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A brief bit of history before I get to my problem. I moved brokers from Tradestation to Stage 5. I am on a quest to move a few indicators from Tradestation to Stage 5 and have recently had a bit of luck. After finding out that Stage 5 is an Open E Cry platform I became aware the OEC understands most of Easy language. I have successfully imported 2 indicators and still have a few to go. On the others however I am getting a syntax error and need a bit of help.
Here are the details of the problem. I import by simply copying the Easy language and then "compile" (which is the same as "verify" in Tradestation). At which point it will pull up errors. I get the following error
Syntax error: lpar expected
When I double click the error my cursor is put in front of "plotpb" reserved word. I know this means plot paintbar. I am guessing in the code it is referencing a paint bar that Tradestation already understands but OEC doesn't know what to make of it or there is some sort of punctuation type error. I do know that "plotpb" is in BLUE meaning it recognizes it as an Easy language reserved word as it should. So there is my problem and where I need some folks from FIO to help. Your time and effort is much appreciated in advance and I will give additional information if anyone needs clarification in order to assist.
Last I have already tried the C# translator tool, typed "plotpaintbar", which seemed could be obvious easy fixes, without any success. I am now convinced I need a Easy Language knowledgeable person to solve my Error.
"plotPB" is the EasyLanguage reserved word for a paint bar, which usually consists of four individual plots (rarely just two). If your software doesn't recognize it, you might be able to create the same effect with four separate plots: One that plots the Open, the High, the Low and Close.
You probably have to format them in the indicator properties to something what is called (Left Tick in TS for the Open plot, Bar High and Bar Low for High and Low and Right Tick for the Close). Otherwise they might just plot straight lines.
your code snippet it the paint bar consists of two values - the high and the low. Based on what I wrote above you would have to turn this into two separate plots (Plot1 and Plot2 for example), where one plots the value of H[highBarsAgo] and the second one the value of L[highBarsAgo].
In Tradestation you'd have to format the first plot to be of the style "Bar High" (and not a cross, dot or line) and the second one to "Bar Low". Settings these two formats will tell TS to draw a bar using the two values for the High and Low. I don't know how you format the plots within OEC, so I am afraid I can't help you with that.
