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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780934380515
ISBN number: 0934380511
Label: Traders Press
Manufacturer: Traders Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 240
Printing Date: May 01, 1999
Publishing house: Traders Press
Sale Popularity Level: 1027746
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Editor's Notes and Comments:
Brief Book Summary:
This was written for the express purpose of helping users of TradeStation understand EasyLanguage. Mr. Tennis provides the basics and then goes further by naming specific problems and taking the reader through the steps of correcting and understanding the solutions.
The goal Mr. Tennis sought was to demystify EasyLanguage so that everyone could use it. He clearly accomplished that goal.
Included are:
EasyLanguage Basics,
Numbers in EasyLanguage,
What is a Statement,
Writing Statements,
Functions, Procedures & Programming Tips,
Advanced Topics,
EasyLanguage,
Templates,
Building Daily Bars out of Intraday Bars,
Marking the very first day of the week,
Building Weekly Bars out of Daily Bars,
Marking the very first bar of the higher time frame,
Playing a custom .WAV file from an Alert,
Demonstrating the use of the Print Statement,
Using Expert Commentary,
Generating a CSV file,
Defining Dual Bar Analysis,
Generating Advanced Reports on a Black Box System,
Controlling the execution of an Include System,
Trading a Channel BreakOut,
Replacing the Built-in Trailing Stop Orders,
Using At$ in an Exit Order,
Displaying Swing information as On-screen text,
Changing the Colour and/or size of plots,
Automatically draw parallel lines outside hand drawn trendlines, and
Protecting your EasyLanguage Code.
User popularity level:
Rated by buyers 
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In TradeStation (I use 6), Under the Help menu, there is a Books menu item. Selecting it and you will have acess to very good EasyLanguage for free (in pdf form). There is really no need to buy a book that's now outdated, and not very well-written.
Rated by buyers 
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As of this writing, TradeStation is up to version 6. Version 7 is on the horizon. Ask Mr. EasyLanguage is largely based on Version 4, making only editorial insert comments about Version 5 (TS 2000i). With this in mind, the code contained in the book is probably not going to run without significant modification. Several of the key issues raised by the book, notably 'IncludeSystem' and the 64k code limit, are no longer of interest. IncludeSystem is no longer a key word. The 64k code limit has been erased.
All this in mind, I still found the book a useful resource. It represents a glimpse into the 'Easylanguage' mindset. I really couldn't point to any one phrase or topic which was individually enlightening, but from time to time, there was a moment of 'Oh, I see what those EasyLanguage programmers were doing!'
I don't think you can get that anywhere else. Admittedly, this is a rather esoteric justification for reading a book.
If you are expecting to find advanced solutions, this book will disappoint. It doesn't offer anything in terms of trading systems. The book is a technical guide to EasyLanguage, avoiding almost anything related to trading.
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I have to agree with the other review from Chicago posted on Jan. 13th. Not a lot of "meat" in this one. I can't say as I would recommend this book to anyone. An EasyLanguage beginner would be more confused after reading it than before. No significant info for someone who is already experienced with EL code writing. It's not very structured/organized in it's endeavor to enlighten readers. Buy it as a reference manual... for that it would recieve 3 and a half stars.
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The book promises far more than it actually delivers! It appears that orginally the author's goals might have been more ambitious but somehow, by the time he wrote the book, there were whole sections that do nothing more than list functions without so much as a one line of explanation!
The writing is rather poor and the book is poorly organized. It was written before TradeStation2000i was released and makes all sorts of confusing speculative remarks about TradeStation5.0 (which was released as 2000i)!
The book doesn't discuss programming techniques applicable to Easylanguage. basically it is difficult to say just what it is that the book does try to address!
I do not recommend this book.
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