Indicator to Strategy HELP!

NexusFi · 2015-10-26T00:07:33-04:00

Is there anyway to create a strategy that uses a drawobject? This is what I want to do. I have an indicator, that has a: DrawArrowDown("arrowdn", true, TV, High[TV] + (5 * TickSize), Color.Gold); Is there a way to trigger off the drawobject itself without looking at the code? For example: Say, "if DrawArrowDown is visible on the chart, then set a SellShort LMT order at High[TV]" As I said, arrowdn MUST be visible because just saying SellShort LMT order at High[TV] returns a number …

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Indicator to Strategy HELP!

October 26th, 2015, 12:07 AM

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This script exists inside an indicator, if I create a strategy how do I link it?

The values of C and TV would need to be made public in the properties section of the indicator file. Then you would reference those properties from within the strategy...

So in your indicator properties you might have something like this...

Code

        #region Properties

        [Browsable(false)]
        [XmlIgnore()]
        public bool C
        {
            get { return Values[0]; }
        }

        [Browsable(false)]
        [XmlIgnore()]
        public double TV
        {
            get { return Values[1]; }
        }
				
       #endregion

Then in your strategy you can access those values like this (where XYZ() is the name of your indicator)....

Code

if (XYZ().C[0])
{
     EnterShortLimit(DefaultQuantity, XYZ().TV[0], "ShortEntry");
     SetStopLoss("ShortEntry", CalculationMode.Ticks, StopLossOffsetTicks, false);
     SetProfitTarget("ShortEntry", CalculationMode.Ticks, ProfitTargetTicks);
}

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