RE: [amibroker] Esignal Problems

2007-11-10 Thread Paul Ho
a loop hole closed i suppose. it was never meant to be used that way. _ From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of optiontrader6 Sent: Saturday, 10 November 2007 6:33 PM To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Esignal Problems Has anyone else u

[amibroker] free indian market info

2007-11-10 Thread Mahadeo Khadake
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[amibroker] newbie question... searching the database

2007-11-10 Thread bigitop
I'm writting a basic system to generate buy/sell signals. The backtester will be set to a 'Date Range' of two weeks and 'All Symbols' from the database, but I would like the script to search and process the data by date instead of by ticker. For example: within the given date range, calculate the

[amibroker] ticker list

2007-11-10 Thread foxblade2000invest
Hello all, I'm a new user of Amibroker, so basically clueless. I want to download historical pricesfor all US stocks but don't even know how to build the ticker list within AB. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, Rich

[amibroker] Re: reg.Ichimoku Chart

2007-11-10 Thread Mike
AmiBroker supports assigning a position score to each signal using the PositionScore array. Just invent a scoring system to represent your categories along the lines of the following: 0 No signal 1 Strong sell 2 Moderate sell 3 Weak sell 4 Weak buy 5 Moderate buy 6 Strong buy Then modify your c

[amibroker] Re: ticker list

2007-11-10 Thread John
Hi Rich, Welcome! Yea, we all been there done that. Earlier we had to read the Help Contents till we found what we were looking for. NO more! Well at least for the basic things. Check these out. You will find a video on amiquote that will show you the way. http://www.amibroker.com/video/ You

[amibroker] Re: ticker list

2007-11-10 Thread Mike
You can refer to the following link for a list of data providers (free and paid) and how to integrate them into AmiBroker (last column of table). You'll have to decide whether you're interested in real time data, or just end of day data. http://www.amibroker.com/guide/h_quotes.html Mike --- I

[amibroker] Re: newbie question... searching the database

2007-11-10 Thread Mike
I don't think that you have any control over the order of things. However, you can accomplish your goal using the AddToComposite function. A complete guide to this can be found here: http://www.amibroker.org/3rdparty/IntroToAtc.pdf The official function description is here: http://www.amibrok

[amibroker] Information Window on Price Chart

2007-11-10 Thread chorlton_c_hardy
Hello All, Currently, when I hold my cursor over a price chart, a very LARGE window pops up with information about the current period such as Price Info, Indicator info, etc, etc. Is there any way to turn this window off? Thanks in advance Chorlton

Re: [amibroker] Information Window on Price Chart

2007-11-10 Thread Prashanth
Hello, On the Menu Bar Tools -> Preferences -> Miscellaneous -> Price Data Tooltips (Un-tick). Chers Prashanth' - Original Message - From: chorlton_c_hardy To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 5:53 PM Subject: [amibroker] Information Window on Pr

[amibroker] Passing a variable into the Ref() function

2007-11-10 Thread chorlton_c_hardy
Hello All, With regard to the Ref() function in AB, is there any way to pass a variable into it rather than using a specific value? For example: Rather than writing Ref(Close,-10), I want to write Ref(Close,-x) where x has been defined earlier in my code. Thanks in advance, Chorlton

[amibroker] Re: Information Window on Price Chart

2007-11-10 Thread chorlton_c_hardy
Prashanth, Many Thanks... I managed to locate it in the end and thought I had deleted my post but obviously you were too quick in answering :-) Thanks anyway though.. --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Prashanth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > On the Menu Bar > > Tools -> Pref

[amibroker] Re: Passing a variable into the Ref() function

2007-11-10 Thread dbwyatt_1999
Variables are arrays in AB, so Ref(Close,-x) probably would not work. If you have a predefined set of values for x, you could use iif statements: myValue = iif(x==5, Ref(C,-5), iif(x==10, Ref(C,-10), iif(x==15, Ref (C,-15),Null))); However the best way to access variable array index offsets is

Re: [amibroker] Re: Passing a variable into the Ref() function

2007-11-10 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Ref accepts variable periods So all these workarounds are not required. Ref( C, -x ) works perfectly fine. Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original Message - From: "dbwyatt_1999" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 3:30 PM Subject: [amibroker] Re: Pas

[amibroker] Can a user defined function be used in various time intervals with same name?

2007-11-10 Thread Padhu
Hi, Say I have a custom candle function myfunction (a,b,c) Can the same USER DEFINED function name be used inside various time intervals? timeframeset(4*inhourly); abcresult=myfunction(a,b,c); timeframerestore; timeframeset(indialy) defresult=myfunction(a,b,c); timeframerestore; Thanks,P

Re: [amibroker] Can a user defined function be used in various time intervals with same name?

2007-11-10 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Yes Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original Message - From: Padhu To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 5:23 PM Subject: [amibroker] Can a user defined function be used in various time intervals with same name? Hi, Say I have

RE: [AmiBroker] graham Kavanagh Support and resistance levels using RSI.

2007-11-10 Thread Don Lindberg
That probably is due to the fact that I set some filters within the code. Check the line Filter= and set it to what you want. Read the code. Donald F Lindberg _ From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rasheed Momoh Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 6:53 PM

[amibroker] Re: graham Kavanagh Support and resistance levels using RSI.

2007-11-10 Thread Mohammed
Hi all; When I Copy and post the code the Amibroker hang up: _SECTION_BEGIN("support and resistant"); //Support and resistance levels using RSI. //graham Kavanagh May 2003 //Load into Indicator Builder //Sensitivity of the levels can be changed with the variables //Can test different number

Re: [amibroker] Re: graham Kavanagh Support and resistance levels using RSI.

2007-11-10 Thread wavemechanic
For starters: i == numline not i = numline and c75 in filter is not defined. Maybe more as well. Bill - Original Message - From: Mohammed To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 3:47 PM Subject: [amibroker] Re: graham Kavanagh Support and resistance

[amibroker] Re: Passing a variable into the Ref() function

2007-11-10 Thread chorlton_c_hardy
Hello Tomasz, If Ref() accepts variable periods, can you clarify why the code below doesn't work? x = IIf(H == HHV(H, 30), 1, 0); y = BarsSince(x); y = y*-1; Buy1 = x AND AccDist() > Ref(AccDist(),y); Buy2 = x AND AccDist() > Ref(AccDist(),-5); PlotShapes( shapeUpArrow*Buy1, colorGreen, 0, L,

Re: [amibroker] Re: Passing a variable into the Ref() function

2007-11-10 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
It works. But apparenty one of AND condition parts are not met. Always use the exploration to find out why your code does not work. Display every column as exploration BTW: lots of redundancy in your code. IIF not needed. Multiplicaiton not needed. The code below will allow you to find the answers

[amibroker] Re: ticker list

2007-11-10 Thread brian_z111
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "foxblade2000invest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm a new user of Amibroker, so basically clueless. I want to download > historical pricesfor all US stocks but don't even know how to build > the ticker list within AB. > > Can anyone help? T

[amibroker] Re: Passing a variable into the Ref() function

2007-11-10 Thread chorlton_c_hardy
Hello Thomasz, Many Thanks for your comments... including the point above too much redundancy in the code. Not being a programmer its clear a have a lot to learn Kind Regards, Chorlton --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Tomasz Janeczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It works. But appa

[amibroker] symbol format for futures in dtniq

2007-11-10 Thread murthysuresh
I am looking at the page http://www.dtniq.com/template.cfm? navgroup=supportlist&view=1&urlcode=323405&type=cbot and am trying to add the symbol @DD# and cannot get data for $25 DOW JONES FUTURES DEC 2007 do you know if the symbol format that needs to be used is different.

[amibroker] Re: Passing a variable into the Ref() function

2007-11-10 Thread Mike
It would appear that you have misunderstood the return value of BarsSince. BarsSince returns an array, not a scalar. So in the Buy1 case, you are not passing the simple value that you might think you are. You would have to pass something along the lines of Ref(y, 0) to pass the current value of

[amibroker] Re: Eind-of-Day Stock Data

2007-11-10 Thread brian_z111
Hello M Ramu > Please see the link down you can get all india stock feature and >option data download. > > http://www.purshotam.net/ I visited our site. It seems that it is rather new and you don't have full information on the products and services and how it can be used with AB. Pleas

[amibroker] Re: Passing a variable into the Ref() function

2007-11-10 Thread Mike
Sorry, my bad. I misunderestood your question. I thought you explicitly wanted to pass a scalar, as opposed to any valid variable (which of course an array is). Mike --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It would appear that you have misunderstood the return va

[amibroker] Re: London stock exchange and Deutsche boerse

2007-11-10 Thread brian_z111
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "dicric_71" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I want to set up database for stocks from these two european stock > exchanges. Is here somebody using such databases? > > What is good data provider for these european exchanges for AmiBroker ? > Is there some tic

[amibroker] Frustrating bug in Amibroker..

2007-11-10 Thread w_hau
Amibroker is great except I kept getting this annoying bug. I've used Assignments organizer to delete group of symbols from time to time. The problem is that amiborker will freeze whenever i delete big number of symbols. Deleting few symbols is ok but a little more 30 symbols or more, amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Frustrating bug in Amibroker..

2007-11-10 Thread Paul Ho
I use this feature from time to time, deleting upto 1000 symbols, works like a charm. _ From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of w_hau Sent: Sunday, 11 November 2007 1:04 PM To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Frustrating bug in Amibroker..

RE: [AmiBroker] graham Kavanagh Support and resistance levels using RSI.

2007-11-10 Thread Grover Yowell
Don, I got your code to work by changing the filter, as you said. But what is your take on the fact that the Zig function is involved so the code can look into the future? Grover From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Lindberg Sent: Saturday, Nove

Re: [AmiBroker] graham Kavanagh Support and resistance levels using RSI.

2007-11-10 Thread Graham
It is useless for backtesting as it stands, as you need to build in that the previous defined peak or trough has actually occurred on the bar of interest, ie for Peak you need to add (in words) LowestSince Peak is <= (100-%) of that Peak value. Any signal between the previous peak and the bar of wh

RE: [AmiBroker] graham Kavanagh Support and resistance levels using RSI.

2007-11-10 Thread Don Lindberg
Grover, It actually uses several functions that relay on the Zig - Peak, Trough and Zig. I am not a great programmer, so I do not totally understand why Graham Kavanagh was using those functions. I just got involved on this one by answering a question on how to set up the formula as an explorati

Re: [AmiBroker] graham Kavanagh Support and resistance levels using RSI.

2007-11-10 Thread Graham
I wrote it over 4 years ago, no idea now what my logic was except for what I can see in the library If nothing else shows an example of what can be done, but also lets you know to be wary of changing a code to something for which it was not intended, unless you are fully aware of the pitfalls of us

RE: [AmiBroker] graham Kavanagh Support and resistance levels using RSI.

2007-11-10 Thread Grover Yowell
Don and Graham, Thanks for your quick responses! Nor am I a great programmer, a course in Algol at Stanford in '65! Boy does that date me! But I added Buy/Short signals based on the support/Resistance i.e., buy at support and short at resistance. Then, I noted that that a Buy signal m