📄️ Getting Started
Welcome to the NightShark knowledge base. This tutorial track focuses on the scripting fundamentals you need to automate trades quickly and safely.
📄️ Pre-Built Functions
NightShark ships with a handful of helpers that remove tedious boilerplate from your automation scripts. Mastering these functions lets you focus on strategy logic instead of UI handling.
📄️ Logging with Log()
NightShark includes a built-in Log() helper so you can record what your script is doing without breaking execution. Logs appear immediately in the NightShark console and inside the application log window.
📄️ Defining Functions
Functions let you package trading logic once and reuse it everywhere. They reduce duplication, clarify intent, and make it easier to test new ideas.
📄️ Introducing Variables
Variables are the building blocks of every NightShark strategy. They capture market state, track progress, and feed decision logic throughout your script.
📄️ Reading Areas
read_areas() is the heartbeat of every NightShark script. It refreshes the values from each region you mapped in the desktop recorder so your automation always works with live data.
📄️ Clicking Buttons
Click() is how NightShark presses on-screen controls for you. Use it to execute entries, exits, modal confirmations, or any other GUI interaction required by your trading platform.
📄️ Converting to Numbers
On-screen values arrive as text—$143.25, -12.5, 1.25%. Use toNumber() to turn them into numeric data NightShark can compare, add, and subtract.
📄️ If-Else Statements
Conditional statements let NightShark scripts respond intelligently to market data. Use if, else if, and else blocks to define exact rules for when your automation should act.
📄️ Using Loop Constructs
Loops keep your NightShark script running, checking, and reacting without human input. They repeat a code block until a condition tells them to stop.