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I have a impossible goal! I would like to build a Calendar Spread Bar Type.
The concept is simple, take one price from a contract and subtract it from another. i.e. NG 03-15 minus NG 04-15 (the widow maker spread).
But what I do not want to do is build it as a indicator. Why, well those who know me, knows that I like Point and Figure charts which does not have time. I can not build a PnF based indicator because the Bars in progress will not match the PnF style of the spread.
How to get around this? Build my own Bar Type!
Any thoughts on where to start?
As I work on this project I will post my progress here.. Maybe if I can get some smarter people than myself working on this we can come up with a solution; but, maybe there is no solution in NT7.
Sody
"The great Traders have always been humbled by the market early on in their careers creating a deep respect for the market. Until one has this respect indelibly engraved in their makeup, the concept of money management and discipline will never be treated seriously."
If you accomplish this, I would suggest it is useful for more than just calendar spreads, but also synthetic spreads of any nature. BTW, Sierra Chart has this built-in, which means the source code is probably available in C++ in the source folder of SC.
I don't have SC, if someone has the source files can you upload them here?
And yes once I figure out the calendar spread I think it would be wise to add functionality for other spreads.
Cheers,
Sody
"The great Traders have always been humbled by the market early on in their careers creating a deep respect for the market. Until one has this respect indelibly engraved in their makeup, the concept of money management and discipline will never be treated seriously."
"The great Traders have always been humbled by the market early on in their careers creating a deep respect for the market. Until one has this respect indelibly engraved in their makeup, the concept of money management and discipline will never be treated seriously."
I'm now the proud owner of the full version of Visual Studio 2010, having played with VS Express versions for C# and C++, as well as Eclipse for C++ over the past few months.
I'm starting this thread as I learn from scratch what works and doesn't …
When done correctly, you should have your VS looking like the attached image.
Cheers,
Sody
"The great Traders have always been humbled by the market early on in their careers creating a deep respect for the market. Until one has this respect indelibly engraved in their makeup, the concept of money management and discipline will never be treated seriously."
You can see that the AddBar function is looking for double values.. See image attached.
What I need to do is find a way to call multiple instruments into the code. Any ideas?
"The great Traders have always been humbled by the market early on in their careers creating a deep respect for the market. Until one has this respect indelibly engraved in their makeup, the concept of money management and discipline will never be treated seriously."
