--- In [email protected], "bilbo0211" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Anyway AB definitely doesn't do frequency distributions and/or plot them > > I have done similar things using very simple, albeit rather tedious > methods, within AB (it is a good place to do it because I get the > visuals with the charts and also the Reports from Explorer to back up > the study). > > I do use Excel a lot because I am familiar with it<< > > I don't really need AB or Excel for plotting/statistics. I think you > should use the most appropriate tool for the job. > > 1st let me start out by saying that I am not a programmer and I don't > want to become one; however, over the years I have found it necessary > to use a variety of programming languages. IMO, the best use of AFL is > the built in array functions. If you have to write your own for loops, > unless it is something really simple, you are better off using a > different tool. Also, in my experience, if you write your own loops > instead of using the built in arrays, the formula runs slow. > > AFL is a C like language and IMO is not a good choice for non > programmers. For my own programming, I use a scripting language called > Python (www.python.org). It is the easiest programming language to > learn and use that I have found. W.r.t. the current topic, there are 2 > addon modules for Python that I use, scipy (scientific tools for > Python, it could be called applied math tools for Python) and > matplotlib (a plotting library designed to be an improvement of > Matlab). It is very easy to use AB to take the analysis as far as the > built in array functions can, then output the data to a file and use > matplotlib/scipy to finish and plot the results. >
Yes, my current skillset limits me to 'less than optimal' methods. Thanks for your answers, they are very good and help me to get ready to move on. > >>I guess by Pivots that you mean the (H+L+C)/3 version<< > > I have a number of things I would like to test. There is more than one > way to calculate Pivots and S/R (3 I know of are traditional, Woodie > and Camarilla). I also read an article in which the author compared > Pivot-S/R to random S/R lines and claims there is no value to > Pivot-S/R. I need to verify that research. > > Bill > Fair enough. S/R is amongst the most basic of TA methods. As a rule of thumb my analyse confirms that the simple TA methods are amongst the best and do hold up but as you say we always need to verify in a specific context. brian_z
