Package: Strategy Skeleton Lite
for MultiCharts
If
you'd like to start your strategy development in a
good place, with a many of the preliminary hurdles
cleared and some very useful (but time-consuming to
create) functionality already built in, then
Strategy Skeleton Lite (SSL) may be just the code to get you
going.
What It Is
A
pre-written strategy (full
source code), commented with instructions on
how to customize it to reflect the trading idea of
your choosing.
The
Skeleton works with stocks, futures,
and FX, on both daily and intraday
charts, with MultiCharts 5.5 and later.
What You Get
When
you begin your coding with this skeleton, here's
what you get already built-in:
SSL Version 9.0 Features:
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Ability to backtest or to autotrade live into the
future without initial position mismatch errors |
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Ability to backtest and trade long only, short only, or
both |
| A
place for switchable internal exits, including the
provided 'MaxDaysToProfit' exit |
|
BarNumber 1 marked on the chart |
| A
methodology for enabling/disabling debugging
output to the MultiCharts log |
| A
methodology for date/time/name stamping output to
the MultiCharts log |
| A
visually comprehensible log of signals and trades
for both intraday and daily/weekly/monthly charts |
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Comprehensive report output, including performance
data and strategy input settings for each symbol
upon which you run the strategy. |
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Daily profit target and
daily stop loss exits for intraday trading. |
|
Time of Day, Day of Week, Day of Month trade
filters |
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ShaveTicks parameter for limit trades |
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Test Serial Number generation in report output |
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Tester ID parameter (for cooperative testing
efforts) |
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Pre-wired for (optional)
Money Management function |
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Section separators for input list |
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Time-of-day exit (separate from trade time
filters) |
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LotSize input for easy override of the default
stock/futures lot sizes |
|
MaxDaysToHold exit |
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MaxBarsToHold exit |
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Reporting Output Fields: CumPftMult,
MktPctPftAvg, MktPctPftSD |
|
-999999999 flag output for invalid calculations
(e.g. where denominator is 0) |
|
Alternate "timer" versions of the SSL, pre-wired
for performance timing analysis using Bamboo's
PerfTimer DLL |
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Trade numbers can be stamped on a chart, matching
with the MC performance report trade numbers |
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Number of intraday entries may be limited using 'MaxIDEntries' input |
| A
new section of code is provided to implement
on-chart text display of chosen strategy
parameters |
| Code
for 'this bar at close' (TBAC) and
"presumed flat at close" processing |
| 'LimitMktStop'
input allows selection of 3 different order types |
| Includes two complete example
strategies, allowing you to compare them to see
how the core SSL adapts easily to different ideas. |
|
New, illustrated documentation, explaining the
inputs and usage of the SSL |
Included in this package are
8 demonstration workspaces (stocks
and futures) to which the SSL has been applied, and the 'Strat
Equity Color' indicator which provides visual
feedback in the workspace on how your strategy
performed on the current symbol. Strategy
Skeleton Lite is also designed for and ready to interact
with the Macro Express symbol list driver macro .
The 8 demonstration
workspaces cover timer-enabled (or not), stocks or
futures, and MA-based or Pct-based adaptations of
the SSL strategy code so that you can compare them
and see how easy it is to alter the SSL to express
different trading ideas.
And, of
course, you get
Customer Support
as needed for initial installation.
What It Looks Like
Here's a picture of a moving-average-based SSL workspace, applied to a
stock:
And
here to a futures contract::
Here's a picture of a Pct_Entry-based SSL workspace
applied to a stock:
Here's a .csv file containing an example report
as would be generated by
this skeleton:
SSL_Lt09.MA.t_1040629_1050401_daily.csv
What It Costs
For
just $250 you can save yourself untold
hours of development, frustration, discovery, and
refinement.
If
you prefer, take the
feature list above, sit down with the PowerLanguage
Reference Guide, and get to work. You'll learn
a great deal. But if you'd rather be testing
and trading than coding ...
Hit
the 'Add to Cart' button and you can be
confident you'll have saved your money's worth in
time many times over.
How You Get It
This package will be emailed
to you after your PayPal payment is processed.
Please be aware of the
caveats
before you order.
