This little code snippet uses EasyLanguage objects to get inside of the program and pull out some pretty cool information.  What it’s doing is using elsystem.drawingobjects to count the number of “text elements” on the chart and then report where the objects are located.  Our cartesian plane utilizes time as the x and price as the y.  So with price and time we can locate exactly where the points are located and feed this system into a system or an indicator.  Over the summer I plan on delving into the OO aspect of EL and reporting back the things that may enhance a charting analysis.  I have already created a pretty neat strategy that will allow a user to place “B” for buy “S” for sell and “X” for exit and have TradeStation calculate the P/L from the hand placed signals.  You can buy this from www.futurestruth.com for a small price.

using elsystem ;
using elsystem.drawingobjects ;

method void PrintTextObjectContents()
variables: int MyTextObjects, TextLabel MyTextObj, DTPoint MyTextLoc,
int Counter ;
begin
     {  limit drawing object collection to manually drawn text objects }
     MyTextObjects = ObjectCategory.textlabelcreatedbydrawingobject ;
     print (DrawingObjects.Items[MyTextObjects].Count);
     { loop through the manually drawn text objects to try and locate "A" and "B" }
     bCnt = 0;sCnt = 0;
     for Counter = 0 to DrawingObjects.Items[MyTextObjects].Count - 1
     begin
          MyTextObj = DrawingObjects.Items[MyTextObjects][Counter] astype TextLabel ;