EasyLanguage Basic & Intermediate

This one-of-a-kind BootCamp, by Sunny Harris & Sam Tennis, was held on 5 Tuesdays in a row in July/August 2023.

Live Attendance was Limited to 20 people. We have recorded these events to help you learn EasyLanguage the EASY way.

With Sunny J. Harris (author of TradeStation Made Easy!) and Samuel K. Tennis (author of Ask Mr. EasyLanguage).

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Learning EasyLanguage is critcal to your success as a trader. Let us show you why EasyLanguage is so important and how you to learn it fast so you can turn your trading around!

These are intensive learning sessions that will promote you to a better trader by teaching you how to code in EasyLanguage.

Be ready to ask your questions and get realistic answers from two of the world's experts on the subject.

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Here are the Topics we Covered in what ended up being 5 sessions:

Intro to EZL
- Developed by Omega Research in 1987
- Plain English-like
- Simplicity instead of obscure computer terminology
- Uses many of the terms traders use to describe and test Trading Strategies
- Sam Tennis originator/designer/Lead Programmer

Reserved Words

Functions
- EZL Comes with a large Library of functions
- When you Verify EZL checks your code for validity
- Can be extended by creating your own User Functions

When you Verify
EZL checks your code for validity
- Not Fitness For Purpose
- Not whether if makes money (you’ll do this by reading the Performance Report)
- Locates programming errors. Not logic errors.

You can develop your ideas and trading strategies using EasyLanguage modules we call Analysis Techniques (AT)

Quick Start
You thought your trading problems were over
Your first Indicator
Your first Strategy
Your Performance Report

Pseudo-Steps

Detailed Steps

Open TradeStation
Open a Chart with Data
Strategy Performance Report
Optimization Report
Data Window (as opposed to the data tips)
Crank Up the EasyLanguage Editor
TradeStation Development Environment (TDE) or ‘PowerEditor’
Write an Indicator
Putting the Indicator on a Chart
Write a Strategy
Apply the Strategy to a Chart
View Strategy Results (ALT-SHIFT-P)
Interpreting the Strategy Performance Report
Collapsed vs Expanded Views

PHW Analysis
Basic Math

Order Dependence of Operators and the use of Parentheses
Boolean Algebra
Absolute Value
Exponentiation
Linear vs Semi-Log Scaling (Chart Analysis, not EasyLanguage)
Relational Operators
Averages

Basic EasyLanguage

MaxBarsBack Buffer - Maximum Bars Study Will Reference
Using Price fields
Bars Ago
Programming Conventions
Statements
Declaration
Inputs:
Vars :
Arrays:
Const:
Assignment
Conditional Statements (If then; switch/case) Break; Continue;
Block Statement (Begin…End)
Once Loops (For, While and Repeat Until)
Date and Time
Integers
Date and Time li>Double DateTime li>OOEL DateTime
Begin and End (Block Statement)
Ifs, Ands, and Buts
User Functions
Return Type : Boolean, Byte, Double, Float, Int64, Integer, String Series vs Simple
All variables are local to the function except Regular inputs - pass in but unchangeable Pass by Reference
Inputs: two-way communication The function return value;
Methods

Scope - All variables local to the method but the method has access to all declarations prior to the method in the code

Analysis Techniques

Indicators
PaintBar
ShowMe

Strategies

Enable order placement objects
Enable Macros
Buying and Selling
at$; total; all; from entry;
basic code stub for exits
Pyramiding
Scaling

TradingApps
Functions
Setting Default Properties
Alerts (Studies)
Load Additional Bars (RS)
MaxBarsBack
Import / Export Wizard
Verify All (File or Build in TDE)
Development Environment (Power Editor)
Tabs
Resource View
Project - Import / Export
Outline
ToolBox
Properties
Dictionary
Output - Verification status or errors and warnings
Find in Files
Auto (Debugger)
Bar Information / Plots (Debugger)
Watch (Debugger)
Debugging
- Print Statement
- Commentary Statement
- Commentary and Print combined
EasyLanguage Debugger
Tricky Math
Most frequent mistakes
- Using loops usually unnecessary
- High > Highest (High, 10)
- Using MarketPosition before position is filled
- Sell next bar at low [BarsSinceEntry] stop;
- end; end; end; end;
- Resetting the same variable you want to exit with
TradeStation Tricks
- Aliasing variables (ex: MAvg length)
- WalkForward / KeepGoing
Using the Cloud to Share Work
Optimization
Optimizing time fields - minutes since midnight
AppStorage and other Objects and Optimization
Drawing Tools and Optimization
Universal Input Sharing (UIS)
System Performance
- Favorite metrics
Charting
Symbol Linking (and Interval Linking)
Copy Window and Paste Window
Multi-Time Frame (MTF) Charts
Portfolio Maestro (PM)
No Print Log from PM
Drawing Tools and Optimization

Consulting Packages

Sunny has been teaching others to trade almost as long as she has been trading. Helping struggling novices over the hurdles is a passion of hers. Sunny has won awards for her teaching and consulting, being #1 in several categories. Sunny can teach you how to use TradeStation & MultiCharts and EasyLanguage and PowerLanguage, TC2000, VantagePoint, NinjaTrader, Genesis Navigator, and MetaStock so you don't spend months struggling on your own. If you have a concept you want programmed, she can do it for you or teach you how to do it yourself. Click Here.

Strategies, Indicators & Custom Programming

We provide a wide range of software programmed by Sunny for her own trading. We are not a churn and burn shop that puts out lots of indicators for sale, just to have products to sell.

Each of these unique products is available to help others in their quest for profits. And, they are used by Sunny in her own daily trading. The software includes indicators that make trading smooth and easy, and strategies that can even be automated to provide hands-off trading. Click here for a full list, descriptions, charts and prices.