Hi everyone,
Have many people created strategies on views? I have been playing with them and the addition of Views is great, but I do not think they are quite ready for strategies.
There are two big things that are missing that if added would make things easier:
Firstly, Indicator Events would be a great addition to the framework. The problem right now is, with owner drawn indicators or custom views like Renko, there is no way (that I know of) in the framework for a strategy to know if the indicator/view has been updated with a new bar.
In traditional coding it isn't a problem because as the price subscriptions update, we can force the indicators to update too. However, in views and more complex indicators, they might subscribe to their own prices which puts a layer of disconnect between the strategy and the indicators/views.
It would be great if it was possible for the strategy to be notified of events generated by the indicator/view. Not only would this be great for solving the update issue mentioned above, but also pave the way for more complex functionality like Indicators triggering Trades from a strategy etc.
Secondly, Views cannot be loaded in the Strategy Back-tester. This makes it very difficult to try to debug a strategy's signals to know if they match the indicator or not. It would be great if we could toggle the back-tester window from price chart to view in the Chart Mode menu.
What do you all think?
Cheers,
MooMooFX