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TickZOOM Tutorials

This page lists all the tutorials listed or planned.

NOTE: Please feel free to edit this page and more tutorials that you would like to see. This is a wiki!

These will be documented with example code, diagrams (as needed), and flash video. Please! Tons of feedback is desired as I create the demos. Be as critical as needed. I'll continue to improve them, correct them, recreate them until you find the clear and understandable.

Tutorials List

Beginner/Basic Tutorials

Historical Testing (Single Pass)

  1. How to create and run a simple strategy using the default time frame.
    1. How to view the performance report.
    2. Features of the charting interface.
    3. Log Files
  2. Create and run a simple average within a strategy.
    1. How to control which strategy gets executed.
  3. Access multiple time frames between the indicator and the strategy.
    1. Includes covering how data gets loaded and processed in TickZOOM
  4. Create and use a stand alone indicator.
  5. Control the drawing of an indicator and the different types.
  6. Using formulas.
  7. How to process orders in your strategies
  8. Use the builtin exits like stoploss, profit, trailing, and more.
  9. How to use setups within a strategy.
  10. How to access

Optimizing (Brute force)

  1. Set optimizing variables and optimze.
  2. Control output and analyze optimizer results.
  3. How and why to set optimizer properties.

Genetic Optimizer

  1. The fitness score and how to customize it.

Market Replay Charts

  1. How and why to set bar acceleration versus tick acceleration.
  2. Alignment of charts.

Real Time Charts

  1. How to run the MBTradingService and connect for real time charting.
  2. How to manually enter trades or override trades of a strategy in real time.

Deploying to Trade Server

  1. How to deploy your strategy to run 24/7 in the trade server.

Okay, my creative juices ran out. I'll look through the system and think of other scenarios. PLEASE add more than you can think of. Just click edit at the bottom of this page. The wiki reports differences and changes.

So let's work together on this list. I'll try to knock out most of them during the next week.

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