Strategy Seeker

Now, that you developed your own Indicator it’s time to display it on your private graph. This is exactly why we added ‘SetGraph’ function. SetGraph gets to parameters: Date and a value. When using it in Chart menu, it will draw your new Private Graph below the usual Symbol Chart.

Example:
The following code will calculate SMA(2) and will use SetGraph to display it:

# Calc my SMA2
my $SMA2 = ( Close() + Close(1) ) / 2 ;

# Get today date
my $d = Date();

Do you need to develop your own indicators?
Do you need to use common come in few Strategies? (“Code Reuse”)

Now you can, we added a new Tab to Strategies menu: “Private Library”. You can write strategy code here that can be used by all your strategies. You do it by writing subroutines “sub” and it code, for example:

#
# My DebugMSG implementation (short name)
#
sub MSG {
my $str = shift;
DebugMSG( $str );
}


Reference Symbol, allows you to open a channel to additional Symbol within your strategy. Let’s say that you are checking BUY conditions for a specific Symbol (”origin symbol”), and you need to check what AAPL (“Apple”) is doing during the last few days. All you need to do is open AAPL as reference symbol, and now you may add Buy conditions based on analysis of AAPL:

my $security2 = ReferenceSymbol( "AAPL");

1). The good news are that there are no limits to the number of Reference Symbol and you can open, as many as you wish.

Yes, you can now define your own subroutine (and functions) with your strategy code. This is required when writing complex strategies in a logic and simple way.
Also, it is required when there is a need to reuse existing code in different strategies.

So how we do it?

Very simple, as any Perl code (yes, Strategy Seeker’s script language is in fact Perl :-) ) we use the “sub” keyword, for example:

sub GetMyName(){
$str = “John Smith”;
return $str;
}

Yes! you can now connect Strategy Seeker to your Tradestation account. This means that you do not need any more to enter your daily orders manually at your Tradestation desktop software, simply tell StrategySeeker to send it with 1 Click!

If you have not yet setup your Tradestation account, please contact us and we will be able to connect you with the appropriate Tradestation contact.

Our new Strategy Editor allows syntax highlight. This means that different script command, comment, variables etc. will be colored differently. This is a big help in writing complex strategy scripts and a big time saver.

Note: its best used with Mozilla and Chrome. Avoid using it with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Also, click the paint brash to allow syntax highlight. The default is off.