[amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-14 Thread Angelo
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, scourt2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tomasz, Just because I store large amounts of data in one file (aka, a symbol), it doesn't mean that Amibroker has to process all of that data. Take the example of sqlite, the free database stores all of its

Re: [amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-14 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
I wrote you already: there is NO hard limit. You can set to ANY value you want and your computer can handle. The limit is the HARDWARE you have (actually RAM amount). And I told you - it costs $4800 if you want to have it implemented your way. If you want to pay for custom programming we can

Re: [AmiBroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-13 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
That's special price for AmiBroker users :-) Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original Message - From: Don Lindberg To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:37 AM Subject: RE: [AmiBroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars

[amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-13 Thread murthysuresh
Tomasz Dollars and cents aside, i would like to understand the criteria that is used in the data that would be purged. Here is the case that i am trying to understand. My AB has # o fbars 5 in base interval 1 minute The data feed comign in is a tick level data feed. Questions are 1. Does AB

Re: [amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-13 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Hello, 1. Data are stored internally and externally in the base interval you specify in the Database Settings. If you have chosen 1-minute - it will be 1-minute, if tick - tick. So whatever you choose - it is used. 2. Yes it uses FIFO. Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original

[amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-12 Thread scourt2000
And this is my biggest pet peeve about Amibroker: If I have the disk space available, Amibroker should never, ever, EVER just silently blow away my historical data because of some arbitrary system limit like 500,000 bars or 1,000,000. If I want 20 million bars historical and I have the disk

[amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-12 Thread r7investment
scourt2000, Do you ever try to import all of your 5 seconds data? I have few years of forex tick data and for example I was able to import a currency pair including 6 million of lines without any problem into AB with ascii importer. So, simply try it... R. --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-12 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Hello, Why don't you move to Metastock that has 65000 bar limit ? The truth is that AmiBroker is the most capable in this area because it stores way more data than other softwares. Also, by changing the registry limit you can set it to any value you need. The limit is not the software but the

Re: [amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-12 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Exactly. It simply works - no hard coded limit, the only limit is your hardware (the memory you have on your system). With 64 bit version the limit is 1024 Gigabytes of RAM (Windows x64 limitation). The default 50 is to protect AB from the beginners trying to enter some absurd numbers in

[amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-12 Thread scourt2000
Tomasz, Just because I store large amounts of data in one file (aka, a symbol), it doesn't mean that Amibroker has to process all of that data. Take the example of sqlite, the free database stores all of its information in one file but users don't process all of that data just because it's in

[amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-12 Thread scourt2000
Sure, I can import whatever I want into one symbol file. But I do this up to a point just so Amibroker doesn't replace my old data with new data coming in. What I have to do is chop up my big symbol data (like tick files) into much smaller files so Amibroker can handle the processing of the

Re: [amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-12 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
E-minis are future contracts. They have less than one year of history and only 3 months of high activity per each, so you don't need to store *years* of data even if you store in tick frequency. If you want to backtest e-mini strategy you should switch between contracts as you do in real life as

Re: [amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-12 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
This isn't even a major change. It just removes the direct relationship of per symbol data on disk to the amount of symbol data Amibroker processes. I will tell you something: you have NO idea, absolutely NO IDEA, if it is major change or not. As far as AmiBroker internals are considered

[amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-12 Thread eric tao
$60/hours, Good to know :) --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Tomasz Janeczko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't even a major change. It just removes the direct relationship of per symbol data on disk to the amount of symbol data Amibroker processes. I will tell you something: you have

RE: [AmiBroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-12 Thread Don Lindberg
Tomasz, Your to cheap. Programming consultants are in the $80 - $100 hr range! Donald F Lindberg _ From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of eric tao Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 8:55 PM To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re: Is

Re: [amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-11 Thread Keith McCombs
Alex -- Thanks to Who for What? Whey not include the rest of the thread? -- Keith dralexchambers wrote: Great - thanks! Alex

Re: [amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-11 Thread Ara Kaloustian
You can have as much as you want, but performance degrades. - Original Message - From: Keith McCombs To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database? Alex

Re: [amibroker] Re: Is 500,000 the maximum number of bars allowable in a database?

2007-09-11 Thread Graham
I believe the database limit is set to 500,000 but can be changed in the windows registry. TJ has mentioned this in a previous post here, somewhere sometime. -- Cheers Graham Kav AFL Writing Service http://www.aflwriting.com On 12/09/2007, Ara Kaloustian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can