RE: [amibroker] Trading Days V Calendar Days

2006-10-31 Thread Terry
I believe in File-Database Settings you can uncheck Filter Weekends. Try it and see. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bruiserbbq Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 19:24 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker

RE: [amibroker] counting consecutive up or down days

2006-10-28 Thread Terry
// Consecutive up AND down bars ConsecUp = BarsSince(C = Ref(C,-1)); ConsecDn = BarsSince(C = Ref(C,-1)); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eugene Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 23:48 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject

RE: [amibroker] Re: TJ: TASC Update request for AB Members Zone

2006-10-28 Thread Terry
Wow! Scroll to the top and just look at how much code it takes for the other guys (TradeStation, eSignal, etc.) to accomplish the same task that Tomasz did in less than 30 lines of code. -- Terry Jim, You can get the TASC November 2006 code at: http://www.traders.com

RE: [amibroker] HOW TO CONNECT HISTORICAL DATA TO AMIBROKER

2006-10-23 Thread Terry
do. Sorry, but I just hate trying to read cryptic shorthand. Some shorthand for you: RTFM b4 riting to ths brd ;-) -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of manimagar1 Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 08:33 To: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] backtesting contracts

2006-10-23 Thread Terry
; TickSize = 0.01; MarginDeposit = LastValue(C);} //let's stocks go thru (more or less) /* What I would change above is add/substitute if tests for a DateNum() or Year() so: if (Year() 1960) set those values; else if (Year() 1970) set those values; etc. */ -- Terry -Original Message

RE: [amibroker] Help understanding Arrays

2006-10-15 Thread Terry
Good idea. When you figure out how to do that real-time, I would appreciate seeing the code ;-) -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of laster Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 07:08 To: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] auto-saving *anything*???

2006-10-15 Thread Terry
TJ, ...please be patient and wait for next beta that will have it fixed. That's all I was looking for :-) -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomasz Janeczko Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 02:53 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com

RE: [amibroker] Help understanding Arrays

2006-10-15 Thread Terry
/A for subsequent use in Sell, Short, Cover, Plot statements, etc. md = MACD(12,26); sig = Signal(9); Buy = Cross( md, sig ); As for Buy is an array, I already noted Fred's original statement Buy is a light switch, either 0 or 1. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] What Amibroker is capable of..

2006-10-15 Thread Terry
Excel before Amibroker and it has it's benefits, but I haven't touched Excel (for stock analysis) in nearly two years except as a means to transport signals around and test them in AB. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jlami11

RE: [amibroker] Help understanding Arrays

2006-10-14 Thread Terry
, this is technically incorrect because, as Fred said, Buy is a light switch, either 0 or 1. This sets Buy to the High. However it still works because Amibroker treats ANY NON-ZERO Number as true, even a negative one. PS: I hope you are taking Fred's advice about not buying at the high ;-) -- Terry

RE: [amibroker] Re: ExRem and Short/Cover

2006-10-13 Thread Terry
I agree with Graham and the Equity function removes excess signals as does ExRem with the added benefit of not changing the values of your Sell/Cover signals (ExRem makes them all 1's whereas as StopLoss == 2, a profitStop == 3, etc). -- Terry -Original Message- From

RE: [amibroker] Re: Overlay price chart of second symbol

2006-10-13 Thread Terry
. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wlandry01 Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 19:10 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re: Overlay price chart of second symbol Tomasz, Can the Relative Performance Chart be used

RE: [amibroker] ExRem and Short/Cover

2006-10-12 Thread Terry
signals Sell = ExRem(Sell,Buy); //Removes redundant Sell signals. Do the same for Short,Cover -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles J. Dudek Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 14:44 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject

RE: [amibroker] Title= question

2006-10-10 Thread Terry
); Plot(m = MA(C,20),MA,2); Title = Close:\t\t + C + \nMA\t\t + m + \n{{VALUES}}\t{{DATE}}; -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris DePuy Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 23:00 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re

RE: [amibroker] Title= question

2006-10-09 Thread Terry
Title is just a variable so, Title = Title + new stuff; -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris DePuy Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 16:24 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Still Looking for Help with Intraday Bars

2006-10-09 Thread Terry
OR TimeNum() == closingTime + 1500; Jumpin = TimeNum() == closingTime OR TimeNum() == closingTime + 1500; . . . Plot(myClose,,colorBlack,styleHistogram+styleDashed+styleOwnScale); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf

RE: [amibroker] Still Looking for Help with Intraday Bars

2006-10-09 Thread Terry
OR TimeNum() == closingTime + 1500; Jumpin = TimeNum() == closingTime OR TimeNum() == closingTime + 1500; . . . Plot(myClose,,colorBlack,styleHistogram+styleDashed+styleOwnScale); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf

RE: [amibroker] List of issues

2006-10-08 Thread Terry
This is not the support channel and it won't do any good to report these things here. You should report problems here instead: http://www.amibroker.com/feedback/index.php -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com

RE: [amibroker] Ed Seykota's TSP: Support and Resistance

2006-10-08 Thread Terry
Mark, Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. All straightened out now J Sounds like it was a useful exercise for you and should be for anyone else wanting to delve into lower level code. Regards, -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] barssince question

2006-10-06 Thread Terry
You are computing an array, which is what usually happens so just use LastValue(Array); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris DePuy Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 12:28 To: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Composite Calculations - help

2006-10-04 Thread Terry
You might try using a different variable for list since you have it both as a numeric, then you assign a string to it. This may or may not be causing problems, but I'm guessing it is. list==10; Comp =SP-500; list = CategoryGetSymbols( categoryWatchlist, list ); -- Terry

RE: [amibroker] Re: Profit stops with loop - not working as it should

2006-10-03 Thread Terry
to fiddle with the settings in AA so they don't over-ride what you think you are doing. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of onelkm Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 06:35 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re: Profit

RE: [amibroker] Re: Actaully trading a system

2006-10-02 Thread Terry
. If you're trading something index based, consider e-mini futures contracts. You can get your index based signal at the close and the futures trade until 4:15. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of petler1 Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006

RE: [amibroker] Re: Actaully trading a system

2006-10-02 Thread Terry
I use Interactive Broker's OPG time-in-force order, not market or limit. It gets you the open price of the stock remarkably accurately. It must be in-place before the market opens. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of petler1

RE: [amibroker] Re: Actaully trading a system

2006-10-02 Thread Terry
It's hard to find. You have to activate this feature and it's buried in the Preferences (which they don't call preferences). I'd tell you, but my TWS is shutdown right now. Write back if you can't find it. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [amibroker] Needs some help backtesting a 5min futures system

2006-10-02 Thread Terry
will be trading at next bar open). You can do this in code: SetTradeDelays(1,1,1,1); BuyPrice = SellPrice = ShortPrice = CoverPrice = O; There are other things you can/should set in code too. Check SetOptions in the HELP section. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com

RE: [amibroker] Profit stops with loop - not working as it should

2006-10-02 Thread Terry
to go through so the above (partial) analysis may be off base. I hope it is not and gives you a place to start. I have to do my own trading for the evening now J -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of onelkm Sent: Monday

RE: [amibroker] Troubling inconsistency in WriteVal, Printf Usage

2006-10-01 Thread Terry
; -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giovanni Moretti Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 04:16 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Troubling inconsistency in WriteVal, Printf Usage Hi I'm finding that a WriteVal inside

RE: RE: [amibroker] Scan and Settings

2006-10-01 Thread Terry
and/or indicators calculated using Foreign from 'reference' symbol) or when you are creating composites out of unaligned data. Note: if reference symbol does not exist, data won't be padded. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL

RE: RE: RE: [amibroker] Scan and Settings

2006-10-01 Thread Terry
Sounds reasonable. I would assume Pad Align will work with Explore and Scan. It will certainly work with your QP3 data. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 11

RE: [amibroker] Re: IBC sending two orders, but should send only one

2006-10-01 Thread Terry
http://www.amibroker.com/ib.html -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of laster Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 13:14 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: IBC sending two orders

RE: [amibroker] Actaully trading a system

2006-09-30 Thread Terry
is finding that data for more than a couple of years. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of petler1 Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 15:20 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Actaully trading a system Hi all, I coded

RE: [amibroker] Scan and Settings

2006-09-29 Thread Terry
I do this all the time. I set/change the date range, expecting it to auto-select, but it doesn't. You ALSO have to click the button beside the date range. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of matrix10014 Sent: Friday, September

RE: RE: [amibroker] Scan and Settings

2006-09-29 Thread Terry
in the trade dates I believe this will work. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Joe Landry Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 17:45 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: RE: [amibroker] Scan and Settings

RE: [amibroker] New user

2006-09-26 Thread Terry
for multiple criteria takes about 5 minutes on my (moderately fast) machine so scanning 500 Nasdaq stocks every 5 minutes should work. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mandod2000 Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 15:32

RE: [amibroker] New User Needs Assistance.

2006-09-26 Thread Terry
_N(Title = ); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kwtate12149 Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 09:12 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] New User Needs Assistance. I am new to AB and don't know the codeing

RE: [amibroker] Re: New User Needs Assistance.

2006-09-26 Thread Terry
) RETURNS nothing FUNCTION Protects from printing string to the commentary output window EXAMPLE _N( ticker = name() ); // thanks to _N function ticker symbol is not printed -- Terry -Original Message- From

RE: [amibroker] Re: Blazing Amibroker

2006-09-25 Thread Terry
Right. The code I have seen was simply posted online, thus no functions were shown, just referred to in the code. (I don't have TS and never have had it.) Thanks. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fred Sent: Monday

RE: [amibroker] New Amibroker Version?

2006-09-25 Thread Terry
for 1 upgrade cycle, which is only 30 bucks ($45 for the intraday version). -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of fredjaul0912 Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 19:57 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] New Amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Help with AFL Loops and Plots

2006-09-15 Thread Terry
// -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark H Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 14:10 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [amibroker] Help with AFL Loops and Plots Probably you

RE: [amibroker] Help with Quote Editor

2006-09-14 Thread Terry
. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Close Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 07:38 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Help with Quote Editor I have an oddball datapoint in 1 minute data on the

RE: [amibroker] AmiBroker Group Honour Board

2006-09-13 Thread Terry
Steve, Lost one. Note that I have only been posting for 2 of those 4 years. Shese, I am spending way too much free time on email! I should be building systems instead :-) -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Dugas Sent

RE: [amibroker] list of delisted ticker

2006-09-13 Thread Terry
. They have added a CSI Number to distinguish between such duplicates (and symbol changes too). However, I don't know if they will sell you the list without subscribing to their data. You can always ask. www.csidata.com -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com

RE: [amibroker] Candlestick pattern scan

2006-09-11 Thread Terry
, but it is executed inline unless the include code itself is a function which never executes unless it is specifically called. -- Terry Ton Sieverding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terry I assume that you mean 'it includes a copy of the include file on runtime'. So during interpretation of the AFL

RE: [amibroker] Candlestick pattern scan

2006-09-10 Thread Terry
, the first version as noted above is just inline code and it gets executed as if you had typed in there in the first place. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ton Sieverding Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 02:45

RE: [amibroker] Candlestick pattern scan

2006-09-09 Thread Terry
. It is the SAME as you typing the code inline and it just a convenience to a) make your code easier to read, b) save you time in re-writing code you frequently use. An #include is NOT a function, unless you design it as such as in my second example. -- Terry -Original Message- From

RE: [amibroker] Error on code

2006-09-09 Thread Terry
Styles are not arrays so you can't do this in style. Too bad. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cyclicaltrader Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 14:34 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Error on code Hi, I

RE: [amibroker] Highlighted text

2006-09-09 Thread Terry
If you mean in the interpretation window, unfortunately this is not (yet) possible. I have taken to doing this to highlight something there: --; what I want to highlight goes here; --; -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com

RE: [amibroker] Re: Error on code

2006-09-09 Thread Terry
Nice trick Joseph :-) -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Biran Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 16:51 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: Error on code But, you can use: dottedStyle = IIf

RE: [amibroker] Candlestick pattern scan

2006-09-08 Thread Terry
as a function you can call function SetBackColor( HUE, SAT, BRI ) { if (Version(0) = 4.75) { BkgColor = ColorHSB( Param(Hue, HUE, 0, 240 ), Param( Saturation, SAT, 0, 240 ), Param(Brightness, BRI, 0, 240 )); SetChartBkColor( BkgColor ); } } -- Terry -Original Message- From

RE: [amibroker] Candlestick pattern scan

2006-09-07 Thread Terry
See attached AFL I got from someone on this board and/or AB library. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of infynhome Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:15 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Candlestick

RE: [amibroker] email settings for Alerts

2006-09-05 Thread Terry
would start with pop3 before smtp. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of kris45mar Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 21:52 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] email settings for Alerts Hi all

RE: RE: ***[Possible UCE]*** RE: [amibroker] Moon Phase as a profitable predictor

2006-09-05 Thread Terry
Natasha, Did u send this emial fm ur mobil phone? My computer has a full keyboard ;-) -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Natasha !! Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 09:33 To: amibroker

RE: ***[Possible UCE]*** RE: [amibroker] Moon Phase as a profitable predictor

2006-09-04 Thread Terry
I have no interest in checking out lunar, solar, horoscope, spring, summer, fall, end of month, etc. systems. I have checked out several and none have ever worked out. I'm sticking to price movement, which theoretically already includes all known effects. -- Terry -Original

RE: [amibroker] Plotting Question

2006-09-04 Thread Terry
Something like this should work, but, oddly, it disappears as soon as you click on the chart. It only appears at the moment you click apply. Maybe this gives you something to work with. Plot(IIf(BarIndex() == BarCount - 1,C,Null),Name,colorBlue,styleArea); -- Terry -Original Message

RE: [amibroker] Gaussian Moving average

2006-09-04 Thread Terry
- alpha ); f2 = -( 1 - alpha ) * ( 1 - alpha ); } return IIR2( input, fo,f1,f2); } A = ROC(C,20); period = Param(period,13,1,40,1); //Plot( Close, Price, colorBlack, styleCandle ); Plot( GSMA( A,period), GSMA, colorRed ); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] New to AmiBroker - Back Testing

2006-09-02 Thread Terry
-- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of stevenkngsly Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 17:07 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] New to AmiBroker - Back Testing I am interested in back testing particually Fibonacci

RE: [amibroker] Flashing Text Box

2006-09-02 Thread Terry
WriteVal, WriteIf, NumToStr, etc.; -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of dingo Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 15:42 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [amibroker] Flashing Text Box Ken, I'll bet if you

RE: [amibroker] Re: Backtest vs Forwardtest

2006-08-30 Thread Terry
(which is most of them). The actual price of CSCO in 1990 was $24. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of intermilan04 Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 18:56 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re: Backtest vs

RE: [amibroker] Conditional Encodecolor

2006-08-29 Thread Terry
Title = WriteIf(Buy, EncodeColor(colorGreen), EncodeColor(colorRed)) + Close; -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Z. Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 07:03 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com

RE: [amibroker] afl coding help please

2006-08-27 Thread Terry
to trade at the open and your signal doesn't come until the open (depending on your time frame). -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dorzfn Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 13:14 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] afl

RE: [amibroker] OHLC range is narrow (flat) and causing false signals (got a fix?)

2006-08-26 Thread Terry
) If myBuy AND myShort THEN myBuy = myShort = False; Buy = myBuy; Sell = mySell; Short = myShort; Cover = myCover; -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bestbobleonard Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 08:58 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com

RE: [amibroker] Re: Simulating the trading of a system in real time.

2006-08-25 Thread Terry
). -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angelo Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 09:37 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re: Simulating the trading of a system in real time. --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, jppt0k

RE: [amibroker] Displaying weekend and holidays

2006-08-24 Thread Terry
File-Database settings, for intraday data anyway, let you choose market hours. Show only market hours, show nights, show 24 hours, filter weekends (or not). -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of steinington Sent: Thursday

RE: [amibroker] Looking back

2006-08-24 Thread Terry
For looking back a certain number of bars do this: //Where X = number of days to look back x = 10; myCandlePattern = some code that produces a non-zero value when true; CandleExists = Sum(myCandlePattern,x); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [amibroker] Re: Buying at open -- In Real Life

2006-08-23 Thread Terry
and never has computer problems and already knows about all the wars, oil spills, etc ;-) (Not preaching to you Monty, just taking the opportunity and your research to make a point.) -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [amibroker] Simpler example...Re: I'm having a hard time explaining this

2006-08-23 Thread Terry
with and assign to the built-in variable /*PositionScore*/. The backtester will take the highest scores up to the MaxPositions you have allowed, given you have enough money and also set your positionSize appropriately. (Note that a negative value of PositionScore will never be taken.) -- Terry

RE: [amibroker] When do my posts show up? --the real help question

2006-08-23 Thread Terry
Dennis, I copied and pasted. Works for me. My guess is your AA settings. Go into the backtester. Pick Settings. On the tab that comes up change your setting from Long only to Long Short. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [amibroker] Re: Pulling values from a text file and plotting???

2006-08-22 Thread Terry
There is simple code, you just didn't ask a simple question ;-) -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rlfoxworth2006 Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 15:09 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re: Pulling values from

RE: [amibroker] Locking Right Axis and styleLeftAxisScale for Text Display?

2006-08-21 Thread Terry
, right? I have seen some exotic code from Fred in Fred's Equity Line where he computes his own min/max values. I believe this code is posted in the Library. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mr. Valley Sent: Monday

RE: [amibroker] Re: Buying at open -- In Real Life

2006-08-21 Thread Terry
Monty, I really like your analysis and thinking on this test, but I respectfully submit that if your system drops 50% of it's profits for a nickel change is price, something else is wrong -- or you are trading in minutes and not days ;-) -- Terry -Original Message

RE: [amibroker] Re: Newbie questins

2006-08-20 Thread Terry
that? z = ValueWhen( x = LastValue( y ), Close ); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tipequity Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 23:27 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re: Newbie questins Graham Do you know how

RE: [amibroker] Locking Right Axis and styleLeftAxisScale for Text Display?

2006-08-20 Thread Terry
is printed on the NEXT line and is left justified. Send a screen shot or something to show what is wrong and what you want. There is no difference in title plot titles whether or not you use any of the alternate scaling styles. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com

RE: [amibroker] Re: Newbie questins

2006-08-19 Thread Terry
); Title = \nfirst date: + NumToStr(x[0],1.0) + \none year ago date: + NumToStr(y,1.0) + \none year ago price: + NumToStr(zC,1.2) + \ncurrent price: + C; -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tipequity Sent: Saturday, August

RE: [amibroker] Re: Sell old, buy new, sell new-- all in one day

2006-08-18 Thread Terry
You do not need the custom backtester, you need intraday data if you're going to track this. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of balin8425 Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 22:55 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject

RE: [amibroker] Ccontinuous Future contract

2006-08-18 Thread Terry
. (If you don't get emails from the list you won't get the attachment.) -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of drainesss Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 23:46 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Ccontinuous Future

RE: [amibroker] Export to ASCII

2006-08-18 Thread Terry
) { TimeFrameSet(in15Minute); } else if (TF == 30) { TimeFrameSet(in30Minute); } else if (TF == 60) { TimeFrameSet(inHourly); } else TimeFrameSet(inDaily); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cyclicaltrader Sent: Friday

RE: [amibroker] QuoteTracker

2006-08-18 Thread Terry
in QT with the tickers you want in order to get data from Fidelity (or any source). Those are the only tickers that can possibly get transferred to AB. The little green light says you are, in fact, successfully talking to QT from AB. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Multiple Windows and Exploration Arrows

2006-08-18 Thread Terry
),colorDarkRed,0,Grap h0,-35); There are other ways, other offsets, etc., but this is safe and always plots arrows provided you have Buy/Sell/Short/Cover statements. (Remove line wraps in above code.) -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [amibroker] backtester: forcing trade entry at next possible bar

2006-08-18 Thread Terry
get the idea. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of dirk schreiber Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 14:27 To: amibroker Subject: [amibroker] backtester: forcing trade entry at next possible bar hello, i

RE: [amibroker] finding support counts

2006-08-17 Thread Terry
); You may not want exact matches since there probably will be few. You can change to or use the AlmostEqual function. PS: I tried LastValue instead of SelectedValue, but that is always the very last value of the array (so always compares to today). -- Terry -Original Message- From

RE: [amibroker] Real Time from Fidelity Active Trader Pro

2006-08-15 Thread Terry
Medved QuoteTracker can do this. Not sure how much backfill you get. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ken Close Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:52 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject

RE: [amibroker] Re: Parameters window doesn't show parameters

2006-08-15 Thread Terry
Got it. Go to Tools-Preferences-Charting tab. Next to last option needs to be checked. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cyclicaltrader Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:05 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Re: Parameters window doesn't show parameters

2006-08-15 Thread Terry
Weird. Better write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cyclicaltrader Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:39 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re: Parameters window doesn't show parameters

RE: [amibroker] Real Time from Fidelity Active Trader Pro

2006-08-15 Thread Terry
, the last day or last 5 days, it does not delete older history. (Don't need QT for IB data, but it can be used as well). -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ken Close Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 13:38

RE: [amibroker] Bid Ask

2006-08-15 Thread Terry
your little heart desires :-) -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 13:57 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Bid Ask Can the bid and ask data be brought into ami? TIA

RE: [amibroker] ATR function loops

2006-08-14 Thread Terry
the loop like this: myATR = ATR(ATR_Period); for (i = 1; i barCount; i++) { //other code... if (PriceAtBuy[i] 0) { THigh[i] = Max(High[i], THigh[i]; ATRStop[i] = THigh[i] - ATR_Multiplier * myATR[i]; } } -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com

RE: [amibroker] COM Object Statement Works One Place but Not another

2006-08-14 Thread Terry
Without reading your code FullName requires () FullName() = SymName; -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ken Close Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 19:27 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject

RE: [amibroker] Colored Lines

2006-08-13 Thread Terry
-- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cyclicaltrader Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 16:47 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Colored Lines Hi, I took a piece of code I found in the AFL library and modified

RE: [amibroker] Re: Colored Lines

2006-08-13 Thread Terry
the timeframe Then do PPD = TimeFrameExpand(PP,inWeekly); //Check my syntax here! Then the plot colors should work as now there are dots for every day. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cyclicaltrader Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006

RE: [amibroker] max stops and looping

2006-08-06 Thread Terry
You are mixing loop code with ApplyStop (array code). If your loop does what you wish, then just put this line BEFORE the loop (not inside the loop) and run an optimize: Maxstop = Optimize( maxstop, 10, 2, 30, 1); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto

RE: [amibroker] How to create choices for a parameter

2006-08-01 Thread Terry
the parameter and it toggles between the two states. There is also ParamTrigger you might look up in Help. Finally, there is ParamList too for more than 2 choices. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of trb0428 Sent: Tuesday, August

RE: [amibroker] Esignal vs AB

2006-08-01 Thread Terry
AB can replace the eSignal charting, but AB does NOT supply data so you still need eSignal or one of many other choices to get data. I hope you weren't expecting the best TA software AND a data feed for $229 one-time fee ;-) -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com

RE: [amibroker] Time display

2006-08-01 Thread Terry
Try File _ Database Settings... Intraday Setting button at the bottom. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tipss_Bse_Nse Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 13:52 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Time display

RE: [amibroker] Re: How to create choices for a parameter

2006-08-01 Thread Terry
You could make Watchlists of your symbols and switch watchlists with paramList. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of trb0428 Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 15:31 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re: How

RE: [amibroker] Charting different indicators on different Sheets

2006-07-30 Thread Terry
NOT transfer the parameter settings. You need to change them in AA-Parameters each time you backtest/scan/explore. To avoid this, create multiple copies each with different parameters as was suggested by Prashanth. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [amibroker] Re: Indicator Maintenance

2006-07-30 Thread Terry
the more complex the interface becomes. Just look at MS Word as an example. There are so many features that many of them are never even discovered because they are buried in the interface in non user friendly ways. Amibroker has lots of features. -- Terry __._,_.___ Please note

RE: [amibroker] Indicator Maintenance

2006-07-29 Thread Terry
lists: -- Terry Hi Ken, I too would like some of the pro's to share how they manage a large number of indicators. What file structure do you set up or use? What naming conventions? Do you use formula editor or a 3rd party editor like Ultra Edit? Dave MM From: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Re: Profit target

2006-07-29 Thread Terry
); AddColumn(C,Close,1.0);-- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of broman1003 Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:18 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re: Profit target Terry, thanks. I was kind of hoping for a simpler

RE: [amibroker] Re: Profit target

2006-07-28 Thread Terry
which stop to use. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of broman1003 Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 15:25 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re: Profit target --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, broman1003 [EMAIL

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