Dennis Do you have any updates. I have a few ideas and maybe we can work to make it happen.
Regards Seede --- In [email protected], Dennis Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I wanted to be able to enter trades manually --representing the ideal > discretionary system trades for comparing different automated systems > trying to mimic them. I combined several different ideas I found > here to make the code below. > > To operate, you select a name, make an empty ticker, then enable > manual trades, select a bar and place a marker on it. > > It remembers the markers and can display them on any chart. The same > idea could be used to mark universal things on a chart such as > options expirations, fed announcements, 9-11, other market moving > news that would affect all charts in back testing. It could also be > modified to switch files 1-1 for each current ticker for ticker > specific events. The advantage is that the data is retained across > different panes etc. --unlike drawn studies which can not be shared, > cut, pasted, and could easily be lost. > > So far, I have noticed a couple anomalies in operation that I can't > explain. > The first time I enter a marker after starting AB, it seems to > disappear after a bit and has to be reentered once. > It lost my markers once, and I am not sure why that happened --the > files were still there. > Also, I wanted to have a way to make it hard to clear all the markers > by mistake. I was looking for a way to require the shift key down > when clicking on the make empty ticker button as a fail safe. Or > perhaps there is a way to make a confirmation dialog box. > > I would appreciate any help with these issues and comments for > improvements. > > You make take the following code and use it or post it however you > like as far as I am concerned. > > ~Dennis > > _SECTION_BEGIN("Manual Trades"); > // This section allows manual trades to be entered and saved > permenantly as a ticker > // ~name1 is Buy flags > // ~name2 is Sell flags > // ~name3 is Short flags > // ~name4 is Cover flags > > function saveManual(array, ManName) > {AddToComposite(array ,ManName ,"x",atcFlagEnableInIndicator| > atcFlagDefaults);} > > function saveAllManual(BuyMan, SellMan, ShortMan, CoverMan, ManName) > { > saveManual(BuyMan , ManName+"1"); > saveManual(SellMan , ManName+"2"); > saveManual(ShortMan , ManName+"3"); > saveManual(CoverMan , ManName+"4"); > } > > ManualName = ParamStr("Manual Trade Ticker", "~Kezha"); > createManual = ParamTrigger("Make Empty Ticker", "Make Empty Ticker" ); > EnableManual = ParamToggle("Enable Manual Trades", "OFF|ON" ); > setbuy = ParamTrigger("Buy", "Buy" ); > setsell = ParamTrigger("Sell", "Sell" ); > setshort = ParamTrigger("Short", "Short" ); > setcover = ParamTrigger("Cover", "Cover" ); > clear = ParamTrigger("Clear", "Clear" ); > > bi = BarIndex(); > sbi = SelectedValue( bi )-bi[0]; > > if( createManual ) > { > saveAllManual(0, 0, 0, 0, ManualName); > } > > if( enableManual ) > { > BuyMan = Foreign(ManualName+"1" ,"c"); > SellMan = Foreign(ManualName+"2" ,"c"); > ShortMan = Foreign(ManualName+"3" ,"c"); > CoverMan = Foreign(ManualName+"4" ,"c"); > > if( setbuy ){BuyMan[sbi ] = 1; saveManual(BuyMan , ManualName+"1");} > if( setsell ){SellMan[sbi ] = 1; saveManual(SellMan, ManualName+"2");} > if( setshort ){ShortMan[sbi ] = 1; saveManual(ShortMan, ManualName > +"3");} > if( setcover ){CoverMan[sbi ] = 1; saveManual(CoverMan, ManualName > +"4");} > if( clear ) > { > BuyMan[sbi ] = 0; > SellMan[sbi ] = 0; > ShortMan[sbi ] = 0; > CoverMan[sbi ] = 0; > saveAllManual(BuyMan, SellMan, ShortMan, CoverMan, ManualName); > } > PlotShapes( BuyMan * shapeUpArrow,colorGreen,0,L,-25); > PlotShapes( SellMan * shapeDownArrow ,colorRed ,0,H,-25); > PlotShapes( ShortMan * shapeHollowDownTriangle ,colorRed ,0,H,-25); > PlotShapes( CoverMan * shapeHollowUpTriangle,colorGreen,0,L,- 25); > } > _SECTION_END(); >
