My apologies if this is too basic a question, but I'm using 2 data streams (SPY & $VIX.X) on a chart & tried to add a new strategy that I developed. When I do that, it goes into a loop for a while and then the strategy gets turned off. Clearly TS doesn't like something in my strategy code. It's very simple. Here's the relevant portion:

inputs:
lookBack(2);

vars:
vixSlope(0);

vixSlope = TLSlopeEasy(Close Data2, lookBack, 0);
print ("Slope is ", vixSlope);

<then do something>

The print statement does not appear at all, so it appears to be bombing out on the TLSlopeEasy statement. When I run this strategy on a chart with a single symbol and remove Data2 from the code above, it works as expected. What am I doing wrong?

bakaroni,

welcome to NexusFi.

Your code works on my end, but one thing you might want to look into is how to assign variables and functions to a specific datastream. You can even find examples here on NexusFi using the search function.

Do you receive an error message? If so, what does it say exactly?

Regards,

ABCTG

bakaroni 

My apologies if this is too basic a question, but I'm using 2 data streams (SPY & $VIX.X) on a chart & tried to add a new strategy that I developed. When I do that, it goes into a loop for a while and then the strategy gets turned off. Clearly TS doesn't like something in my strategy code. It's very simple. Here's the relevant portion: inputs: lookBack(2); vars: vixSlope(0); vixSlope = TLSlopeEasy(Close Data2, lookBack, 0); print ("Slope is ", vixSlope); <then do something> The print statement does not appear at all, so it appears to be bombing out on the TLSlopeEasy statement. When I run this strategy on a chart with a single symbol and remove Data2 from the code above, it works as expected. What am I doing wrong?

ABCTG 

bakaroni, welcome to NexusFi. Your code works on my end, but one thing you might want to look into is how to assign variables and functions to a specific datastream. You can even find examples here on NexusFi using the search function. Do you receive an error message? If so, what does it say exactly? Regards, ABCTG

I don't get an error message. The cursor changes to the circular one (indicating that it's working) and then after a while it disappears and my strategy is automatically turned off. My understanding is that I'm passing the correct datastream to the code, so I'm baffled as to why I see this strange behavior.

Okay, I've figured out the problem. In my <do something> section of the code I had turned on IntraBarOrderGeneration to true. TS doesn't like that when there are multiple data streams on a chart. Not sure why. I removed that and it works fine.