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I have received a solution using showme that really improves showing
trailing stops. I have also learned that Tradestation 2K servicepack 2
behaves inconsistent when it comes to drawing trendlines from within
systems.
It is possible to get into a "do not show drawn lines mode" in systems. I do
not know why, and I have a number of systems that behaves this way. I have
been experimenting, and it is also possible to get the lines drawn again,
question is just how.
For example: I had a signal with the code for the "show trailing stops
trendline problem" I mailed about a couple of days ago. It did not show the
trendlines, but it did draw them. Using commentary, I could se them be
drawn, and then removed again (commentary seems to slow things down quite a
lot).
I planned to send the code out to the group, so others could test this
problem. What I did was to take a copy of the signal with the draw trenline
code in it just by saving it as a differently named signal. Then, to test
it, I included it into the system where the trendlines were not drawn, still
having the very same signal I had taken the code from included in the
system.
Suddenly, the trendline was shown, to my amasement. Errhhhmmm... So I then
removed the original signal that did not show the trendline, to see that my
new copy was the signal that did draw them. It was. I then removed the
signal that was the copy of the original, the one I planned to send out, and
reinserted the original one. TRENDLINES WERE STILL SHOWN! I had not even
reverified the code of the old signal, it just suddenly did show what was
not shown before.
so now that system shows trendlines, I have gotten another system to show
trendlines as well. I have had the same problem with showing text objects,
and probably there is a cure for that as well.
My current guess is that if you add a trendline to a signal after the signal
is included in a system, it will not be shown, but if you place it in the
signal before including the signal into the system, it will be shown.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bengtsson, Mats [mailto:mats.bengtsson@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 9:10 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: how to get drawn lines in a signal to be visible
>
>
> I have a signal that sets stops on ATR Loss. What I would
> like to do is to
> show this level on screen when I am at the last bar on chart.
> Sounds easy,
> if lastbaronchart then tl_new...
>
> This sort of works, but I can not see the line. If i bring upp the
> commentary, then I can see the line be drawn and removed
> again, so it is
> clearly working but not visible.
>
> Trying to draw the line from an indicator is no good either,
> since I need
> the entryprice to calculate the ATRLoss level, and position
> information may
> not be used in indicators.
>
> What is the solution to this? I do not want to have to put
> the information
> in the commentary, since that is not easily visible and gives no fast
> overview.
>
> --- Mats ---
>
>
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