I believe I found a problem with one of AmiBroker's Automatic Analysis
features. The feature, 'Replace Watchlist with the Results', allows one to
create an exploration of a watchlist, sort the watchlist say on UPI, and then
replace the original watchlist with this UPI ranked ticker list.
However, I found that when I added a number count as the first column, using he
following code, the AA feature empties the watchlist. Nothing. Gone. Empty.
I do not believe it should do this and am guessing it does it because I added
'#' as the first column and not the ticker as the first column.
ticknum = Status("stocknum") + 1;
Width_Number = 25;
AddColumn(ticknum,"#", 3.0, colorDefault, colorDefault, Width_Number);
I added the '#' column as AmiBroker does not have a feature allowing a user to
rank an exploration first and then tell AmiBroker to add the rank order number
('#'). That is, it is nice to look down the list to see that ticker xyz is
number 10 based on UPI. So, the only way around this to ...
a) Do an exploration on a watchlist providing the # column.
b) Click on UPI to rank this list from highest to lowest, which, screws up the
# column.
c) Click and replace the watchlist with the results.
d) Do exploration again so that top UPI is #1 all the way to lowest UPI being
the last number.
I would prefer to do all of this in one step, rather than 4 steps, but, and
again, AmiBroker does not have a feature as of yet allowing one to add a number
column AFTER a column is ranked.
Comments appreciated.
