Trading Objects Reference

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Trading Objects represent real-world objects used in trading, the instrument object represents a tradeable market, the broker represents the broker who takes your orders, etc.

 

Blox Basic scripts use the Trading Objects to access information and to affect the trading simulation. The Trading Objects used in Trading Blox Builder are:


 

 

instrument

 

represents a given market or tradeable instrument to access pricing, position information, and to filter trading

broker

 

represents a broker and is used to enter orders with their stops

system

 

represents the system itself and is used to access system-level information such as the total equity

order

 

contains information about the order used in the Can Fill Order script

test

 

represents the test and is used to obtain test-level information like the start and end dates

block

 

represents the current Trading Block and is generally only used for debugging purposes

fileManager

 

used to read and write files

script

 

used to access custom user scripts

email Manager

 

used to send emails from scripting

chart

 

used to create custom charts