[amibroker] Primary Zero indicator

2009-08-18 Thread Carl Vanhaes
I am trying to find out the formula of the primary zero indicator, which seems to pinpoint reversal in intraday with terrific accuracy. I have no idea if this indicator is proprietary or not as there is no way to email the blog owner: http://evilspeculator.com/ Has anyone had a chance to test

[amibroker] Scaling on prices, not lines and indicators

2009-06-24 Thread Carl Vanhaes
Hello, Struggling with something probably simple to set up, but I failed so far: I use to plot the daily pivots (R1...R4, and S1..S4) on my intraday 5' charts and have the problem that the chart will scale on those pivots lines, which are sometimes very far from the recent intraday history,

[amibroker] ZN9 (FTSE futures) symbol from IB: prices are divided by 100

2009-06-01 Thread Carl Vanhaes
I didn't get any answer from the group and the support couldn't resolve the issue (they said it was IB problem): anyone else trading this symbol and having the same problem: all history prices are divided by 100 except the last bar...so impossible to chart this..? Thanks, Carl

[amibroker] Problem with decimal and FTSE futures Z symbol from IB

2009-05-27 Thread Carl Vanhaes
I have been charting this symbol without problem for months (ZM9-LIFFE-FUT-GBP) from IB, but now for some days instead of having the realr price charted, I have only a hundredth of the price. As I write this I for example have a price of 44.045 instead of 4404.5 !! I have deleted and

[amibroker] Weekly bar but not on Friday !

2009-05-22 Thread Carl Vanhaes
Hi, I think that with AFL it should be possible to chart a weekly bar with the possibility to choose the start/end of the bar, unlike most of the charting package that oblige the user to use Friday as the end of the weekly period. This is ridiculous especially when the week is only 4 days

[amibroker] Equity line from Account Manager

2009-05-18 Thread Carl Vanhaes
I am considering switching from excel to AB Account manager to log all my trades. I knew of the existence of account manager of course but never used it so far. Now I am at a loss: when you use account manager, is there any way to chart the equity line?? I haven't found this to be possible.

[amibroker] AFL for Vertical line

2009-03-17 Thread Carl Vanhaes
Sorry if this topic was already addressed or is in the help files but I couldn't find it. My question: how to code the plot of a vertical line in a AFL formula ?? Thank you for any help! Carl

[amibroker] System entry on current bar

2009-03-17 Thread Carl Vanhaes
I couldn't find where it was but am sure this was already addressed: how to code/backtest an entry signal in such a way that the entry is done on the current bar, and NOT the next bar? Also, how to code an exit at close on this same current bar?? Actually, I want to test an idea developed in SC

[amibroker] EOD Futures

2009-02-23 Thread Carl Vanhaes
I would like to download EOD continuous futures contracts for the major commodities. Can anyone tell me if there is a free/ or paying internet site available for doing so with Amiquote (like Yahoo for stocks) ? (Only EOD). Thank you for any advice here, Carl (I was using Pinnacle Data but

[amibroker] Industry sectors and groups

2009-02-20 Thread Carl Vanhaes
Few weeks ago someone was kind enough to make available to this community a new US stocks database file. I did the download and overwrite my current US database butnow I realize that most sectors and groups disappeared from my database. I have all the stocks but no sectors, groups, markets

[amibroker] Exploration with 2 time frames

2009-02-12 Thread Carl Vanhaes
Not sure this topic was addressed before. Because I like trade 2 different time frames (5 and 60 minutes)... I tried to create an exploration with same conditions to be tested (filtered) on 2 the different time frames but it gives inconsistent results and I can't fix it. Here is what I have (I

[amibroker] Broker and bank reliability: leave trading?

2009-02-09 Thread Carl Vanhaes
I know this might be judged as off topic, but I also know this is a general concern across all active traders nowadays: I am based in Europe and have a brokerage account at IB. I have no concern about IB reliability but they are only a broker. And my concern is the banks they use to store your

[amibroker] Forex Finam quotes

2009-01-30 Thread Carl Vanhaes
I am wondering if I am the only one to not get any new forex quotes from Finam using Amiquote: the last EOD quote has stopped at Jan 21 2009. Any advice??? Carl

[amibroker] IB Forex volume

2009-01-08 Thread Carl Vanhaes
Any idea why it is impossible to get volume information from IB interface; there IS however volume information delivered in TWS (bid size, ask size). With other interface like metaserver (no ad here) it is possible to retrieve this information in the quotes downloaded, but not in AB - I was

[amibroker] sorting exploration results

2009-01-05 Thread Carl Vanhaes
When viewing an exploration results you have the choice of sorting by clicking on a column ('ticker name, signal, date/time). When I choose date/time, whether it is ascending or descending, the sort-order is always set on the date first, then the symbol, then the time. Why not Data/time/

[amibroker] Re: Menu=window

2008-12-07 Thread Carl Vanhaes
access all windows by means of MDI tab. http://www.amibroker.com/guide/h_customizeui.html#MDITABS Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original Message - From: Carl Vanhaes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 5:40 PM Subject

[amibroker] Re: Menu=window

2008-12-07 Thread Carl Vanhaes
. There is NO LIMIT on number of windows ! You can open one hundred or more and you can access them all via MDI tabs. Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original Message - From: Carl Vanhaes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 2:12 PM

[amibroker] Menu=window

2008-12-06 Thread Carl Vanhaes
I don't think this topic was addressed already; if it was, I apologize. In version 5.20 rc1 there seems to be a limitation to 9 windows names that are displayed under Menu = Window, even when there are more windows actually opened in the workspace. Is that normal or am I missing something?

[amibroker] Indicator values linked across different charts

2008-11-24 Thread Carl Vanhaes
Today I had AB showing this strange behaviour and I am unable to explain it: When I change a parameter of, say, RSI in one chart and I click on the RSI area of another chart open in the same layout, the value of this RSI will change also to the same value as the other chart!! Could that be a

[amibroker] Re: Indicator values linked across different charts

2008-11-24 Thread Carl Vanhaes
) To create independent charts make sure you start new chart with File-New-BLANK chart Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original Message - From: Carl Vanhaes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November

[amibroker] Re: Indicator values linked across different charts

2008-11-24 Thread Carl Vanhaes
:-( --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Dennis Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl, If you set up your parameters with the defaults you want, then all new charts will start out with those defaults, but be independent to change them. BR, Dennis On Nov 24, 2008, at 10:00 AM, Carl Vanhaes wrote

[amibroker] Re: Indicator values linked across different charts

2008-11-24 Thread Carl Vanhaes
specific on the answer to your problem. BR, Dennis On Nov 24, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Carl Vanhaes wrote: Dennis, thanks but I must do something wrong: yes all charts start with those defaults parameters (and layout, sub-sheets, etc) but when I change a parameter in one of them all the other

[amibroker] Trend Determining System from Chaos

2008-10-31 Thread Carl Vanhaes
I read several articles on Aleksey Yudin system based on chaos theory and think that you might be interested by the link: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5282/is_20080401/ai_n25136953/pg _1?tag=artBody;col1 This system is explained by the author in along article but we are not given

[amibroker] MIDAS from TASC

2008-10-09 Thread Carl Vanhaes
Thomasz, Thank you for providing this useful code in TASC. It works well but however I had a question: in using the indicator on intraday charts (1 minute) I noticed that when you enter a date in the pameter it is actually taking the date - 1. Example: if I enter Oct 8, 2008, 18:26:00 it will

[amibroker] IB backfill: all my ticks disappeared...

2008-10-08 Thread Carl Vanhaes
I noticed a strange thing: for some days already I was surprised to see gaps in my data for the day before while I was pretty sure that the day before all data were recorded, tick after tick for the 20 symbols I am following from IB. I know it is not really tick-by-tick but rather 0.2/0.3

[amibroker] Help coding double bottom

2008-09-25 Thread Carl Vanhaes
Hi, I am still a newbie switching from easylanguage to AFL and am trying to plot double bottoms that are separated only by a few bars. Something must be wrong with my coding below because no signal is generated despite I can see those patterns on the charts. Basically the idea is: Price tries

[amibroker] Using different time frames as optimization parameters

2008-09-24 Thread Carl Vanhaes
Have you ever noticed that some systems work better on particular time frames whatever the optimization settings? For example system XYZ works perfectly on 5, 10 and 15 minutes charts for this particular symbol ABC, giving a high profit factor but then when tested on 30 minutes or higher time

[amibroker] Re: Backfill Interactive brokers; Duplicate ticker ID for API historical data query.

2008-09-24 Thread Carl Vanhaes
I got some good advices in this forum on how to avoid interruption on IB data filling; the best came from Tomasz: have your auto analysis window enabled with scan enabled (for any system) and on a time interval you choose according to backfill length. I run it every 15 minutes (and it takes 5

[amibroker] Plotting exit signal

2008-09-23 Thread Carl Vanhaes
Hi, I have been looking for days on how to do this and was wondering if someone could help: how to visualize on the chart an exit arrow ( thus, using plotshapes) when using a traling stop with Applystop... I tried to do this several times but no arrow on the chart! Thank you, Carl

[amibroker] Optimzing different on different time frames

2008-09-23 Thread Carl Vanhaes
Have you ever noticed that some systems work better on specific time frame whatever the optimization settings? Using TimeframeSet I was wondering if someone has tried to use different time frame as optimisation values, for example, optimize a given system on 5,10,15240 minutes using

[amibroker] Re: Plotting exit signal

2008-09-23 Thread Carl Vanhaes
/24/how-to-plot-a-trailing-stop- in-the-price-chart/ BR --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Carl Vanhaes carl.van@ wrote: Hi, I have been looking for days on how to do this and was wondering if someone could help: how to visualize on the chart an exit arrow ( thus, using plotshapes

[amibroker] Re: OHLC values in crosshair

2008-09-22 Thread Carl Vanhaes
({{NAME}} - {{INTERVAL}} {{DATE}} \nOp = %g \nHi = %g \nLo = %g {{VALUES}}, O, H, L ,C )); Best Regards --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Carl Vanhaes carl.van@ wrote: I am a newbie using 5.10 - my question will probably looks stupid but I couldn't find any answer, nor in user guide

[amibroker] Different tick count between AB and TS: which one is correct?

2008-09-19 Thread Carl Vanhaes
Hello, I switched to AB few days ago for several reasons, but mostly due to the slowness of my old tradestation 2000. I am happy I did and can only see benefits using AB (5.10). So now, during the passage time between TS towards AB (you know...re- writing all studies in AFL, it takes some

[amibroker] Re: New file uploaded to amibroker

2008-09-19 Thread Carl Vanhaes
Tomasz, Thank you for responding to my file upload; please see my post just after: yes I had read that IB streamin gdata are not tick-by-tick but rather 0.2-0.3 seconds. But I thought this was only true when you do a backfill, not when you had the quotes normally streaming. If however it is

[amibroker] Auto update very slow

2008-09-18 Thread Carl Vanhaes
Can you help me with the following: although I have a fast DSL connection it takes around 4 hours (!) to have my US stocks database updated (the one which comes by default with AB with around 8,000 stocks) updated with yahoo EOD. I am a new user (5.10) so I might be doing something wrong. The

[amibroker] Mixing intraday and EOD within same database

2008-09-16 Thread Carl Vanhaes
Hello, I carefully checked if this was already addressed in other posts and couldn't find it. Sorry if it was: I just purchased the professional pack and am impressed, coming from the old Tradestation (from the time of OmegaResearch... 2000), of the features and speed of the program. One

[amibroker] Re: Mixing intraday and EOD within same database

2008-09-16 Thread Carl Vanhaes
sure that symbols match). Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original Message - From: Carl Vanhaes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 1:32 PM Subject: [amibroker] Mixing intraday and EOD within same database Hello