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jani
03 Mar 2024, 20:27
( Updated at: 04 Mar 2024, 06:32 )
RE: Use AI help your cTrader coding
PanagiotisChar said:
Hi all,
My personal experience is that ChatGPT is not there yet when it comes to cTrader Automate. Most of the times, the generated code is nonsense, it does not build and it's misleading.
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Hi Panagiotis,
LLMs and AI/machine learning are growing an incredible exponential speed. Chat GPT 4 today is much more able to handle cAlgo than it was a couple of months ago.
I have personally started a custom GPT project named: "cTrader cAlgo Navigator". My goal is to build ChatGPT 4 plugin to write cAlgo code using all available resources. I'm planning to publish this plugin for general use as soon as I have managed to teach it the necessary knowledge and to prompt engineer it for optimal performance. For this project, I would need to start with the first step of Dataset Compilation which would consist of:
1) Collect Code Samples: Gather a diverse set of C# code samples specifically used in cBots and indicators within cAlgo/cTrader. This collection should include examples ranging from simple indicators to complex trading bots employing various trading strategies.
2) Incorporate Documentation: Include official cAlgo/cTrader API documentation excerpts, tutorials, and community-contributed code snippets. This ensures the model learns from authoritative and practical sources.
3) Annotate for Context: Annotate code samples with explanations of their functionality, the trading strategy they implement, and any cAlgo/cTrader-specific features they use. Annotations should be clear and concise, aiding the model in understanding the purpose and context of each code block.
Is there any way you could help we to gather the above-mentioned information? I believe JSON format would be a good way to input this data to the GPT.
@jani
jani
03 Mar 2024, 20:10
Sounds interesting!
Your project sounds interesting! I have personally started a ChatGPT custom GPT project named: "cTrader cAlgo Navigator". My goal is the customize GPT to code cAlgo with using all available resources. I think the type of market analysis you're talking about could very well be integrated into the same GPT or a separate GPT that complements the coding side = one GPT concentration on creating trading strategy and the other on algo execution.
@jani
jani
24 Feb 2024, 12:42
RE: Use AI help your cTrader coding
matfx said:
I have a look at it and what i can say is the AI not yet efficiently gives the ctrader programming ability, because the code it provide still need to correct manually.
Hi,
I'm not a programmer but have some ability to read and create cAlgo code.
I'd be really interested to hear and share ideas on using AI/GPT/LLM to write, analyze and debug cAgo code. Things are moving super fast in 2024, so what seem now unfeasible might be doable in a months time.
@jani
jani
24 Feb 2023, 12:25
RE: RE: RE:Impulse MACD
jamesgreenhalgh435 said:
jani said:
jamesgreenhalgh435 said:
Hi is Impulse MACD by lazybear available on cTrade platform. I would like an indicator to show me when market is ranging and not to open trade. Thanks
Hi,
I'm also interested of developing this indicator for cTrader. I can code some, but we could co-op and hire a programmer. Let me know if you're interested.
Hi thanks for responding to the subject in hand. I have been using Directional movement system in the cTrader indicators that works quite well for showing strong and weak trends. I also would like it if there was a MACD crossover Cbot and I can only find it from a different programmer and clickalgo don't do it yet. Thanks
Just finished Impulse MACD indicator for cTrader. Had to use some help as could not understand TradingView code, but now it is working well
@jani
jani
21 Feb 2023, 01:08
RE:
jamesgreenhalgh435 said:
Hi is Impulse MACD by lazybear available on cTrade platform. I would like an indicator to show me when market is ranging and not to open trade. Thanks
Hi,
I'm also interested of developing this indicator for cTrader. I can code some, but we could co-op and hire a programmer. Let me know if you're interested.
@jani
jani
11 Nov 2022, 19:41
( Updated at: 21 Dec 2023, 09:23 )
"Compatible Visual Studio not found"
I have a project for which I do not remember the VS version I used to build it. How can I check the version? I assume that the project built with VS 2017 does not work with VS 2019?
I also installed VS 2017 and got the same message below:
Also is there a way to control which VS version ctrader is using when opening projects? (assuming several VS versions are installed on computer)
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at VSIXInstaller.ExtensionPackService.IsExtensionPack(IStateData stateData, Boolean isRepairSupported)
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@jani
jani
23 Jan 2022, 23:40
Small correction to the the sample code
Thanks for all the good code.
I noticed a small logic error.
You should have:
if (position.EntryTime.AddMinutes(CloseTimeInMinutes) <= currentTime && position.NetProfit >= Profit)
Instead of:
if (position.EntryTime.AddMinutes(CloseTimeInMinutes) >= currentTime && position.NetProfit >= Profit)
This way position is closed when server time passes the position entry time + added minutes. and profit is greater than the set threshold.
@jani
jani
21 Jan 2022, 11:30
( Updated at: 21 Jan 2022, 12:08 )
RE:
Hi Panagiotis,
I think one of the problems was that the code was printing on every index into the log file and that took a long time to run.
I changed the code so that print would just activate at the end and used BarsToLoad = 70 000
while (Bars.Count < BarsToLoad)
{
var loadedCount = Bars.LoadMoreHistory();
if (loadedCount == 0)
break;
}
if (Bars.Count >= BarsToLoad)Print(" || Bar count: ", Bars.Count, " || Index: ", index);
I'm still getting the same increase in CPU usage. I uploaded a video about the code running on Pepperstone , link below:
Also cannot figure out what is the purpose of "loadedCount" as it seems to always return 0?
@jani
jani
11 Jan 2022, 12:04
RE: RE: Code is crashing cTrader
Hi,
thanks for the reply.
I tried with different values for Bars.Count from 500 to 2000 and it seems to get my computer stuck and takes cTrader CPU usage from the normal 7-20% to over 50% ( I have Windows 10, Intel i5-7600 CPU and 32 GB RAM)
My total bars on H1 after the code is done is over 70 000, so the issue should not be an infinite loop due to insufficient history bars.
amusleh said:
jani said:
Hello,
I tried to use below in an indicator:
Print("{0} bar on the chart. Loading 10 000 bars", Bars.Count); while (Bars.Count < 10000) { var loadedCount = Bars.LoadMoreHistory(); Print("Loaded {0} bars", loadedCount); if (loadedCount == 0) break; } Print("Finished, total bars {0}", Bars.Count);and it practically crashed my cTrader every time I compiled the code while the indicator was attached to a 1H chart.
Hi,
I just tested your code on Spotware cTrader beta for EURUSD and GBPUSD H1 and it worked fine.
But there is an issue with your code, what if the symbol doesn't have that number of bars? then you will end up with an infinite loop which will crash your cTrader.
You don't know how many bars are available, so if you use a fixed number and symbol doesn't had that number of bars then it will crash your platform.
@jani
jani
10 Jan 2022, 20:08
Code is crashing cTrader
Hello,
I tried to use below in an indicator:
Print("{0} bar on the chart. Loading 10 000 bars", Bars.Count);
while (Bars.Count < 10000)
{
var loadedCount = Bars.LoadMoreHistory();
Print("Loaded {0} bars", loadedCount);
if (loadedCount == 0)
break;
}
Print("Finished, total bars {0}", Bars.Count);
and it practically crashed my cTrader every time I compiled the code while the indicator was attached to a 1H chart.
@jani
jani
08 Apr 2020, 19:49
RE: Simple and robust trailing algorithm
Thanks for sharing your code. Have you checked that this code works?
Initially, I wanted to add "Step" to the trailing stop to determine the minimum distance price has to move in favour of the position for the trailing stop to be adjusted. This is just to save resources in case adjusting SL on every tick is not necessary.
@jani
jani
09 Mar 2020, 00:05
( Updated at: 21 Dec 2023, 09:21 )
Problems with substitutions
I'm still having issues with substituting new API definitions. I tried to do exactly as the warning messages direct, but still unable to find the correct format and getting error messages.
I have:
using System;
using cAlgo.API;
using cAlgo.API.Internals;
using cAlgo.API.Indicators;
using cAlgo.Indicators;
namespace cAlgo.Indicators
{
[Indicator(IsOverlay = true, TimeZone = TimeZones.UTC, AccessRights = AccessRights.None)]
public class HighestHighLowestLow2 : Indicator
{
[Parameter(" Period", DefaultValue = 10, MinValue = 1)]
public int Period { get; set; }
[Parameter(" Timeframe")]
public TimeFrame AnotherTimeFrame { get; set; }
[Output("Close Up", LineColor = "Red")]
public IndicatorDataSeries CloseUp { get; set; }
[Output("High", LineColor = "Pink")]
public IndicatorDataSeries High { get; set; }
[Output("Close Down", LineColor = "Blue")]
public IndicatorDataSeries CloseDown { get; set; }
[Output("Low", LineColor = "Aqua")]
public IndicatorDataSeries Low { get; set; }
public MarketSeries dataseries;
// public Bars dataseries;
protected override void Initialize()
{
dataseries = MarketData.GetSeries(Symbol, AnotherTimeFrame);
// dataseries = MarketData.GetBars(Symbol, AnotherTimeFrame);
}
public override void Calculate(int index)
{
// Top[index] = MarketSeries.High.Maximum(PeriodsHigh);
//Bottom[index] = MarketSeries.Low.Minimum(PeriodsLow);
High[index] = dataseries.High.Maximum(Period);
//High[index] = dataseries.Bars.HighPrices.Maximum(Period);
CloseUp[index] = dataseries.Close.Maximum(Period);
CloseDown[index] = dataseries.Close.Minimum(Period);
Low[index] = dataseries.Low.Minimum(Period);
}
}
}
I'm getting warnings:
For example if I change
public MarketSeries dataseries;
to
public Bars dataseries;
as the instruction says, I get an error:
Sorry to trouble with a similar issue, but I believe I'm not alone here with these 3.7 API substitution troubles...?
@jani
jani
10 Mar 2024, 22:43
Sorry could not find the way to delete this thread. I solved the issue already. It was a problem with:
just needed to remove the "Parameters" and simplify the syntax
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