Welcome to NexusFi: the best trading community on the planet, with over 150,000 members Sign Up Now for Free
Genuine reviews from real traders, not fake reviews from stealth vendors
Quality education from leading professional traders
We are a friendly, helpful, and positive community
We do not tolerate rude behavior, trolling, or vendors advertising in posts
We are here to help, just let us know what you need
You'll need to register in order to view the content of the threads and start contributing to our community. It's free for basic access, or support us by becoming an Elite Member -- see if you qualify for a discount below.
-- Big Mike, Site Administrator
(If you already have an account, login at the top of the page)
I am a little skeptical about the practicality of a webinar on SierraChart programming (ACSIL -- Advanced Custom Study/System Interface and Language), but the person who needs to know that there is an interest is Terry Turner ( @tturner86 ), who runs the webinars on FIO. (Now that he's been tagged, he'll see this thread, if he hasn't already, and will know that people are asking about it.
Why am I skeptical? Well, while it's straightforward enough if you're already a programmer and are willing to wade through the gnarly documentation, it's probably going to be pretty hairy for most who try it.
Also, Sierra would have to be willing to put together a presentation.
As an alternative, there is a spreadsheet-based interface in SierraChart that allows people to do some basic indicator and strategy tasks, and this might be more suitable.
I count 6 existing webinars in the webinar section on SierraChart, including one on automation with the spreadsheet interface, so they have provided webinars for FIO in the past. Probably things have changed enough since then to warrant an update.
Since there seems to be a demand, perhaps Terry can get something going. SierraChart is a good platform, and is used by a lot of traders here, I know. Also, my skepticism may be wrong. Not the first time....
"The C++ language provides a lot of functionality, but in almost all cases you will only be using the basics of it when working with ACSIL. Therefore, only a minimum of the C++ language is used when creating an advanced custom study. Primarily operators, simple variables, and basic control statements like if.
What you would be working with is similar to languages in other charting and trading programs."
Hello,
Personally, I'd like to know more about these basics:
- the most important assertions and recommendations concerning the installation of an IDE to compile Sierra compatible dll-studies (not an IDE' installation from scratch).
- the ACSIL C++ classes hierarchy.
- the description of ACSIL C++ classes i.e. the responsibility of each of them, with an example (even in pseudo-code).
- an example with more advanced graphic customization using the Windows GDI+.
- from inside an ACSIL dll, an example of calling a function within another dll (which could contain serialized calculation routines), to see how to write and reuse thematic dlls, by several ACSIL dlls.
My assumption from the comments was that SierraChart is too bewildering for beginners when compared to NT and the like.
I actually think it is easier once you know a few of the basics. Granted the gnarly docs do not help and it doesn't have a setup wizard to get you started like NT but I believe it is actually far simpler once you are up and running, Especially compared to NT8.
