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The School of EasyLanguage offers a growing variety of downloadable PDF books and printed study guides to help you master EasyLanguage. There are free EasyLanguage reference books as well as EasyLanguage home study courses for purchase, all written by our Client Education team. The goal is to provide a wide range of additional EasyLanguage educational resources to help you expand your knowledge and application of EasyLanguage.

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                            EasyLanguage Home Study Course
                        
This self-paced home-study course is based on our popular two-day EasyLanguage Boot Camp online training class. It is designed to teach you EasyLanguage programming, starting with the fundamentals and continuing through advanced topics that allow you to create your own trading indicators and strategies. The EasyLanguage Home Study Course comes with online resources with answers to all of the course exercises and video answers for all the challenge exercises.
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                            Price: 
                                $99.00
                        
                            Updated:
                            September 2010

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StructureThe course includes 35 hands-on exercises for Charting and RadarScreen, and 6 main-topic challenges with video explanations of the challenge answers. You will learn how to write TradeStation Indicators, ShowMes, PaintBars, and Strategies, giving you the ability to back-test your trading ideas before risking any money. This course will also give you the skills needed to view, modify, and copy the built-in EasyLanguage indicators and strategies, and integrate them with your own trading ideas.
Even if you have never learned another computer programming language, or have never seen a single word of EasyLanguage before, the EasyLanguage Home Study Course will have you writing EasyLanguage Indicators the first day, so that you can start to better utilize the power, potential, and extensibility of TradeStation.
What You Will LearnBasic Program Structure, Syntax, Grammar, and Punctuation 
Writing Custom Indicators for Charting and RadarScreen 
Writing Custom Trading Strategies 
Utilizing Inputs and Variables 
Integrating Alerts and Conditional Logic 
Working with Multi-Data Charts 
Writing Custom Functions 
Note: No prior knowledge of EasyLanguage or programming is required. However, we strongly encourage participants to be familiar with the basics of the TradeStation platform.

                            EasyLanguage Objects Home Study Course
                        
EasyLanguage Objects Home Study Course 
This self-paced home-study course is based on our popular two-day Implementing Objects in EasyLanguage online training class. It is designed to teach you how to integrate the new EasyLanguage Objects features of TradeStation 9.0 into your EasyLanguage programming. With more than 20 new object programming examples, you will learn how to access market, account, and position data, place orders, integrate EasyLanguage with Excel®, and much more. The EasyLanguage Objects Home Study Course comes complete with EasyLanguage coding examples and sample workspaces.
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                            Price: 
                                $99.00
                        
                            Updated:
                            October 2011

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StructureThis self-paced home-study course is specifically designed for experienced EasyLanguage users who want to learn how to incorporate the new EasyLanguage object features released with TradeStation 9.0. Learn how to access any symbol and data programmatically, place orders from an indicator, integrate Excel, build your own windows inside TradeStation, and much more.
It is highly recommended that you have strong knowledge of EasyLanguage before attempting this course work.
This comprehensive self-paced course book allows you to focus on the topics and examples. Each topic will be explained in detail, with a text narrative walk-through of the EasyLanguage code for each exercise.
The course includes more than 20 new object component examples covering a wide range of new EasyLanguage features and topics with real-world application and includes sample workspaces.
What you will learn:
How to use the new Development Environment Toolbox
How to access any symbol programmatically
Multi-data concepts in RadarScreen
How to access real-time account and position updates
How to place orders from any analysis technique
How to track real-world orders
Access to real-time Level II data
Timers and alarms
Fundamental and quote fields
Excel integration
Global variables
Vector data structures
XML
How to build your own interactive windows

                            EasyLanguage Essentials
                        
This essential EasyLanguage programming guide allows you to quickly look up usage and syntax concepts and examples for the most commonly used features of EasyLanguage.  As the underlying language of TradeStation, EasyLanguage gives you the power and flexibility to create, modify, test and automate trading indicators and strategies.

                            Price: 
                                Free
                        
                            Updated:
                            September 2010

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                            EasyLanguage Functions and Reserved Words
                        
The EasyLanguage Functions & Reserved Words Reference is a complete reference listing of every EasyLanguage reserved word and EasyLanguage function. This comprehensive guide gives complete descriptions, usages, input declarations, and code examples for each EasyLanguage syntax element.

                            Price: 
                                Free
                        
                            Updated:
                            June, 2007

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