Category Archives for Development Tools

Rapid Price Pattern Testing

Have you ever wondered what the market does after three down closes in a row? How about what happens after a pivot low is formed and the RSI is below 30? What happens after two inside bars and a breakout to the downside? Searching these types of patterns is one way to locate edges in […]

How to Run TradeStation on a Mac (Updated for 2020)

I been using TradeStation on a Mac since 2010. The best tech decision I ever made! But it hasn’t all been plain sailing – Apple hardware isn’t perfect, their ‘Retina’ displays require special settings and it is definitely more expensive than running TradeStation on a PC. Here’s a summary of what I’ve learned about running TradeStation […]

A Flexible Trailing Stop Function

Are your backtest results fooling you?

Gap Strategy Tool, Part 2

In a previous article, Gap Strategy Tool, I demonstrated how you can use EasyLanguage to create a simple strategy that analyzes the percentage of times a gap closes. We broke  gaps sizes up into “Groups” based upon their size. We then dtermined what was the probability of a gap clsoing based upon which group it […]

Trade Recorder Function And Strategy