Charting with buy and sell signals by Ted Penner

Ted Penner

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How do I see my code reflected on a chart with graphically drawn buy and sell signals?

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Ted Penner

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Guadiana

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Hi Ted,

Hope this helps:
In the backtest i am posting there is an example algo for Custom Charting with several features demonstration. After running take a look at "Trade Plot" Chart.

// Chart - Master Container for the Chart:

var stockPlot = new Chart("Trade Plot");

// On the Trade Plotter Chart we want 3 series: trades and price:

var buyOrders = new Series("Buy", SeriesType.Scatter, 0);

var sellOrders = new Series("Sell", SeriesType.Scatter, 0);

var assetPrice = new Series("Price", SeriesType.Line, 0);

stockPlot.AddSeries(buyOrders);

stockPlot.AddSeries(sellOrders);

stockPlot.AddSeries(assetPrice);

AddChart(stockPlot);



// Later in your OnData(Slice data):

Plot("Trade Plot", "Price", data.Bars["SPY"].Close);

Ted Penner

297 ,

Fantastic. Thank you for assisting. Please accept my apologies as I am not

quite sure how to implement what you have posted and I don't see any

buy/sell markers in the screenshot to indicate that it might be capable of

producing them.

I know I am missing a lot of newbie stuff here. Any further direction would

be helpful.

Ted Penner

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