Hello! New to EL as a programming language and struggling to find an answer:

How can I add info about another ticker into a strategy? Example- if $TICK is at a certain value, or flips from positive to negative, strategy does X Y Z.

Is it possible?! Also, while youre here, I was wondering if its at all possible to strategy/algo trade options in TradeStation with EL and no API? I cant access the TradeStation forums even though I have an account...dealing with Client Services as we speak.

Thanks so much in advance!

Solved:

Im struggling to make it eloquent but I added the desired Symbol as an additional data stream on a chart and hard coded the desired parameters into the EL file. (example: if High of Data2 < 10 buy)
Then I can run the backtester in Portfolio Maestro and use options to set DATA2 to the desired symbol. Now I can see how my strategy does with different stocks.

GOAL:
Basic proof of concept automated trader that waits for RSI to go below 30 and for $TICK to be highly positive to buy. Then it sells when $TICK decreases a certain amount. I wanted to build and test it and see how it does across many assets or with a different correlated stock to replace $TICK.

If anyone knows a better way of what I'm trying to do, please let me know!

use data2. For example if you want to sell when the vix is over the 10ma of vix your condition would be like this: condition1 = close > average(close of data2,10); Then you set vix as data2 in the chart by inserting symbol. Works for whatever symbol you want to insert