[amibroker] Re: Second thoughts on Static arrays --whole problem set

2007-08-04 Thread liberte721
Dennis, I believe what you are asking for is different from the ATC and Foreign functionality since you do not want the persistent disk storage that ATC provides. I think that point might have been missed in previous discussions. You said: "Because AFL is so fast working with arrays, It seems

Re: [amibroker] Quotes Plus Industry groups

2007-08-04 Thread Ara Kaloustian
Allan, You can delete the extra 50 ATCs. 151 through 198. They are obsolete. When you run your program, the new 150 ATCs will contain all the info. - Original Message - From: "matrix10014" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 6:30 PM Subject: [amibroker] Quotes Plus

[amibroker] Re: Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread ken.thorland
Yes, I make money, however your questions clearly demonstrate that you know nothing about technical analysis or the software that functions as tools of the trade. What you really sound like is some greedy little child who doesn't have the patience to explore and learn but wants a quick fix. If yo

Re: [amibroker] Re: Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread Howard B
Hi Ed -- Thanks for the kind words. Howard On 8/4/07, Ed Hoopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I support > 2 kids in college > a mortgage > several cars > I live in Point Loma - in San Diego (cost of living is high here) > I spent the month of March in Tahiti + BoraBora + Hawaii > I have not h

Re: [amibroker] Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread Rakesh Sahgal
lol lol I think I am reasonably proficient in the language, but always open to suggestions to further enhance the comprehensibility of what I utter from my mouth and/or type. :-) lol lol Best Regards R On 8/5/07, Tomasz Janeczko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steve, > > Just smile and relax :-)

[amibroker] Re: Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread Padhu
Steve, Welcome to the amibroker community. Let me throw my 2c for whats worth. Basically there are two types of charting software out in the market. 1) Scanning software with prebuilt rules and generates buy/sell signals. You will find a boatload of them on the market. They use pre-defined stra

[amibroker] Re: Quotes Plus Industry groups

2007-08-04 Thread matrix10014
Hi Don, Are you referring to Quotes Plus SPP program,or are you saying that Quotes Plus will automatically assign industries and sectors within Ami...It appears that I still have the 200 QP industry groups in AMI as opposed to the consolidated 150 in QP How would I update the sectors in Ami

[amibroker] Re: Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread Ed Hoopes
I support 2 kids in college a mortgage several cars I live in Point Loma - in San Diego (cost of living is high here) I spent the month of March in Tahiti + BoraBora + Hawaii I have not had a 'real job' for over 4 years A majority of my income comes from trading - Amibroker Std version

Re: [amibroker] Second thoughts on Static arrays --whole problem set

2007-08-04 Thread Dennis Brown
Tomasz, First let me thank you for your patients in explaining this one more time. It makes a very good post for the benefit of others. Yes, I am aware of everything you explained because you had explained it before and I listened and tried out the ideas. I sent you a direct email through

RE: [AmiBroker] Quotes Plus Industry groups

2007-08-04 Thread Don Lindberg
Allan, QP will automatically assign sectors and industries as well as showing all the members of all of the groups. In addition each Saturday QP downloads the group rotations, which I find very useful. As far as setting up ATC, since I don't know what you were doing I can't help you on changing

[amibroker] Quotes Plus Industry groups

2007-08-04 Thread matrix10014
Hi all, I am giving Amibroker another shot after having difficulties setting up my database in a sector/group/stock format...This time around,I plan on keeping it much simpler.. If i am not mistaken Quotes Plus has decreased the number of industry groups fromm 200 to 150 since the last time I

[amibroker] Re: Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread Fred
Me too ... So when does your attitude adjustment program get in gear ? --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Howlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is it with you people: > > "So if Rakesh didn't answer your question then he answered the one that you > **should** be asking." > > I ask

[amibroker] Re: Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread jim_trades_stocks
Steve, Amibroker will enable you to: 1) Make better decisions using common or custom indicators (many are available for free at the AFL Library. 2) Program custom scans to bring what you are looking for to the top of the list. 3) Program mechanical trading systems based on your ideas, backtes

Re: [amibroker] Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread Dennis Brown
Steve, You ask a question. Someone answers in a way that he feels would be helpful, and you insult him because his answer is not the one you want. Please show some courtesy to people trying to be helpful, even if they do not satisfy you who have given them nothing positive in return.

RE: [amibroker] Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread Sirbrainfart
What do you want to know? I make money too. Does that help??? It's got sweet FA to do with Amibroker though. I could make money using a piece of paper, a ruler, a calculator and end-of-day quotes. Amibroker just makes my life a lot easier. From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[

Re: [amibroker] Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread Steve Howlett
Yes Ken it does Many thanks for answering the question I posted originally. On 8/4/07, Ken Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Steve: > > I am making money in the market using Amibroker. > > Does that help? Is that what you were looking for? > > > > --

RE: [amibroker] Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread Ken Close
Steve: I am making money in the market using Amibroker. Does that help? Is that what you were looking for? _ From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Howlett Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 4:39 PM To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [am

Re: [amibroker] Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread Steve Howlett
What is it with you people: "So if Rakesh didn't answer your question then he answered the one that you **should** be asking." I ask the questions I want answers to not the ones I think should be asked... duh On 8/4/07, Sirbrainfart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Steve, > > > > What you a

[amibroker] KB article about Yahoo data

2007-08-04 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
KB article about Yahoo data and AmiQuote: http://www.amibroker.com/kb/2007/08/04/amiquote-and-free-data-from-yahoo/ Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com Please note that this group is for discussion between users only. To get support from AmiBroker please send an e-mail directly to SU

RE: [amibroker] Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread Sirbrainfart
Steve, What you are asking is similar to an engineer or architect pondering whether "AutoCAD will make my next design successful?" or an accountant/business manager wondering if "Sage can turn my business around?". Perhaps Geosoft might allow a geologist to find an ore deposit? You don't "m

[amibroker] Re: Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread Fred
Rakesh doesn't speak to people that way but it's obvious that you do ... Given your original question I thought Rakesh did a great job of answering it ... To answer it any other way one would have had to assume that the question was rhetorical. If not then maybe an appropriate answer should b

Re: [amibroker] Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Steve, Just smile and relax :-) People come here from different countries/cultures and English is often not their first language, so please take this into account. Many people are successful with AmiBroker (including me - I trade as well). What Rakesh wanted to say as I think is that basically

Re: [amibroker] Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread Steve Howlett
Thanks Rakesh Sahgal for not answering my question... You say: "Your ability to make money wont be constrained by this software, if thats what you want to ask." No - that is not what I wanted to ask - if it was I would have. I asked what I wanted to which you did not answer. All I asked was whe

[amibroker] Transmitting an order at open.

2007-08-04 Thread professor77747
I would like to set up a market order to be transmitted just before the market opens in the morning. I use EOD stats so I know that I want the order placed at open. I do not want to actually transmit the order until just before the market opens, but I may not be at my computer to transmit it a

Re: [amibroker] Trading system development question

2007-08-04 Thread Howard B
Hi Paul -- I am a firm believer in performing statistical validation of trading systems. That means searching / optimizing over one set of data (the in-sample data), then testing over a set of data that has not been used to develop the system (the out-of-sample data). Trading systems that show g

RE: [amibroker] Trading system development question

2007-08-04 Thread Clement Chin
If you use more conditions, then expect you have less trading opportunities and some curve fitting. You need to get a balance of all the related parameters. _ From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ara Kaloustian Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 12:18 AM To

Re: [amibroker] Trading system development question

2007-08-04 Thread Ara Kaloustian
To reduce the number of candidates you need to make your conditions more stringent ... and hopefully it will also improve your % wins. - Original Message - From: "polomorabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 8:58 AM Subject: [amibroker] Trading system development

[amibroker] Re: Why Yahoo free data sucks

2007-08-04 Thread areehoi
Jim, Thanks for the information. I am no fan of Yahoo but you got my curiosity up so I looked up Yahoo and they show (on symbol screen 1433.06) yet on historical 1450.92 with * adjusted close. This is what they say about adjusted close: "Yahoo! Finance offers access to historical quote data in ta

Re: [amibroker] Why Yahoo free data sucks

2007-08-04 Thread David Fitch
Jim, I agree at least lately, yahoo data has been very problematic. At least ETF data. I began noticing it about a week ago. Checking ETF price data from WSJ "Trading Basket" for the day's 10 best performers. They didn't agree with yahoo. In addition there was probelm with historical download di

[amibroker] Trading system development question

2007-08-04 Thread polomorabe
Hello, I've been following the postings on this forum since I first began using AB about two years ago, and thanks to the knowledge and sharing mentality of the posters here, my knowledge of AFL has increased greatly. I now have a question about trading system development. I've been getting exper

Re: [amibroker] volume eod download from yahoo finance

2007-08-04 Thread David Fitch
Thanks for explanation TJ. I did what you suggest a while back and ran into a problem with low volume ETFs. I couldn't see the volume easily due to the 100 volume factor. Since only a few , maybe 10-20 indexes, i.e. ^DJI, ^DJU, ^GSPC have volume cutoff without the 100 volume factor, is it possib

[amibroker] Why Yahoo free data sucks

2007-08-04 Thread jim_trades_stocks
Take a look at this: S&P close on Friday Aug 3rd was 1433, 17 points below the 200 day sma. A technical trader would consider this bearish, a breakdown, a possible change of trend. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5EGSPC On the historical quotes page (used by many free downloaders) the close is

Re: [amibroker] Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread Rakesh Sahgal
Your ability to make money wont be constrained by this software, if thats what you want to ask. If you are asking "Is buying this software a license to print money?" , no it is not. Your success is a function of how good a trader/investor you are. Is this software comprehensive in terms of the feat

Re: [amibroker] saving database end of day updates

2007-08-04 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Defragment your hard drive. Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original Message - From: r l To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 4:04 AM Subject: [amibroker] saving database end of day updates in the previous version of AB, it took me 30

Re: [amibroker] volume eod download from yahoo finance

2007-08-04 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Hello, Check YAHOO WEB SITE FIRST before claiming anything is wrong: For example: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=CELG Now that's the contents of file downloaded by AmiQuote: $NAME CELG 03-08-2007,60.47,60.75,59.46,59.46,3202300,59.46 02-08-2007,60.27,60.62,59.33,60.42,3460300,60.42 01-08-2007,60

[amibroker] Is anyone here making good money using Amibroker?

2007-08-04 Thread steveinlondon2007
Hi, I have been recomended to use this software by a friend. Please can you reply to this if you are making good money with Amibroker...(I mean high % returns per year here) Please accept my apologies if this is an inappropitate post for this group - I have just joined so am unsure if this qu

[amibroker] end of day volume from yahoo finance

2007-08-04 Thread score177
for some reason the volumes downloaded are much less than when i check on yahoo finance directly...US & Cdn stocks has anyone seen this problem & has a fix for it? version 4.90.5 - May 24th thanks for any help

Re: [amibroker] Second thoughts on Static arrays

2007-08-04 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Dennis, I explained it many times: 1. You can not simply "KEEP" the array from previous execution and reference it directy becase: a) previous execution may be on different symbol/different time frame/different zoom level leading to DIFFERENT NUMBER OF ELEMENTS in the array and different TIMEST

[amibroker] Right margin number of days

2007-08-04 Thread Graham
Amibroker limits the 'right margin', ie the spce to the right of the last price bar to 50 periods with no dates showing on the x axis. Is there a way to increase this to 200 or unlimited with dates showing on the axis, or is this a wish list item? Cheers Graham