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The Visual Story Editor is a highly visual way to construct your story rules and logic.  When creating a new Story, TradeStory will, by default, create an outline for you to start with including a single Log Story Item.

If you were to run this default story, it would simply log out a message to your Logs.

All Story Items have a Settings Tray, which you can access by clicking on the Story Item title.

Here you can access the settings of the Story Item you select.  This example above is for the simple Log item, which only contains a Name field.  Other Story Items tend to have more settings (see below).

As with all Story Items, you can click on the Waste Bin icon below it to remove the item.

To add a new Story Item to your Story, click on the green ‘plus’ icon.

This will display the Story Item ToolBox, allowing you to select any of the Story Items available.

Simply click on the Story Item you wish to add to your story and it will place it into the Visual Editor for you.  

For more information about available Story Items, see the Story Items List.

Visual Story Editor Overview

Stories are where all of your rules and logic for your trading is described, from testing conditions, to placing trades on accounts.  Think of Stories as a workflow with a set of rules you have defined.  This is the Story that your trade has to have in order to execute.  Stories do not always have to do with trades - you can also perform other trading related tasks.  

Get and set information about your accounts and balances.

Get and set variables for future analysis.

Execute other stories from within your story - branch off logic into other sub-stories.

Place trades and manage trades on your connected Broker Accounts. 

Define strategies around managing your risk and sizing.

When a story is executed (we refer to this as a Story Run), it runs through its instructions with relation to its Context.  A Story Run always has access to its Context data - such as any data passed to it in a webhook (if triggered through a webhook for example), or any 

When a Story runs, it will run through its Story Items sequentially based on the flows you design.

Story Items are the basic building blocks of any actions your Strategies wish to execute.  There are many types of Story Items allowing you to build up simple or complex logic workflow very easily.

Conditions can be used with any Story Item that requires a condition to be set (eg

TradeStory provides a number of Condition items which you can use to set up advanced logic.

Data Items are components that allow Story Items to access certain data.  For example a data item might be a simple value, a value in a webhook, or even a variable that you set in your strategy.  It can even be a reference to trading and account data like account balance or number of trades taken.  A Data Item always resolves back to a value of some kind.