Re: Bls: Bls: Perlu Gak Ngoprek AFL ? - was: [Komunitas AmiBroker] Pertanyaan Bu

2009-10-05 Thread dennymorerich
Setiap manusia punya bakat minat masing2terlepas itu bermanfaat atau tidak bagi dirinya atau orang lain...Namun satu yang pasti, bila didasari untuk membahagiakan,membantu agar bermanfaat bagi orang lain, saya kira Yang Maha Kuasa yang akan mencukupinya. --- In

Bls: Bls: Bls: Perlu Gak Ngoprek AFL ? - was: [Komunitas AmiBroker] Pertanyaan Bu

2009-10-05 Thread Daeng Adhe
Sependapat dengan komentnya mas dennymorerich... bukankah tangan yang di atas lebih mulia dari tangan yg d bawah... Dari: dennymorerich dennymorer...@yahoo.com Kepada: amibroker-4-bei@yahoogroups.com Terkirim: Sel, 6 Oktober, 2009 01:21:57 Judul: Re: Bls: Bls:

[Komunitas AmiBroker] Tanya Update Amibroker

2009-10-05 Thread H. Ruslim
Dear all, Saya mengalami masalah update amibroker. Seperti biasa update dilakukan melalui yahoo current... Namun kok update terakhir hanya sampai tanggal 2 Oktober ? Dan update tgl 5 oktober kemaren tidak masuk ? Kenapa ya ? Ada yang pernah alami hal seperti ini ? Thank's rgds Har

[Komunitas AmiBroker] Perlu enggak ngoprek AFL ?

2009-10-05 Thread Dendo - AMIBROKERFREAK
Halo semua.. Seru juga threadnya yang ini... rasanya engak akan ulas lagi ya nanti tambah panjang... ha3x.. opini saya semuanya bener.. namanya juga opini alias pendapat masing2 ya semua betul dong.. BTW ini yang bisa share : bagi yang mau belajar AFL pada Sabtu, 24 Oktober ada training

[amibroker] Re: Filtering Out Preferred Share Issues

2009-10-05 Thread Mike
Hi, I believe that Norgate uses a '+' in the symbol name for preferred shares. Modify your exploration to not inclue any symbol having a + in its name. Similarly, set Buy/Sell/Short/Cover to 0 for whenever Name() contains a +. Here's a quick exploration to verify the assumption: Filter =

Re: [amibroker] Re: Is the Walk forward study useful?

2009-10-05 Thread Ton Sieverding
Hi Howard, I still am struggling with the following sentence from David Aronson : The decision about how to apportion the data between the IS and OOS subsets is arbitrary. There is no theory that suggests what fraction of the data should be assigned to training ( IS ) and testing ( OOS ).

[amibroker] Calculation of +DI in Amibroker

2009-10-05 Thread Wolfgang Hader
Hello all, how does Amibroker calculate +DI and +DI? I tried different methods to calculate this values: http://technical.traders.com/tradersonline/display.asp?art=278 But I do net get the same results as Amibroker. One thing is interesting in Amibroker: When I use an ADX(14) the first value of

[amibroker] Re: Is the Walk forward study useful?

2009-10-05 Thread Bisto
Thanks for the contribute Howard, when I spoke about more or less 30 trades I meant trades inside the IS period, I fully agree that having few trades in OS period is not a problem according to your huge experience do you believe that we have to consider a minimum number of trades in the IS

[amibroker] Re: Is the Walk forward study useful?

2009-10-05 Thread Mike
Ton, Are you saying that you have not found an IS/OOS pair that works well? What measure are you using to judge stability of the walk forward process (i.e. what measure are you using to judge the process as random)? After testing with multiple IS periods, and with multiple OOS periods, I was

Re: [amibroker] Re: Is the Walk forward study useful?

2009-10-05 Thread Ton Sieverding
Hi Mike, What I am saying is : 1. That according to David Aronson There is no theory that suggests what fraction of the data should be assigned to training ( IS ) and testing ( OOS ). and that Results can be very sensitive to these choices ... . I assume that he knows where he is talking

[amibroker] Re: Is the Walk forward study useful?

2009-10-05 Thread Mike
Ton, 1. Pardo disagrees with Aronson (and Bandy). Pardo suggests that a OOS to IS ration of 25% - 35% is best, but that a good rule of thumb for empirical testing is 1/8 to 1/3. 2. Yes, I suspect that each strategy will have its own best values for IS/OOS and that other values will appear as

[amibroker] Re: Is the Walk forward study useful?

2009-10-05 Thread Mike
Ton, You said If you can help me to get things done in an objective way then I will be delighted to know how you want to do that What I was suggesting was: 1. Identify what measure you will use to judge the IS/OOS period sizes (i.e. in my case I used consistency of CAR). 2. Run walk forward

[amibroker] Re: Is the Walk forward study useful?

2009-10-05 Thread Gonzaga
Thanks, Howard for your knowledge: I've read your book, I think is very good. But after all, one have to deal with his own systems and problems. In my case, after these discussions, I have increased the IS period from 3 months to 5 months. The CAR in the WF simulation have increased from 30% to

Re: [amibroker] Re: Is the Walk forward study useful?

2009-10-05 Thread Thomas Ludwig
Mike, how do calculate SQN? I've tried this: SQN=sqrt(st.GetValue(AllQty))*st.GetValue(AllAvgProfitLoss)/StDev(st.GetValue(NetProfit)); bo.AddCustomMetric(SQN,SQN); but I'm not sure if this is correct. What do you think? Regards, Thomas On 05.10.2009, 09:29:41 Mike wrote: Ton, Are you

Re: [amibroker] Re: Is the Walk forward study useful?

2009-10-05 Thread Ton Sieverding
Thanks for your patience Mike -) 1. I know Pardo disagrees with Aronson. And yes I am also using Pardo's rule of thumb. But a rule of thumb without a scientific explanation is still a rule of thumb and therefore subjective. The result of this is when taking 1/8 in stead of 1/3, I am getting a

Re: [amibroker] Re: Is the Walk forward study useful?

2009-10-05 Thread Ton Sieverding
Thanks again Mike ... See also my previous answer. Just one more remark. Here you are suggesting to take 1 to 3 year for the OOS period. When using commodity time series, this is more or less what I am doing. Why ? Because a lot of commodities coming from the agricultural sector have these

[amibroker] Trendlines on PnF charts

2009-10-05 Thread Anthony C. Abry
Let me try this again as this ended up in the wrong thread... My drawings on PnF charts move to the left every day (daily data) while the actual PnF chart does not. What would be a good way to stop this from happening? Attached find the code. If you put it into replay mode , draw a trend line,

[amibroker] Scan not matching plot ?????? Help

2009-10-05 Thread Rajiv Arya
Hi all, I have been attempting to debug this one for a week. The ouput of the scan for the column highvol, does not match the plot of highvol. I am trying it on intraday data, 5 minute TF with eSignal as my data provider. Thanks in advance. Rajiv newday=Day()!=Ref(Day(),-1); barnum =

[amibroker] Re: Ami 5.29

2009-10-05 Thread Bisto
I very appreciate this new symbol window. Looking for a string in the middle of a name is very useful with mutual funds TJ, do you plan to put again in a future version the little rectangle colored with the color of the market in this new window? It was useful to understand with a glance what

[amibroker] Re: AmiBroker 5.29.0 BETA2 released - fixed opt plugins

2009-10-05 Thread Bisto
I just update to this beta2 but the about amibroker pop up still says that I am using 5.29.0 build date Oct 2 2009, is it correct? I don't see any differnce as confirmation of the update CMAE is correctly running but it was ok also in 5.29.0 (I tested it before the update)... I am confused...

[amibroker] Tick count on es

2009-10-05 Thread jooleanlogic
Can anyone tell me what an average and high tick count per day is on the es eminis, and what is the average number of ticks for the life of a contract? Also if anyone's got it, what is the average number of bid/ask messages to trade ratio. E.g. The SFE Spi averages about 15k ticks per day and

[amibroker] Re: AmiBroker 5.29.0 BETA2 released - fixed opt plugins

2009-10-05 Thread dubi1974
Tribes and SPSO had a problem. Regards, dubi --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Bisto bistoma...@... wrote: I just update to this beta2 but the about amibroker pop up still says that I am using 5.29.0 build date Oct 2 2009, is it correct? I don't see any differnce as confirmation of the

Re: [amibroker] Re: AmiBroker 5.29.0 BETA2 released - fixed opt plugins

2009-10-05 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Hello, Yes that's correct. AmiBroker version is the same as AmiBroker itself did not change. The only difference is that beta2 has fixed optimization DLLs (Tribes.dll, CMAE.dll, PSOSample.dll) Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original Message - From: Bisto

RE: [amibroker] Tick count on es

2009-10-05 Thread Rajiv Arya
Hi Jules, Try the CME website, I believe they have a time and sale history that can be downloaded. Also if you use Interactive broker they have a tick count per bar that can be queried in the API. Rajiv To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com From: joole...@hotmail.com Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009

[amibroker] Re: AmiBroker 5.29.0 BETA2 released - fixed opt plugins

2009-10-05 Thread Bisto
I am a lucky man :-) --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, dubi1974 gonzale...@... wrote: Tribes and SPSO had a problem. Regards, dubi --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Bisto bistoman73@ wrote: I just update to this beta2 but the about amibroker pop up still says that I am using 5.29.0

[amibroker] Re: Is the Walk forward study useful?

2009-10-05 Thread Gonzaga
I am amazed of how much have you study the walk forward! I never had tried so many combinations IS/OOS. I haven't thought it very much, but so many combinatios.. smells like curve fitting.. But I have a very simple doubt: what steps doy you use? I think Howard Bandy says that the step could be

[amibroker] Re: Is the Walk forward study useful?

2009-10-05 Thread Mike
Yes, there is a danger of curve fitting. Yes, it takes weeks of work to do the studies. Mike --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Gonzaga gonzag...@... wrote: I am amazed of how much have you study the walk forward! I never had tried so many combinations IS/OOS. I haven't thought it very much,

[amibroker] Tips for reducing CPU load

2009-10-05 Thread Rob
Hi All, I seem to be maxing out the core I'm using on AB... starting to cause problems operationally. I'm mainly doing charting and real time AFL. Any tips for reducing CPU load so I can perhaps give myself a little more breathing space?? TIA

Re: [amibroker] Tips for reducing CPU load

2009-10-05 Thread Ara Kaloustian
- review your memory settings in preferences... make sure you are not allocating memory that you are not using - reduce number of symbols you monitor if you don't need them all - Original Message - From: Rob sidharth...@yahoo.com To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 05,

[amibroker] Re: Help Limiting number of positions added per day

2009-10-05 Thread raskoks
Hi,maybe someone can tell me what i do wrong. I have smth like that (code below) and i need to have max only one transaction per day. Morover every transacion is simply reversing position (always on market). But for this code signals which aren't use ( for example buy signal when i already have

Re: [amibroker] Re: Is the Walk forward study useful?

2009-10-05 Thread i cs
Hi Ton, Howard, Please ignore the previous post, I hit the send accidentally.. FWIW, I am currently trading two EOD systems. One is a simple breakout system, the other is a reversal system Reversal systems are very not me and I would only be comfortable trading it after all the WFA work that

[amibroker] Re: Help Limiting number of positions added per day

2009-10-05 Thread woodshedder_blogspot
Raskoks, I am not very good at this yet, but I can see a few things that might be causing problems. 1. SetBacktestMode( backtestRegularRaw2 ); Make sure that you want RegularRaw2. Raw2 does allow redundant signals. 2. newDayB=Ref(dn,-1)!= dn; I don't see where you have defined dn. 3. if (

[amibroker] New Products for AmiBroker at CodeForTraders.com

2009-10-05 Thread progster01
Hello everyone. This month is a big month for new AmiBroker products at CodeForTraders, and I'd like to let you know about the newest developments. 3 new products are available now, bringing our AB product line to a total of 5. Two new AB Strategy Suites have been added, along with an

Re: [amibroker] Tips for reducing CPU load

2009-10-05 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
First and foremost: use AFL Editor, Tools-Code Check And Profile to reduce complexity of your code, by removing repeated function calls (with invariant parameters), using array operators wherever possible instead of loops, re-thinking code to get simpler formulation, avoiding any

Re: [amibroker] Re: Help Limiting number of positions added per day

2009-10-05 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Hello, If you want raw signals, whenever possible use backtestRegularRaw, instead of Raw2. As explained in the manual, Raw2 modes are special for advanced users of custom backtester. They are only useful if you do custom processing of exit signals in custom backtester procedure. They should

[amibroker] Re: Is the Walk forward study useful?

2009-10-05 Thread Mike
Hi Ton, I agree that the rule of thumb is subjective. So far, I've been willing to live with it. It appears that you and I have different expectations of IS/OOS window sizes. I treat the calculation of walk forward window sizes as a second pass optimization, similar to a simple moving average

[amibroker] Re: Tick count on es

2009-10-05 Thread jooleanlogic
Thanks Rajiv, I found some samples on the CME website. Jules. --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Rajiv Arya rajivary...@... wrote: Hi Jules, Try the CME website, I believe they have a time and sale history that can be downloaded. Also if you use Interactive broker they have a

RE: [amibroker] Best Approach to a Multipass Problem

2009-10-05 Thread ta
Well, after spending about a month on this problem. I can not figure out step to namely: 2. Run thru the atc files and find the min and max values for alpha and beta and store is in one new atc file (2nd pass thru database) Any help or direction would be much appreciated. TIA From:

[amibroker] Re: Filtering Out Preferred Share Issues

2009-10-05 Thread woodshedder_blogspot
Thanks Mike, that's got it! And what a simple solution. Here is what I used, if anyone is interested... Cond1 and Cond2 were already part of my filter before I decided to exclude preferred share issues. Filter = GroupID(0) == 1 AND StrFind(Name(),+) == 0 AND Cond1 AND Cond2; Buy=Filter; --- In

[amibroker] Re: Best Approach to a Multipass Problem

2009-10-05 Thread Mike
For steps 1 and 3, are you spanning symbols? In other words, do you want the min out of all symbols, or do you want the min on a symbol by symbol basis? You might get a better response if you describe a concrete example of what you are trying to do, assuming 2-3 symbols over a handful of bars.