I am a programmer and AFL was really hard for me when I started because I was not used to arrays. But just keep writing your own examples and reading the manual and it will soak in after a great while. I think not being a programmer is a boon to AFL understanding because it is so foreign to typical programming style used with Basic, C, Pascal, etc. If you understand Excel you are on your way as they are very similar. Actually learning AFL helped me with Excel.
There is a large learning scale. Just looking over the large list of functions will help you greatly because most of the time you can imaging what you want to do but are not aware of the functions that do just want you want. Take what Tomasz says with a grain of salt and a lot of humility. He is so familiar with AFL that I think it is hard for him to get down to the level of the newbie. What we can't see is clear as glass to him and is way to complex at times for novices or non-programmers. Glad I could help. Keep at it and have fun, Barry --- In [email protected], "reinsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Barry, > > You can't imagine how valuable is your example for a non-programmer. > > You are right in saying "read the AFL manual. This is a very simple > problem to solve." > > Your answser should be added somewhere to illustrate the AFL > help/tutorial/manual that are most of the time chinese for newbie. > Or maybe in a new place in the KB to store basics examples. > > I keep in mind a funny thing. > Somewhere, I read an answer of TJ that gave an advanced solution to a > tricky question. As the forumer came back to have more explanations, > TJ finished the thread by " read my answer, if you don't understand > it's not for you...". > > So, thanks so much for this short tutorial that allows to enter step > by step in the AB world. > > Best Regards > > > --- In [email protected], "Barry Scarborough" <razzbarry@> > wrote: > > > > plot(C, "C", colorblack); > > myMA = MA(C,13); > > plot(myMA, "MA", colorblue); > > plot(C - myMA, "Distance", colorgreen, styleHistogram | styleownscale); > > > > Pardon my saying so but one thing that would really help you would be > > to read the AFL manual. This is a very simple problem to solve. > > > > Barry > > > > --- In [email protected], "Mohammed" <softnews2003@> wrote: > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Any one can create indicator that can measure the distance between > > > price and Simple Moving average and plot the result as a histogram or > > > any good shape. > > > > > > Regards. > > > > > >
