ZagTrader Plugin for Amibroker - ZagTrader

ZagTrader Plugin

It is an interface between AmiBroker and ZagTrader Platform. This bridge automates most of the tasks associated with placing Buy/Sell orders.

Advantage Breakdown

The present scenario: Technical Analysts analyze one or two charts at a time and have to keep monitoring for when a buy/sell signal is generated. Once you see this signal based on your indicators, you would have to place the trade on the trading platform. All of this could mean loss of precious time/opportunities which could eventually decide on whether you are a successful trader/investor or not.

If you have a technical strategy which can be put down in paper – For example; assume you have a simple strategy to buy/sell on the moving average crossover. This strategy can be very easily put on AmiBroker using AFL (AmiBroker Formula Language. Once you have created the AFL, you can backtest it on AmiBroker and if you are convinced that the strategy is profitable, you can take it live. You can also use the screener to find out which among the hundreds of scrips available are generating you a buy/sell signal based on your formula. At the same time, you can run the formula on as many scrips as you wish. You can also run multiple formulae on multiple scripts at the same time, which is humanly impossible to track. What I have described till now is what makes AmiBroker a very powerful tool to use.

What the trading plugin does is that it takes AmiBroker a step more advanced and initiates an order on ZagTrader. So, for example, if you were running the moving average formula on 10 different scrips and 2 scrips gave a buy signal, you would automatically send orders to the trading platform with your preset order size for the 2 scrips. You have to two ways to send this order, which would then get placed on the exchange. Check our videos on how it works.

This process of placing an order as described above is fully-automated, which means that there has to be a process to define a kind template to place the order. Once you are completely confident on the system and your strategy, this process can be made completely automated.

Featuring

• Individual Buy, Sell, Short and Cover
• Multi User Buy, Sell, Short and Cover
• Integrated logs and Order Panel
• All ZagTrader features and capabilities (Risk Management, Algos, Order Management, Accounting…)

Installation

Available Functionality Modes:

• Regular Single User Mode
• Broad Strategies Mode (Multi Users Mode)

Regular Single User Mode

Example:

						user_ID = ParamStr("user_id","xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");
						MySymbol = ParamStr("Symbol","BANKNIFTY18DECFUT");
						qty = Param("Quatity",10,0,50000,1);
						placeordertype = ParamList("Place Order On","Realtime|CandleCompletion",0);
						ZagBuy(MySymbol , user_id, qty , Close[0]) ;
				

We have prepared a full example that comes with installing the ZagTrader plugin called “ButtonsExample”

Broad Strategies Mode (Multi Users Mode)

Example:

						SPeriod = 3;
						LPeriod = 7;
						placeordertype = ParamList("Place Order On","CandleCompletion|Realtime",0);
						Statergy_Name = ParamStr("Name Of Brod Strategy","Intra")  ;


						Buy = Cross(EMA(C,SPeriod),EMA(C,LPeriod));
						Sell = Cross(EMA(C,LPeriod),EMA(C,SPeriod));

						PlotShapes(IIf(Buy, shapeSquare, shapeNone),colorGreen, 0, L, Offset=-40);
						PlotShapes(IIf(Buy, shapeSquare, shapeNone),colorLime, 0,L, Offset=-50);
						PlotShapes(IIf(Buy, shapeUpArrow, shapeNone),colorWhite, 0,L, Offset=-45);
						PlotShapes(IIf(Sell, shapeSquare, shapeNone),colorRed, 0, H, Offset=40);
						PlotShapes(IIf(Sell, shapeSquare, shapeNone),colorOrange, 0,H, Offset=50);
						PlotShapes(IIf(Sell, shapeDownArrow, shapeNone),colorWhite, 0,H, Offset=-45);

						Plot(EMA(C,SPeriod),"EMA-7",colorRed,styleLine);
						Plot(EMA(C,LPeriod),"EMA-21",colorblue,styleLine);


						tn = TimeNum();
						dn = DateNum();
						DateCond = dn == LastValue(dn);// check if it is last day of array
						SetOption("NoDefaultColumns", True );

						if(placeordertype == "Realtime")
						{
							
							tn = TimeNum();
						    dn = DateNum();
						    DateCond = tn == LastValue(tn);// check if it is last day of array
						    Buy = Buy  AND DateCond;
						    Sell = Sell  AND DateCond; 
						    Last_Occurred_SellSig = LastValue(Sell);
						    Last_Occurred_BuySig = LastValue(Buy);
						    AlgoNum = LastValue( TimeNum()); 
						    AddColumn( DateTime(), "Date", formatDateTime );

							If ( Last_Occurred_BuySig )
							{
							     AlgoBuy = 1 ; 
							     ZagStrategyBuy(Statergy_Name);
							}

							If ( Last_Occurred_SellSig )
							{
							    AlgoSell = 1 ;
							   ZagStrategySell(Statergy_Name);
							}
								
							AlgoSell = lastvalue(Ref(Sell,-1));
						}

						if(placeordertype == "CandleCompletion")
						{
							AlgoNum = LastValue( TimeNum());
							AlgoBuy =   lastvalue(Ref(Buy,-1));
							AlgoSell =  lastvalue(Ref(Sell,-1));
							
							if  ( AlgoBuy )  
							{ 
							ZagStrategyBuy(Statergy_Name);
							} 
							if ( AlgoSell )  
							{ 
							  ZagStrategySell(Statergy_Name);
							} 
								
						}
				

We have prepared a full example that comes with installing the ZagTrader plugin called “BrodStrategiesExample”