hello World!”);
5. How to apply the new indicator to a chart.
6. Some of the reserved words available to you
7. What is a variable and the main types
8. Introduction to INPUT
9. How to add a plot to the indicator.
10. Formatting an indicator once applied to a chart (i.e. color thickness, style) also whether applied to sub graph or data 1.
11. Adding a showme and paintbar plot.
12. How to open an existing indicator and why this can be useful.
13. Importing and exporting EasyLanguage
14. Mathematical operators( +, -, *, / )
15. Precedence of operations
16. Relational operators (=, >, <, >=, <= )
17. Logical operators (AND and OR )
18. Introduction to TradeStation functions
19. Explanation of MaxBarsBack.
20. Referencing previous values using square brackets.
21. How to add comments to your programs
22. One dimensional arrays.
23. Creating a counter
24. If…Then statements
25. If….Then statements with Begin …. End
26. For…Begin…End statements
27. Alerts
28. How to print to file
29. Using FileAppend
30. Creating and debugging a simple strategy

Intermediate (coming soon)

1. Writing a complex function that returns multiple values
2. Drawing objects
3. Two dimensional arrays
4. Intrabarpersist variables
5. Commentary
6. How to use data applied to a sub chart ( up to 50 datasets allowed)
7. Introduction to strategy development
8. MaxBarsBack in relation to strategy development
9. Strategy key words
10. Intrabar order generation
11. Built in stops, targets, and trailing stops
12. Tying entries to exits
13. Pyramiding
14. Backtesting
15. Creating indicators and show me studies for RadarScreen

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