It has been fun to search the yahoo archives back to 2002 and see names of a
lot of the original folks who got on the Amibroker bandwagon back in the
early days, many of whom are no longer around (at least not posting like
they used to). Boy, how the program has evolved and improved over these
many years.
I was looking back there in the archives for messages on the Osaka Plugin
(which is still on my hard drive since 2002 but which I have never used).
Maybe now......
I have a need to take a watchlist and position rank several columns of
calculations and determine the postion rank of the ticker for that
calculation; then do the same for another column (calculation), get the
position rank for that additional column, and then combine the position
ranking numbers for the columns for each ticker, sort of to get a Master
ranking parameter.
My question is: what new features in AB might help accomplish this? Surely
the Osaka Plugin (2002 vintage) is not the only way to do what I want. I
have not really studied nor used Static and Dynamic variables---is this the
set of commands that I would use with looping to get position ranks of a
watchlist?
I did find and just tested some code from the Library which used just these
tools (variables and looping) and it was painfully slow and would not really
work for the application I have in mind. I am uncertain if the code in that
example can be modified to make it faster.
Any suggestions about this age-old question/problem, given the many advances
of Amibroker since 2002??
Thanks for any ideas (the more specific the better).
Ken
