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Buy data1 and data2 in strategy

Postby ctrlbrk » 14 Mar 2010

I am new to EasyLanguage and am hoping one of you can give me the simplest example of how to buy two instruments at the same time in a strategy. For instance, I want to buy 'data1' and 'data2' (say ES and NQ) at the same time, what is the syntax to do this?

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Postby Bruce DeVault » 14 Mar 2010

EasyLanguage can't do this (yet). It's been promised for a future release.

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Postby ctrlbrk » 14 Mar 2010

Thanks Bruce.

Does TS have to implement it first, like in TS 9? Then MultiCharts can? Or can MultiCharts implement it on their own, possibly in MC7 for instance?

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Postby Bruce DeVault » 14 Mar 2010

No, TS does not have to implement it before MultiCharts (and they probably won't). It's solely a question of TS Support's priorities - what is the low hanging fruit in terms of future growth of the MultiCharts platform. Right now, their stated priority is to add discretionary trading features e.g. manual order entry, trading from chart, etc. and portfolio trading capabilities like the ability to trade multiple data series from one chart would presumeably be sometime after that.

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Postby ctrlbrk » 14 Mar 2010

Gotcha. Still trying to understand the order of things a bit. ;)

I agree, a discretionary/DOM is far more important.

I assume that it is technically possible to use a Global variable as a workaround for the issue of buying data1 and data2, but it would require multiple charts to power the data1 dataseries running multiple strategies.

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Postby Bruce DeVault » 14 Mar 2010

That is correct. Platforms with an EL-type architecture would all require multiple charts for now.

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Postby TJ » 15 Mar 2010

Thanks Bruce.

Does TS have to implement it first, like in TS 9? Then MultiCharts can? Or can MultiCharts implement it on their own, possibly in MC7 for instance?

Mike
Not at all.

MultiCharts' implementation consist of many EL extensions that are not in TS.

e.g.
sub minute analysis
additional drawing objects and attributes
multi-fractal in the same chart
etc.,


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