Re: [amibroker] VM Fusion

2010-07-14 Thread Kevin Richards
Take a look at bootcamp. It might work. --- On Fri, 3/5/10, drkbrown55 wrote: From: drkbrown55 Subject: [amibroker] VM Fusion To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, March 5, 2010, 8:39 PM   Can some kind soul please tell me if it is possible to run Amibroker in Windows7/VM fusion o

OFFLIST: Re: [amibroker] drag percent calculator

2010-01-08 Thread Kevin Ash
Thanks, Prashanth! That's perfect! Kevin On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Prashanth wrote: > > > Draw a Trendline. Hover your mouse over the same and it shall give you the > percent btw the two points that have been marked. > > Cheers > > Prashanth > > -

[amibroker] drag percent calculator

2010-01-07 Thread Kevin Ash
lar to the Fibonacci tool, but instead of showing the 0-100% range, it just tells me the % difference between the mouse down and mouse up value on the y-axis. Thanks! Kevin

Re: [amibroker] Re: Recommendation for Intraday Data source?

2010-01-07 Thread Kevin Ash
If you're able to maintain the intraday data going forward, you could order the historical intraday data from disktrading.com and merge them together. NinjaTrader will do this. Not sure about AB. As far as I know, disktrading provides just futures or forex, but you would get the ES data you're l

[amibroker] When I should put "buy = 0" in scan mode

2010-01-02 Thread Kevin
mode. At last, it said it is now allowed to join scan and indicator into single formula. What does it really mean ? Thank you. Kevin

[amibroker] what's different between graphN, plot or plotforeign

2010-01-02 Thread Kevin
ot;,"I"); Buy = 0; Graph0 = Foreign("~compMyIndex", "Close") / Foreign("~compMyIndex", "I"); PlotForeign("11", "Market Index", colorBlue, styleLine|styleOwnScale); thanks. Kevin

Re: [amibroker] Re: Force BackFill

2009-12-30 Thread Kevin Kee
I have been having this problem too with eSignal feed on AB.  But this strangely only happens to futures like QM, YM but not stocks nor forex.  So I have to use force backfill to get an update only on futures.    All charts including futures, however, are okay on eSignal native application. ---

Re: [amibroker] Re: Telechart vs Norgate

2009-12-28 Thread Kevin Campbell
th logically and economically. > > > > >____ >From: "kevin...@aol.com" >To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com >Sent: Mon, December 28, 2009 10:00:15 PM >Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Telechart vs Norgate > >  >Don't you ag

[amibroker] Re: what's different n last quotations and days

2009-12-23 Thread Kevin
"data bar", it can be one minute, one hour, one > month, one day, one week (depending on periodicity). 'Day' on the other > hand is always calendar day. > > > Best regards, > Tomasz Janeczko > amibroker.com > > On 2009-12-21 16:31, Kevin wrote

[amibroker] what's different n last quotations and days

2009-12-22 Thread Kevin
Hi guys, I am a newbie of Amibroker. I found Amibroker was very powerful. I confuse what's different between n last quotations and days in Automatic Analysis window. What does "Quatation" stand for in Amibroker. Is it the same meaning of working day ? thank you very much !

Re: [amibroker] Esignal Data Problem

2009-10-16 Thread Kevin Kee
me to get an update every few minutes. This is still far from ideal of course, but it's better than no data at all. I would be interested to hear if you have found a solution. Thanks. Kevin --- On Fri, 10/16/09, nx.trader wrote: > From: nx.trader > Subject: [amibroker] Esignal D

Re: [amibroker] Re: Illegal copies of BETA versions seen on Internet

2009-09-15 Thread Kevin Richards
It could also be unintentional as somebody's system might have got hacked into. --- On Sun, 9/13/09, sidhartha70 wrote: From: sidhartha70 Subject: [amibroker] Re: Illegal copies of BETA versions seen on Internet To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 6:51 PM   So

Re: [amibroker] Alert on trend line

2009-09-02 Thread Kevin Kee
You can assign a name to the trendline using Study(), then use Alertif(Cross()) to give you an alert when the trendline is crossed. It is in fact in the user guide. Kevin --- On Thu, 9/3/09, cvanhaesendonck wrote: > From: cvanhaesendonck > Subject: [amibroker] Alert on trend lin

[amibroker] Re: Charting spreads using custom symbols / OHLC candlesticks

2008-10-21 Thread Kevin
Another variation offered as an example below. It just plots the selected symbol UNTIL you right-click and change the parameters to enter a Foreign symbol and the number of shares of each: _SECTION_BEGIN("ForeignSpreadRatios"); ticker = ParamStr( "Foreign Symbol?" , Name() ); selected = Name();

[amibroker] Re: AFL code question

2008-10-19 Thread Kevin
ade AND Ref(intrade,-1) ==0,ai,1); // this will give you the arrayindex value of the Buy Signal. BuyHigh = High[ buysignal[ai] ]; --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any help for this novice, regarding Ara's code example? > I get th

[amibroker] Re: Stochastics help needed

2008-10-17 Thread Kevin
> I am confused -- why do you have the blue stochastic line code SK3 and SD3 when the other two are SK3 and SD1?  Wht advantage do you feel there is to setting the third line different in this respect? >   > Judith > - Original Message > From: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

[amibroker] Re: Stochastics help needed

2008-10-17 Thread Kevin
om, ohneclue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am confused -- why do you have the blue stochastic line code SK3 and SD3 when the other two are SK3 and SD1?  Wht advantage do you feel there is to setting the third line different in this respect? >   > Judith > - Original

[amibroker] Re: Stochastics help needed

2008-10-17 Thread Kevin
/* DarkYellow – Stochastic – Period 7 :SK 3: SD 1 – Simple Green – Stochastic – Period 5 :SK 3: SD 1 - Expotential Blue – Stochastic – Period 17 :SK 3: SD 3 - Expotential */ STOCH1 = MA( StochD( 7 , 3 , 1 ) , 1 ); STOCH2 = EMA( StochD( 5 , 3 , 1 ) , 1 ); STOCH3 = EMA( StochD( 17 , 3 , 3 ) , 1 );

[amibroker] Re: AFL Puzzle

2008-10-17 Thread Kevin
>From AmiBroker help file: Tomasz Janeczko tj --at-- amibroker.com 2004-07-23 07:07:29 When QuickAFL is ON, the BarIndex() may not be equal with array item index. Actual array item corresponding to bar index can be found this way: bi = BarIndex(); arrayitem = SelectedValue( bi ) - bi[ 0 ]; "Cl

[amibroker] Re: Function Performance Pattern

2008-10-16 Thread Kevin
Missing brackets for the array references, maybe? TitlePP[0]+TitlePP[1]+TitlePP[2] --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "monriri2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With the follow function I try to test performance pattern for 3/5 > and 8 periodes to obtain something like this for example: > > #pat

[amibroker] Re: AFL code question

2008-10-16 Thread Kevin
Any help for this novice, regarding Ara's code example? I get the following error and am not yet equipped to determine the "why". THX in advance: Ln: 11, Col: 25 : Error 9. Array subscript has to be a number //Barry's example buy/sell conditions fMA = MA(C, 4); Buy = fMA > Ref(fMA, -1); Sell =

[amibroker] Re: Fourier Transforms

2008-03-12 Thread McKiou, Kevin W (Kevin)
Renuka, This is the best reference I have found. Read this chapter (8) carefully. It will give you the basic algorithms in text and code form. It's not as hard as you might think. http://www.dspguide.com/ch8.htm I am not sure how I will use it, but it certainly is interesting. -

Re: [amibroker] Re: Help With Percentiles

2007-09-29 Thread Kevin Glenn
Almost...what I really want to plot/determine is the percentile itself (i.e. somewhere between 0 and 1) not what the percentile value is equal too. For example if 999 was in the 99th percentile the plot would be .99 not 999. The cum function definitely captures the total array part. If I coul

Re: [amibroker] IB Back fill errors

2007-09-10 Thread Kevin Glenn
Also having similar problems...and I haven't had them before. - Original Message From: Barry Scarborough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:25:13 PM Subject: [amibroker] IB Back fill errors Today I started ha

Re: [amibroker] Re: Ideas for Swing Trading?

2007-05-29 Thread Kevin Glenn
What is this 1% per day system based on? - Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. Check it out.

Re: [amibroker] V 4.96 Data Download Problem?

2007-05-25 Thread Kevin Glenn
I have the plug in but I don't use it...just MSN and Yahoo. - Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A.

Re: [amibroker] V 4.96 Data Download Problem?

2007-05-25 Thread Kevin Glenn
Here's what I have...changes required or might it be something else? # AmiQuote historical quotes download format (.AQH extension) $FORMAT Date_DMY,Open,High,Low,Close,Volume,AdjClose $SKIPLINES 0 $BREAKONERR 0 $SEPARATOR , $DEBUG 1 $AUTOADD 1 $CONT 1 $GROUP 254 $VOLFACTOR 0.01 # the following sw

Re: [amibroker] Re: Backtest: specifying position size in terms of compounded capital c,ount

2007-05-10 Thread Kevin Glenn
I'll give that one a shot and see if it works...now for a really simple question that I am unable to find an answer to looking through the documentation. If I'm using the plotshapes function and I want to highlight something that happened two bars ago (i.e. I know it happened two bars ago but o

Re: [amibroker] Re: Backtest: specifying position size in terms of compounded capital c,ount

2007-05-08 Thread Kevin Glenn
Can I add on to this question please? If you are for backtesting in futures mode with the following parameters using NQ as an example; Margin = 3750 Tick size = .25 Points = x20 Equity = 100,000 Position Risk = 1% of equity/$1000 Points between buy and stop = 10 pts/$200 per contract at risk Th

Re: [amibroker] Re: Zweig 4% Rule/System

2007-04-07 Thread Kevin Glenn
Did anyone ever get the code for this one figured out? The formulas suggested were definitely wrong. Essentially you are looking for a 4% reversal. Thus, you go back to the nearest low and if the close > than the nearest low + 1.04% you go long. - Don't pick

RE: [amibroker] IB TICK and TRIN Symbols

2007-02-21 Thread Kevin Glenn
Thanks Dave! - Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on Yahoo! Answers.

Re: [amibroker] Pairs Trading Backtesting - Help!

2007-01-15 Thread Kevin Glenn
Figuring out the spread is not my problem...backtesting two securities simultaneously is. For example, I'd like the backtest results to combine the results of being short in one security, long the other and then what the gain/loss was for each when you reverse the pair.