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Improvian Guide
Contents
Chapter 1 ........................................................................................................ 6
Introduction ................................................................................................... 6
Notation Conventions .....................................................................................6
Is it Easy to Learn a Language? .......................................................................7
Who Should Read This Guide?..........................................................................8
What is a Trading Technique? ..........................................................................9
What is Improvian? ........................................................................................9
What Can You Create? .................................................................................. 10
Technical Indicators................................................................................... 11
Trading Systems ....................................................................................... 12
Inputs and Targets for Neural Models ........................................................... 13
Alerts ...................................................................................................... 14
Studies .................................................................................................... 14
Scans ...................................................................................................... 14
Position Size Calculations ........................................................................... 14
Function .................................................................................................. 14
CHAPTER 2.................................................................................................... 16
The Basics of Improvian ............................................................................... 16
Processing Principles .................................................................................... 16
Price Data Identifiers .................................................................................... 18
Referencing Price Data.................................................................................. 19
Reserved Words .......................................................................................... 20
Skip Words ................................................................................................. 22
Expressions................................................................................................. 23
Statements and Punctuation .......................................................................... 24
Operators ................................................................................................... 25
Operator Precedence .................................................................................... 27
CHAPTER 3.................................................................................................... 28
Creating the First Custom Indicator.............................................................. 28
Using Indicator Builder ................................................................................. 28
Using the Improvian Editor............................................................................ 30
Using AutoComplete .................................................................................. 32
Improvian Editor Toolbar............................................................................ 33
Using Variables............................................................................................ 34
Declaring Variables.................................................................................... 35
Understanding Technique Branching ............................................................... 37
Program Flow and Branching....................................................................... 37
Understanding Operator If…Then ................................................................. 38
Simple operator If…Then ......................................................................... 38
Assigning Values to Variables...................................................................... 40
Using Inputs ............................................................................................... 41
CHAPTER 4.................................................................................................... 43
Creating the First Custom Study ................................................................... 43
Understanding Nested If...Then...................................................................... 43
Using Comparison Operators ......................................................................... 44
Relational Operators .................................................................................. 44
Using Logical Operators ................................................................................ 45
Logical Operators ...................................................................................... 47
Referencing Previous Values .......................................................................... 48
Using Study Builder...................................................................................... 49
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