AlgoBarsX for VS Code

Editing support for AlgoBarsX, the language AlgoBars strategies, indicators, alerts and libraries are written in.

Features

• Syntax colouring for .abx files: units (25 pips, 2R, 1%, $500), bar sizes (15m, 4h), times, dates, colours, text with {interpolation}, settings, commands and built-in functions.
• Editing help: # comments, bracket and quote pairing, indentation after :, folding by indentation.
• Snippets: strategy, indicator, library, when, buym, confirmations, sequence, fn, input, usei, usel.

Checking, backtesting and live trading happen on AlgoBars. Error checking, formatting and autocomplete inside VS Code are planned for a later version of this extension.

Getting started

1. Create a file ending in .abx.
2. Type strategy and press Tab.