[amibroker] Re: Formula file not found

2007-10-19 Thread Graham Johnson
Thanks Tomasz Followed the instruction but didn't achieve a result, so did uninstal/instal and everything is fine - not sure what I had done to screw things. It's always a steep learning curve in changing thought processes with new software. Graham > http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/ami

[amibroker] compare http://www.trade-commander.org/twslink/twslinksamples.htm with AB

2007-10-19 Thread murthysuresh
Is this different from the AT functionality provided by AB. Is there any detals on the feature compariosion.

[amibroker] text file read in

2007-10-19 Thread eric tao
Hello, Has anyone developed an afl that reads in comma delimited "time, price" text file, and plot trading arrow on the chart? I try to improve my entry and figure it would be helpful to visualize it on the chart. Thank you.

[amibroker] Modifying the Buy and Short Arrays

2007-10-19 Thread jacklweinberg
Does anyone have some AB Code to do the following: Background: In my data I have some data "issues" - for example a split in a stock that was not back adjusted. This may cause a situation where my system issues a Buy (or Short) and there is a profit in the hundreds of thousands, which is quite i

[amibroker] How to enter negative values in quote editor?

2007-10-19 Thread cassianoqs
How to enter negative values in quote editor? AB doesn't accept. I had to import from ASCII.

[amibroker] cheapest backfill tick chart

2007-10-19 Thread kt yong
Hi, I am trading ER2 e-mini and have an account with IB. I trade with n-volume chart which based on ticks feed from IB. I notice the backfill does not go too far back. Is there anyway to have the backfill updated at least for 2 days without leaving my PC on 24 hours? I am not a consistent trad

Re: [amibroker] Re: Getting Today

2007-10-19 Thread Conrad Smith
Hi Jeff, Thank you very much for your help! - Conrad - Original Message From: jeffro861 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:17:55 PM Subject: [amibroker] Re: Getting Today In automatic analysis look under "R

[amibroker] Re: Accessing the current "Buy/Short" value during backtesting??

2007-10-19 Thread cnh4_2000
Cool!!! that did it..Thanks!! --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try Ref(Buy, 0) and see if that works for you. > > I don't have access to AmiBroker on this computer, so I can't say for > sure if it will work. But it should be easy to try. > > --- In am

[amibroker] Re: Accessing the current "Buy/Short" value during backtesting??

2007-10-19 Thread cnh4_2000
Thanks for your response. Basically I have two set of profit/stop loss factors which are all constants. I want to use one set profit/stop loss factors for BUY signals and another set for SHORTS. This is because my optimal stop loss can be safely set much tighter on my short positions. However,

[amibroker] 3 new short video tutorials for beginners

2007-10-19 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Hello, 3 new short video tutorials for beginners are available now: http://www.amibroker.com/video/VolumeAtPrice.html (VAP overlay on price chart) http://www.amibroker.com/video/TwoSymbols.html (Two independent chart windows) http://www.amibroker.com/video/TwoSymbols

Re: [amibroker] Managing multiple positions : just an idea

2007-10-19 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Hello, Pyraminding is as simple as in Wealth Lab. If you don't like array approach you can use custom backtester. There is a sample rebalancing code that uses scaling in /out. http://www.amibroker.com/kb/2006/03/06/re-balancing-open-positions/ In Custom backtester you operate bar by bar as in WL

Re: [amibroker] MACD Histogram

2007-10-19 Thread David LW
Thank you so much Bill. the scanner works exactly. I really appreciate you taking your time to advise and construct it. Thank you :) Thank you and best regards David wavemechanic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, here is a simplified version that you can add to:

Re: [amibroker] Formula file not found

2007-10-19 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/amibroker/message/116109 Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original Message - From: "Graham Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 2:41 AM Subject: [amibroker] Formula file not found > Hi > > I am a new AB use

Re: [amibroker] Amibroker-IB freezing (AFL problem)

2007-10-19 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Hello, You got it all wrong. 1. AmiBroker as any well-behaved application does NOT redraw INVISIBLE windows. If you minimize - the window becomes invisible and stops redrawing. So it actually multitasks as it should (because it does not eat resources!) 2. You can force refresh even if window is

[amibroker] Re: AB system into TradeSim Database

2007-10-19 Thread agkan24
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "justinwonono" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok thanks franc, I'll check what I've done wrong. > > Regards > > --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "oceanchimes" wrote: > > > > Justinwonono > > I used a call to the include file in my AFL. Then ran a > > backtest/e

[amibroker] Help Interpreting this

2007-10-19 Thread pstaffieri
SetBarsRequired(10,10); and SetChartOptions(0,chartShowArrows|chartShowDates);

[amibroker] Re: AB system into TradeSim Database

2007-10-19 Thread agkan24
I was wondering how do you actually use this function (which I've saved as export.afl in the includes folder)? I've got an AFL file that I can explore/backtest and I've used the #include command (#include ) but it doesn't seem to do anything? Are you meant to adjust anything in the export.afl file

[amibroker] Formula file not found

2007-10-19 Thread Graham Johnson
Hi I am a new AB user - been using Wealth-Lab Developer for the past 2-3 years. The problem is when AB is opened on my PC, an empty chart displays and in the top of each panel is displayed "ERROR: Formula file not found or empty - no chart to display". The problem doesn't exist on my Noteboo

[amibroker] Amibroker-IB freezing (AFL problem)

2007-10-19 Thread ugokanain
Am trying to store the data that amibroker gets from ib unto a database. However, found that amibroker doesn't seem to multitask very well. When i put amibroker to the background (collapse, switch to another application, desktop, etc) it stops storring data. If I switch to another chart it st

[amibroker] New usr nehel for setup backtest

2007-10-19 Thread tradeuk59
Hi, I want to stup a simple system : Buy at open price at 9h30 Sell at cloe price at 15h30 I had y to use "timenum()" like that : Buy = timenum()>= 093000 and timenum()<093100; Sell= timenum()>= 153000 and timenum()<153100; These formulas give me so many signal. Can you help, pease. Thanks

[amibroker] Price and 200 MA

2007-10-19 Thread Adrian
Anybody out there knows how to set the chart to ignore an indicator (i.e. 200MA) when it's too far away from the price, and focus on the price only? Thanks! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://

[amibroker] Managing multiple positions : just an idea

2007-10-19 Thread clambert0371
Hi, First of all, i'd like to say that i've been running AB demo for a couple of weeks and i really like it so far, especially the speed. However, there's one big drawback compared to Wealth Lab -- which is so far my preferred backtesting tool -- and that is AB's inability to easily manage pyrami

[amibroker] Re: Eliminating Phantom Positions in CBT

2007-10-19 Thread tipequity
Tomasz, Thanks again for the corrections. Unfortunately "Phantom" position still exist. I will email technical support with details and explanation. Regards Kam --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Tomasz Janeczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > No, I have typed it directly into e-mai