Ask Mr. Easylanguage

This was written for the express purpose of helping users of TradeStation understand EasyLanguage. Mr. Tennis provides the basics and then goes further by naming specific problems and taking the reader through the steps of correcting and understanding the solutions.

The goal Mr. Tennis sought was to demystify EasyLanguage so that everyone could use it. He clearly accomplished that goal.

Included are:
EasyLanguage Basics,
Numbers in EasyLanguage,
What is a Statement,
Writing Statements,
Functions, Procedures & Programming Tips,
Advanced Topics,
EasyLanguage,
Templates,
Building Daily Bars out of Intraday Bars,
Marking the first day of the week,
Building Weekly Bars out of Daily Bars,
Marking the first bar of the higher time frame,
Playing a custom .WAV file from an Alert,
Demonstrating the use of the Print Statement,
Using Expert Commentary,
Generating a CSV file,
Defining Dual Bar Analysis,
Generating Advanced Reports on a Black Box System,
Controlling the execution of an Include System,
Trading a Channel BreakOut,
Replacing the Built-in Trailing Stop Orders,
Using At$ in an Exit Order,
Displaying Swing information as On-screen text,
Changing the Color and/or size of plots,
Automatically draw parallel lines outside hand drawn trendlines, and
Protecting your EasyLanguage Code.