[amibroker] Allocation of Capital

2007-09-03 Thread Robert Terry
How can I make a system allocate half of my capital to short trades and half to long trades? For example, I would like to take 5 long and 5 short positions for multiple stocks meeting my criteria. I hope that makes sense. Thanks, Robert

RE: [amibroker-ts] Text only?

2007-02-11 Thread Terry
It takes html. I send it all the time, including embedded pictures like this one. groupelk.JPG -- Terry From: amibroker-ts@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herman Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 15:56 To: Amibroker-Ts@Yahoogroups.Com Subject: [amibroker-ts] Text only

RE: [amibroker-ts] Text only?

2007-02-11 Thread Terry
Well, it accepted my .html message, but did not pass the photo.or attach it. -- Terry From: amibroker-ts@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Terry Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 16:14 To: amibroker-ts@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [amibroker-ts] Text only? It takes html

RE: [amibroker] Re: TJ: Why not Daily Backfill with IB?

2007-02-09 Thread Terry
Feature request to IB I presume. They only offer 30 day max backfill (minutes) so a daily download is rather worthless unless IB provided the history. Besides, there is Yahoo and MSN. Both free sources albeit occasionally flaky. -- Terry From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [amibroker] How stupid can I be???

2007-02-07 Thread Terry
Yuki, Make sure your preferences are set to start of time. Try adding another qualifier as in: Buy = (all my secret Rocky The Flying Squirrel stuff) AND Timenum() = 12 AND Timenum() 00; //or other appropriate time -- Terry

RE: [amibroker] How stupid can I be???

2007-02-07 Thread Terry
You're right, this should work. I have similar code somewhere. Leave out Moose and Squirrel (or put in something real simple) See if Timenum() portion works. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yuki Taga Sent: Wednesday

RE: [amibroker-ts] Who has a list of the AmiBroker trading systems?

2007-02-06 Thread Terry
Right, 80 TESTED System != Any PROFITABLE Systems; -- Terry From: amibroker-ts@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gray_1946 Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 13:16 To: amibroker-ts@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker-ts] Who has a list of the AmiBroker trading systems

RE: [amibroker] Studies Layers question

2007-02-02 Thread Terry
. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ton Sieverding Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 01:23 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [amibroker] Studies Layers question Question 2: Can anyone confirm this behavior. If so, I

RE: [amibroker] Exploration hangs with iq and esignal

2007-02-01 Thread Terry
in any indicators. They do not count in BarIndex(). It's as if they don't exist. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yuki Taga Is there, or can you create, an automated routine that would purge any data in a database that is time

RE: [amibroker] Backtesting Index...No Results

2007-02-01 Thread Terry
PS: A second possibility is you have something set for trade size and indexes effectively have a huge price for 1 share. Set to allow fractional shares. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Fitch Sent: Thursday

RE: [amibroker] Backtesting Index...No Results

2007-02-01 Thread Terry
/if it is there. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Fitch Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:59 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Backtesting Index...No Results Can someone tell me why

RE: [amibroker] ParamOptimize - syntax help

2007-02-01 Thread Terry
brace} This is not needed. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:21 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] ParamOptimize - syntax help Could someone help me

RE: [amibroker] Backtesting Index...No Results

2007-02-01 Thread Terry
You put in the dates, but you have not ACTUALLY SELECTED to use those dates. Click the radio button beside the dates. I did this many times expecting it to default to my dates when changed. It does not. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL

[amibroker] Studies Layers question

2007-02-01 Thread Terry
or just by accident while clicking bars. It jumps to a price level and is no longer horizontal. Very annoying, but I can redraw it. Question 2: Can anyone confirm this behavior. If so, I will file a report on feedback. -- Terry

RE: [amibroker] Studies Layers question

2007-02-01 Thread Terry
Follow-up on Question 2: I did find you can lock the studies (and set exact values/modify the position, get the value to show up, changes colors, line type) by right-clicking and choosing properties. It appears this must be done for each study line. -- Terry -Original Message- From

RE: [amibroker] Re: eSignal vs. DTN (IQFeed) for futures

2007-01-31 Thread Terry
trade futures). I'm sure I'll hear from those that aren't having problems with IB or DTN ;-) -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of polomorabe Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 14:39 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Backtest

2007-01-30 Thread Terry
If you have a DAILY database, they are the same as 1 bar = 1 day. If you have intraday quotes (or weekly/monthly) they are different. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of herbpodell Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:35

RE: [amibroker] Re: Changing backtester settings for each symbol

2007-01-30 Thread Terry
(stopTypeNBar,stopModeDisable,100,1,False,0); ApplyStop(stopTypeProfit,stopModeDisable,100,1,False,0); End of Include file _SECTION_END(); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mikelaurataylor Sent

RE: [amibroker] Re: Changing backtester settings for each symbol

2007-01-30 Thread Terry
Please go to the HELP files. Choose Index tab. Type SetOption without the quotes. Interest Rate is a choice. Not sure if it's the one you want. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dralexchambers Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007

RE: [amibroker] Determining average price range over N days

2007-01-29 Thread Terry
ATR comes close, but uses Wilder's smoothing instead of MA smoothing and considers price gaps. http://stockcharts.com/education/IndicatorAnalysis/indic_ATR.html Wilder's Smoothing indicator is similar to the Exponential Moving Average. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Database base time

2007-01-29 Thread Terry
I think you must use a 1 minute database and display as 1 hour. IB always gives 1 minute data as far as I can tell. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Moneycat Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 02:18 To: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Re: Basic backtest questions

2007-01-29 Thread Terry
You can set everything in AFL except one. There is a SetOptions for futures as I showed, but you must ALSO CHECK the box in AA-Settings. PS: This is already on the bug list for evaluation. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [amibroker] Is there a way to add the date/time scale to each sub window

2007-01-29 Thread Terry
Right-click on chart, choose Parameters, pick Axes Grid tab. Check show dates. You can also do this in code: SetChartOptions(1, chartShowDates); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mbluhm2001 Sent: Friday, January 26

RE: [amibroker] Re: Creating Arrays

2007-01-29 Thread Terry
with each new piece of data. There are times when you need to write loops and they are available in various forms, but they are also much slower. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Laster Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 16

RE: [amibroker] Re: Interactive Brokers

2007-01-29 Thread Terry
it gets liquidated at a very poor price. Don't ask me how I know! :-x -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric H. Tao Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 19:18 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re

RE: [amibroker] Re: Accumulating IB backfill data ?

2007-01-28 Thread Terry
My minute database is set to 50 bars. AB warns you on SAVE about setting higher than 10 bars being slow. There is also a setting in Preferences-Data -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of loveyourenemynow Sent: Friday

RE: [amibroker] Re: Changing quickly between extended and non-extended hour view

2007-01-28 Thread Terry
http://www.amibroker.com/guide/h_customizeui.html -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mbs010101 Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 20:14 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re: Changing quickly between extended

RE: [amibroker] Re: Accumulating IB backfill data ?

2007-01-27 Thread Terry
time with my local offset of 2 (I'm Mountain time) and it works perfectly. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wes_zoltran2 Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 14:45 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re

RE: [amibroker] backtesting

2007-01-27 Thread Terry
On a Daily database this is correct. Days is always CALENDAR days. Bars is always BARS of DATA, which might be minute data. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of herbpodell Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:45 To: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] What is wrong with this simple code?

2007-01-27 Thread Terry
not be what you want. Also you are always comparing to the last bar for the Close. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerald Monks Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 19:36 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] What

RE: [amibroker] Re: Changing quickly between extended and non-extended hour view

2007-01-26 Thread Terry
How about just turning on 24 hours (turning off show regular hours only)? You can put an icon in your toolbar and/or create a shortcut key by customizing the toolbar. I have an icon for each in my toolbar. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [amibroker] Help : Trying to plot a 15 min StochD on a 3 min chart

2007-01-24 Thread Terry
I think you can't change an array from the same array. Try a different name for the expansion such as: /* expand T2 stoch */ tstoch10expanded = TimeFrameExpand( tstoch10, T2); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mbluhm2001

RE: [amibroker] String manipulation

2007-01-23 Thread Terry
to see the SF_NAME in the interpretation window since it is just a string. See if it's correct. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rakesh Sahgal Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 23:38 To: Amibroker Yahoogroup Subject: [amibroker

RE: [amibroker] some data not visible in amibroker from esignal

2007-01-23 Thread Terry
Make sure Use only local database = No in Symbol-Information Make sure this symbol is added to RTQ window. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of murthysuresh Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 06:37 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com

[amibroker] GetTimeFrame

2007-01-23 Thread Terry
Anyone know how to read the current time frame? I tried this: _N(Title = {{INTERVAL}}); tf = Title; Which shows the TimeFrame in the Chart title, but the value of TF is = {{INTERVAL}} I'm wishing for a GetTimeFrame command. -- Terry

RE: [amibroker] GetTimeFrame

2007-01-23 Thread Terry
Thanks Graham and Herman. I did look in Help, but was unable to find it :-( Now I'm happy again :-) -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graham Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 13:13 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re

RE: [amibroker] Detecting when chart is not at right hand edge

2007-01-23 Thread Terry
minute old //Turn the background dark red if Volume is below fair value if (NOT SelectedValue(fairVolume)) ProblemStatus = (BgLowVol); SetChartBkColor(ProblemStatus); SetChartOptions(1, chartShowDates); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto

RE: [amibroker] Clear background in StyleCloud?

2007-01-22 Thread Terry
Graham, I didn't think I could do that with PlotOHLC, but it works great. Thanks. Corrected code: PlotOHLC(0,IIf(CH_isNarrow,CH_Upper,Null),IIf(CH_isNarrow,CH_Lower,Null),0, ,colorGrey40,styleCloud | styleNoLabel); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Array in a loop

2007-01-22 Thread Terry
++ ) This does get a little confusing when trying to do a series of peaks and troughs.and I'm sure I don't need to remind you that both Peak and Trough use ZigZag which looks into the future. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Natasha

RE: [amibroker] Re: Clear background in StyleCloud?

2007-01-22 Thread Terry
(onBuy OR onShort,BBTop,Null); //Plot nothing when False BBL = IIF(onBuy OR onShort,BBBot,Null); //Plot nothing when False PlotOHLC(0, BBH, BBL, 0, , IIf(Onbuy,colorLavender,colorLightOrange),styleCloud); Try it and let me know. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com

RE: [amibroker] Re: Clear background in StyleCloud?

2007-01-22 Thread Terry
and let me know. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sursod Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 15:49 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re: Clear background in StyleCloud? TJ: I know you said

RE: [amibroker] Alert If function

2007-01-21 Thread Terry
the relevant code so I can't be sure. You did leave out the flag to eliminate duplicate alerts for the same day (8). You might add that back in and see what happens. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lapilia Sent: Sunday, January 21

RE: [amibroker] Re: Little help Flagging date a stock is purchased on the chart

2007-01-21 Thread Terry
illegal characters such as starting the name with a period. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herman Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 16:06 To: imresident2001 Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Little help Flagging date a stock

[amibroker] Clear background in StyleCloud?

2007-01-21 Thread Terry
band to be grey when the price channel is narrow and no color when it's NOT narrow: PlotOHLC(0,CH_Upper,CH_Lower,0,, IIf(CH_isNarrow,colorGrey40,ProblemStatus),styleCloud | styleNoLabel); //ProblemStatus = background color. //I tried Null and 0 with no luck. Thanks. -- Terry

RE: [amibroker] Logic for MaxDD while in a Buy Period

2007-01-20 Thread Terry
)); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Close Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 08:06 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Logic for MaxDD while in a Buy Period I can not get the logic written to take care

RE: [amibroker] Re: Is it possible to visulize exit made by applystop() signals?

2007-01-20 Thread Terry
Also, if you use Equity() it ExRems your Buy,Sell signals and you lose the ApplyStop codes. If you want to see them you must plot the arrows before you execute Equity(); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herman Sent

RE: [amibroker] Array transfer between panes or charts

2007-01-20 Thread Terry
. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dale Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 09:58 To: AmiBroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Array transfer between panes or charts Does anyone know an elegant way to access an array

RE: [amibroker] Two quickies

2007-01-20 Thread Terry
1. Can't do it. There is a crosshair icon in the toolbar. 1 click to restore it. 2. Use StyleOwnScale in your plot statement. If you have other style statements, do this: Plot(myADX, ADX, colorRed, styleHistogram | styleOwnScale); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Logic for MaxDD while in a Buy Period

2007-01-20 Thread Terry
the DD in % since a Buy, then add a calculation to compute the DD during the buy periods first: PeriodDD = (CurEq2 - ValueWhen(Buy, CurEq2,1)) / ValueWhen(Buy, CurEq2,1); X= IIf(Sell,HHV(PeriodDD, BarsSince(Buy,1), 0); MaxEq2 = Highest(MaxEq2); -- Terry -Original Message

RE: [amibroker] Static/Persistent Arrays

2007-01-20 Thread Terry
#: 191) -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herman Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 13:44 To: AmiBroker YahooGroups Subject: [amibroker] Static/Persistent Arrays I would like to use Composites to create Static (Persistent

RE: [amibroker] Alert If function

2007-01-20 Thread Terry
day? Are you using daily data? -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lapilia Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 15:50 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Alert If function My system generates an email alert each

RE: [amibroker] Re: Is it possible to visulize exit made by applystop() signals?

2007-01-20 Thread Terry
Sorry, I swear I read the Equity does ExRem, but I reviewed the Help docs just now and Graham is correct. It even states that the exit values are retained for plotting various type exits. Apologies and thanks Graham for the correction! -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Re: loop counter

2007-01-11 Thread Terry
No loop needed: //Count bars since flat or down, ergo # of consecutive up bars. up = BarsSince(C = Ref(C,-1)); //Count bars since flat or up, ergo # of consecutive down bars. dn = BarsSince(C = Ref(C,-1)); Plot(up,up,colorGreen,styleHistogram); Plot(dn,dn,colorRed,styleHistogram); -- Terry

RE: [amibroker] Backtester question

2007-01-10 Thread Terry
It composites the lower time frame values automatically into the hourly time frame. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Z Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 05:04 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Re: How to switch the realtime datafeed account ?

2007-01-10 Thread Terry
Instructions about halfway down after the release notes: http://www.amibroker.com/ib.html -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of itmwh Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 07:24 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re

RE: [amibroker] Re: Help Request: matching Industry ID's across watchlists

2007-01-10 Thread Terry
You must receive emails to get attachments. They are not saved in the web version. I will email you direct this time only. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of brpnw1 Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 08:41 To: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Re: loop counter

2007-01-10 Thread Terry
Why do you want a loop to do this? Code supplied already does this in two lines much faster. x = BarIndex(); Plot(x,x,1,styleStaircase); Answer to your question anyway: bi= BarIndex(); qty = LastValue( bi ); for (i = 0; i qty; i++) ... -- Terry -Original Message- From

RE: [amibroker] Plot shapes Plot text question

2007-01-10 Thread Terry
Not with PlotShapes, but with PlotText. Beware that using a lot of PlotText is quite slow. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 15:36 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject

RE: [amibroker] Backtest Results

2007-01-10 Thread Terry
At the bottom of the AA results screen? If so, these are the number short trades and long trades in the current backtest. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of troll Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 13:40 To: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] colour change

2007-01-10 Thread Terry
Draw one. Right click it and choose Properties. Adjust the colors. Be sure to click set to default or similar checkbox. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of paulradge Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 18:43 To: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Increasing Capital

2007-01-09 Thread Terry
Custom Backtester. Examples in help. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jamesfarrow2003 Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:45 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Increasing Capital Do any of the users here

RE: [amibroker] Very profitable DOW system

2007-01-09 Thread Terry
Almost 100% right. See below for my comments and answers. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Busigin Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 16:19 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [amibroker] Very profitable

RE: [amibroker] Not Compounding profits in backtester

2007-01-08 Thread Terry
Custom backtest procedure can do this...not a simple project. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of brentonfx Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 05:10 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Not Compounding profits

RE: [amibroker] LineArray()

2007-01-08 Thread Terry
that using styleNoRescale on Bollinger Bands, it actually shifted by BBands to the wrong location. They were no longer centered around the price. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ara Kaloustian Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 13:37

RE: [amibroker] HowTo - Paint 'Band' or Ribbon on bottom of chart, and othe plotting questions.

2007-01-07 Thread Terry
with the values to get them all in the right place. If you search the archives a couple of months (or more) back for heat map you will find some code that does this. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wes_zoltran2 Sent: Sunday, January 07

RE: [amibroker] Automatic updataion of intraday data

2007-01-04 Thread Terry
Add each symbol to your RTQ window. Then you can right-click on small green connection icon and choose Update all RT quote window symbols. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sajioommen2 Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 07:55

RE: [amibroker] Migrating AB to a new computer.

2007-01-04 Thread Terry
to copy from the Registry if you want to search. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sebastiandanconia Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 09:10 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Migrating AB to a new computer

RE: [amibroker] Re: TrendLine Scanning: Far from satisfactory

2007-01-02 Thread Terry
There was some discussion on having AND / OR conditions for multiple selections. I don't recall, but apparently it is only using symbols common to both lists. I thought this was in Feedback center, but I cannot find it. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com

RE: [amibroker] Index Volume Issue - Yahoo Data

2007-01-01 Thread Terry
This value 2,147,483,648 = 2^32 / 2 so you are getting overflow in AB. You can change the way volume is imported to divide by 1000 or some other number. See help on importing. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sdp_51 Sent

RE: [amibroker] help me whith small new formula

2006-12-30 Thread Terry
Your best bet is to get the latest beta version and use the bar replay feature. It walks thru the data as if it were coming in live, but at faster (user definable) speeds. This way you can see how ZigZag, trough and peak act as if it were real-time. -- Terry -Original Message- From

RE: [amibroker] Candlestick volume charts?

2006-12-30 Thread Terry
I don't think that is possible in AB. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of houston_rb Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 10:27 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Candlestick volume charts? Is Amibroker able

RE: [amibroker] Symbols

2006-12-27 Thread Terry
AAPL works fine as AAPL. Make sure it's not checked as Local Database only (Symbol-Information). Throttling: IB won't let you load too much data too fast for fear of overloading their servers. If you want more data faster you have to pay eSignal or DTN or similar. -- Terry -Original Message

RE: [amibroker] Re: Which Folders Are Shared By Default Between Multiple AB Installations

2006-12-27 Thread Terry
. Of course, this requires orders of magnitude more data than a daily database and long history is not available. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lester Vanhoff Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 23:28 To: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Re: Which Folders Are Shared By Default Between Multiple AB Installations

2006-12-27 Thread Terry
Tomasz, Thanks. However, I was referring to a daily database where there is no intraday data at all. If you had a minute database, then what is the purpose of using Mixed EOD/intraday? You can simply click on daily timeframe, right? I must be missing something here. -- Terry -Original

RE: [amibroker] Re: Which Folders Are Shared By Default Between Multiple AB Installations

2006-12-27 Thread Terry
Well thought out, as always :-) -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomasz Janeczko Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 14:21 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Which Folders Are Shared By Default

RE: [amibroker] Exploration Question

2006-12-27 Thread Terry
If you use no default columns in your Explore, but then add your own AddColumn(Name()...) for symbol, it does not double-click. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of troll Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 20:06 To: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] current intra-day bar time?

2006-12-21 Thread Terry
to change. Currently not used anywhere closingTime = 16; //154500 if closing at 16 and using 15 minute bars barClose= (Ref(TimeNum(),-1) closingTime AND TimeNum() = closingTime) OR DateNum() Ref(DateNum(),-1); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com

RE: [amibroker] apply stop?....

2006-12-19 Thread Terry
Oddly, I have found it doesn't matter where it is PROVIDED it is on it's own line. So your 2nd example would be wrong. I usually put it in above the Buy conditions as in your first example. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [amibroker] Re: apply stop?....

2006-12-19 Thread Terry
ApplyStops work correctly. There are several options you should verify in help. Slippage cannot be accounted for if it drops in the same day. You would need intraday for this. Still prices can drop through your stops even with minute data, especially if they are not particularly liquid. -- Terry

RE: [amibroker] Chart prices

2006-12-12 Thread Terry
one copy of Amibroker running. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Hawkins Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 13:28 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Chart prices I am noticing a difference in price on my

RE: [amibroker] Question re Foreign Function

2006-12-12 Thread Terry
Did you try this since you already stored the value of the entire array? Actually, yours probably works, you just forgot Ref( But I like to use the stored data instead of recalculating. comp = Foreign($COMPQ, C); compd = TimeFrameGetPrice(comp, inDaily); compp = Ref(compd,-1); -- Terry

RE: [amibroker] Re: Deleted broker.master, does not rebuild. + FULLNAME not working in title st

2006-12-06 Thread Terry
Can't answer your question directly, but try this instead: _N(Title = Name() + - + Fullname() + StrFormat( - {{INTERVAL}} {{DATE}} Open %g, Hi %g, Lo %g, Close %g (%.1f%%) {{VALUES}}, O, H, L, C, SelectedValue( ROC( C, 1 ) ) )); -- Terry -Original Message- How about the fullname

RE: [amibroker] How to handle Split Adjusted Stocks over the long term?

2006-12-06 Thread Terry
CSIData.com Original price is available in the OI field plus they have all the extinct stocks and symbol changes too. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wadebullock Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 16:47 To: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Re: Wheres the decent debugging or tracing tools. Cant find anything

2006-12-04 Thread Terry
No text messages show up in any AA function. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Homar Simpson Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 19:07 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re: Wheres the decent debugging or tracing

RE: [amibroker] Selling price not set properly sometimes

2006-12-03 Thread Terry
Just set SellPrice = Open; You are trying to fix something that Amibroker already handles with SetTradeDelays. // Options SetTradeDelays(1, 1, 1, 1); BuyPrice = SellPrice = Open; Buy = SomeCondition; Sell = Ref(Buy, 0); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com

RE: [amibroker] AFL for Dummies

2006-12-02 Thread Terry
more familiar to you). Then you have special variables that run their own functions invisible to you. Most notably, Buy-Sell-Short-Cover cause a backtest to be run. Check out Understanding AFL in the help section if you haven't already. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Code Help Please

2006-12-02 Thread Terry
be: inter2 = abs(t1); Also this line where you have already computed inter2, but recomputed it as abs(t1): Test1L = IIf(tempL = True AND abs(t1) 2, True, False); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David

RE: [amibroker] Need coding help with volume indicator

2006-12-02 Thread Terry
You can't set an array = the result of the SAME array. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of l_abarr Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 10:54 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Need coding help with volume

RE: [amibroker] ZG and ZI backfill from IB not working

2006-12-01 Thread Terry
Same here for ZG. YM worked on 2nd attempt. Don't track ZI. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of crasher_fl Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 12:25 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] ZG and ZI backfill from IB

RE: [amibroker] IB Back fill

2006-11-28 Thread Terry
Right click on the CONNECT icon and set your backfill days to 30, then backfill everything. Then set it back to 5 for ongoing use. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Hawkins Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 16:25

RE: [amibroker] Help: Decimal problems or bugs?

2006-11-24 Thread Terry
Can't explain it, but you can do this: Round(tick_size=(Open-Low)/0.0001)); -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clement Chin Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 03:46 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Help

RE: [amibroker] multi colored intraday volume bars

2006-11-08 Thread Terry
Yes, I'm pretty certain this works. Just use multiple IIf conditions in your Plot statement, and be careful of the order. IIf(condition3, colorBlue, IIf(condition2, colorRed, repeat as necessary...))) Note: this does NOT work with price Candles. -- Terry -Original Message- From

RE: [amibroker] Intra-day bars

2006-11-08 Thread Terry
Below -- Terry -Original Message- Subject: [amibroker] Intra-day bars Hello, does anyone know how intra-day data is handled in Amibroker? For example - if you get 5 minute data feed, is it given and intepreted as one bar that represents what happened in a 5 minute period? i.e. O,H,L,C

RE: [amibroker] Continue and Break Statement

2006-11-06 Thread Terry
; } -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jay_podda Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 12:55 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Continue and Break Statement I am wondering if there is Continue

RE: [amibroker] String Arrays

2006-11-06 Thread Terry
No string arrays in AB. Best you can do is this or Mark H's suggestion: strArray = str1,str2,str3,str4,); There are functions like StrExtract( list, item ) to extract the values. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker

RE: [amibroker] sell help....

2006-11-06 Thread Terry
Sell = Ref(Buy,-5); //Assuming a daily database There is also a HOLD function. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of thecoolestdude1369 Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 18:32 To: amibroker

RE: [amibroker] Pivot Points

2006-11-04 Thread Terry
can translate the rest of the code the same way. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of amon_gizeh Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 11:04 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Pivot Points Hi

RE: [amibroker] Buy. False/True?

2006-11-01 Thread Terry
. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of laster Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 21:21 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Buy. False/True? I was hoping the function Buy to return a False/True that I could

RE: [amibroker] Re: Trading Days V Calendar Days

2006-11-01 Thread Terry
Right, no data I suppose. Then the answer must be NO. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bruiserbbq Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 01:04 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Re: Trading Days V Calendar Days

RE: [amibroker] Please help - Problem with variables

2006-11-01 Thread Terry
up with the final value of Days_Till_Sell all the time...unless you use loop code in which case you can use a normal array to store when you are on a buy. -- Terry -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gosub283 Sent: Wednesday, November 01

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