Welcome to Markplex tutorial 42 in this collection of tutorials designed to help you learn TradeStation EasyLanguage programming skills. EasyLanguage is a programming language that was developed for the TradeStation trading platform that can be used to write programs to help in the technical analysis and trading of foreign exchange, commodities (e.g. the Dow e-mini), options and stocks.
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This is a beginner level video tutorial designed to demonstrate how to draw text objects on a chart.
If you want to try the program used in the video, the code is as follows:
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If D <> D[1] then
Begin
Value1 = TL_New( D, T, HighD(1), D, SessionEndTime(1, 1), HighD(1) );
Value2 = Text_New( D, T, HighD(1), NumToStr( HighD(1),2));
Value5 = Text_New( D, T, HighD(1) - 0.1, NumToStr( Value1, 0 ) );
Value6 = Text_New( D, T, HighD(1) - 0.2, NumToStr( Value5, 0 ) );
Text_SetColor( Value5, Red );
End;
If D = CurrentDate and Value1 > 0 and Value2 > 0 and BarStatus(1) <> 1 then
Begin
Value11 = TL_SetEnd(Value1, D, T, HighD(1) );
Text_SetLocation( Value2, D, T, HighD(1) );
Value5 = Text_New( D, T, HighD(1) - 0.1, NumToStr( Value1, 0 ) );
Value6 = Text_New( D, T, HighD(1) - 0.2, NumToStr( Value5, 0 ) );
Text_SetColor( Value5, Red );
End;
{Value3 = TL_New( D, T, Lowd(1), D, SessionEndTime( 1, 1 ), LowD( 1 ) );
Value4 = Text_new( D, T, LowD(1) – 0.1, NumToStr( Value3, 0) ); }
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Make sure that whenever you try and modify and existing drawing object that you make sure that the drawing object actually exists, otherwise you will get a drawing object error.
This is a beginner level tutorial that uses a simple show-me to demonstrate the programming techniques.
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Tutorial 42 Video – Drawing text objects on a chart
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