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The following free EasyLanguage tutorials provide a way to learn
TradeStation’s EasyLanguage programming language using a mixture USERNAME

of detailed instructions, screen prints, and videos. There are tutorials

on creating TradeStation indicators, strategies, show-me studies,
and paintbar studies for charts, RadarScreen and the Scanner. PASSWORD

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1. How to develop a simple Show Me study

2. The NoPlot(num) statement

3. Create a moving average indicator and output values to text file for
spreadsheet analysis

4. Draw a trendline based on stochastic divergence

5. Create a modified CCI indicator, including fast, slow and zero lines

6. Modified CCI indicator to add zero rejection notification to chart –

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tutorial demonstrates how to find pivot points on an indicator and

how to add text to a chart

7. Using arrays in EasyLanguage

8. Develop a simple EasyLanguage function

9. Modifying a simple EasyLanguage function to return multiple

values

10. How to develop a simple PaintBar study

11. How to develop a simple strategy

12. Develop an indicator for RadarScreen

13. Create an auto Pivot based support and resistance indicator

14. Send e-mails from TradeStation based on a candlestick pattern

ShowMe study

15. Show Fibonnaci ratio pivot relationships on a chart using arrays

16. Create a strategy that creates buy/sell signals based on

Candlestick patterns and stochastic crossovers

17. A simple strategy – based on CCI zero bounce

18. Modifying the CCI indicator to factor in underlying volume

19. Develop a program to calculate average volume ONLY using data

between a start time and an end time.

20. Using TradeStation’s Analysis Commentary Capability

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21. Understanding the Tradestation Pivot function

22. Creating a PaintBar study to highlight candlestick patterns

23. Creating a 3 line break (3LB) indicator to apply to normal

candlestick charts

24. Creating a ‘pseudo bounded’ volume oscillator in TradeStation

EasyLanguage

25. ‘Smoothed’ indicators and ‘additional bars to be loaded’

26. An improved price – stochastic divergence indicator

27. Creating a new modified pivot function

28. Understanding Intrabarpersist variables

29. Create a dynamic rectangle using EasyLanguage.

30. A simple demonstration of IntraBarOrderGeneration in

TradeStation EasyLanguage strategies

31. An introduction to basic EasyLanguage syntax, e.g. when to use

of commas, semi-colons and colons

32. How to create a daily moving average on an intraday chart

32a. Daily average on an intraday chart using either day or session

breaks

33. Close of day on ‘continuous’ charts

34. Using ADE (All Data Everywhere) to transfer moving average

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information from a daily chart to an intraday chart

35. Displaying higher time frame dojis on a lower time frame chart.

36. Using the Global Variable DLL to transfer information from

Radarscreen to a chart

37. Creating a show me study to show divergence between price and

a stochastic

38. Using the ADE DLL (Dynamic Link Library to Derive ‘Big Bars’)

39. How to restrict parts of a program to only run between two

specified times

40. Create a Bollinger Band program where the upper and lower
bands are fixed and price

41. When to set a condition within an If…Then construct

42. How to draw lines and text on a chart using TL_New and
Text_new

43. How to import a Tradestation ELD file

44. How to create drawing objects on a sub graph

45. Draw high of previous day (or a specified period) on a chart

46. What is an Intrabarpersist variable and how to use it

47. Adding a new data element to an EasyLanguage Array

48. How to create a program to calculate and draw linear regression

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lines

49. Create a linear regression channel

49-2. Linear regression using just today’s bars

50. Create a linear regression function that draws linear regression

line and returns slope value

51. Using data from multiple data streams in a strategy

52. Keeping track of pyramid trades

53. Create strategy filters

54. Indicator that draws lines based on Average True Range (ATR) and
yesterday’s closing bar

55. Drawing lines on chart based on a volume ratio

56. How to draw pivot points from the previous day

57. Clarifying logical operators by using parentheses

58. Drawing text objects based on RSI values

59. A simple strategy where trades are based on two events

separated by up to a user input number of bars

60. CCI trend line break

61. A beginner level tutorial explaining the options available for

coloring plot lines

62. Finding extreme values (e.g. what was the highest high in the last

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five bars)

63. Looking for CCI Trend Line Breaks Using Radarscreen

64. Using manually drawn lines in EasyLanguage programs – part 1

65. Using manually drawn lines in EasyLanguage programs – part 2

66. Adding an ADX filter to a strategy

67. How to create a ‘symmetric’ doji function

68. Create a show me study to draw a channel between two times

based on the highest and lowest bars between the times and set
alerts if these lines are crossed

69. Creating and using a two dimensional array

70. Using the TradeStation 9.0 Global Dictionary

71. How to create a simple break out strategy

72. Using TradeStation drawing tools to draw three horizontal lines

spaced according to user inputs (legacy version)

72. Using TradeStation drawing objects to draw three horizontal lines

spaced according to user inputs (updated version)

73. Finding the highest and lowest price between a start and end
time

74. Introducing a strategy ‘pause’ after sequential losing trades

75. How to add divergence detection to Commodity Channel Index

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(CCI) trend line break program

76. Things to watch for when using strategies with line break charts

77. Plot both volume and tick data on a chart

78. A simple demonstration of the TradeStation Timer

79. How to ‘plot’ lines in strategies

80. Using SetDollarTrailing and drawing the position of the trailing

stop

81. Restricting a part of a program to only run between two times

when the start time is today and the end time tomorrow

82. Different ways of using a condition

83. Plotting average profit for a strategy using an indicator

84. Looking for support and resistance levels

85. Drawing and keeping text on the right of a chart

86. Calculate exponential moving average using PriceSeriesProvider

87. Using the Price Series Provider update event

88. Calculating the ADX using a PriceSeriesProvider

89. How to draw symbols on a chart

90. Using EasyLanguage vectors

91. How to plot the levels of the last high and low pivots

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92. Plot the last ‘N’ high pivots on MultiCharts Scanner or

RadarScreen

93. Modified Bollinger bands Keltner channels with fixed upper and
lower bands

94. Store vectors within vectors

95. Sorting a vector using a recursive method

96. Using the Workbook component to share information with Excel

97. Transfer real time data from an indicator to another chart

98. Bollinger band ‘squeeze’ breakouts

99. Positioning text using XYPoint

100. Building an app using the Optimizer API

101. Drawing a mark at a specified place on a chart

102. Tick profile histogram using a price series provider

103. Using XML objects to store and retrieve information in an XML

document

104. Drawing trendlines using BNPoint objects

105. Drawing trendlines using BNPoint objects on a sub graph

106. Creating variable transparency horizontal lines at pivot levels

107. Setting up ‘Use look inside bar backtesting’ and ‘Enable intra bar
order generation and calculation’

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108. Plotting lines at day open, high/low of day, high low of user

defined session, and two user specified 

109. Plotting the duration of volume bars in seconds

109 (RT). Tutorial 109 part 2 – real time

110. Oscillation frequency histogram

111. Calculate and display total volume for drawing tool

created trendlines

112. Transfer price data from a Price Series Provider applied to a

chart to an Excel spreadsheet

113. Using data from an Excel sheet to update an EasyLanguage

program

114. Drawing rectangle zones on a chart

114 (DT). Drawing boxes on a chart between time periods each day

115. Two ways to create an alarm

116. Restarting a program at specific intervals

117. Detecting when a bar is clicked and providing bar information

118. Creating TradeStation methods with multiple outputs and inputs

119. How to use TradeStation EasyLanguage AppStorage

120. Calculate daily ATR on a minute chart (using a Price Series

Provider)

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121. Introduction to the EasyLanguage Dictionary class

122. Using the Stack class

123. Analyzing support and resistance using the dictionary class 

124. Maintain a drawing object a fixed distance from a bar when

scrolling

124 MC Ver. Text object and chart management | MultiCharts version

125. Finding strategy fill prices

126. Using the Market Depth Provider

127. Exponential Moving Averages with price gaps including using

Price Series Providers

128. Calculating RSI for another bar span without using data 2 (using
a price series provider)

129. Screening a list of symbols to find those where a MACDDiff zero

cross and a CCI Overbought/Oversold cross occur on the same bar

130. Plotting linear regression channels

131. Using the Symbol Attributes Provider

132. Using RadarScreen like a spreadsheet

133. Displaying trade at bid and ask data using ActivityBars

134. Using TradeStation OCO and OSO order tickets

135. Creating a form to send order tickets

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136. Using third party data

137. How to create a form with a combo box

138. Stochastic calculation based on a Price Series Provider

139. Create method to draw multiple charts in a form

140. Create a method to print the contents of vectors and

dictionaries

141. Option Chain Provider

142. Stop loss based on entry bar low

143. Trade size analysis using the Time and Sales Provider

144. Introduce delay to market order entry after average cross

145. Using Streamwriter & Streamreader to store and read bid/ask

data

146. Create a simple Radarscreen indicator

147. Look-inside-bar-back-testing and intra bar order generation and

calculation

148. Using the Global Dictionary (an example using RadarScreen)

149. Drawing arrows using drawing objects

150. Sharing data between two charts using Microsoft Excel

151. Syncing lines between two charts using the Global Dictionary

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152. Creating an Advancing/Declining issues indicator for daily and

minute charts

153. How to ‘convert an indicator into a function’

154. A simple Market Depth Provider tutorial

155. Custom sessions

156. Import data in CSV file and draw it on a chart

157. Screening symbols without RadarScreen or Scanner

158. Replicating the CCI calculation using a price series provider

159. Replace order ticket demonstration

160. Average volume by time

161. Using the Global Dictionary to transfer data from chart to chart
and to RadarScreen

162. Using the Options Chain Provider and Quotes Provider

163. Using a price series provider to calculate and exponential

moving average for a higher timeframe

164. How to buy a specified number of ticks above the previous bar
high

165. Creating to a button pause a strategy making trades

166. Automatically expand range to include a drawing object

167. Using a Price Series Provider to calculate the Average True

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Range

168. Calculating moving averages on RadarScreen for different

intervals using Price Series Providers

169. Order ticket and bracket ticket based on a simple chart pattern

170. Looking for a chart pattern on several symbols using PSPs

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