Welcome to tutorial 46 in this series of tutorials designed to help you learn EasyLanguage programming skills. EasyLanguage is a programming language that is part of the TradeStation trading platform. It can be used to write programs to help in the technical analysis and trading of foreign exchange (forex or FX), commodities (e.g. the Dow e-mini, S&P e-mini etc), options, and stocks.
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Intrabarpersist variables, ‘enable intrabar order generation and calculation’, and ‘use look inside bar backtesting’
This tutorial aims to shed some light on the important strategy components: Intrabarpersist variables, ‘enable intrabar order generation and calculation’, and ‘use look inside bar backtesting.’ The video below shows a practical demonstration of using intrabarpersist variables and how their effect varies depending on whether ‘enable intrabar order generation and calculation’ and ‘use look inside bar backtesting’ are enabled. The video is based on a 10 minute chart using the 1 minute look inside bar backtesting setting.
With strategies, if ‘enable intrabar order generation and calculation’ is not enabled then each bar is only evaluated on the close of the bar. If ‘enable intrabar order generation and calculation’ is enabled but ‘use look inside bar backtesting’ is not, then TradeStation recognizes 4 “data points” within each bar being evaluated: open, low, high and close. TradeStation makes assumptions about whether low comes before high or vice versa.
If ‘enable intrabar order generation and calculation’, and ‘use look inside bar backtesting’ are enabled, then, for the intraday ‘look inside bar backtesting’ setting, the the strategy is evaluated four times for each look-inside interval. For example, in the video example I show a ten minute bar and the ‘use look inside bar backtesting’ is set to 1 minute. This means that the strategy is evaluated 4 times per minute bar. In addition the final ‘tick’ of the bar is repeated for intraday settings (as opposed to tick settings). I explain this in the video.
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Tutorial 46 Video – Using intrabarpersist variables
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