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Re: Easy Language bug/feature/or oversight?



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Your code works fine in TradeStation so it must have something to do with RadarScreen.

Bob Fulks



At 6:31 PM -0600 12/17/99, IMarshal wrote:

>I'm playing around with making an indicator in EasyLanguage to try it out in
>RadarScreen but am not having any luck.
>
>I'm keeping it *very* simple to learn the basics of what I want and then
>complete the indictor, which will be more complex after I'm comfortable
>understanding how Easy Language works.
>
>But, just this 6 lines of code doesn't work.  The indicator spits out a
>bogus value of all 0.00s for every stock in RadarScreen.  Here's the code:
>
>Input:  DMILength(14);
>Vars:   DMIDiffNow(0), DMIDiffThen(0);
>
>DMIDiffNow = DMIPlus(DMILength);
>DMIDiffThen = DMIPlus(DMILength)[1];
>
>Plot1(DMIDiffNow, "DMIDiffNow");
>Plot2(DMIDiffThen, "DMIDiffThen");
>
>Obviously all I want to see is how can I find the value of an indictor now
>vs <x> bars ago.  The DMIDiffThen (which is just DMIPlus(14)[1]) returns
>only 0.00 for any stock.  I even modified the properties of the indictor to
>put it in a 50 bar lookback period (manual) rather than automatic.
>
>I figured I was using the bracket [] operators correctly as they are
>supposed to give you a value based on <x> bars ago but for some reason it
>doesn't work here.
>
>Is this a bug, an oversight on my part, or a stupid limitation of
>RadarScreen?