Re: [amibroker] regression Channel

2006-12-14 Thread NW Trader
Hi Steve, See my code in the AB Library for a more versatile tool. Hope all is well with you, may see you in Houston. Here I've been busy and am without power at the moment (but running on a 12 KW generator that I installed last summer, expecting the INet to go down any moment too). Lots of

[amibroker] GetFndata how the dates are displayed

2006-12-14 Thread MarkK
I am looking at the following dates that are now being displayed in the AA window Might be late or something but I can not understand how to read the dates, unless I am doing something wrong either the code of how I am reading them or trying to Can anyone help me out? Thank y

Re: [amibroker] Re: Pyramiding: buy a 2nd time if buy cryteria is reached,

2006-12-14 Thread Graham
Buy=sigscalein means you are adding to your existing trade Buy=sigscaleout means you are reducing your existing trade size Sell will exit the total trade and cannot be used as pyramid exit. Only Buy can be used to scale in and out -- Cheers Graham AB-Write >< Professional AFL Writing Service Ye

RE: [amibroker] Rotated histogram

2006-12-14 Thread MarkK
Don, I must say never knew that was there either You are just full of information for me these past two days Thank you so much Mark _ From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Lindberg Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 10:47 PM To: amibroker@y

[amibroker] Printing...can you print more than just the current chart?

2006-12-14 Thread Homar Simpson
Wasn't able to figure out how, and it would be a very neat way to create a pdf chart book, and multiple charts per page, for those that have a pdf driver installed.

[amibroker] Re: OT - MetaStock Downloader

2006-12-14 Thread john_dxd_smith
Thank you, Amon, It seems like a good converter. But what I need is a MetaStock Data editor + converter. I found several downloaders and/or converters by Googling but no editor. Believe it or not, I still do some manual updating ! --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Amon Ra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [amibroker] Rotated histogram

2006-12-14 Thread Don Lindberg
Sean, What about the Volume at Price that is included in Basic Charts in AmBroker? ---Original Message--- From: sdp_51 Date: 12/14/06 18:29:53 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Rotated histogram Hello, I want to create a volume by price code to display the volume for

Re: [amibroker] regression Channel

2006-12-14 Thread Steve Dugas
Never mind - seems it is hardwired to price of the cuurent ticker, if you drop it on something else it will plot outside visible range of the chart. - Original Message - From: Steve Dugas To: Yahoo - AmiBroker Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 8:21 PM Subject: [amibroker] regr

[amibroker] Re: Pyramiding: buy a 2nd time if buy cryteria is reached,

2006-12-14 Thread wadebullock
Hi there, I'm also having trouble with this. So far what works it this: SetPositionSize( 100/PosQty, spsPercentOfEquity );//original position buy = ( buyconditions ) * sigscalein; sell = sellconditions; However, as is, this will use the original positionsize formula. I want to change that, so

Re: [amibroker] regression Channel

2006-12-14 Thread wavemechanic
Click regression channel tool. Place cross on start bar and drag it to end bar. Fini. Bill - Original Message - From: Steve Dugas To: Yahoo - AmiBroker Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 8:21 PM Subject: [amibroker] regression Channel Hi - Could anyone tell me how to wor

[amibroker] Rotated histogram

2006-12-14 Thread sdp_51
Hello, I want to create a volume by price code to display the volume for each visible price range. Say the chart on the screen shows the stock trades in a range between 5 to 10. You could have say 5 bars that show the volume for a subset of this price range (volume from 5-6, 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 9-10

[amibroker] regression Channel

2006-12-14 Thread Steve Dugas
Hi - Could anyone tell me how to work the regression chanel drawing tool? I select it and I can see the 2 vertical lines but can't seem to create any channels. Right-click menu shows "delete all studies" in black but I can't find anything to select to turn on Properties or "delete study". I reme

Re: [amibroker] Different chart styles in one pane?

2006-12-14 Thread Graham
You could also use a param function to select which type of plot you want type = ParamToggle("Plot Type", "Bar,Line",0); style = styleBar; if(Type) style=styleLine; Plot(C,"",colorGrey50,style); -- Cheers Graham AB-Write >< Professional AFL Writing Service Yes, I write AFL code to your requirem

Re: [amibroker] OT - MetaStock Downloader

2006-12-14 Thread Amon Ra
Yes. I use Meta2ASCII which convert Metastock format to ASCII, ASCII to Metastock and ASCII to other ASCII format - Original Message From: john_dxd_smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 8:15:03 PM Subject: [amibroker] OT - MetaStock Dow

[amibroker] OT - MetaStock Downloader

2006-12-14 Thread john_dxd_smith
Old habits die hard. I still use MetaStock Downloader to edit/manual update/convert MetaStock files. But I cannot get it installed on WinXP Pro x64. Is there an alternative software for x64 to edit/convert MetaStock files ? TIA

Re: [amibroker] Different chart styles in one pane?

2006-12-14 Thread Steve Dugas
Hi - You could do somethng like this If ( LastValue( Cum( High ) ) == LastValue( Cum( Low ) ) ) Style = styleLine; Else Style = styleCandle; Plot( Close, "Ticker Name", MyColor, Style ); Steve - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ludwig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, De

[amibroker] Re: Study behind price bars.

2006-12-14 Thread idaytrader
Sorry, should have been more clear. I ment a study like the time cycle verical lines or a pitchfork. Jerry -- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Keith McCombs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jerry -- > What is behind what is order dependent. The first plot in your code is > in the front. The next

Re: [amibroker] ParamOptimize - different backtest results

2006-12-14 Thread Thomas Ludwig
Thanks again, Tomasz - your comments clarify this issue completely! Best regards, Thomas > Thomas, > > Yes, that's the key. If you use ParamOptimize then it behaves > like PARAM function - i.e. you need to use Parameters dialog > to reset values to defaults (Press "RESET" button), otherwise > Par

Re: [amibroker] Different chart styles in one pane?

2006-12-14 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
First of all = is ASSIGNMENT operator, not comparision. Therefore with O=H=L=C you assign the value of CLOSE to all other arrays ! Secondly comparisions need to be combined with AND/OR to make any sense. Thirdly you can not switch style because there is NO reasonable way to display line between c

Re: [amibroker] ParamOptimize - different backtest results

2006-12-14 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Thomas, Yes, that's the key. If you use ParamOptimize then it behaves like PARAM function - i.e. you need to use Parameters dialog to reset values to defaults (Press "RESET" button), otherwise ParamOptimize will work like Param - i.e. will return (old values). Also each indicator window and AA wi

[amibroker] Different chart styles in one pane?

2006-12-14 Thread Thomas Ludwig
In my default Layout I'm using Candlesticks as my default style. However, I have some time series where I only have closing prices available. For these prices I would prefer viewing them as line charts. Tomasz presented a solution how to plot different styles in two panes on http://www.amibrok

Re: [amibroker] ParamOptimize - different backtest results

2006-12-14 Thread Thomas Ludwig
Thanks, Tomasz, Below is the code I was using. As mentioned, I backtested this formula with the default values, replaced "Optimize" with "ParamOptimize" and got a different backtest result. However, your remark: >Note that BACKTEST in second case will use current param values, > not the defaul

Re: [amibroker] I am stuck with this formaula Any Help Pls.

2006-12-14 Thread Graham
not sure if this will help or not but you have not defined newstring, and you are using a symbol "e" for the foreign a=FullName(); newstring1=StrLeft(a,3); b=Name(); newstring2=StrLeft(b,3); Filter = newstring1==newstring2; e1=Foreign(newstring1,"Close"); AddTextColumn(FullName(),"name"); AddTe