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EasyLanguage Programming
September 1st, 2020, 03:09 PM
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Keeping track of day trades?
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Very true---speaking of small things, I guess...
Very true---speaking of small things, I guess there would be no point in even having data2 on daily if you are just going to reference a distant intraday bar (like [390])---may as well keep it lean...
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EasyLanguage Programming
September 1st, 2020, 03:04 PM
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Keeping track of day trades?
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Captain135
EDIT: I just remembered, when you have multiple...
EDIT: I just remembered, when you have multiple data series on a chart, but a shorter timeframe on one of the data series, the historical reference brackets [1] counts based on shorter timeframe. ...
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EasyLanguage Programming
September 1st, 2020, 02:52 PM
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Keeping track of day trades?
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Captain135
Ah yes, putting daily bars on data2 would be a...
Ah yes, putting daily bars on data2 would be a good way to do that, thanks for the insight! I don't think totaltrades[currentrade] would work because currentdate returns values like "200901"
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EasyLanguage Programming
September 1st, 2020, 01:02 PM
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Keeping track of day trades?
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Captain135
What you have would only work if you are on daily...
What you have would only work if you are on daily candles, because if you were on intraday, the previous totaltrades[1] bar would be the previous bar, not the previous day. For my use case, this...
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EasyLanguage Programming
August 31st, 2020, 06:27 PM
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Keeping track of day trades?
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Captain135
Thanks James, I think if I just set the timeframe...
Thanks James, I think if I just set the timeframe to "5 days back", then use total trades
if totaltrades < 4 then
*your entry signal code*
Kjhosken, "tradestoday" doesn't seem to exist in...
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EasyLanguage Programming
August 24th, 2020, 12:57 PM
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Keeping track of day trades?
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Captain135
Keeping track of day trades?
Has anyone figured out any EL code that can keep track of day trades, so that a strategy will only execute a trade if there have been less than 3 trades in previous 5 business days?
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EasyLanguage Programming
July 8th, 2020, 04:06 PM
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strategies on data2?
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Captain135
strategies on data2?
In tradestation is there any possible way to enable strategies on data2, data3, data4, etc, or is data1 the only possible chart where strategies can be applied? I have not found this documented...
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Traders Hideout
July 7th, 2020, 01:41 PM
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Micro account vs Funded account (combine)
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Captain135
Did you document your strategy performance of...
Did you document your strategy performance of your paper trading? It's essential data. That would be your guide to knowing how big of a losing streak / drawdown you should normally expect, which...
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Commodities
May 16th, 2020, 11:30 PM
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The CL Crude-analysis Thread
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Captain135
Does anyone *cough SMCJB cough* have any insight...
Does anyone *cough SMCJB cough* have any insight to what the storage situation is in Cushing right now and how it compares to last month?
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ThinkOrSwim
May 16th, 2020, 01:03 PM
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Thoughts on thinkorswim
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Captain135
I agree with what the others above have said...
I agree with what the others above have said about the benefits and downsides of thinkorswim. I've recently moved from Thinkorswim to Tradestation because Tradestation can auto trade your...
Forum:
TradeStation
May 11th, 2020, 03:57 PM
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tried to reference too many bars back
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Captain135
Everything you describe makes it sound like the...
Everything you describe makes it sound like the function should actually be called minimum bars back. Would you agree that the practical use of "max bars back" is to ensure the minimum, not maximum,...
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Traders Hideout
May 11th, 2020, 02:05 PM
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I have no "edge" - Should I throw in the towel?
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Captain135
If you truly are consistently directionally wrong...
If you truly are consistently directionally wrong as you say you are, and your P/L curve is nicely trending from top left to bottom right, then that sounds like a potential edge to me, just reverse...
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ThinkOrSwim
April 29th, 2020, 05:21 PM
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Plotting range bars on a time chart?
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Captain135
Thanks for the reply Luke! I don't see any...
Thanks for the reply Luke! I don't see any obvious way to re-tool that code from highs/lows to range bars.
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ThinkOrSwim
April 29th, 2020, 02:31 PM
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Possible to set "strategies" to only trade during NY session?
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Captain135
This was really helpful! I modified it a bit to...
This was really helpful! I modified it a bit to have an input to switch between day session, extended hours session, or both. I also put in a 3 minute buffer for the end of session (rather than to...
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ThinkOrSwim
April 28th, 2020, 01:43 PM
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Plotting range bars on a time chart?
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Captain135
Plotting range bars on a time chart?
I've been stuck for days trying to figure out how to plot range bars (with highlighting, text bubbles, or any other means) over a regular time chart in ToS. The reason I want to do this is because...
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NinjaTrader
April 24th, 2020, 06:02 PM
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bull /bear flag indecator
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Captain135
If you can't find one, I wrote a bull flag...
If you can't find one, I wrote a bull flag indicator/strategy in Pinescript (tradingview) and published it here
https://www.tradingview.com/script/xXvxlU3g-Bull-Flag-v1-00/
You can try to take...
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ThinkOrSwim
April 23rd, 2020, 05:11 PM
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How to install Range Bar code in Thinkorswim
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Captain135
Don't suppose you still have this code (9 years...
Don't suppose you still have this code (9 years later? :)) I know range bars are built into thinkorswim now, but I'm trying to do something that identifies ranges on regular time charts, and am...
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Commodities
April 20th, 2020, 02:12 PM
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The CL Crude-analysis Thread
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Captain135
You said taking physical delivery is unavailable,...
You said taking physical delivery is unavailable, I'm looking to find out how you came upon that information. (Some CME notice I can't find, talking to your broker, etc.)
The current physical...
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Commodities
April 20th, 2020, 02:08 PM
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The CL Crude-analysis Thread
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Captain135
Thanks for the reply SMCJB. How does someone get...
Thanks for the reply SMCJB. How does someone get the information you just provided?
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Commodities
April 20th, 2020, 01:45 PM
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The CL Crude-analysis Thread
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Captain135
Anyone have any experience or knowledge of taking...
Anyone have any experience or knowledge of taking physical delivery on crude? I'm specifically trying to find out how the storage fees work. The NYMEX rulebook doesn't mention storage fees...
Forum:
Options
January 31st, 2019, 10:52 AM
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Selling Options on Futures?
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Posted By
Captain135
Thanks for sharing! It sounds like when...
Thanks for sharing! It sounds like when positions start going against you, you increase the overall size of your trade by taking even larger positions which goes against traditional trading wisdom...
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Traders Hideout
January 7th, 2019, 11:21 AM
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It was only a matter of time before I showed up
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Captain135
First, welcome!! I think what you've said...
First, welcome!!
I think what you've said is reasonable, there are just a couple things I'd like to poke at. If you really mean that preserving capital is your first priority, then to act that...
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Options
October 28th, 2018, 12:09 PM
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Selling Options on Futures?
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Captain135
Initial Margin, and the exchange calculates it...
Initial Margin, and the exchange calculates it for any option or future based on how risky they determine it to be. They use a process called SPAN on most exchanges. Some brokers add their own...
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Traders Hideout
July 30th, 2018, 11:15 AM
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How to predict if a market will be volatile?
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4,214
Posted By
Captain135
You specifically ask for which day you'll see...
You specifically ask for which day you'll see higher volatility, and I think at the 1-Day resolution the best indicator will be a good economic calendar:
...
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Trading Journals
March 16th, 2018, 11:53 AM
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36
TRADING OIL CL JOURNAL
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Captain135
You just be doing a little dance right about now....
You just be doing a little dance right about now. Up 2% in 1 hour.
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