Instruct your users to setup things as you need, or send them broker.prefs file (that holds prefs).
Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Conrad Joach" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:07 AM Subject: [amibroker] Re: Why does AmiBroker under report time intervals by 1 minute on a 15min chart? > Makes sense, but I'm actually talking about going the other direction, from > AFL/AB to the plugin. My plugin needs to be able to > expect that all times given to it are indeed also "start of interval", > otherwise it will receive a time for any bar and not know > what to make of it. If the user has it set to end of interval, and my plugin > receives 9:29:59, it's going to be unable to match it > with other market data that it has access to (outside of AB) that is at > 9:30:00. > > So is there a way to know what the user set their preference to? If not, > maybe it should be something that you can query through > Status("...")? > > > > --- In [email protected], "Tomasz Janeczko" <gro...@...> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> At least! - you noticed that everything in AmiBroker is configurable :-) >> Good. >> It is usual experience for new users that they find something "odd" for them >> but then... surprise - you can change it to suit >> your >> preferences. >> >> As for the plugins - there is a fixed rule for plugins and data imported - >> the timestamps reported by the plugins must >> use "start of interval". So minute data for bar spanning from 09:30:00.000 >> to 09:30:59.999 should have internal timestamp of >> 09:30:00. And it is fixed rule for data plugins. >> >> The setting is GLOBAL, and can't be "per-chart" because you would end up >> with mess trying to compare >> for example AA results with indicators or indicators with other indicators. >> >> As for suggestions - they are welcome but... you should familiarize with the >> program for at least 2 months before >> sending your very first suggestion. That avoids suggesting things already >> existing and things that were suggested already. >> Note that there is over than 1000 suggestions already submitted and new >> suggestions are put on hold status and are unlikely >> to be considered for 2+ years, because there are earlier suggestions waiting >> for implementation. >> >> Best regards, >> Tomasz Janeczko >> amibroker.com >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Conrad Joach" <consolejo...@...> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:20 AM >> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Why does AmiBroker under report time intervals by 1 >> minute on a 15min chart? >> >> >> > Thanks, so AB gives you a lot of choices here. Very nice. One problem >> > though is that Hourly intervals still fall on the half >> > hour, >> > which is very weird. Is there something I'm missing in the settings to >> > change that too? >> > >> > Oh wait, I just found it: "align minute bars to regular market hours". >> > >> > This is all pretty cool, except the one problem I see is for plugins that >> > are expecting a certain interpretation of interval >> > and >> > time. I suppose one could require the settings to be set for a given >> > plugin, except that different scripts/plugins may require >> > different settings. That means multiple instances of AB in order to >> > satisfy such a condition. I think ideally these should be >> > settings on a par chart window level, right? Maybe I'll offer that up as a >> > suggestion. >> > >> > >> > --- In [email protected], "janhausd" <janhaus.dresden@> wrote: >> >> >> >> Conrad, >> >> >> >> Tools->Preferences->Intraday, then try the Start or End of time >> >> intervals. One of these should do it. >> >> >> >> >> >> --- In [email protected], "Conrad Joach" <consolejoker@> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > I am trying to understand how AmiBroker reports the time in bars. As >> >> > one example, I am noticing that on a 15 minute chart, >> >> > every 15 minute interval (not counting the last one, which is in >> >> > progress) is reporting 1 less minute than it should be. For >> >> > example right now in EST I see: >> >> > >> >> > .....9:14:25,9:29:50,9:44:55 >> >> > >> >> > on a chart for EURUSD futures on CME. Why isn't AmiBroker reporting >> >> > 9:15:xx,9:30:xx,9:45:xx ? >> >> > >> >> > To say nothing of the issue of the seconds being different on each >> >> > interval. >> >> > >> >> > Is it safe to assume that AB is always under reporting the minutes by 1 >> >> > for the given interval? In other words, can I safely >> >> > parse out the minutes and add one to get the real interval? >> >> > >> >> > I also noticed that an hourly chart reports time in a weird way. It is >> >> > 10:03pm EST. The last bar says 10:03pm. Fine. The >> >> > prior >> >> > bar says 9:29:xx, the bar prior to that 8:29:xx. Don't most charting >> >> > apps use the convention of even hours? So that each bar >> >> > is >> >> > on an even hour interval? Isn't that pretty much standard convention or >> >> > is there an option to change this in AmiBroker? >> >> > >> >> > Thanks. >> >> > >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------ >> > >> > **** IMPORTANT PLEASE READ **** >> > This group is for the discussion between users only. >> > This is *NOT* technical support channel. >> > >> > TO GET TECHNICAL SUPPORT send an e-mail directly to >> > SUPPORT {at} amibroker.com >> > >> > TO SUBMIT SUGGESTIONS please use FEEDBACK CENTER at >> > http://www.amibroker.com/feedback/ >> > (submissions sent via other channels won't be considered) >> > >> > For NEW RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENTS and other news always check DEVLOG: >> > http://www.amibroker.com/devlog/ >> > >> > Yahoo! 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