Welcome to tutorial 50 in this series of tutorials designed to help you learn TradeStation EasyLanguage. This tutorial was created using TradeStation 8.7 and builds upon the work done in tutorial 48 and tutorial 49. In this tutorial we create a function that calculates and draws a linear regression line starting a specified number of bars ago. It also calculates and returns the value of the slope.
The image on the right applies the function to the chart using the following syntax:
Using LastBarOnChart means the creation of a new linear regression line every time a new bar is formed on the chart. Practically speaking, this is not very useful, but it demonstrates how to call the function. The three inputs are:
- The number of bars ago that the end point of the linear regression line should be calculated and drawn,
- The length of the linear regression line and
- The value that the linear regression is being calculated, in this case the Close of the bar.
The function returns the slope of the line. In the above example, this value is stored in Value1. If you were to add the following statement to the calling program:
Print( D, T, ” Slope “, Value1:7:7 );
You would get something like the following in the EasyLanguage Output Bar;
1100824.001356.00 Slope -0.0000258
1100824.001356.00 Slope -0.0000258
1100824.001356.00 Slope -0.0000258
1100824.001356.00 Slope -0.0000258
1100824.001356.00 Slope -0.0000258
1100824.001356.00 Slope -0.0000258
As explained in tutorial 48, the formulae we use to calculate the linear regression 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 following video I explain how the function was created in more detail.
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Tutorial 50 Video – Create a linear regression function
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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.
