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Trading Primitives

Trading Primitives is a low-level mechanism that is designed to give you the most detailed control over trading primitives behavior.

Generic data​

Properties​

You can use special value inherit for some properties of the Trading Primitives. This will make the Library use its default value for this property.

You can enable the trading_options feature to show Trading GUI controls in the chart properties window.

You can’t control the visibility of a specific object. Properties of positions, orders and executions can be changed in the Trading tab of the Chart Properties window.

Override properties​

You can override the style of the order and position lines. For more information refer to Customize trading primitives.

Colors and Fonts​

You can use following string formats for setting the colors:

  1. #RGB
  2. #RRGGBB
  3. rgb(red, green, blue)
  4. rgba(red, green, blue, alpha)

You can use the following string format for setting the fonts: <bold> <italic> <size>pt <family>.

Line Styles​

The following line styles are supported:

StyleValue
Solid0
Dotted1
Dashed2

Callbacks​

  1. You can use this keyword to access an API-object from within the callback function
  2. You can pass two arguments to callback registration function - in this case first argument is an object which will be passed as first argument to callback function.
  3. If callback isn’t set, then respective button will be hidden (affects onReverse, onClose and onCancel callbacks).