>From my perspective, and this is really why I connected charting to the ideas of 'rule based' vs 'discretionary' trading... if you are a discretionary trader, from a software perspective it is ALL about visibility. If the software you are using doesn't or can't give you the best visibility available then you are at a disadvanatge. You can't make sensible discretionary trading decisions without being able to see how current market structure has evolved, what market dynamics are at play, how the auction process is evolving at different time frames etc..etc.. You simply don't get that from bar & candle charts.
Hence my obsession with Market Profile & Equivolume and generally more accessability and adaptability to AmiBroker's charting facilicites. Currently it's a fabulous piece of software, particualrly for 'rule based' traders.... But probably a less fabulous piece of software for discretionary day traders for example. But of course, I appreciate, it's hard to be all things to all men... --- In [email protected], Ken Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One simple suggestion for charting improvement: > > Put in the ability to insert a "Tab" character in a Title statement in order > to make it easier to produce multi-line tables with "columns" left justified > no matter how many decimal places in previous values in the same row. I > have done it via complex IIF statements but how nice it would be to insert > the code for a tab character to create columns. No, I do not want to do > this with the gfx commands (too complex for this application). > > Ken > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Tomasz Janeczko > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 4:33 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [amibroker] 'Rule Based' versus 'Discretionary' trading... > > Hello, > > Not wanting to hijack this thread but whenever I ask about some itemized > list of what is exactly "weak" in AB charting, I don't receive any > meaningful reply. I would really want to know some objective list instead of > statements I heard on ET that "charts are ugly" which for me unfortunatelly > means nothing, considering the hunderds of ways charts can be customized > according to user taste in AB. >
