RE: [amibroker] Re: AmiBroker 5.00 Release Candidate 1

2007-09-04 Thread Howard Booth
That’s fixed it…thanks. From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomasz Janeczko Sent: 05 September 2007 07:23 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: AmiBroker 5.00 Release Candidate 1 Hello, Hit "REFRESH" button in your browser. Best r

RE: [amibroker] Re: AmiBroker 5.00 Release Candidate 1

2007-09-04 Thread Richard Dale
> The URL on the devlog page points to the download page. I can only > find version 4.90 there. Am I missing something? Click Refresh on your browser – it definitely has 5.00.0 on the download page. Best regards, Richard Dale. Norgate Investor Services - Premium quality Stock, Futures and Foreig

Re: [amibroker] Re: AmiBroker 5.00 Release Candidate 1

2007-09-04 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Hello, Hit "REFRESH" button in your browser. Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original Message - From: "howardbooth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 7:24 AM Subject: [amibroker] Re: AmiBroker 5.00 Release Candidate 1 > --- In amibroker@yahoogro

[amibroker] Re: Max number of bars to load

2007-09-04 Thread kar_avi
Hello, That shouldn't be a problem as I use almost 14000 bars and face no problem. Regards --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Perumal Ramasamy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi members > > In the Tools --->Preferences ---> Data menu, I have > defined the number of bars to load as 2500. > >

[amibroker] Re: AmiBroker 5.00 Release Candidate 1

2007-09-04 Thread howardbooth
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Tomasz Janeczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > A release candidate version is available now: > http://www.amibroker.com/devlog/2007/09/04/amibroker-500-release-candidate-1/ > > Best regards, > Tomasz Janeczko > amibroker.com > The URL on the devlog

[amibroker] Backtest - Signal type

2007-09-04 Thread Ara Kaloustian
I am trying to code the custom backtester... Issue is: How do I designate signals to be of a particular type. Example: For Condition1, PositionSize = 100; For Condition2, PositionSize = 200; How do I distinguish condition1 from Condition2 once in the CBI?? TIA Ara

Re: [amibroker] Linearray

2007-09-04 Thread Ara Kaloustian
change the plot statement as shown: Plot( Line , "", colorBlue, styleLine ); to Plot( Line , "", colorBlue, styleLine|stylenorescale); - Original Message - From: "Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 7:05 PM Subject: [amibroker] Linearray > Hi > > Belo

Re: [amibroker] Max number of bars to load

2007-09-04 Thread Dennis Brown
One way is to put: SetBarsRequired(2500,0); at the end of your AFL. However, search for other messages about SetBarsRequired to learn about side effects. Regards, Dennis On Sep 4, 2007, at 9:49 PM, Perumal Ramasamy wrote: Hi members In the Tools --->Preferences ---> Data menu, I have de

[amibroker] AFL Wizard

2007-09-04 Thread burlap58
Just got Pro and AFL Wizard. 1. How do I delete an earlier step in the sequence other than the last one? 2. How do I name the sequences other than the default names. 3. I have IB and can get intraday but not the daily quotes. I realize there is a backfill problem- but I'm not getting anything o

[amibroker] Linearray

2007-09-04 Thread Peter
Hi Below is some code that draws a line on a chart. However when I scroll the screen so the trendline is not visible the chart scale changes so y coordinates includes zero value and the price plot is reduced to almost a straight line! I think I'm loosing the plot on this one, can someone advise o

[amibroker] Max number of bars to load

2007-09-04 Thread Perumal Ramasamy
Hi members In the Tools --->Preferences ---> Data menu, I have defined the number of bars to load as 2500. But whenever I launch Amibroker, it loads the entire data available for the security which is more than 5 bars now. With the result, I see some impact on the speed /charting performa

Re: [amibroker] Why does it take so long to apply edits?

2007-09-04 Thread Dennis Brown
Tomasz, Thank you for your insights. I wrapped my code today as you suggested below and in an earlier post today, so unwrapped are only the uncalled functions and a few variables initialized to keep out syntax errors. I am using a 90,000 bar 5 second database, but the chart timeframe is ru

[amibroker] Re: Indicator Evaluation

2007-09-04 Thread whitneybroach
Thanks, Howard. (Great book, by the way.) My main inquiry is about how to produce the graphical representation of "indicator value" on one axis and "market result X-days out" on the other? Best, Whitney --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Howard B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Whitney -- >

Re: [amibroker] Why does it take so long to apply edits?

2007-09-04 Thread Dennis Brown
Thomas, Thanks. Yes, I am calculating many arrays inside a loop, but I have limited them to 2000 bars each by parameter. It is a bit much to post it at this stage. Using TJ's suggestions the apply time is down to a minute. Reducing my loops to 200 bars has reduced it to 40 seconds. Bes

Re: [amibroker] 5.0 RC blows up the woodies_cci_panel indicator

2007-09-04 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Hello, Did you read entire announcement? http://www.amibroker.com/devlog/2007/09/04/amibroker-500-release-candidate-1/ Specifcally "IMPORTANT NOTES" part: 2. If your formula uses the following names: switch, case, break, continue, default as user-defined variable identifier then you would need

Re: [amibroker] Is there any way to do this?

2007-09-04 Thread Graham
try something like this this, assuming I understand correctly Condition3 = valuewhen(Condition1,BarsSince(Cond3) >25); Signal = Cond1 and Condition2 and Condition3; -- Cheers Graham Kav AFL Writing Service http://www.aflwriting.com On 05/09/07, professor77747 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wou

[amibroker] 5.0 RC blows up the woodies_cci_panel indicator

2007-09-04 Thread lifes_student_1
variable ticmult has not been initialized. This worked with my prior release official release. RangeTitle1 = EncodeColor(colorBlack) + "Day Range" + EncodeColor (colorBlack) + StrToNum(NumToStr(round((HiDay - LoDay)*TicMult), 4.4)); it doesn't like any of this variable reference now.

Re: [amibroker] Why does it take so long to apply edits?

2007-09-04 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Dennis, If you are "applying" the code - it is for the first time executed with ALL bars, regardless of QuickAFL and SetBarsRequired settings. Now *if* your formula is complex and uses looping and you are using for example tick database with hundreds of thousands of bars it may take a while. Usua

RE: [amibroker] Why does it take so long to apply edits?

2007-09-04 Thread Thomas Z.
Hello, Maybe you are calculating a complete array inside a loop. Post your loop to check. Kind regards Thomas www.patternexplorer.com From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Brown Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:25 PM To: amibroker@yahoog

[amibroker] Why does it take so long to apply edits?

2007-09-04 Thread Dennis Brown
Hello, I have noticed that the time it takes to apply an edit to my large indicator AFL takes a long but variable amount of time. It might take 15 seconds one time and 3 minutes another time. It usually takes about 2.5 minutes to apply an edit, though if there is a syntax error, it comes

[amibroker] Is there any way to do this?

2007-09-04 Thread professor77747
I would like to get an alert when the stochk is going up and was below 25 within a specified number of bars, but only if the stochk hasn't been over 75 since it was below 25. I have tried the idea below, but I know that it doesn't work because Cond3 could have happened before the stochk was bel

Re: [amibroker] Re: AmiBroker 5.00 Release Candidate 1

2007-09-04 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Hello, > Now that I missed this my data base went back to May. What can I do ? That is rather impossible as the database shipped with 5.00 is updated upto August 31. Full (not upgrade) version installs the demo end-of-day DJIA database into "Data" folder. If your default database was in that fo

Re: [amibroker] AmiBroker 5.00 Release Candidate 1

2007-09-04 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
http://www.amibroker.com/guide/h_sheets.html To Save chart into new format do the following: 1. Click with RIGHT MOUSE button over the chart and select Template->Save... 2. In the file dialog, "Files of type" combo select "Chart Template, Complete (*.chart)" 3. Type the file name and click S

[amibroker] AFL to find: Highest High From Last BUY signal to the bar before the current bar

2007-09-04 Thread Gundam Young
Hello, Can you show me the easy way to find the highest high from last BUY signal bar to the bar right before the current bar? Thanks, Gundam Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels

RE: [amibroker] Re: Assign US stocks to Markets

2007-09-04 Thread dingo
Only watchlists. You'll something else for markets, sectors, industries, etc. d > -Original Message- > From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kurt.pfingst > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:24 PM > To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [amibroker]

Re: [amibroker] No Joy with STATUS output: firstVisibleBarIndex and lastVisibleBarIndex

2007-09-04 Thread Ara Kaloustian
AB does that automatically by not loading all data, unless required by your calculations. AB uses Quick AFL, which load a few more bars than visible, but far fewer than available. - Original Message - From: "cdkylstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 6:13 PM

[amibroker] No Joy with STATUS output: firstVisibleBarIndex and lastVisibleBarIndex

2007-09-04 Thread cdkylstra
Hi All, I want to obtain the first and last visible bars on the display so that I can re-calculate the indicators just for that portion of the data, i.e., only for what is showing. This is an attempt to speed up the display of results by not re-calculating the indicators for the entire time serie

[amibroker] Re: Assign US stocks to Markets

2007-09-04 Thread kurt.pfingst
Does this only work for watchlists or also for markets? I would like to set up a "Market" S&P 500. Kind regards Kurt --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "kurt.pfingst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks dingo! > > Kurt > > --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "dingo" wrote: > > > > The easiest w

[amibroker] Re: pl clarify what stocknum == 0

2007-09-04 Thread murthysuresh
thanks dingo for clearing it. Seede --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "dingo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's a counter supplied by AB for the set of tickers you are reading. The > first one will = 0 and so on. > > It's a way for you to identify the very first ticker and therefore be able >

RE: [amibroker] Re: pl clarify what stocknum == 0

2007-09-04 Thread dingo
It's a counter supplied by AB for the set of tickers you are reading. The first one will = 0 and so on. It's a way for you to identify the very first ticker and therefore be able to do some one-time stuff at the beginning of the run and do it only once. d > -Original Message- > From: am

[amibroker] Re: AmiBroker 5.00 Release Candidate 1

2007-09-04 Thread me_rayme
Existing users should use "UPGRADE" version only, to keep their existing data untouched Now that I missed this my data base went back to May. What can I do ? Ray --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Tomasz Janeczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > A release candidate version is availab

[amibroker] Re: pl clarify what stocknum == 0

2007-09-04 Thread murthysuresh
What symbol is stocknum with status = 0. Is is a default symbol that is never used by my scan except first time? --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "dingo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What guarantees it? The definition of Status("Stocknum"). > > d > > > -Original Message- > > From:

Re: [amibroker] ChartID() ==0 after apply edit for one AFL pass

2007-09-04 Thread Dennis Brown
Tomasz, Thank you. I will take your advice and only let my AFL run in indicator mode. Best regards, Dennis On Sep 4, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Tomasz Janeczko wrote: > Yes it is designed behaviour. > > "Syntax check" that is ALWAYS performed when you applying changes > involves RUNNING the code. And

[amibroker] AmiBroker 5.00 Release Candidate 1

2007-09-04 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Hello, A release candidate version is available now: http://www.amibroker.com/devlog/2007/09/04/amibroker-500-release-candidate-1/ 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 d

Re: [amibroker] ChartID() ==0 after apply edit for one AFL pass

2007-09-04 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Yes it is designed behaviour. "Syntax check" that is ALWAYS performed when you applying changes involves RUNNING the code. And it is always done using chart ID = 0 because simply the formula may or may NOT be used as indicator at all. Your formula should make NO assumptions on number of executions

[amibroker] Re: Yuki

2007-09-04 Thread baudec
> I thought her last name wasn't Ikebe... > ..., what happened? Insults. from the "Ugly A" I thought her last name was Taga = Yuki Taga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -= Cß =-

[amibroker] ChartID() ==0 after apply edit for one AFL pass

2007-09-04 Thread Dennis Brown
Hello, I have been writing some AFL that reads and writes files into folders that are tagged with the ChartID() in the name of each. I have noticed that whenever I apply an edit to the AFL of my chart, the AFL runs through one pass (for error checking and "compilation") with the ChartID()

RE: [amibroker] pl clarify what stocknum == 0

2007-09-04 Thread dingo
What guarantees it? The definition of Status("Stocknum"). d > -Original Message- > From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of murthysuresh > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 9:19 AM > To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [amibroker] pl clarify what sto

[amibroker] Re: Assign US stocks to Markets

2007-09-04 Thread kurt.pfingst
Thanx dingo! Kurt --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "dingo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The easiest way to do this is via a watchlist: Put the tickers into a text > file in the order of your choice. Name it S&P 500.tls and put it into the > amibroker\databasename\watchlist folder. Then open up

[amibroker] pl clarify what stocknum == 0

2007-09-04 Thread murthysuresh
I am trying to understand the logic behind this watchlist cleanup routine. what is this symbol that has Status("stocknum") == 0 what guarantees that it will be true only for the first time during the exploration? // clean up watchlists before starting if( s = Status("stocknum") == 0 ) { wlnum

Re: [amibroker] Indicator Evaluation

2007-09-04 Thread Howard B
Hi Whitney -- There are so many ways to use an indicator. When I am researching an indicator like the one your link uses: Result := RSISeries( #Close, 20 ); I write a simple afl system like this: Buy = Cross(RSIa(C,20),50); Sell = BarsSince(Buy)>=3; Thanks, Howard www.quantitativetradingsyste

[amibroker] Re: pattern explorer

2007-09-04 Thread wraithofglory
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "kar_avi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > h, if you have actually "bought" it, the instruction is right there. > > --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "mdkmehta" wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > anybody know how to install patternexplorer in amibroker > > > > thx >

[amibroker] Re: No suitable Ascii Importer format

2007-09-04 Thread bjarheim1
Thanx I wrote a reformatter in java last night that triggers the .vbs code. Turns out it was pretty fast, so problem solved :-D Peter --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "dingo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looking at the docs for "format" it appears that there is no provision for > the time