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Value Comparison Condition items accept 2 Data Item values to make a comparison on.  The condition is True if the comparison test passes.

To open a list of comparison types, click on the Value Comparison title to open the configuration toolbox.

Here you can see a list of Comparison Options for the 2 data values you provide.

Condition: Value Comparison

The Webhooks Triggered condition item is incredibly powerful.  It allows your story to check if a specific webhook or combination of webhooks have been triggered within a specific time frame, and optionally within specific order also.  This is particularly useful if you are building trade entries that rely on multiple indicators.

Click on the green ‘plus’ icon in the webhooks condition item to open the Webhook selection menu.  Click on the webhook you wish to add to your condition.  You can add more than one webhooks.

This will then place your selected webhooks in the condition.  You can remove or reorder by clicking on the trash icon or arrow icon respectively.

To get into more detail about the timeframe and ordering click on the Within the Last: timeframe title to bring up the options.

Select the timeframe of your condition. (relative to when the story runs).

: Default unticked.  Tick this to force the condition to check that the webhooks you specified are triggered in the specific order you need to see them in.

 If you want to reverse the condition, tick this. (For example if you wish to make the condition pass if the opposite is true).

 Check if the Bull Trend Signal Webhook has been triggered, closely followed by the Buy Signal webhook within the last 1 minute of the story being executed, in that specific order, and place a new Market Buy order if condition is met.

Condition: Webhooks Triggered

The Day Of Week condition item allows a story to check if the time now is included in the allowed days of the week.  For example, is a trade entry valid in a trading plan that only includes certain days of the week?

Here you can specify which days of the week are allowed.  Simply click to toggle each day red or green.  Red = not allowed.  Green = allowed.

  Trades for this strategy are only valid on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursdays.  Mondays and Fridays are no-trade days.

Day of Week

Is the current time of story execution included in the list of allowed trading sessions? The Is Time Within Sessions Condition Item allows a story to check if that is true or not.  You can specify any number of session time windows.

By default the item comes with a London session.  You can click on this to edit its name and value.

Click on the green ‘plus’ icon in the sessions section to add more sessions.

 Please ensure your timezone is selected correctly.

Is Time Within Sessions

TradeStory is plugged into a live economic events feed that you can take advantage of.  This covers all economic events globally published across all publicly available calendars.  So whatever your market, currency or impact level, you can be sure to catch it using this Economic News Events Condition.

This condition works by checking if there are any economic events within a time frame you specify, for impact levels you specify, on currencies you specify, across any countries you specify.  Additionally this condition also allows you to filter any published news events that contain a collection of keywords that you supply.

If this condition finds any events using your filters, then it returns true (the condition passes).

Click on any of the items within the condition to open the options.

Impact Levels, Currencies, Countries and Keywords can be added in the settings panel by typing your values and clicking on the Add button for each section.  The condition will visually update showing you what filters you are using.

For example - the following will return a passing condition if any high impact events for USD and GBP are happening today that also have keywords FOMC in their title.

To remove any of your filters, simply click on the x section of each filter tag.

News is categorized into 2 levels - High, Medium and Low.

By default the condition will attempt to find news events for Today.  You have other options also to select from. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, This Week, Relative.

If you select the ‘Relative’ date option you will be able to filter news events by more fine tunes intervals. For example, the below shows a filter for events that happened within the last 15 minutes and upcoming events in the next 15 minutes.

Dates are relative to the time when the Story is being executed.

You can tick the Upcoming events option if you only want the condition to look ahead for upcoming events only - not in the past.

Economic News Events

Check if a position is open for an account with a position reference.

To select an account, click on the green ‘plus’ icon in the ACCOUNT section.

The REFERENCE section accepts any Data Item that you provide as a value for the position reference.  The default is a Value item.  Click on the Value item to change the default value.

Alternatively you can click on the green ‘plus’ icon in the REFERENCE section to select any other Data Item you wish.

Is Position Open

Check if there is an open pending order on an account by its reference.

Select an account by clicking on the green ‘plus’ icon to bring up the Account Selection toolbox.

The REFERENCE section accepts any Data Item that you provide as a value for the pending order reference.  The default is a Value item.  Click on the Value item to change the default value.

Is Pending Order Open

Check if there are any open positions on an account, for any or specific symbols.

Click on the green ‘plus’ icon in the ACCOUNT section to bring up the account selection toolbox.

The condition optionally accepts multiple symbols to check for.  You can click on the green ‘plus’ icon in the SYMBOLS section to add one or more symbols to your filter.

Has Open Positions

Check if there are NO open positions on an account for specific symbols.

Has No Open Positions

Check if there are any open pending orders on an account for specific symbols.

Click on the green ‘plus’ icon to bring up the account selection toolbox.

To add one or more symbols, click on the green ‘plus’ icon in the SYMBOLS section.  This will allow you to select any data item - default Value, where you can type the symbols you wish to search with.

Has Open Pending Orders

Check if there are NO open pending orders on an account for specific symbols.

Condition Items