Adding a bit to Graham's note, I use jScript to "drive" Amibroker externally. I also use Fred's tools called Batman for this purpose and it's written in a script language. For example, I've used jScript to organize/classify stocks in industry groups of my own making and then to rank them, or to develop composite arrays representing the internals of certain markets like NewHighs/NewLows Advance/Declines, MoneyFlow. In one of my cases, the steps are 1) identify the tradable issues (Howard Bandy's example in his book) based on history, price and volatility, 2) classify them in 38 sub industry groups while calculating the internal market metrics, 3) calculate the group averages, and 4) run a ranking exploration on the subsectors. There are plenty of other examples in the formula files - cleaning the database, exporting the watchlists, exporting the database, writing files.
Hope this helps Joe L. ----- Original Message ----- From: Graham To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:04 PM Subject: Re: [amibroker] JScript/VBScript Why? Sometimes certain things cannot be done with native AFL so the script is used. Also some of the formula in the library could have been written before the native AFL could do it. -- Cheers Graham AB-Write >< Professional AFL Writing Service Yes, I write AFL code to your requirements http://www.aflwriting.com On 12/04/07, mytakeismine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another newbie question. > Some of the Formulas in the AFL library contain code that is written > with jscript or vbscript, can someone elabarate why? Is it easer, more > complete, better functions or just programmer preferance? Another words > just easer to write that part of the program for them? > > Thanks, trying to understand. > > > > > 3-6 times faster than JScript/VBScript
