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Sierra Chart ACSIL for Beginners.

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 Thegunshow 
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Hi Trembling Hand,

Thanks for this thread as well as the other ACSIL thread. I am trying to get a value out of the zig zag study (VolumeDividedByLengthInTicks) but it is displayed as a text label and is not an accessible subgraph. Can you propose a way to modify the ZZ study so that I can access to this data as a subgraph? I would like to be able to use that number in an alert calculation.

Thank you!

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 Trembling Hand 
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Hi Trembling Hand,

Thanks for this thread as well as the other ACSIL thread. I am trying to get a value out of the zig zag study (VolumeDividedByLengthInTicks) but it is displayed as a text label and is not an accessible subgraph. Can you propose a way to modify the ZZ study so that I can access to this data as a subgraph? I would like to be able to use that number in an alert calculation.

Thank you!

Sorry about the slow reply. If you look at the Studies7.cpp file in C:\SierraChart\ACS_Source On line 1187 in the CreateZigZagLineLabel function you can see that the calculation is,
 
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int64_t VolumeDividedByLengthInTicks = static_cast <int64_t>(AccumulatedVolume[ZigZagIndex] / (ZigzagLineLength / sc.TickSize));
You can copy the ZigZag function, rename it as something unique and add a subgraph to hold and display that calculation.

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 Thegunshow 
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Sorry about the slow reply. If you look at the Studies7.cpp file in C:\SierraChart\ACS_Source On line 1187 in the CreateZigZagLineLabel function you can see that the calculation is,
 
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int64_t VolumeDividedByLengthInTicks = static_cast <int64_t>(AccumulatedVolume[ZigZagIndex] / (ZigzagLineLength / sc.TickSize));
You can copy the ZigZag function, rename it as something unique and add a subgraph to hold and display that calculation.

Thank you so much! Any chance you can help me determine the line numbers I should copy and paste to recreate the ZigZag function? I was looking at the file last night and its not super clear to me. If you don't have time, I understand. I can probably experiment for myself and figure it out.

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This is a great thread, thank you very much for your time in putting this together. I'm now up and running and building studies in VS.

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Hello everyone!

I have been looking around through threads on here, and Sierra, trying to get a start on building a little automated setup, so I can backtest without a pen and paper.

I haven't really seen anything like what I'm looking for. Most people are asking for what seems to be more data collection/combining studies, and things that are more complex.

I think it is rather simple, I just need pointed in the right direction. Not sure if the spreadsheets or ACSIL are what I'm after.

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I am not afraid to spend some time trying to code this, in fact I would love to be able to say I put it together somewhat. But I need a template.. if anyone has seen something similar, please let me know.

Thank you in advance!

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Hey, nice thread!

How far can one go with Sierra customization? Can we do more than indicators? Like a custom DOM panel and stuff like that?

Hello,
I'm late to this thread, but in answer to your question, SierraChart has a landing pages called "
ACSILProgrammingConcepts"

It seems to have a lot of capabilities.

Mike

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