Hi Haders Think about what the power of Amibroker can accomplish. You can back test thousands of symbols in minutes where if you did this by hand it would take years. I know you already understand this but consider the learning curve with coding. Its high but achievable.
The best way to approach Amibroker is with patience. Proceed slowly and read all available support. Learning to code is kind of like jumping into the seat of a Boeing 747. There is no book out there that is going to teach you how to fly the craft through a blizzard in 20 minutes. Its work. a ton of it. I am also new to Amibroker and after spending a couple of weeks with the software I can only (at this point) suggest the following: You may want to consider working with the AFL Wizard first. The AFL wizard allows you to create a system using simple English to create the code. When you are finished, simply click the red exclamation point icon on top (second from last icon below the menu bar). Amibroker will now ask you where to save your file. Just save it to your desktop. When you are finished, go to your desk top, locate the saved file and open it. You will see the code as it appears in AFL language format. You can find both the AFL Wizard and the AFL editor under "Analysis" in the menu bar on top. Don't confuse the two. The AFL wizard is the first step to understanding "how to speak to Amibroker". When you finally learn how to code, you can type your code directly into the AFL editor by passing the AFL wizard completely. Here are some support links: check out the Amibroker user guide here http://www.amibroker.com/bin/UsersGuide.pdf Also, check out Howard Bandy is also writing a book on how to use Amibroker. It all on his web site at http://www.quantitativetradingsystems.com/ Howard has written a book on how to build trading systems and his book uses all the AFL language that is used in Amibroker. See: http://www.quantitativetradingsystems.com/book.html Check out this video on how to back test in Amibroker. http://www.amibroker.com/video/backtest.html I'm sure you are aware of Amibrokers Home Page. http://www.amibroker.com/ This is a great link with many support links: http://www.amibroker.com/support.html Also, there is a gentleman named Bill Barack who has videos for sale on how to use Amibroker. The video set is called "Amibroker 101" http://www.ftmonitor.com/ab101/ab101intro.html Good luck. Patience is the key. Walter Lepore --- In [email protected], "haders2003" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > I'm interested to know if there are any books, courses or other > educational resources available for AB. The tutorial is good and there > is much to learn from the postings on this group, but I find my > progress in AB is often limited by a lack of understanding of some of > the concepts. > > I get the impression that someone with a programing background would > find AFL simple to understand. For the rest of us (me!) progress can > be frustrating. > > Thanks > > Haders >
