Another Win Vista performance enhancement (that may already be well known) is
that Windows Defender - the built in virus checker - is enabled by default.
You can disable the real time virus checking mode.
I found this helped performance considerably when I am receiving real time data
from
.
I can't see anything relating to real time scanning...?
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Ed Hoopes reefbreak_sd@ wrote:
Another Win Vista performance enhancement (that may already be well known)
is that Windows Defender - the built in virus checker - is enabled by
default. You can
What I and I'm sure many others do is to have several databases - I use
Yahoo! for EOD, IQ Feed for real time and my broker - Interactive Brokers
real time - each with its own database.
You can run multiple instances of AB and easily switch from one to the other.
Finally, you should know
You should become acquainted with the AmiBroker HELP utility. Typing Time in
Help Search returns 131 references to time frame support in AB. Try it - its
not hard.
You should also note that while you can compress daily bars into weekly bars in
a MetaStock chart, there is no time frame
Have you tried turning on Detailed Log?
If not, go to Automatic Analysis - Report - and click Detailed Log.
For me this usually reveals the reason for unexpected behavior in the
backtester.
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, directaim direct...@... wrote:
In an AA backtest
why are trades
to be in a separate file than the data to be
imported.
I think while importing you select Format separately than the file. Can you
please tell how you manage, when you have both in one file?
With Regards
Sanjiv Bansal
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com amibroker%40yahoogroups.com, Ed
Hoopes
This is a work-around that I use. After loading the fundamental data, I run
the following script to put the names back to what I like.
If you haven't done these scripts:
1. Edit/Save the file as clear text using NotePad or whatever.
2. Go to FILE - IMPORT ASCII in AB
3. Navigate to the file
There are publicly traded funds organized around various trading systems.
Below are a few for comparison:
NFO - Insider Info
STH - Stealth
XRO - Sector Rotation
PIQ - Magni Quant
PSP - Private Equity
FVI - ValueLine 100 Stocks
BWV - Covered Calls
CSD - Spin Off Companies
DEF - Defensive Stocks
life simple buy SPY and close your eyes.
Bill
- Original Message -
From: Ed Hoopes
To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com
Sent: June 02, 2009 11:02 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: Do all trading systems stop working? - Howard
Bandy's book
is well known but continues to work - witness the last few days of trading ! !
ReefBreak
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, wavemechanic fim...@... wrote:
Happen to be doing well now. How about KOL in 11/08?
- Original Message -
From: Ed Hoopes
To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com
What I did is to set the Backfill Length to some big number to start - say 30
days. Then go to some off hour time and get your historical data.
Then each day you trade, set the Backfill Length to just the amount of data you
need since you last updated. For me it is usually just one day.
This
Suggest you go to :
http://www.blueowlpress.com/#books
and buy one or both of the books there. They have many trading systems,
backtest results and commentary.
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Sanjay Arora onlinetrade.skpo...@... wrote:
Hello All
I am newbie to TA. Trying to
Amibroker has a help file - click on HELP
The Help dropdown has a selection Help Contents
Click on the contents tab
Click on the + sign to expand the User Guide . . .
Part way down that list is Amibroker Formula Language - AFL
AFL is the programming language embedded in the program.
AB is a
: hello all SP emini question
From: Ed Hoopes reefbreak...@...
To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com
Date: mon, 18 may 2009 03:18:31 -
You should check with your own broker on margin. I've seen e-mini
margin as low as $500.
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com mailto:amibroker
You should check with your own broker on margin. I've seen e-mini margin as
low as $500.
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Richard Dale rich...@... wrote:
The E-Mini SP 500 security should have the following properties to
enable correct backtesting:
Tick Size: 0.25
Point Value: 50
Check here,
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/donchianchannels.asp
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, malcolm Crouch malcolm.crouc...@... wrote:
Hi ,
Does anyone know a good book or internet site that explains Donchian 5 and
20 ?
Regards
Malcolm
Thanks for the pointer. Just for completness, I'm reposting my list with your
addition:
AB must be installed on the target machine before you start.
AB should not be running on either machine, all files should be closed.
1. Copy the stocks database folder
copy c:\YourLocation\US-Stocks to the
subdirectory of your database
folder?
d
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Ed Hoopes reefbreak...@... wrote:
Thanks for the pointer. Just for completness, I'm reposting my list with
your addition:
AB must be installed on the target machine before you start.
AB should not be running
If you have a legal copy of Windows XP you can download Windows Defender - an
antivirus program from Microsoft.
You can turn off real time checking, and if your update settings are correct,
it automatically downloads new virus patterns.
It is free - just download it
It comes already
I have used the instructions below several times to copy AB to my laptop when I
travel.
The only problem is that the laptop screen has a different aspect ratio, so
each of your chart views have to be re-sized and saved.
ReefBreak
AB must be installed on the target machine before you start.
the algorithm that calculates the linear regression function takes a series of
(x,y) pairs is input and produces the slope (m) and y-intercept (b) for the
equation of a straight line y = mx + b.
Once m and b have been calculated, the last value of y = mx + b is calculated
and returned as the
I called IB about this a while ago. They said there was no symbol for A/D line
A/D volume etc. Instead they have a Market Stats page which contains stats
information. This information is of no value to Amibroker since it can't be
downloaded.
ReefBreak
Stats page is available on TWS via:
4th degree - perhaps.
You can tell the degree by how many inflections there are in the plot of the
indicator as follows:
zero inflections - a straight line - linear regression line
One inflection - a parabola - a quadratic equation
Two inflections - a cubic equation ax^3+bx^2+cx+d=0 Part way
I checked the UTube video. The upper and lower bands + the dashed lines are a
least squares regression fit to a cubic equation. They are offset above and
below by some measure of volatility like ATR. The yellow line in the middle is
a least squares fit to a straight line (linear regression)
To fix this problem, you buy a licensed version.
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, msc626 dalma...@... wrote:
To my knowledge, that function is disabled in trial version.
daleb
hi
i m using the trail version of amibroker!!
i can not save dataany help??
thanx
In your post you say you want to COMPARE slopes. If you are really comparing,
you need to calculate the percent change over time. That is you need to
normalize the price of the stock to some constant number - say 100 - as in
percent.
The reason for this is that a one point change in a
It depends on how many symbols you're requesting. Streaming data means that
there is an update everytime there is a price change. If you've picked stocks
that aren't particularly active, you need less. If you want the prices of all
of the SP500 stocks in real time, you'll need a BIG PIPE and
I have a cable modem that my ISP says can deliver 9Mbits/sec. After my cable
modem, I have a Linksys router. I don't use WiFi - I connect my 2 computers
via Ethernet lines at 100 MBits/sec. My DTN IQfeed AmiBroker application is
run on a dual processor machine with 4GBytes of memory. It
Basically you set any scores you don't want to zero.
Here is an example that I use:
ScoreVal = IIf(HEMI 1.00 AND RSIHi RSILo , PScore , IIf(PScore 0, PScore,
0.00 )) ;
The IIF part is the key.
Reef Break
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, jim fenster normanj...@... wrote:
I have a
I recommend that you read several books on Technical Analysis first. This is
so you can understand the types of things AFL is trying to accomplish.
Contrary to a general purpose language like C, AFL is very purpose built (Yes
(all you geeks) I know that C was originally developed to write
The same has happened to me before - mostly with real time data. In
each case I have deleted the offending symbol from the database and
re-loaded the data from the source and all was OK.
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, jim fenster normanj...@... wrote:
I run an exploration to spit out
I've been using:
BGU-SMART-STK
BGZ-SMART-STK
TNA-SMART-STK
TZA-SMART-STK
ERX-SMART-STK
ERY-SMART-STK
FAS-SMART-STK
FAZ-SMART-STK
ESH9-GLOBEX-FUT
successfully
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Pete dryhe...@... wrote:
After exhausting my options with the support staff at IB I figured I
Brokers (IB)
Thanks for the response Ed.
However I tried this with SPY and SSO but still get an error message
stating the symbol is invalid.
Pete :-)
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Ed Hoopes reefbreak_sd@ wrote:
I've been using:
BGU-SMART-STK
BGZ-SMART-STK
TNA
I have a license for the Synergy Trading system, written by Dean
Hoffman who makes a living selling trading systems. I suggest if you
want to know more, you should go to his website www.traderstech.net.
Ed Hoopes
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, techie1 techie11...@... wrote:
Can anyone
where John Bollinger sued anyone for
using 'his' indicators in their commercial software.
As I said ... there are a lot of grey ethical areas on the net with
no easy answers as to what is the right thing to do.
brian_z
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Ed Hoopes reefbreak_sd
I have used static vars to make a pseudo array.
This is used in a utility to:
1. read an arbitrary user selected watchlist.
Note: stocks are called out of a watch list by a number 0 to n-1
watchlist members.
2. compute a ranking indicator value for each day and for each stock
in the WL.
3.
accounts?
I gather that you just use SetAccount to designate where the trade
is going.
This sounds like the way to go.
Any downsides to using the Advisor account?
ges
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Ed Hoopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have 5 accounts with IB - all controlled from
or more accounts
3. split the order on a $ basis to 2 or more accounts
This is very convenient - you only need to set up one order, then when
it executes the shares are distributed per your split instructions.
Using an Advisor account has reduced my error rate significantly.
Ed Hoopes
PS You can
I think the group of countries call Asian Tigers that suffered a
similar bubble-then-collapse in the '80s '90s would be offended by
you calling them 'anglos'.
This is a problem with free market capitalism - not race and culture.
ReefBreak
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, brian_z111 [EMAIL
Group,
I have been unable to guess or locate the exact symbol syntax for the
new Russell 2000 Mini Futures symbol trading on the ICE.
I have the contract showing in IB's TWS and can enter trades on it,
but not inside Amibroker.
It should be something like TFZ08-ICE-FUT - any ideas??
Ed
You can code ATR() in AFL - then you can have your way with it.
Look here: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/atr.asp
for the formula - it's pretty simple, then input whatever data into it
you want.
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Tony Grimes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are always
As a work around for streaming calculating 500 symbols, you should
note that the SP500 is a capitalization weighted index. In practical
terms only about 50 symbols account for most of the weight of the
index. So to achieve a good approximation of the index value, you
would only need to form a
-tester). In short, in can be done.
PS
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Ed Hoopes reefbreak_sd@
wrote:
I think this could be done by AB. It would be an
intermediate/advanced level of programming - not for a newbie.
One of the difficult problems is you have to write a 2-dimensional
I think this could be done by AB. It would be an
intermediate/advanced level of programming - not for a newbie.
One of the difficult problems is you have to write a 2-dimensional
sort routine
Dimension 1
is the value of your ranking indicator for each ticker in the
WatchList. This is easy
Check out www.masterdata.com
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, droskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone have the stocks that comprise the various SP Sectors? I've
been looking around for a list but have been unable to locate.
Thanks!
Another possible irrational explanation is that some humans may have
the ability to see the future.
In competitive sports some players just seem to know what their
opponents will do. Maybe the same is true of some successful traders.
They can't explain it rationally, but they just know it
Reef
Also look at www.MasterData.com
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Duke Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yahoo has a pretty updated list of ETF's located here:
http://finance.yahoo.com/etf/browser/mkt?c=0k=5f=0o=dcs=1ce=795
You can copy and past into excel create a CSV file and import.
I have used StdErr in some of my indicators. I've looked up Std Error
in the reference book Standard Math Tables , and here is what I
think it does:
1. It takes the computed best fit y = mx + b equation and computes the
difference between the fitted value at a given point along the line
and the
I use the rank of each stock in my hotlist relative to the overall
market - maybe that is close to your Comparative Relative Strength.
So I take the Rank of some XYZ stock and compare it to the Rank of the
overall market. I'm using the ETF VTI, which is an index of 5000
stocks as a measure of
I guess the obvious question is why not use RSI.
After you say that, you can consider Rate of Change (ROC) or take the
Stochastic of ROC if you want it bounded and smoothed.
You can also use the Linear Regression Slope (converted to % per day
to allow comparison, of course)
Other ideas are to
One way to get discount software:
1. Get a student ID card from your local adult school. I got one for
$2.00 from my school - you don't need to actually sign up for any classes.
2. Take this ID to www.gradware.com to buy student versions of many
different types of software. Some programs are
I have a 1 year old (new to me) laptop running AB 5.13 with the
Vista operating system.
Twice, when I shut down the computer things go very wrong with the
shutdown hanging and other ??? stuff. When I re-boot AmiBroker is
very corrupted, requiring days of re-building things. I understand AB
: AB.Quit()
Ara
- Original Message -
From: Ed Hoopes
To:
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:07 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Vista and AmiBroker
I have a 1 year old (new to me) laptop running AB 5.13
with the
Vista operating system.
Twice, when I shut
Louis - you're right, something has changed at Jim's site. I just
downloaded both the .zip file and the Excel file from his site just a
few days ago.
I unzipped the file and created the empty database as US-Stocks New.
Like you, I did not want the OTC-BB stock names in all of the industry
lists
You might want to consider the relative values of your two ranking
indicators.
ROC is the % rate of change over the last 14 days - for most stocks
that number would be fairly small.
On the other hand RSI swings from 0 to 100.
So when you sum RSI and ROC, I think in most cases RSI will dominate
With rotational trading turned on, if your ranking value is equal to
zero, the position will be exited on the next bar, and there may be no
new stocks that meet the entry criteria - so you have a cash position.
When I want long-only rotational trading, I set all stocks with a
negative rank to a
The ArcTangent math function atan(arg) will return the angle in
radians. Remember 2pi radians = 360 degrees. Remember if you want to
compare angles of different securities, the opposite side should
probably be in percent (or some other normalization) rather than the
difference between 2 indicator
the
best stocks
which match ETF. I'd like to use the zigzag directly in my formula
without
having to re-build a new watch-list often.
Louis
2008/5/21 Ed Hoopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] reefbreak_sd%40yahoo.com:
ZigZag
This indicator cannot be used for trading. It effectively
:
Hi,
My idea is to use the zigzag feature in the past to find the best
stocks
which match ETF. I'd like to use the zigzag directly in my formula
without
having to re-build a new watch-list often.
Louis
2008/5/21 Ed Hoopes reefbreak_sd@ yahoo.com:
ZigZag
This indicator cannot
1. 200 symbols sounds like a lot. Spend some time on CAREFULLY
selecting a universe of NON-correlated ETFs. You can find an .afl
that produces a correlation matrix either here or at the AB website.
Only include low correlated ETFs in your list say 0.6 and -0.6 (or
whatever bounds you like).
then be automatically
traded? I
want to avoid having to redo a new watchlist all the time...
Thanks,
Louis
2008/5/20 Ed Hoopes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
1. 200 symbols sounds like a lot. Spend some time on CAREFULLY
selecting a universe of NON-correlated ETFs. You can find an .afl
, depending on number of holdings you have.
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Ed Hoopes reefbreak_sd@
wrote:
I have finished testing an ETF trading method that uses the
EnableRotationalTrading() feature of AmiBroker.
I would like to start trading it, but have been unable to find out
.
Finally, I'm fairly good at AFL programming, so if someone could give
me a code fragment - that would get me going.
Thank You,
Ed Hoopes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS. I know how to do this with ordinary BUY/SELL/SHORT/COVER signals,
but those are disabled in rotational mode.
I think for PS in percent to work, it has to be a negative number like:
PositionSize = -100 / MaxPos;
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, KBGlenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to do a very simple rotational trading backtest where I am
testing using the below code. However, the
Also www.masterdata.com supplies lots of ETF component lists.
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Don Lindberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try www.eoddata.com. You can get txt list for a large number of US,
European
and Asian stocks. Then just rename the list to ,TLS
Donald F Lindberg
Take the adaptive part of the indicator and raise it to some power.
If you - say - square or cube it you will increase the dynamic range
and make the indicator more dynamic.
If you raise to a fractional power - square or cube root - you will
decrease the dynamic range - and quiet it down.
following wild. More ideas please.
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Ed Hoopes reefbreak_sd@
wrote:
Take the adaptive part of the indicator and raise it to some power.
If you - say - square or cube it you will increase the dynamic range
and make the indicator more dynamic.
If you raise
of the session to check for signals before the
current session closes. (I download again after the market closes to
get the actual OHLC prices for the session.)
Is this possible from Google? Do you foresee any problems?
Thank You,
Ed Hoopes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Tomasz
To stop code caught in an infinite loop try Shift+Break on the keyboard
To stop execution in the code stream use Break; It is covered in the
Help file.
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, reinsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'am looking for a way to stop the code running.
I saw break/continue
Create a Function by:
Function MyFun(arg1, arg2, arg3) //Pass data into the function with args;
{
Global Value1; // use Global to return multiple results;
Global Value2;
// Function code here;
Return Value1; // use Return if you have just one result;
}
//Call the function by;
MyFun(Param1,
I use printf as a quick and dirty way to see values of variables for
debugging purposes. Like:
printf(MyVar = + MyVar + \n );
The output comes out in the Interpretation window.
Or to print the individual array values to the Interpretation window:
for(i = 1; i barcount; i++)
{
different expectations -
you will not be able to make everyone happy, so in publishing your
guide, expect a steady stream of 'Don't buy Howard's book - It
didn't help me' kinds of comments.
BTW - I bought QTS (2 copies - I gave one away) - I liked it.
Ed Hoopes
PS
Spending lots of time
Thank you for the correction. I am re-publishing the instructions in
this thread with Item #5 added below.
Ed Hoopes
PS - And of course, if anyone has any additional corrections, please
post them.
__
AB must be installed on the target machine before you start.
AB
The founder of the newspaper Investors Business Daily - Willian J.
O'Neil has written a book How to Make Money Selling Stocks Short
describes a technique using 50 and 200 day moving averages. I have
written some simple Explorations to find stocks with the properties
described in the book.
I am planning to attend the AB Conference next month, and wanted to
copy my stocks database and indicators my laptop computer. I was
unable to find any instructions about how to do this. I emailed AB
support and Marcin kindly replied with what to do. I thought others
might benefit from his
The values for the Y-axis are easy since they are just the values of
the OHLC. The problem comes for the time axis. I had this problem
when I was writing a curve fitting algorithm in AFL. I realized that
if I could make the X-axis (Time) constant - this would prevent
problems as the
There is software that will create custom color tables, and are
usually used for color matching between scanners-to-screen-to-printer.
Possibly these tables are messed up.
Reef-Break
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Tomasz Janeczko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Frankly speaking I checked all
No suggestions. Same happened to me today also.
The same thing happened to me a few weeks ago, there were some
messages posted here, then it seemed that IB re-booted something and
everything was OK again.
Anyone with deeper insight? TJ perhaps??
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com,
.
Barry
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Ed Hoopes reefbreak_sd@
wrote:
Barry,
I could have written your post !
Same config - same problem
Never could get things to work today.
Will try again tomorrow.
Reef Break
aka Ed Hoopes
--- In amibroker
Barry,
I could have written your post !
Same config - same problem
Never could get things to work today.
Will try again tomorrow.
Reef Break
aka Ed Hoopes
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Barry Scarborough [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
TWS is build 875, July 26, 2007 5:08:09 PM.
Java
I started using AB with eSignal data - it worked just fine, but was
quite expensive. I then ran IB + eSig data services in parallel for
several months and noticed very little difference between the two, so
I dropped eSig 3 years ago and am satisfied with the AB - IB combo.
My shortest timeframe
Most accounts at IB now require a calculator-like device that
generates a one time password AFTER you enter your normal password. I
think it is unlikely that TJ will be able to emulate the operation of
that device in his software.
Reef-Break
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, tedd2pumpkin
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
Std Deviation has a value for a trending security. In other words the
upward slope of a security - even if it is a smooth increase is viewed
as volatility.
I think that ATR is a more accurate measure of the true volatility of
a stock. That is why you see it used in indicators that require a
this approach - it works. Both JS and VBS have
multiple dimensioned arrays.
Ed Hoopes
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, luchetta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am new to AFL, and I am trying to figure out how to use matrices in
Amibroker. In particular, could anyone point me to a code for inverting
values,
since they are available in the data set.
This can produce incorrectly positive results from the backtest.
You can check for future references when you are creating your *.afl
by using the 'Check' function in the 'Tools' drop-down in the Editor.
Ed Hoopes
--- In amibroker
to where the usage of 'break' is
defined in the manual.
Thank You,
Ed Hoopes
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Edward Pottasch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
ok thanks,
I was just a little curious about the code I posted yesterday.
Possibly I made some error there I am not sure. I wanted to check
Try typing Gann and Fibonacci into the Search window of the Help file.
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, amon_gizeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you intend to create new tools like:
- 45 degrees grid
- square grid of 90
- time extension to plot vertical lines from a point, according with
I use Yahoo! update 3500+ stocks every day - takes just a few min.
Here's how:
1. Yahoo has 2 quote servers - Historical and Current.
2. IF your last update was yesterday AND IF the market has been closed
for a few hours - you can use the Current quote server to update
your EOD database. The
one, two, times a week
sometimes. For sure over the weekend. 10,000 + tickers. Set it and
forget it. Takes hour or so.
Dave
- Original Message -
From: Ed Hoopes
To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 5:38 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: Massive data loading
-
F 2F2FF
to make a carry: 2F 10 therefore F4 and O = 2F-10
LF = 5, E = 4, O = 0
LF = 6, E = 5, O = 2
LF = 7, E = 6, O = 4
LF = 8, E = 7, O = 6
LF = 9, E = 8, O = 8
Fun one,
Dennis
On May 4, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Ed Hoopes wrote:
AFL a powerful
AFL a powerful and flexible language - YES !
A math teacher friend of mine gave me the following problem:
ELF
+ ELF
FOOL
Each letter is an integer variable over the range 0 - 9.
Find the values of E, L, F, O.
After contemplating solving 4 equations in 4 unknowns, I decided
Like you, I searched in Yahoo! vain.
Also, like you, I use StockCharts for A/D info.
ReefBreak
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, garrybartsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use Yahoo for EOD data. I am searching for a symbol for NYSE and
NADAQ Advance/Decline issues. So far I have not been
What you need to do is to create in your mind a model of how .afl
works. This can be done by reading the documentation supplied with
the software, and watching the tutorials on the website. Once this is
done it will be easy to create code to do the things you want.
You might think how do I
Select Yahoo! Current from Source: in AmiQuote.
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Vinay Gakkhar. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I download delayed intraday data from Yahoo Finance direct
into Amibroker?
Thanks for the guidance.
gakkhar
Linear Regression indicator is used to smooth the price data -
similar to MA, EMA, DEMA, JMA and many others. LR has its own
advantages and disadvantages of lag, noise reduction and smoothing.
Using the same mathematical technology you can do a best fit to
basically any equation - linear,
There are probably more clever ways to do this, but the loop below
generates an array X = 1, 2, 3 . . .
// Create/Load the X (day bars) data array;
X[0]= 0.00;
for ( i = 1; i SlowPers; i++ ) // Create largest array needed -
SlowPers;
{
X[i] = X[i-1] + 1.00 ;
}
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You might consider taking a list of stocks with strong fundamentals
and applying your favorite technical indicators to the list. Say for
example use the 100 ValueLine #1 rated stocks with your favorite
moving averages to signal entries and exits.
Works for me
ReefBreak
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I had eSig for real time and Yahoo! for EOD. The way I got things to
work the best was to have 2 separate databases. I think theoretically
you can mix the two, but I constantly had difficulties until I
separated them.
I now have 2 DB's - IB for RT and Yahoo for EOD - all is good.
Ed Hoopes
There are Closed End Funds that pay dividends monthly that I use.
Look in etfconnect.com or dividenddetective.com for ideas. You are of
course exposed to share price changes that can easily swamp any
dividend income you may receive.
IB itself has a Notes program (that I'm not supposed to
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