RE: [amibroker] FOREX brokers and data feed differences

2010-07-06 Thread Matthias K.
Not sure if it helps, but give it a try: FX is traded 24 hrs, thus the timestamp of your MT broker may be stamped differently as compared to finam (=Russia) data. Be careful with data selection in FX anyways, it's an interbank market that is not watched by authorities, hence is not regulated.

RE: [amibroker] Re: How to mix systems

2010-07-06 Thread Matthias K.
Que tal gonzaga? After sending this email, I figured that this might happen: I was answering to Paul's post. Strange Yahoo, sorry for the confusion. I'm afraid I cannot help you on your custom backtest proc, yet. Hi System Mixers, I've been following this thread. I see people want to

RE: [amibroker] Hold a trade for a minimum # of bars

2010-07-14 Thread Matthias K.
Hi, This one is from Mr. Janeczko, he put it online as an example, but I cannot find the link. Replace buy/sell,etc. witch your rules, the rest is pretty much self-explanatory. Buy = MACD() 0 AND RSI() 30; Sell = MACD() 0 OR Cross( 70, RSI() ); SetPositionSize(1,spsShares); // now we

RE: [amibroker] Re: pl. code this

2010-07-18 Thread Matthias K.
Why not spend a minute in YOUR education and try to solve your programming riddle yourself? If there’s specific advice on a specific step in your coding, go ask for it: Please do! Present your code! There’s plenty of sophisticated long-term users in here that offer their valuable advice for

RE: [amibroker] Still trying to combine systems

2010-07-19 Thread Matthias K.
Hi, Any news on your approach? Just ran through the afl online lib and found an idea from Paul Ho called something like “testing multiple systems” without going into CBT. Maybe you wanna give it a try… Greets from Germany… M From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com

RE: [amibroker] Backtest Report Long/Short trades columns?

2010-07-21 Thread Matthias K.
Hi, It's very hard to understand the system's logic only by numbers. But as a matter of fact you identified the problem already: when you're testing long only, the shorts are skipped, thus it'll result in a very different equity curve as compared to the result when trading long and short

RE: [amibroker] Help with DDE connections using TOS

2010-07-23 Thread Matthias K.
Hi, Did you try putting a symbol into realtime quote list by type in symbol (use the symbol's name of your DDE provider). Other than that, try to look up in the documentation of TOC, not sure what it stands for/where it comes from. NO backfill available via DDE. Matthias From:

RE: [amibroker] Re: Help with DDE connections using TOS

2010-07-23 Thread Matthias K.
DDE.But does it apply to server which has data available?I think server of TBMX has 14 years data stored on it,because I am able to draw chart for 14 yeas data. --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com mailto:amibroker%40yahoogroups.com , Matthias K. meridian...@... wrote: Hi, Did you try putting

RE: [amibroker] Trading Systems, Position Sizing and Monte Carlo Analysis

2010-07-26 Thread Matthias K.
Hi, Indeed this is a very interesting topic. Many thanks go to Howard Bandy, it is literally a must read when working with Amibroker. I’m curiously waiting for the new one. Regarding System Design and Position Sizing: Well, I believe that there are a lot of books out there, but

RE: [amibroker] Trading Systems, Position Sizing and Monte Carlo Analysis

2010-07-26 Thread Matthias K.
...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Matthias K. Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:19 PM To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [amibroker] Trading Systems, Position Sizing and Monte Carlo Analysis Hi, Indeed this is a very interesting topic. Many thanks go to Howard Bandy, it is literally

RE: [amibroker] Re: Trading Systems, Position Sizing and Monte Carlo Analysis

2010-07-27 Thread Matthias K.
then analyze the resulting equity curves to get such information as average performance, best performance, worst performance, etc. Mike --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com mailto:amibroker%40yahoogroups.com , Matthias K. meridian...@... wrote: Hi, Indeed this is a very interesting topic. Many

RE: [amibroker] Optimize Time Parameters

2010-07-28 Thread Matthias K.
Hi, I'm using this. It's pretty much self-explanatory. Works based on hours. Depending on which data you use, the timestamp might be different. So to say timestart might be 055900 instead of 06. Watch out for Fridays, too, if you don't wanna hold the trader over the weekend.

RE: [amibroker] Re: Trading Systems, Position Sizing and Monte Carlo Analysis

2010-07-28 Thread Matthias K.
Hi, Thanks Mike for your explanation and the link. The definite guide to position sizing is the only book I'm missing in my van Tharp collection, looks like just found my next bday present, hehee. Just to make this complete, the new Supertrader book is pretty lame in my opinion, nothing really

RE: [amibroker] Trading Systems, Position Sizing and Monte Carlo Analysis

2010-07-29 Thread Matthias K.
Hi Lionel, With “this book”, I suppose you mean this one: http://www.amazon.com/Trading-Systems-Optimisation-Portfolio-Construction/dp/1905641796/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8

RE: [amibroker] Trading Systems, Position Sizing and Monte Carlo Analysis

2010-07-29 Thread Matthias K.
Hi Matthias: Thanks for this information. Excuse my ignorance, but what does MC mean? Lionel From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibro...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Matthias K. Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 10:49 AM To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Multiple Time Frames

2010-07-29 Thread Matthias K.
Hi, There's lots of mistakes in this code: 1. You're missing timeframeexpand 2. IIF cannot be use like this, I wonder if it returned you a result at all Ok. I'm not sure about your Stochastic-Thingie, but you should be able to customize my example to your needs. Furthermore

RE: [amibroker] Re: How to configure CAME to look for a Optimization target MINIMUM

2010-08-09 Thread Matthias K.
Hi, Worked for me! Thanks a lot. Taking my example, I typed Ulcer-Index-II and it did the run. I didn't understand why it would not show up in the drop-down menu. Thanks, Matthias From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibro...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Montag, 9.

RE: [amibroker] Re: Optimizer target with genetic optimization

2010-08-23 Thread Matthias K.
Hi, Mike is right, just change the target in the settings/walk-forward-tab. Anyways, you can design your custom metric, too, this is a very valuable feature, just google amibroker add custom metric. For me, I played along with the max. k-ratio and min. ulcer-index. My daytrading systems on

RE: [amibroker] Backtest multiple systems across multiple timeframes

2010-09-08 Thread Matthias K.
Hi Ed, Good to hear from you again. Basetime interval of the databse is 5min (I don't use ticks, it s downloaded data from my broker, not IB), but both systems are 15min timeframe, should be easy to handle. Win XP, SP3, 4GB RAM..32bit OS, I could create another database, true, but I wanted to

RE: [amibroker] Re: Backtest multiple systems across multiple timeframes

2010-09-09 Thread Matthias K.
Thanks Tomasz, It s gonna take me some time to understand your idea. I'm not very satisfied with the overall way AB is handling this kind of topic.. anyways thanks for the assistance. could you explain a little more on how you put the #include statements? How many systems did you plug