Re: [amibroker] Re: Volume not matching

2008-06-29 Thread wavemechanic
file > database setting > configure - Original Message - From: cadvantag To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:10 AM Subject: [amibroker] Re: Volume not matching where is that located? I can't seem to find that... --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com,

[amibroker] Re: Volume not matching

2008-06-29 Thread cadvantag
where is that located? I can't seem to find that... --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "wavemechanic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is the Divide Volume By option in the database configuration set for 100? > > Bill > - Original Message - > From: cadvantag > To: amibroker@yahoog

Re: [amibroker] Volume not matching

2008-06-29 Thread wavemechanic
Is the Divide Volume By option in the database configuration set for 100? Bill - Original Message - From: cadvantag To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 10:55 PM Subject: [amibroker] Volume not matching I am running version 5.10.2 here are some exam

Re: [amibroker] Volume not matching

2008-06-29 Thread Steve Dugas
Hi - You don't say who your data provider is, but is it possible that your format file was overwritten when you updated? I think I remember that TJ modified this so that default now is to divide actual volume by 100. You could open your format file in Notepad to see if that is what is happening

Re: [amibroker] Plot Statements

2008-06-29 Thread Rakesh Sahgal
Dennis Thanks very much. Will try to implement it the way you are suggesting. Best Regards Rakesh On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Dennis Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Rakesh, > If I understand what you want correctly, then you can set hte GraphXSpace = > 25; > This will leave room

[amibroker] Volume not matching

2008-06-29 Thread cadvantag
I am running version 5.10.2 here are some examples of stocks with fridays volume figures that my charts shows MSFT- 713,137 SBUX-165,772 WFMI-36,076 GE- 912,855 SNDK-120,456 Any clue why my volume data seems to be off?? The problem seems to have occured when I updated... Thanks for any ideas

[amibroker] Re: 2 simple trading systems

2008-06-29 Thread PW
or maybe this if you would like to have SAR on the signal line instead: r1=5;r2=8;r3=9; //ml = MACD(r1, r2); sl = Signal(r1,r2,r3); //Plot( ml , StrFormat(_SECTION_NAME()+"(%g,%g)", r1, r2), colorRed, ParamStyle("MACD style") ); Plot( sl , "Signal" + _PARAM_VALUES(), ParamColor("Signal color",

[amibroker] Re: 2 simple trading systems

2008-06-29 Thread PW
Maybe you could try this: r1=5;r2=8;r3=9; ml = MACD(r1, r2); //sl = Signal(r1,r2,r3); Plot( ml , StrFormat(_SECTION_NAME()+"(%g,%g)", r1, r2), colorRed, ParamStyle("MACD style") ); //Plot( sl , "Signal" + _PARAM_VALUES(), ParamColor("Signal color", colorBlue ), ParamStyle("Signal style") ); O=

[amibroker] Re: 2 simple trading systems

2008-06-29 Thread bilbo0211
I did not test those systems but I did look at putting the SAR on MACD. AB SAR uses prices, if you want SAR of MACD you have to write your own AFL code. Bill --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Debdulal Bhattacharyya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanx Bill for sharing those systems. the second

Re: [amibroker] Plot Statements

2008-06-29 Thread Dennis Brown
Hello Rakesh, If I understand what you want correctly, then you can set hte GraphXSpace = 25; This will leave room top and bottom equally for the price chart. Then manually adjust the price up however much you want to make all the room for the indicator at the bottom of the chart. Then scale

[amibroker] % System Drawdown as filter

2008-06-29 Thread haders2003
Hi I'm interested in any comments regarding the use of % system drawdown as a filter. By this I mean, only buy when % System drawdown is less than, say -5%. I have applied this to 2 trend following systems (Linear Regression and MA)and in both cases, although CAR was slightly reduced, most o

[amibroker] Plot Statements

2008-06-29 Thread Rakesh Sahgal
Hi All I wish to insert an indicator in the pane that contains the price data in a chart such that let us say for instance 3/4ths of the pane (vertically ) is allocated to the price data and the residual 1/4th of the screen space is allocated to the indicator. [] I am aware of the styleleftaxisca

[amibroker] Portfolio backtest in forex

2008-06-29 Thread İlhan Ketrez
Dear friends, Before registering the mailgroup, I was quite frustated regarding the customer support for Amibroker. Now I observe that Tomasz is very busy with the new technological developements of the software and replies the related questions mostly. I appreciate his great effort and magical s

Re: [amibroker] Re: Predicting future turning points.

2008-06-29 Thread Dennis Brown
Bill, Yes, my eyes fooled me on the .png. I thought the bar two to the right was lower making it the pivot bar. I did try it on longer timeframes also and did not get anything I could see using at this point. However, you did not ask me if I thought the method would work, just about drawi

[amibroker] Re: 2 simple trading systems

2008-06-29 Thread Debdulal Bhattacharyya
Thanx Bill for sharing those systems. the second one is ok but regarding the first one I am facing a problem on plotting SAR(0.1,0.11) on Macd(5,8,9)in amibroker.After plotting, the SAR points comes in st. line and MACD is also thrashed to st.line. Please help.Did you plot it successfully on amib

RE: [amibroker] Re: Now Where Can You Find Customer Service Like TJ Provides?

2008-06-29 Thread Fred Tonetti
A few simple steps ? . Try doing this manually with monthly WF over a ten year period . As far as invention is concerned . I never claimed to invent any of these things either . I simply made a few of them practical to use under the AB umbrella . but as is typical in this forum no good deed goe

[amibroker] Re: The EASIEST way to use new optimizer engines

2008-06-29 Thread brian_z111
> Yes you are right. Windows is black box. It truly is. And several >people were so worried that they developed Linux :-) If I was a developer I guess I wouldn't be so in love with MSFT then. brian_z --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Tomasz Janeczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes you are

[amibroker] Re: Another side to the multi-core support argument

2008-06-29 Thread brian_z111
> I'm not sure what you mean by whether or not it might be a smart >thing to do I just meant that I am not absolutely sure about my bright ideas since I don't have enough computing knowledge to be certain that I am not making ridiculous statements. Thanks for your answers - appreciated. bria

[amibroker] Metastock to Amibroker

2008-06-29 Thread Doji
Hi guys, How to write the following in AFL: Alert(Stoch(5,3)>80,10) AND Mov(C,10,S) > Mov(C,200,S) AND (RSI(25)+Stoch(25,3)+Mo(25)+CCI(25) )>400 In fact I am troubled only by Alert. I do not think it is Alertif or is it. Please help. Thanks in advance.

RE: [amibroker] Re: Another side to the multi-core support argument

2008-06-29 Thread Fred Tonetti
Ohhh it certainly wasn't my idea to use sessions . It was Paul's offhand comment about already doing it that brought light to the subject for me . If I had been aware enough to realize this could have been done I would have done it years ago . In regards to having multithreading within indi

[amibroker] Re: Predicting future turning points.

2008-06-29 Thread bilbo0211
Hi Dennis, >First of all the right hand (starting) example you posted did not look to be drawn from the correct lower right hand point. < Your assuming there is a correct set of pivots to use, that is not the case. Every triad of pivots is correct ( i.e., 2 pivot lows with the intervening high an

[amibroker] Re: Another side to the multi-core support argument

2008-06-29 Thread brian_z111
You're not sorry - you enjoyed it ;-) Exactly as I imagined it - a perfect example of a single AB task that lends itself perfectly to, what I would call, a distributed approach. I think that is about as simple as AB MCP could get since such symmetry (repetition) of code would be rare, outside

RE: [amibroker] Re: Another side to the multi-core support argument

2008-06-29 Thread Fred Tonetti
Nope . Didn't do anything like that . What I did was simply as you state . where a sequence of code lends itself to being chopped up, shoved through the processor and put back together again on the other side . Even this description is not entirely accurate . What really happens is that vir

RE: [amibroker] How About Walk-Forward Plug-Ins?

2008-06-29 Thread Fred Tonetti
Some of these capabilities exist already in IO . Additional ones will be available on the next version. _ From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of progster01 Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 8:49 AM To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] How About W

RE: [amibroker] Re: Built in Function:Divergence

2008-06-29 Thread Fred Tonetti
Ohhh . You mean it's a black box ? _ From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomasz Janeczko Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 8:00 AM To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Built in Function:Divergence This function is not for public us

[amibroker] Re: The EASIEST way to use new optimizer engines

2008-06-29 Thread reinsley
To follow Progster and Laliberte, an intraday ( at any schedule hour) reoptimization able to reinsert the best set of params into the formula could place the trading system on a plateau to have a profit day. I dream of such an optimizer. As we optimize any trading system (most of the classics),

[amibroker] Re: Now Where Can You Find Customer Service Like TJ Provides?

2008-06-29 Thread sidhartha70
I too was doing walk forward testing back in 1998 (and some of colleagues in finance a few years before that)... most of this stuff was done in an 'institutional' context long before it hit the retail market... So the pattern normally is academic>institutional>retail I would guess... --- In amibr

[amibroker] Download QuoteTracker intraday data for a list of symbols

2008-06-29 Thread Peter
I have just started trying Amibroker with my TD Ameritrade account with QuoteTracker data. Everything looks great except one thing that I am not sure if it is possible. I have a list of symbols that I monitor for intraday trading. I would like to download/refresh all intraday data (1 minute) for

Re: [amibroker] Re: Now Where Can You Find Customer Service Like TJ Provides?

2008-06-29 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
And I was doing sequential optimization-test cycles over moving historical window way before that. Back in 1998 I did not know that the name is "walk-forward". I did not know that this is big thing. It was nothing special. So what? FYI: Despite your beliefs, the walk-forward was not introduced

[amibroker] How About Walk-Forward Plug-Ins?

2008-06-29 Thread progster01
As a companion to optimization plug-ins, I think it would be lovely if a plug-in interface to AB's walk-forward evaluation could someday be made available. One key point of expansion (IMO) would be not having IS and OOS periods limited to same-sized time slices, but instead allow the periods to be

[amibroker] Re: Another side to the multi-core support argument

2008-06-29 Thread progster01
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "brian_z111" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Re: what can traders do with multicore processing (MCP)?. > One fantasy would be to have the platform able to optimize and chart/trade at the same time in such a way that the continually updating results of the optimiza

Re: [amibroker] Re: Built in Function:Divergence

2008-06-29 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
This function is not for public use. Sorry. Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original Message - From: "jacklweinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 6:51 AM Subject: [amibroker] Re: Built in Function:Divergence > Can someone please help me. > What is t

RE: [amibroker] Re: Now Where Can You Find Customer Service Like TJ Provides?

2008-06-29 Thread Paul Ho
I really should have said Fred through his IO, has made WF functionality available in AB way before the official WF functionality was implemented. _ From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Ho Sent: Sunday, 29 June 2008 8:25 PM To: amibroker@yahoogrou

RE: [amibroker] Re: Now Where Can You Find Customer Service Like TJ Provides?

2008-06-29 Thread Paul Ho
Fair enough if you put it that way. All I know is that I've been doing walk forward testing way before Howard published his book, not because of any brillance on my part, but because Fred has his IO capable of doing those things. Pardo, Kennedy or Trading receipes didnt make those things a reality

Re: [amibroker] Re: Now Where Can You Find Customer Service Like TJ Provides?

2008-06-29 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
From: "Phsst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > But the AB customer community deserve a great deal of praise for > innovative ideas that TJ ultimately adapted to AB. >[...] > but it is > important to acknowledge the contributions of the entire AB community > in the evolution of AB. > I always said that cust

Re: [amibroker] Re: Now Where Can You Find Customer Service Like TJ Provides?

2008-06-29 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Hello, While we are at giving credits, if you deny giving Howard a credit for influencing AmiBroker for mere fact that he did not "invent" Walk-Forward, for sake of correctness you would probably need to mention original authors of ideas, not only the followers. The Walk-forward testing of sys

[amibroker] Re: Another side to the multi-core support argument

2008-06-29 Thread brian_z111
Sorry, I used the term 'symmetric processing' incorrectly (I now see that it has a formal definition whereas I used it informally). What I meant was that I don't think software applications for MCP are limited only to single tasks where a sequence of code lends itself to being chopped up, shove