Welcome to tutorial 48 in this series of tutorials designed to teach EasyLanguage programming skills. This tutorial applies to TradeStation 8.7 and newer versions, as well as to MultiCharts.
In this tutorial we create and test a show me study that creates a line using linear regression that best fits chart data. The linear regression method used in this tutorial uses the least squares method to calculate the slope and y-intercept of this line.
The formulae we use are as follows:
Slope(m) = ( NΣXY – ( ΣX )( ΣY ) ) / ( NΣX2 – ( ΣX )2 )
Intercept(c) = ( ΣY – m( ΣX ) ) / N
Equation(y) = mx + c
Where the ‘Σ‘ symbol means ‘sum.’
In the tutorial, we first get closing data for the most recent ten bars. We then use the above formulae to calculate the slope and y intercept using a spreadsheet. We finally demonstrate the calculation in TradeStation and draw a line.
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The above graph shows a part of a TradeStation chart applied over an x – y graph.
This graph is the same as the previous one except it just shows the closing values
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Tutorial 48 Video 1 – Introduction to linear regression formulae and spreadsheet calculation
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Tutorial 48 Video 2 – Calculate slope and y intercept and draw line on chart
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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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