Brian, Very well put!
Lal ----- Original Message ---- From: brian_z111 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, 8 February, 2008 1:35:13 AM Subject: [amibroker] Re: no amibroker book? Graham, Sorry - I sent my reply to your PM by mistake. I think these discussions help Tomasz and the community in general so here is my viewpoint. I agree with your suggestion - it is the sensible thing to do and a lot are doing just that ("God helps those who help themselves" and "if you want something done do it your self") - you are correct. I wonder, though, how many thousands of hours you have put into your 'keeps' and whether the majority, who work full time, are able to match that? However, I also agree with the others that we need a good AFL book and IMO Tomasz is the man to write it - yes, even if he has to stop development to do it - take a sabbatical and get out the feathered pen Tomasz (I don't think Howard is doing an AFL book - although his books go a long way towards it). I actually drew a temporary line in the sand at starting my own mini- database of clippings. Reasons: AB is not my first and last love. It has taken an inordinate amount of my time to learn and I still haven't got to the bottom of it. I have to draw the line somewhere since it is my intention to be a professional trader and not a professional amibrokerist. As well as that I am a conceptual learner so I want to learn how to do it from first principle and not just memorize it like a parrot. Code help is great after you have exhuasted all personal efforts. That is what training should do - teach us how to do it from first princples rather than keeping a compendium of everyone elses past solutions. As well as that I have a philosophical objection to 1000's of people having to labour away in private over their own AB training manuals (a very inefficient use of precious HUMAN resources - "life is a short warm moment, death is along cold rest" - Pink Floyd). Also I like books. They represent 10 -20 years of the authors live (the best part of it) packed into a considered, ordered and edited presentation, all for the bargain basement price of around $100 bucks. Given the choice I would rather have a Tomasz 500 page AFL book than anyone's 5000 page compendium of forum clips etc. brian_z --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps.com, Graham <kavemanperth@ ...> wrote: > > Why not do what I have done over the years, any useful tips from posts > are pasted to my own library > > There is a wealth of information in the various sources, it is just a > matter of reading and working through the tons of examples. eg AB > library, AB yahoo groups file libraries, AB yahoo groups posts (search > for different topics/keywords) , User Knowledge base, AB Knowledge > base, AB members area, and not to forget the AB help files (that > contain a great search facility), and probably a few more I cannot > recall from top of the head > > -- > Cheers > Graham Kav > AFL Writing Service > http://www.aflwriti ng.com > > On 08/02/2008, brian_z111 <brian_z111@ ...> wrote: > > Some people do better with a book because of the formal structured > > approach. I agree with you on the wealth of resources though. We > > shouldn't overlook the forum either. Look at the answer at VarSelect > > (var1, var2,n) etc - the forum virtually wrote a chapter on demand - > > you can't beat that. > > > > Graham's and Tomasz's forum answers, over the years, are a book in > > themselves as well (thanks to all who continually answer code > > questions in the forum - a book would be nice to have but we would be > > lost without you all). > > > > brian_z > > > > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps.com, Grant Noble <gruntus@> wrote: > > > > > > Did you bother to read the manual or look at the AFL library? Those > > are huge resources in > > > themselves. More than enough there to begin anyone with coding. > > When I was starting I was grateful > > > that I didn't need to spend money on books. Neither do you.. > > > > > > normanjade wrote: > > > > I dont get it. Where are we supposed to learn the language? There > > > > doesn't seem to be any good resources out there. Anybody know > > where to > > > > go? 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