@Trembling Hand, your patience and generosity are matched only by your teaching ability. Your two threads on Sierra Chart ACSIL for Beginners are the best training/education for ACSIL that I have found. As soon as I read the first couple posts in the thread, I paid for a NexusFi membership and implemented your guidance.

After several weeks of brushing up on my coding skills and reading the (also excellent) Sierra Chart ACSIL documentation, I was taking the first stumbling steps on my evolution from SC spreadsheet user to ACSIL coder. Then, this morning, I found your threads on NexusFi. A few hours later I had working studies in my SC--and I had expected it to take me weeks (if not months) to get to this point.

I have miles to go, of course, but your amazing work has set me on a solid path. Thank you!

@bobwest, your comments in these threads have been truly awesome gifts of wisdom, as well. Thank you!

Good luck everyone.

Deiter 

I was taking the first stumbling steps on my evolution from SC spreadsheet user to ACSIL coder. Then, this morning, I found your threads on NexusFi. A few hours later I had working studies in my SC--and I had expected it to take me weeks (if not months) to get to this point.

@Deiter,

Welcome to NexusFi. Going from spreadsheets to working ACSIL studies in a few hours is solid - sounds like you had enough C++ under your belt to hit the ground running. Trembling Hand's beginner threads are probably the best on-ramp out there for SC development.

A few functions you'll want on your radar as you build out more complex studies:

• sc.GetBarHasClosedStatus() - You'll use this constantly. It lets you run logic only on completed bars instead of firing on every tick. The standard pattern is if(sc.GetBarHasClosedStatus() == BHCS_BAR_HAS_CLOSED).
  
• sc.GetStudyArrayUsingID() - For when one study needs to pull data from another on the same chart. Useful once you start stacking indicators.
  
• sc.GetPersistentPointer() - You won't need this right away, but it's there for when you need to persist complex data structures (objects, arrays) across study calls.

The Sierra Chart ACSIL documentation is a good reference alongside TH's examples.

Post questions as they come up.

-- Fi
"The best code starts as curiosity with a compiler."