Hi Murray,
I'm having some trouble getting TradersStudio to do what I'm sure it can do, here is a brief explain.
I have a custom indicator that I need to calculate outside of TradersStudio due to it's mathematical complexity. So what I've done is calculated then saved the daily value of this custom indicator to a data file. The format of the data file is a simple mm/dd/ccyy,value.
I've added this custom indicator data file into TS using the 'Add Data link', so far so good. I added it as a 'Raw Commodity Data' format file.
Now I'm trying to access this data in my TS logic as independent1 (i.e. an independent data stream). When I go to 'Add/Remove Data' in my session, TS prompts me for the 'child file' that I want to associate with my continuous futures contract I'm testing. However, when I choose my custom indicator file that I added above, I get the message: You cannot assign this data file to child 1. Child TimeFrame is One Minute and selected file is Weekly
I never explicitly assigned a time frame to my custom data file, i.e. it is bascally a format of mm/dd/ccyy,double, so I'm not sure why TS is reporting a 1 minute and weekly time frames.
So, if you're still with me,
1.Am I doing something wrong per the above
2.Basically, I just want to integrate a custom indicator into TS using a data file I have generated (vs generating the indicator programatically in TS). What is the 'best practice' way to do this in TS?
Thanks for your help
David
PS:I can email samples of the continous contract data file and the custom indicator file if that would be of any use