Zenbot: Charting strategy performance

[michaelr524]

Hello friends!

I'm currently testing/evaluating the bot and doing some trading in paper mode.
It's not easy to understand what's going on by just reading the console output.
So I thought that a chart with the following properties could really be useful in order to understand (and later tune) the performance of a given strategy:

1. The price line
2. A line for each indicator used by the strategy
3. The points at which buy/sell order were placed and the points where they've been executed

I did notice that the simulator can generate a chart with 1 and 3. But I also understood from other issues that the results of the simulator don't represent the results of live trading.

My questions are:

1. Does anyone else also thinks that this can be useful (or not)?
2. Is anyone already working on such feature?
3. How else do you usually measure/evaluate/investigate the performance of a strategy with a given set of arguments?

[DeviaVir]

An HTML file is generated after a SIM, that gives you exactly what you're asking for here.

[michaelr524]

I mean, something like this, but for live/paper mode.

[lachlnloaded]

@deviavir as I understand the default charting app (techan?) is very limited, generating ema from its own prewritten algorithms. It would be much more convient to for the charting app to read the indicator .period data. This would be very easy to implement but is currently beyond my programming skill.. time to enter the 36 chambers and skill up I suppose