[amibroker] How to trade from the charts

This blog has some AFL code that lets you place your trades right from the chart by clicking. There is also a video explaining how it works. It's worth checking out. It works with IBcontroller and Interactive Brokers. Here's the link http://blog.tipster.ca/p/tipster-trendlines-3.html

[amibroker] Re: Group Tickers in Yahoo

I > do a composite of the industry groups from my own database which is of course > the Yahoo Industry groups. > > Dick H > > --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "treatmentinprogress" wrote: > > > > Instead of doing the goups inside amibroker, I'd l

[amibroker] Re: Group Tickers in Yahoo

and not have to worry about keeping symbol lists up to date. To get the list I woul have to go through each 250+ group web pages and grab the symbol mamanually. Is there a better way? --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "treatmentinprogress" wrote: > > Instead of doing the goups

[amibroker] Group Tickers in Yahoo

Instead of doing the goups inside amibroker, I'd like to just download the group indexes from Yahoo. The tickers are something like this ^YHOh769 I can't seem to find a list anywhere, any help would be appreciated! Another Brian

[amibroker] Re: Managing multiple systems - alerts

hite boarded a bit of a pseudo > > code that might help anyone else (or myself when i have to come back > to > > it) who wants to explore this solution. > > > > > > In the individual system files add something like: > > > > --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, &q

[amibroker] Re: IB transferring time stamp for its realtime data now ?

If you still trade HSI, drop by the chat at blog.tipster.ca --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "itmwh" wrote: > > As IB did not transferring time stamp for its data previously, I have > been set up in Amibroker preferrence-intraday settings to make the > start time of the interval as the time st

[amibroker] Re: How to Generate Opposite Trade in Another Security?

If you still trade HSI drop by the chat at blog.tipster.ca --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "hf_thief" wrote: > > I am trying to back test two different futures simultaneously: HSI and HHI. > What I would like to do is generate the opposite signal for a security from > the signal for the other

[amibroker] Re: Managing multiple systems - alerts

another method is to send your signals to a staticvar, then read that from another afl. --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "gariki" wrote: > > hello folks, > > For single systems i am able to get intraday email alerts using alertif > by setting the system to scan every 10seconds or so. > > But

[amibroker] Re: BUG on Bad-Screen

In your plot formula dont use styleownscale, use stylenorescale The norescale will adjust the screen for price and not the MA good luck Another Brian blog.tipster.ca --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Yves wrote: > > Can you said to me, where is the BUG in the formula Below > > When I'm use it on

[amibroker] Database EOD values gone on Intraday backfill

I have a database that is populated by MSN for EOD values (forex). The symbol is EUR.USD-IDEALPRO-CASH, I use the symbol translation table in Amiquote to obtain the EOD data. In the database setting I have checked "allow mixed EOD/intraday". At this point I have years of EOD data for EUR.USD

[amibroker] Re: GOOGLE,YAHOO,MSN DATA

--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "raven4ns" wrote: > > Hello, > I currently use Yahoo data for stocks, mostly CDN but a few U.S. Is there > any difference between the 3 providers that anyone has noticed i.e. one is > better or offers a more complete list of securities? I have been trying to >

[amibroker] Re: HELP!anybody know this AFL formula?i've attach the picture of the chart,help pls

It looks like a moving average displayed with the staircase style

[amibroker] Re: Support Issues

How long until someone shows up with a pile of money and buys Ami all up and slaps a new name on it? Might be a good company to invest in I agree with those that state is is a supirior product. Isnt it strange how this inductry doesnt have real strong products like other industries... ie.

[amibroker] Re: Portfolio Manager ...

Has anyone tried the latest version of Quicken? I bet it doesnt connect to IB, but the portfolio tools look OK. If AB had a better portfolio page, they could also market it as a portfolio tracker and gain a whole new audience. BooYaa.

[amibroker] Re:Account Window - why?

Can anyone recommend a program that is easy to use, doesnt have all kinds of features that would duplicate the power of Amibroker, for tracking investments? Easy data input or import, ablce to auto update price data, draw equity curves, fugure out drawdown, etc. Covestor is a good online sys

[amibroker] Account Window - why?

I don't see a huge advantage in entering trades into the account window. Given amibroker is such a great program, I assume I'm missing something on the funtionality of this component. 1. Why would I want to use this feature as opposed to use another program more suited to tracking trades? 2

[amibroker] Re: Help with trading system

So what are you looking for? code suggestions or a coder to do this for you? Are you coding this yourself? It's not a 5 minute job to do all these things! --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "pstaffieri" wrote: > > Require a system that is user friendly where I can load on a nightly basis > th

[amibroker] Re: see trendlines

If your using horizontal trendlines its pretty eay. Save the value of the trendline as a static variable and then access the variable fron the other chart. I did this before using the tipster trendlines code that allows trading right from the amibroker chart. I place order on one pane but I w

[amibroker] Placing trades in Amibroker / TWS video

I really like the idea of trading from the Amibroker chart, click and send orders to TWS. Placing trades in Amibroker reduces entry errors and makes trading easier. This video shows off trading from the charts. http://vimeo.com/4142813 Does anyone else do something like this?

[amibroker] Re: from where can i get download us dollar index historical eod data

I might be available on MSN. Try this link for starters and then adapt for the symbol you want. This blog link explains how to get all kinds of forex pairs into ami using MSN. http://blog.tipster.ca/2007/12/how-to-get-forex-quotes-from-msn-into.html --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "v_patel8

[amibroker] Order2GoDDE

Does anyone else use, or have ever tried the Order2GoDE app that lets you get tick data from FXCM into Amibroker? Has anyone built an interface to be able to trade from Amibroker to FXCM? Brian

[amibroker] Re: Yahoo 'Web Beacons'

Seriously, I don't care if they track my visits, as long as they don't take usernames and passwords I dont give a rats ass if they follow me around. BUT, google sounds better from the descriptions provided by others. Another Brian --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Richard Dale wrote: > > The

[amibroker] Re: Google Finance

Thanks Lester. I read up on the datat provider. Can you download a few years of data for all exchanges or is it downloadable by day only? (or long history per symbol?) --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Lester Vanhoff wrote: > > > I dont need all the symbols, only the ones that have volume

[amibroker] Re: Google Finance

No need to pay for TSE data, I dont need all the symbols, only the ones that have volume. CA:SYM works fine but works very "strange" If you enter "CA:BMO" in amibroker and then do an autodownload with AQ, notice a new symbol is created in AB, "CA_BMO". The download works, but all the data goes

[amibroker] Re: Google Finance

29" wrote: > > http://finance.google.ca > Use the same .TO suffix as Yahoo, eg BMO.TO > -HHP > = > > --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "treatmentinprogress" > wrote: > > > > Has anyone been able to get TSX data from Google f

[amibroker] Google Finance

Has anyone been able to get TSX data from Google finance using Amiquote? It seems to only give me US data. If I use any exchange it returns an error.

[amibroker] Re: Rounding a number to the quarter point

ibroker.com > - Original Message - > From: "treatmentinprogress" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:41 PM > Subject: [amibroker] Rounding a number to the quarter point > > > >I need to round a number to the nearest quarter point. >

[amibroker] Rounding a number to the quarter point

I need to round a number to the nearest quarter point. Examples 100.02 to 100.00 (or 100.25) 100.79 to 100.75 (or 101.00) 100.24 to 100.25 (or 100.00 Rounding up or down doesn't matter much for my application, just needs to be to the nearest quarter point. I'm looking for the smallest amount o

[amibroker] Trading from the chart

If you want to trade from the chart, here is a link to some code http://blog.tipster.ca/2008/08/tipster-trendlines.html

[amibroker] Re: Interactive Brokers issues - anybody else having them?

So is there a fix yet? I'm using TWS 885.2, should I roll back? To what version, what works? Brian --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "murthysuresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i am not sure why this has to be any differnt from your other > upgrades. each upgrade that you produce will be com

[amibroker] Re: Two lines with the same Study ID - help needed

Let me re-phrase I draw two horizontal lines on a chart. Using params window I assign the same study ID name to both. Is there a way to catch this error in AFL? Brian --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "treatmentinprogress" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you draw

[amibroker] Real time vs historical symbols

Hi all; I trade the TSX, the symbols from yahoo are, for example, BWR.TO To look at the intraday data I'm currently adding another symbol BWR- TSE for IB's data feed. Is there any easier way, so I can drill down with the same ticker, and not have to add an additional ticker for intraday on top

[amibroker] Two lines with the same Study ID

If you draw a trendline on a chart and use something like Line = Study ("AA", GetChartID()) to get the value of the line, then draw another line (by mistake becasue the first line is off the viewable area), is there any way to determine this potential error? Amibroker seems to use the value fr

[amibroker] Placing trades automatically with trendlines

Here's a video that shows how you can use trendlines to enter your trades into TWS to help eliminate input errors. I know I have personally entered orders wrong it it has cost $$, like entering LMT instead of a BuyStop order, OUCH! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5FhxcxwZ9A Cheers

[amibroker] Re: Help With Study ID.

Your reading the old help file. New(er) syntax includes the chartID re = Study("RE", GetChartID() ); --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Mohammed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I draw my trend lien over the chart and assigned study ID "RE" for it. > then I wrote this code: >

[amibroker] Re: Persistent variables

data. If it is just logging, > then perhaps a single file. If you want to do a lot of sorting and > searching, then perhaps one file. If you just want random access to > any one entry, then perhaps individual files. > > BR, > Dennis > > > On Jul 26, 2008, a

[amibroker] Persistent variables

This is a fantastic post: http://www.amibroker.org/userkb/2007/04/24/persistent-variables/ I'm about to embark on storing the orderid's in a file. I have two basic questions / assumptions before I begin. what are the advantages/disadvantages to using a single file with a list of orderid's rathe

[amibroker] Re: live quotes API

go to amibroker.org\userkb and search for data providers, I recall seeing something there Another Brian blog.tipster.ca --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "reydontrader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > anyone has ideas where I can get live quotes for Singapore market? > There are live ch

[amibroker] Re: Can't Backfill IB Data on Monday while Could Last Friday

I have the same issue Using IB plugin version 1.7.1 TWS 885 also tried it with TWS 884 Help!! Another Brian --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Tomasz Janeczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you using latest IB plugin (i.e. version 1.7.1) ? > > Best regards, > Tomasz Janeczko > amibroke

[amibroker] WriteIf Question

Here's the code; LS = WriteIf(Buy, "L", WriteIf(Short, "S", "Err")); AddTextColumn( LS, "L/S",1 , colorBlack, IIf(Buy, colorGreen, IIf (Short, colorRed, colorGrey50)), -1 ); When I run in explorer, all I get are "Err" showing up in the coloumns. The help says "Please note that WriteIf returns ju

[amibroker] What's wrong with this BUYSTOP order

Sunday night, I'm trying to place a buystop bracket order on the paper account. It won't let me do it. I have enabled "outside of amrket hours" and even tried it with forex live. I haven't tried it with my real account, could this be the problem? I belive buystop bracket orders are allowed as

[amibroker] Re: Does any traders live in Eastern Ontario Canada?

Mississauga Cheers, Another Brian blog.tipster.ca --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Rick Osborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oshawa > > > Best Regards > Rick Osborn > > > > - Original Message > From: dclarc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday,

[amibroker] Equivolume

Now that low level graphics are available, are equivolume charts possible? Another Brian blog . tipster . ca

[amibroker] Re: Anyone can feed the data from InteractiveBrokers?

It works for me now, but I still get the "duplicate ticker" error sometimes. Is there anyway to keep the plugin balloon from popping up? Or at least put a little "x" in the corner so you can quickly close it? --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Tomasz Janeczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > H

[amibroker] Re: Anyone can feed the data from InteractiveBrokers?

Yes. I'm not sure if it is IB or the plug-in, I havent spend much time figurng it our yet, but since the update, things have changed. --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "secshooter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My Amibroker used to get the data from InteractiverBrokers well. > Currently it can

[amibroker] Conditional Orders

I have been using the StudyID function to place buyorders with IBController to TWS, but what I really want is to place a buystop order. I set up my entry by placing the horizontal line, set up the target and the stop in the same way. Then I initiate the order into TWS but do not transmit. I

[amibroker] Alias

In the symbol information window there is a filed called "alias". The help states that this can be used if two data sources are used. It also talks about alias when merging symbols. Can someone elaborate on this (two data sources) and explian what the typical use for would be for this field?

[amibroker] Re: Any successfull Forex traders out there?

If you want to learn about price action, I suggest watching vidoes on Alphatrends.blogspot.com. Go back in the archives to May 2006 when he started doing videos and presented ideas. He also has a book out for sale. I bet you would get a bigger response if you asked "any unsuccessful forex tra

[amibroker] Re: plugin status

Why not use windows task scheduler

[amibroker] Re: RemBuy dll

The file is gone from the file section. The function is "scRemBuyTrail" and the dll is called rem.dll. What happened to it? Does anyone else use this? Should I stop using this? --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "treatmentinprogress" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[amibroker] RemBuy dll

I have been using the REM dll in my code, I'm wondering if anyone else uses it? Do you find it stable with no bugs? Why would you use this dll over the applystop? Brian

[amibroker] Re: Using #include but not wanting those indicator's PLOT

Put the plot in a param statement. On tha main tab that has the #include, toggle the plots off vis the param window. Then have the include code on a seperate tab (bottom tabs) and toggle the plots off for that window. That way you can easiliy access the code to change it if you need to. Ano

[amibroker] Re: Listen to the sound

I don't think I asked the question right. Let me start again. I am proposposing to turn the actual price movement on the chart into a tone that comes out of your computer speakers. Price rises, the zone rises. Price falls and so does the tone. Charts can be very complex, and it takes time

[amibroker] Re: Problem for amiquote downloading EOD data from MSN

I have not had this problem. Check this out for reference http://blog.tipster.ca/2007/12/how-to-get-forex-quotes-from-msn- into.html --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "wielor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone has the same problem? Amiquote could not download the EOD data > from msn which sh

[amibroker] Re: What after optimization is done ...

Go to my blog and read about it in some of the early posts.. I have a link to a couple of movies that should help you with optimization. tsxtrends.blogspot.com

[amibroker] Re: Does anyone care to port this indicator?

I have figured out most of this, but anyone know what this is " _fPushPeriods(xInterval); " brian --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "treatmentinprogress" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your error is your using code for TradeStation, and loading it into

[amibroker] Re: mirror image of charts

In the interest of learning all that I can, why would you want to do this? --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "carlacash26" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > YES!! This does exactly what I want! > Thanks ChrisB and gp_sydney for your help! > > > --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, ChrisB wrote: > >

[amibroker] Re: Does anyone care to port this indicator?

Your error is your using code for TradeStation, and loading it into AmiBroker. Any more questions? --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "protraderinc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I try loading it and it shows error? Where is my mistake? > > plot2(PushHigh, "PushHigh", HighColor); > __SECTION_EN

[amibroker] Re: Does anyone care to port this indicator?

I'll give it a try. --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "nikkunayar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi guys > > Here's something from Elite Trader that someone here would be > interested in, I'm sure of it. Problem is, it's in Easy Language Code > (That's the TradeStation code, right?), and I

[amibroker] Re: Modify a transmitted order: IB autotrade interface

d be of general interest to users of > IBcontroller > > > Joseph Biran > > > -Original Message- > From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of treatmentinprogress > Sent: Tuesday, September

[amibroker] Re: Modify a transmitted order: IB autotrade interface

I'm about to embark on the same mission. My question goes a little further as I also want to update the target LMT order. I'm going to try a ModifyOrder call, it looks like both stop and limit prices can be on the same line. I haven't tried it yet. I have not been able to find sample code e

[amibroker] IB Controller & time frame

I am attempting to use the IB Controller. I have a question that doesn't seem to be co=vered by the documentation. The buy sell signals are different depending on the time frame I am viewing. If I do not set the timeframe in the code, what time frame is the AFL using for the buy/sell? Is i