Loops (EasyLanguage)

[mrtraderguy 10]

Tradestation is KILLING me. Apparently, it does not save files that are verified.

 

The hundred or so lines I had written vaporized after a bluescreen on Vista. I had them veririfed, and inserted to a radar screen and when TS restarted, it deleted the file for some reason.

 

Excellent. OK, back to the drawing board here then ... I'll try the setting changed you mentioned once I get it all back from memory :-) Thx Tams.

[mrtraderguy 10]

I have found the solution, it's a black box thing, as I suspected.

 

There is NO NEED to count bars, apparently, the logic in the Indicator runs on every bar, automatically, so the indicator, when it loads or fires (at the end of a bar formation) parses all the bars back automatically.

 

For example, the following code, all by itself, will print out for each bar, the volume:

 

[color="Blue"]Print[/color]("[color="DarkGreen"]Current bar:[/color] ", [color="Blue"]CurrentBar[/color], " [color="DarkGreen"]has volume of [/color]", [color="Blue"]Volume[CurrentBar][/color]);

 

So, stupid thing I guess, on me ... I was not knowledgable regarding the system parser interworkings (the black box)! So the code is very easy then:

 

[HIGHLIGHT GREEN][i]// It is not programatically possible to reliably retrieve 
// float yet, so it must be input per symbol[/i][/HIGHLIGHT GREEN]
[color="Blue"]Inputs: [/color]
TotalCurrentFloat(0); [HIGHLIGHT GREEN]// Full number of shares, i.e. 93460000 for 93.46M[/HIGHLIGHT GREEN]

[color="blue"]Variables: [/color]
intVolumeCounter(1),[HIGHLIGHT GREEN][i]// Holds cummulative volume until is equal to or above float[/i][/HIGHLIGHT GREEN]
intBarsBackCounter(0);[HIGHLIGHT GREEN]// Holds final bar number (back from current) where float turned[/HIGHLIGHT GREEN]

[HIGHLIGHT GREEN]// If left in a chart, and the symbol has no TotalCurrentFloat value, this will pass through[/HIGHLIGHT GREEN]
[color="Blue"]If [/color]intVolumeCounter < TotalCurrentFloat [color="blue"]Then Begin[/color]

[indent]intVolumeCounter = intVolumeCounter + [color="blue"]Volume[CurrentBar][/color];[/indent]


[indent]intBarsBackCounter = [color="blue"]CurrentBar[/color];[/indent]

[color="Blue"]End;[/color]

[color="blue"]If[/color] TotalCurrentFloat > 0 [color="blue"]And CurrentBar[/color] <= (intBarsBackCounter+1)  [color="blue"]Then Print[/color]("[color="DarkGreen"]Float turned in [/color]", intBarsBackCounter, " [color="darkgreen"]bars[/color]");

 

This adds volume for each bar until it reaches the variable/input TotalCurrentFloat and when it falls through the if/then and leaves intBarsBackCounter with a number indicating the bar at which the float was turned from the current date, bars back. Works perfect on every one so far :-)

 

So, now onto the good stuff :-)

 

Thanks TAMS and all! I know there's probably code out there that already does this, but it's nice to understand what's going on to be sure it's accurate! Anyway, I'll post it later, just for good laugh!

 

Ah, it's Miller time!!

 

MTG

 

 

DISCLAIMER: I retyped this from memory, not copy/paste, so code typos are possible :-)