trading robot coding. StockSharp

Designer Knowledge Base

2019-04-25T12:28:29Z

Frequently asked questions about Designer:
1. How to download market data to the program?
2. How and where to specify an instrument for strategy backtesting?
3. How to create a condition in the strategy?
4. Compound indicators, methods of their decomposition.

Happy New Year!

2020-12-31T11:34:56Z

Dear friends! Happy New Year 2021![happy][happy][happy]

Please accept our most sincere and warm wishes for the New Year!

We wish you more lucrative deals, great financial growth, and more productive work with us in the New Year!

The most important thing is health, harmony, and love! Don't let this crisis scare you, and your capital is growing steadily, and don't lose your enthusiasm!

Do not forget that today is the last day of our 20% discount for all of StockSharp products including training in trading robots online course!

Happy New Year!

sincerely yours,
StockSharp team!

Christmas discounts

2020-12-22T12:46:58Z

Dear friends,

Christmas and New Year are coming closer and closer, and we are pleased to announce our big festive table, a bunch of sweets and gifts!

We are at StockSharp decided to happy our users and invite you to our prosperous New Year table and
GIVE 20% discount for all of ALL OUR PRODUCTS and ONLINE COURSE!

There is no better gift than to make yourself happy with a stable connector or the original source code of Designer or Terminal! The promotion is valid until 1st January!

Hurry up! Make yourself a present for the upcoming holiday

Regards,
StockSharp team

Earn money with us!

2020-12-17T14:53:31Z

Dear members,

Quote:

Work hard, have fun, make history

. ~ Jeff Bezos

StokSharp team invites you to take part in the development of our platform, help other members with FREELANCE service and implement new ideas that will lead you and them to success, create platform modules and much more! Work hard and you will be rewarded!

We are waiting for your feedback, what features you are interested in our platform, what skills you have and how would you like to participate!

Regards,
StockSharp Team

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2020-12-08T12:46:25Z

Dear friends,

Holidays are coming and we delightful to inform you that good news from StockSharp are coming too!

As you know with newly launched support service Freelance
you can get help or advice from our big StockSharp trading community anytime! Whether you want to create or sell your trading robot or anything created by yourself, don't hesitate to share your thoughts and opinions with us!

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StockSharp online store!

2020-11-19T12:47:28Z

Good news everyone!

Welcome to our new online store! We've just opened a new online store which located in trading robot section and warmly welcome you!

From now on every of you can order any of our products and moreover you can publish and sell your products through our website, dear client!

Contact to our email info@stocksharp.com, we will reply your questions and will provide assistant with your products.

S#.Designer is a simple way to start a successful trade.

2020-03-31T19:05:01Z

More recently, we have reviewed a program such as Shell and the API library.
Of course, mastering the skills of programming trading strategies opens up huge horizons for the user not only as a trader, but also as a Creator of trading robots for sale.
However, not every user is interested in programming, and not every user is willing to spend time studying libraries.
Not every trader wants to learn how to write custom trading robots and often wants to create trading strategies for themselves.
Agree, it would be cool to have a program that can use ready-made components to create trading strategies.
S# understands this and has created a trading robot constructor that allows you to create trading robots using dice-Designer.

Now many people will start thinking: "What is it good for?".
Actually -.
First, it is more intuitive, meaning that it is easier for the user to navigate the program interface.
Secondly, the program is completely free, which allows the user to start working with it without investing a penny!
Third, the program integrates with all our products, such as Hydra, and moreover, it is able to download market data itself.

In General, the ability to download market data yourself is a huge advantage.
The user can use not several programs, but one to test the created trading strategies.
The interface is intuitive, and makes it easy to adapt to the user's environment.

What is a Designer?
Designer is a completely unique program. It differentiates strategy elements into the simplest elements, as in the constructor, and allows you to assemble a trading strategy from these elements.
The large functionality of dice allows you to create the simplest and most complex trading strategies. All you need from the user is to select the strategy functionality.
Cubes are divided into sections that include groups of cubes for the user's convenience. This allows to improve the understanding and interface of the program. However, the program prevents errors from occurring at the strategy design stage. in other words, if a cube contains data of one type, it will not transmit data to a cube with data of another type, which helps avoid errors.

This means that the user does not waste time identifying the causes of the error at the program development stage.
In General, the development stage is a separate Chapter. At this stage, the user is provided with all the tools for working out their strategy, from the functionality of dice, to the ability to integrate their elements and analyze the progress of strategy development step by step.
Back test is a convenient function implemented in the program. Step-by-step review of strategy execution using the stop button allows you to detect an error at any stage. Of course - this saves time, which in turn reduces the user's expenses.

More experienced users can create their own elements in C#. All you will need to do is create your own element, where the user saves their code. These elements and strategies in General work much faster than strategies written in the visual designer, which gives the user an incentive to develop at the same time, without changing the convenient development environment.
The advantage of strategies in C# is not limited when creating them.you can describe any algorithm and add standard operation cubes to it if you want. The strategy creation process takes place directly in S#.Designer or C# development environment (the most popular development environment is Microsoft Visual Studio), using the library for professional development of trading robots in C# and S#.API.

Speaking of Designer, we can say that it is a progressive product. The ability to include your own codes in software solutions allows you to expand the range of Designer applications. The possibility of testing reduces the potential risk. The ability to download and use it for free-makes the product available to anyone.
It just remains to start working

The remote manager module

2019-01-17T18:12:06Z

Hello dear friends! Today we are announcing a new software module from StockSharp - a remote manager.
As the name implies, it is intended for remote control of applications based on S#.API, for example, created on the basis of our other program S#.Shell

The module allows you to remotely connect to S#.Shell or your own robots using the FIX protocol monitor and control them.
Let's see how it looks like

connection to the server:
displaying strategies available on the server
adding and monitoring strategies on the server
sending custom commands

The module will be useful to all algorithmic traders who have several bots, especially if they are located on a remote server.
With the help of our module, you can configure, manage and control your robots from one program from your computer.

The core things:

the remote manager separately costs only199$
S#.Shell and the remote manager costs 590$
The complete training course includes: video-lessons, S#.Shell, the remote manager, 6 month support, the extended license and costs only 990$

Designer - create a strategy based on MACD. Start with simple.

2019-05-06T18:15:06Z

Creating a strategy in the Designer program.

Let’s discuss an example of creating a trading strategy in a program based on the MACD indicator values.
The indicator’s goal is as follows:

1. If the MACD indicator histogram crosses the zero line from top to bottom, this is a sell signal.
2. The transition of the histogram from the negative to the positive zone is a buy signal.

Therefore, it is necessary to create conditions under which a trade will be made, namely, if the indicator value on the next candle changes its sign, then the signal is sent to make a trade.
To create a strategy, we need:

- Run the program.

- Select the Variable, Candles and Chart Panel blocks, connect them.

- Select an instrument with which we will test the strategy.

- Plot a candle chart.

- Select the Indicator and Chart Panel blocks. Connect the Indicator and Candles blocks.

- Plot a chart of the MACD indicator.

- Select the Variable block and assign it a numeric value of 0 for further comparison with the indicator value.

- Select the Comparison block and set the test condition in the properties: execution during the test, with the MACD indicator value greater than 0.

- Add two Variable blocks and Comparison block. One of the variables is set to -1 in the block properties. It will indicate the transition of the MACD curve value from negative to positive area. The second Variable value is set to 0 in the properties, that will indicate the initial indicator value.

- Set the condition in the Comparison block that will be fulfilled if the initial indicator value for the time frame is greater than the current one.

- Connect the Variable blocks via a trigger socket with the Comparison blocks, as shown in the figure.
Select the Logical Condition and Variable cubes.

- The execution condition of two comparisons will be checked in the Logical Condition cube. Set the AND condition in the properties of the Logical Condition cube and connect the cubes as shown in the figure.

- Set the value equal to -1 in the Variable cube and connect it with the Logical Condition cube via a trigger socket, and through the output connect to the input of the cube with a value of 0. This will allow overwriting the checkbox value when conditions are met, indicating within what range of values the MACD indicator curve is.

- Select the Open Position block, select the Buy direction in the settings and connect data and trigger with the socket, as shown in the figure.

- Select two Variable blocks in which to set the volume and portfolio for trading. Connect them with the corresponding sockets of the Open Position block.

- Similarly, create a routine for the Sales execution.

-The strategy is ready, let’s run it.

How to download market data to the Designer?

2019-04-25T12:35:50Z

In order to download market data to the Designer program for testing a trading strategy, you need to do the following:

1.Run the program.

2. Select the Market Data section in the top menu and click on it.

3. In the window that appears, select the Download Securities button in the Securities panel, in the menu that appears, tick the All option and select the storage. Then click the OK button .

4. In the list of downloaded securities, select the one we need.

5. Choose a period for which we need market data, and candles that we need.

6. Select the path to storage where our market data will be stored, for this, we click the “+” button.

7. In the menu that appears, select the full path to store the downloaded market data.

8. Click the Start button
9. In the window that appears, select the market data source.

10. In the window that appears, click the “+” button and select the source we need from the drop-down list.

11. Click the OK button.

Market data downloaded to your storage. Enjoy using.

We create Knowledge Base for Designer! Join us!

2019-04-25T12:58:15Z

Dear friends!
To make it convenient for you to use StockSharp programs, we started to create a knowledge base for the Designer program.

What do we want? We want you to always find answers to your questions! And if you do not find it, you could tell us, well, we would add your question to the list and find the answer to it!
The main objective of our project is to create a comfortable environment for all users so that your and our knowledge will help our large community.

The first topic was the issue of downloading market data to the program.
Looking forward to your feedback! Let's make the program more convenient together.
Thanks in advance.