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It will take some considerable time and effort to learn EasyLanguage (EL) but it really is the easiest of the major trading program languages. The great thing about EL is the tremendous amount of educational material and support available. Also, just when you think you have learned everything, you discover a whole new level of complexity available. Anyway, the best way to get started is the two courses sold by Tradestation. "The EasyLanguage Home Study Course" and "Mastering EasyLanguage for Strategies". A good companion while going through these two courses is "EasyLanguage Essentials" also sold by Tradestation. Once you have a basic understanding of what is going on, the Tradestation WIKI is a great learning tool, and free. There are also numerous books that include EL code to demonstrate concenpts from the books. A good one is "Building Winning Trading Systems with Tradestation" available from Amazon. If you really want to create your own indicators, screens, and strategies it is going to take hundreds, perhaps thousands of hours of study and hard work to get far enough along to start doing cool stuff. If you are not really that interested in programming, you would be better off to hire a Tradestation programmer to construct any indicator, screen or strategy you can imagine.

I have enjoyed following your thread so far. I hope you are not dropping it. So after all of the work you have done trying out the Watts system what do you think of the system? Is it worth the effort? One thing I wonder about is why not just program all of the rules into an automated strategy, then you would have no psychological issues to deal with. Have you tried automating?

Wow, this is great work UrmaBlume. I just found this forum today and this is my very first thread I read and BAM! I am completely blown away. I also use Tradestation and have never seen anything like this on their forum. My thanks for your sharing these ideas!