Newbie Questions
Posted: Aug 19 2006
(edited to reduce verbage as I put the pieces together).
A friend has challenged me to code my Trading Plan, so I've downloaded the demo and grabbed the EL doc from TS.com. With 20 yrs of SW dev and a pretty good knowledge of charts, this could be fun. But, sometimes you need to ask stupid questions, so here we go.
1) Is the demo version fully featured and documented? There seem to be some gaps. E.g., EL doc discusses "strategies" at length, but I see almost no references to them in MC doc.
ANSWER: Found a post where a Strategy = 1 or more signals. Fine.
Q Still: Is there more doc than what's in the Help?
1b) (later that nite .... verbage)
PARTIAL ANSWER: I see that Signals are enabled in the Beta PLeditor.
Q Still: Do signals only work in real time, and maybe backtesting?
2) Is PLEditor supposed to close itself periodically? It's possibly related to having an open window on a Study that's been added to a chart, but I think I've seen it other times as well.
3) I laugh at every semi-colon: is this really just a C pre-processor that Marketing had the nerve to call "Easy" ?!
Pete
A friend has challenged me to code my Trading Plan, so I've downloaded the demo and grabbed the EL doc from TS.com. With 20 yrs of SW dev and a pretty good knowledge of charts, this could be fun. But, sometimes you need to ask stupid questions, so here we go.
1) Is the demo version fully featured and documented? There seem to be some gaps. E.g., EL doc discusses "strategies" at length, but I see almost no references to them in MC doc.
ANSWER: Found a post where a Strategy = 1 or more signals. Fine.
Q Still: Is there more doc than what's in the Help?
1b) (later that nite .... verbage)
PARTIAL ANSWER: I see that Signals are enabled in the Beta PLeditor.
Q Still: Do signals only work in real time, and maybe backtesting?
2) Is PLEditor supposed to close itself periodically? It's possibly related to having an open window on a Study that's been added to a chart, but I think I've seen it other times as well.
3) I laugh at every semi-colon: is this really just a C pre-processor that Marketing had the nerve to call "Easy" ?!
Pete