Recently I got a quite unusual job: Here’s a trading system for the TradeStation platform. It’s a bit oversized – about 3000 lines of EasyLanguage code. Please replicate that monster in C++ so that it runs on Zorro, but still produces the same trades as on TS. While you’re at it, fix any bugs that you encounter in the EasyLanguage code. You have 2 weeks. Good luck.

Developing a successful strategy is a process with many steps, described in the Build Better Strategies article series. At some point you have coded a first, raw version of the strategy. At that stage you’re usually experimenting with different functions for market ...

Traders like special bars on a chart, since they let the price curve appear smoother and more predictable as it really is. Some types of bars, such as Renko bars, even use fake prices for generating curves that appear to move straight upwards or downwards. In the TASC November issue, Mohamed Ashraf and Mohamed Meregy presented the Points and Line ...