Find thread on connecting a scriting program to set color codes on left hand side top of tos.

[tommytx]

I recently read but have since lost the thread that describes in detail a method to make Tos thinkscript do round trip orders. .by having think script place a color coded label in the top left hand corner of TOS and then on a regularly basis a third party program comes by and reads the code and takes action that TOS will not allow you to program into Thinkscript... Loved the article and wanted to give it a try but have now lost it.. It contains at least one video giving a deteailed descriptoin of how it all works..
If anyone has come across it .. or even the author recoginzes what i am referring to.. I would greatly appreciate any in finding this again.. It was several pages of material and well written.. Thanks in advance.

 

[halcyonguy]

was it macro recorder?
https://usethinkscript.com/threads/macro-recorder-questions-for-thinkorswim.14339/

 

[rad14733]

@tommytx If you are looking for a way to base trade Entry/Exit on a Chart Label, were you aware that you could use a Conditional Order to accomplish the task within Thinkscript...??? You would use the same logic that paints the label to trigger the trade using the Study within your Conditional Order... I have used many different Conditional Orders over the years so I know this is possible, and that is what CO's were designed for...

 

[tommytx]

@tommytx If you are looking for a way to base trade Entry/Exit on a Chart Label, were you aware that you could use a Conditional Order to accomplish the task within Thinkscript...??? You would use the same logic that paints the label to trigger the trade using the Study within your Conditional Order... I have used many different Conditional Orders over the years so I know this is possible, and that is what CO's were designed for...

Yes Rad and i am a fan of conditional orders they are just too limited.. For example I set up a buy on RSI cross above 30 and sell on rsi cross above 70. Then it buys once and sells once.. dumps the load then i have to come back and set the load up again.. What a haggle... The way i found the color code idea here in this forum is asking if anyone could help me set up a way to save to file a signal from thinkscript.. so that when the load is dumped i can simply auto set up the very same load and do it again..simple enough.... but unless you have found a way to reload the order once the load is dumped you have zero true automation.. If i can find a way to have thinkscript dump a simple 1 to a text file and have a 3rd party come along and check my text file each 30 seconds or so and if they find a 1 in the file.. the third party like python or ahk reload my conditional and i am rolling again...one of the more lucrative folks here had long ago been thinking out of the box and said.. I have my 3rd party boys take signals from thinkscript and do work with that signal all day.. even all week..He told me that placing a label on the TOS screen in a location like top left corner out of the way like when the thinkscript dumps the load at RSI crosses above 70 he places a Label of a unique color in top left of screen and has one of his 3rd boys like AHK check it frequently and when it detects that color it knows what to do next since thinkscript is not smart enough to handle it.. So please if you have found a way to make thinkscript reload the conditional orders once I would forever be in your debt... As a matter of fact I see that merryman has responded to my thread and he knows everything.. so he may be directing me to that thread.. I read it before but did not make a note of it. But i will make a note if i ever find it again... But thanks for responding to my request. I really do appreciate it..

 

[tommytx]

was it macro recorder?
https://usethinkscript.com/threads/macro-recorder-questions-for-thinkorswim.14339/

Thank you Thank you... you are the best...I thought it was the AutoHotKEY but looks like it was the Macro Recorder....And i really appreciate that.. I have hunter site wide.. but was looking for AHK.. and now I do not even think that AHK has a macro recorder..as part of its package.. Thanks again.

 

[rad14733]

@tommytx Multi-fire conditional orders in Thinkorswim (TOS) are advanced, automated instructions that trigger trades based on specific price, time, or technical indicators, rather than just market orders. You can set up "1st Triggers Sequence" (up to 8 orders) to automate complex, multi-step strategies without needing to monitor the screen. <from AI>

Some years ago I watched a video produced by Pete Hahn at Hahn-Tech about daisy-chaining orders... I never implemented... I guess I'd be leery of relying on a screen-scraper method but if it works for you, great...!!!