[Komunitas AmiBroker] IHSG Updated 9 Maret 2010 BRPT Updated

2010-03-08 Thread Pengamat Market
IHSG Updated 9 Maret 2010 financeindonesia.org Pada posting sebelumnya terbaca adanya pola Triangle pada gerakan naik IHSG. Dimana dengan munculnya pattern ini maka IHSG berpeluang untuk naik Berikut gambar pada posting sebelumnya Updated IHSG Target kenaikan IHSG terdekat ada di FE 61.8%

[amibroker] Manually drawn studies gone missing.

2010-03-08 Thread kaizenwarrior
hi, Just a week old with AB and tryin to catch up with the fundamentals of GUI and the know wheres. At the moment, I am not sure of how to back-up/restore the manual study(s) that I drew on a specific symbol. My experience is: the studies drawn on a symbol re-appears in a new/second chart

[amibroker] Few Newbie Questions

2010-03-08 Thread jchi18
1. When is the earliest I can download EOD data from Yahoo? i.e., when will today's data be available for download? 2. In the trades tab when performing automatic analysis, what does buy price mean if I set it to open? i.e., I perform a scan of my trading system and it says that a buy

[amibroker] Percentile Rank

2010-03-08 Thread nyc65225
Hi there I am new to this group, and was wondering if there is any way to replicate in Amibroker what the function PERCENTILERANK does in Excel. Basically, I have an array, and I want to compare a specific value (i.e. the value of an oscillator), to its ranks in the array.. Is there a shortcut

[amibroker] Deleting data 6 months old From amibroker RT database.

2010-03-08 Thread Lakshmanasamy V
How do I delete data more than 6 months old from amibroker real time base for all the symbols?

[amibroker] Adding Colums to Backtest

2010-03-08 Thread jchi18
Is there a way to add columns to the backtest results that show: 1. The MACD at the time of trigger 2. RSI at the time of trigger Thanks.

[amibroker] Re: Question about JScript/VBScript DLL's...

2010-03-08 Thread Rob
Thanks Reef. Is there really much of a speed benefit...? Obviously depends on the code... but lets say I have a looping routine written in AFL... if I were to write the same routine in C++ and create a DLL would there be much speed benefit...? I ask because I have one looping routine that

[amibroker] Price scaling question

2010-03-08 Thread Neil Wrightson
Hi, I trade the FTSE and Australian SPI on 5min charts, both of which are around 5000 points in value and have 20..100 point moves in a day. What I would like to be able to do, is have the price scale on the right hand side of the chart fixed to a certain size. I.e. on my screen it would be

Re: [amibroker] Percentile Rank

2010-03-08 Thread Anthony Faragasso
Hello, Did you check the help file for: Percentile( array, period, rank ) Anthony - Original Message - From: nyc65225 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 6:58 PM Subject: [amibroker] Percentile Rank Hi there I am new to this group, and

[amibroker] Assistance required with TimeFrameGetPrice

2010-03-08 Thread flapjack_666
Hi all, I am new to Amibroker and I am currently struggling to get TimeFrameGetPrice working as I would expect. I have got the following code: WeekClose = TimeFrameGetPrice(C, inWeekly, -1); // get the opening price of previous week Plot(WeekClose ,PreviousWeekClose,colorBlack, styleDashed);

[amibroker] Help Please !!!How to control sell time with Barsince for more than 1 stocks?

2010-03-08 Thread Tao
Hi, Basically I scan 500 stocks everyday to find stocks that have buy signal(such as price have crossed MA 50). Then I buy the stocks and exit them in 5 days after I boought them. MA=EMA(C,50); Buy = Cross( MA, C ); Sell = BarsSince(Buy)5; But the backtester don't sell stocks exactly 5 days

[amibroker] Seeking tutor/consultant on Amibroker?

2010-03-08 Thread Michael
Hey folks, I just started my journal with Amibroker today, frankly this is my very first experience with such as software. Previously I wrote my own trading signals from scratch using C++, Matlab and R. Excitedly, I am looking for tutor/consultant who can help me get familiar with Amibroker as

Re: [amibroker] Seeking tutor/consultant on Amibroker?

2010-03-08 Thread Herman
You may be able to get some ideas from what is published on the Users' Knowledge base: http://www.amibroker.org/userkb/ There are a number of other sites that you can access without full AB registration, and there are some excellent books by Howard Bandy which will definitely speed you on your

[amibroker] Amibroker Perspective

2010-03-08 Thread jchi18
What has been people's experience with Amibroker in terms of accuracy? Initially, I found it very difficult to design a system that makes a decent profit. However, I have recently designed a system that would have netted me (through the backtester years 2000-2010) almost $1 billion dollars had

[amibroker] Re: Question about JScript/VBScript DLL's...

2010-03-08 Thread jooleanlogic
For loops and array access, yes there is a significant speed difference in C. Just think of it this way Sid, your afl loop in a dll will take about as long as any other inbuilt afl function does. If an MA call on your machine takes a few milliseconds, then that's roughly as long as your afl

Re: [amibroker] Amibroker Perspective

2010-03-08 Thread Herman
AmiBroker's accuracy doesn't play a role in system performance (it is accurate) what you probably mean is what kind of slippage you can expect. The effect of slippage would depend on your average profit. You can simulate and check the effect of slippage by increasing your commission level.

[amibroker] Need to convert mutual fund formulas for ETFs

2010-03-08 Thread graphman27
I created a bunch of strategies for mutual funds and realized that some do not work as well for ETFs. I got input from several Amibroker users regarding that, but have a different take on it now. My current thinking is that it's not so much that ETFs are not highly correlated to their mutual

[amibroker] Yahoo Symbol Lists

2010-03-08 Thread nunopires2001
Hello, I have tested my trading system with Nyse stocks (6k stocks). I need now, to test the system against other large stock markets. Anyone have symbol list (yahoo finance) for other representative stock markets? Maybe London, Singapore, Canada? Thanks

Re: [amibroker] Price scaling question

2010-03-08 Thread Reinsley
|// adjustable scale gridINCR = Param( incr, 50, 5, 100, 5 ); *if* ( ParamToggle( show custom grid, NO|YES, 1 ) ) { SetChartOptions( 1, *chartShowArrows* | *chartShowDates*, 0 ); firstbarvisible = BarIndex() == 1 *OR* ( Status( barvisible ) *AND* *NOT* Ref( Status( barvisible ), -1 ) );

Re: [amibroker] Yahoo Symbol Lists

2010-03-08 Thread Henrik Rasmussen
One way to get lists of Yahoo symbols is to go to the indexes and select Components, then download the spreadsheet. Example: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cp?s=^SMSI Rik Rasmussen On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:43 AM, nunopires2001 nunopires2...@yahoo.comwrote: Hello, I have tested

[amibroker] Re: Question about JScript/VBScript DLL's...

2010-03-08 Thread Rob
Thanks Jules. Very informative. This is why you should always try and use the built in functions and array arithmetic operators where possible. Or indeed code any looping structures that can't be avoided in AFL and are called regularly in C++ as a DLL. --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [amibroker] Help Please !!!How to control sell time with Barsince for more than 1 stocks?

2010-03-08 Thread Anthony Faragasso
Did you try: Sell=exremspan(buy,5); - Original Message - From: Tao To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 5:17 PM Subject: [amibroker] Help Please !!!How to control sell time with Barsince for more than 1 stocks? Hi, Basically I scan 500

[amibroker] Re: Question about JScript/VBScript DLL's...

2010-03-08 Thread dotnetsdkforab
Hi, for performance reasons only loops and huge AFL script costructs (usually include files) are good candidate for converting them to compiled code. As long as you use built-in AB functions like (MA, EMA, etc, or use its array operators) it is quite fast. Loops and accessing array elements

Re: [amibroker] Amibroker Perspective

2010-03-08 Thread Howard B
Hi Jchi -- Herman is right. When profits look too good to be true, the first thing I check for is a future leak -- using data in the trading system code that is available to the backtester that would not be available to the trader. Depending on the code used, checking this might be as easy as

Re: [amibroker] Adding Colums to Backtest

2010-03-08 Thread Howard B
Hi Jchi -- I recommend that you do this in two steps. One -- write the trading system, including Buy and Sell statements. Use the Automatic Analysis Backtest button to run the backtest and get trading results. Two -- add AddColumn statements to the code. (See the reference materials for

Re: [amibroker] Few Newbie Questions

2010-03-08 Thread Howard B
Hi Jchi -- High quality, low cost end-of-day data is available from several vendors. Two I recommend (I subscribe to them both) are: Quotes Plus -- http://qp2.com/joomla/index.php Norgate Premium Data -- http://www.premiumdata.net/ Read the reference materials related to BuyPrice, SellPrice, and

Re: [amibroker] Re: Question about JScript/VBScript DLL's...

2010-03-08 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
40-50ms for each array access It should be written that each array element takes 1/BarCount part of total time. TOTAL time (for half million bars) is 50 ms. So each array element access time using the loop is about 0.1 MICROsecond (0.001 sec). Generally speaking AFL loops are quite

[amibroker] Re: Yahoo Symbol Lists

2010-03-08 Thread nunopires2001
It works. But I can only download 50 symbols each time. For a large index, I will need to repeat the same step 50 times :-( --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Henrik Rasmussen hrasmus...@... wrote: One way to get lists of Yahoo symbols is to go to the indexes and select Components, then

[amibroker] Re: BUY and SELL signal on same bar cashflow problem

2010-03-08 Thread mbausys
Hi there, I've faced an identical problem. Does anyone have an idea how to overcome this? Thanks, Marius --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, markhoff markh...@... wrote: Hi, as a workaround it seems that I can cheat AB by setting: SetTradeDelays(1,1,1,1); This will move the closing

[amibroker] Re: Yahoo Symbol Lists

2010-03-08 Thread jollypollyanna
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, nunopires2001 nunopires2...@... wrote: Hello, I have tested my trading system with Nyse stocks (6k stocks). I need now, to test the system against other large stock markets. Anyone have symbol list (yahoo finance) for other representative stock markets?

[amibroker] Re: Adding Colums to Backtest

2010-03-08 Thread Mike
Hi, You can add custom metrics on a trade by trade basis: http://www.amibroker.com/guide/a_custommetrics.html The following thread gives some real examples of two approaches, static variables vs. the foreign functions. http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/amibroker/message/146164 Mike ---

[amibroker] Re: Help Please !!!How to control sell time with Barsince for more than 1 stocks

2010-03-08 Thread Mike
That should read: Sell = Ref(ExRemSpan(Buy, 5), -5); http://www.amibroker.com/guide/afl/afl_view.php?id=50 Mike --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Anthony Faragasso ajf1...@... wrote: Did you try: Sell=exremspan(buy,5); - Original Message - From: Tao To:

[amibroker] Re: Seeking tutor/consultant on Amibroker?

2010-03-08 Thread Mike
Hi, Independent of any tutor, be sure to start with this: http://www.amibroker.com/guide/h_understandafl.html Mike --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Michael comtech@... wrote: Hey folks, I just started my journal with Amibroker today, frankly this is my very first experience with

Re: [amibroker] Amibroker Perspective

2010-03-08 Thread i cs
Hi, I've been using AB for about a year and I still consider myself a novice - the product is very versatile - it's capabilities are vast - but the downside is that it will allow you to make mistakes - it's the flipside of freedom. Like you I'm a trend trader, and I've found no problems with

[amibroker] Can a macro or visual basic program be used to change AFL parameters?

2010-03-08 Thread Barry
Can a key stroke macro be used to issue a change in an ALF parameter? I think I tried years ago and could not get it to work. But then Ami has changed a lot in that time. If that won't work is it possible to write a script or visual basic program that will allow me to use a function key to

[amibroker] Re: Amibroker Perspective

2010-03-08 Thread Mike
1. The accuracy will depend on the selection of symbols. If you are working with highly liquid symbols, then the accuracy will be quite high. If you are working with thinly traded symbols, then results will be much more difficult to reproduce during live trading. 2. It seems highly likely that

[amibroker] Re: BUY and SELL signal on same bar cashflow problem

2010-03-08 Thread Mike
If nothing else, you could handle it using low level custom backtester code. Mike --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, mbausys mbau...@... wrote: Hi there, I've faced an identical problem. Does anyone have an idea how to overcome this? Thanks, Marius --- In

[amibroker] Re: Question about JScript/VBScript DLL's...

2010-03-08 Thread jooleanlogic
Yes you can attach to the Broker.exe process and step through your dll code. The Visual C++ Debugger is excellent. As DNSFAB noted, the C code equivalent is not as straight forward as afl as there is glue code needed, but Tomasz has made the plugin as easy as possible to get started with and

[amibroker] Help! I keep getting the following error message...

2010-03-08 Thread Michael
I got some old code from other friends, and even for the example in the sample systems from AB, I got the same error: And it's like Missing short/cover variables... The code is like this: Buy = stateRef(state,-1); Sell = stateRef(state,-1); -- To get around the error message, I

[amibroker] Help how do I simulate the following stop in AB?

2010-03-08 Thread Michael
If I trade always on close (I only have close prices), and based on today's close price, I will figure out whether to stop out or not on tomorrow morning. And if it there is a stop indeed, then we trade on tomorrow's close to exit. How do I write ApplyStop function for this case? I am aiming at

[amibroker] How do you iterate on all the symbols programatically?

2010-03-08 Thread Michael
I have imported 5000 symbols, and would like to run the Walk Forward Analysis on each symbol, one by one. And of course, for each symbol, the results need to be saved/exported... Thanks a lot!

[amibroker] Historical fundamental data

2010-03-08 Thread TradersEdgeSystems
We are relatively new to AB and just tried to import fundamental data that had history but it appears that only the most current date's FD was saved into the database. Is this correct that AB's database does not have historical capability? We also would like to add additional custom fields to

[amibroker] Re: Help! I keep getting the following error message...

2010-03-08 Thread Mike
Hi, You need to set the Automatic Analysis window settings to match your script for Long Only vs. Short Only vs. Both. http://www.amibroker.com/guide/h_backtest.html Alternatively, you could do it in code by setting Short and Cover to to zero. Do not assign non zero values if you don't

[amibroker] Historical fundamental data

2010-03-08 Thread Leif Peterson
You first need to specify a beginning date such as 1/1/2000 and then select Yahoo Historical as the option. You selected Yahoo current, which only fetches the current day. Also, after you download all the historical data you must click on save, or you can lose history. Thereafter, during

[amibroker] Need help with a little AFL code...

2010-03-08 Thread younus...@ymail.com
Hey Guys, I am trying to modify an NRx formula. Please find the formula at the bottom of my message. The formula looks at the 'LLV' for the high and low range (rang) in 7 of the most recent bars on a chart. The problem with the RT data is that sometimes it shows data with the same O, H, L, C

[amibroker] I need help with AFL programming.....

2010-03-08 Thread kamini455
Please contact me globalwireles...@gmail.com I need to code few systems ...Please contact me if you have experince in AFL programing. Thanks,

Re: [amibroker] HELP NEEDED ON MINUTES HOUR CHARTS

2010-03-08 Thread ranga yandala
hi can u help me out how to add the NSE BSE scripts in the chats   Rangagopinath Yandala From: Rasheed Momoh rashmo...@yahoo.com To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sat, 6 March, 2010 9:02:37 PM Subject: Re: [amibroker] HELP NEEDED ON MINUTES HOUR CHARTS  

[amibroker] Re: Separate MA for normal and after hours trading

2010-03-08 Thread younus...@ymail.com
Hi Guys, Is there an easy of telling the system to just ignore after hours data or at least remove the bars from the charts. The market I trade closes 3:30 and data until 3:20 or 3:25 is all I need. Im using the nr7 system on a 30-minute chart and sometimes a bar appears after hours with a

Re: [amibroker] where can i download intraday data.

2010-03-08 Thread L V Gandhi
I am not sure for what exchange you ask for. For NSE India you can try investbulls.com On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:42 PM, murthysuresh murthysur...@hotmail.comwrote: any free source is appreciated.

[amibroker] Query to Amibroker Experts

2010-03-08 Thread inn_swing
Hi, I'm planning to use amibroker for my intra-day and swing trading. I've following queries. (1) Can i watch comfortably(good visiblity) candlestick charts of 50-60 stocks- 6 to 8 stocks (sectorally grouped)in one pane,8-10 such panes -- all charts on same timeframe(e.g 5min or 10 min).Can i

[amibroker] In walk forward analysis, how do you concatenate all the OOS results and obtain overall sharpe?

2010-03-08 Thread Michael
In walk forward analysis, how do you concatenate all the OOS results and obtain overall sharpe? Thanks a lot!

[amibroker] Relative Volume coding.

2010-03-08 Thread cmlou6
Hi, I am new to AFL and would like some guide line to implement the Relative Volume study. I read the Dr. Brett Steenbarger article from this link http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2010/02/relative-volume-update-gauging-market.html Compared volume every 30 min for the last 10 or 20 days

[amibroker] VM Fusion

2010-03-08 Thread drkbrown55
Can some kind soul please tell me if it is possible to run Amibroker in Windows7/VM fusion on a MAC running OSX, and if so how do I transfer the programme from my old ASUS laptop? Thanx

[amibroker] New to AFL; help in finding programming expert

2010-03-08 Thread jh2222jh
All, Any recommendations on where to find some help in creating some AFL programming? I'm an institutional investment manager employing tactical shifts based on technical analysis, and have not been employing the power of a tool like AmiBroker. I'm managing portfolios and don't have time to

[amibroker] General questions about amibroker

2010-03-08 Thread pipadder
Hi, I am a systematic mechanical trader (almost exclusively forex). For the last couple of years I have been using MT4 to code and backtest my systems, but I am at the point where I need a lot more than what the MT4 backtester can offer. After looking at different options it appears that

[amibroker] AmiBroker as an intraday trading platform

2010-03-08 Thread victorio91306
Is the AmiBroker software a viable platform to day trade The ESMINI.

Re: [amibroker] Few Newbie Questions re: yahoo data

2010-03-08 Thread NW Trader
Hi Vernon, I suppose the fast answer is It depends. On what does it depend? Well really how are you using the data and for what stocks. First of all, Yahoo data is WYSIWYG, i.e. it doesn't adjust for splits, symbol changes, etc. So if your principal use is to acquire a historic database

Re: [amibroker] Re: BUY and SELL signal on same bar cashflow problem

2010-03-08 Thread Tomasz Janeczko
Hello, Your formula is wrong. All delays in SetTradeDelays *must be the same*, otherwise you could change the order of events (which is happening in your formula). Also for N-bar stop use ApplyStop, not ExRemSpan. Correct formula looks as follows: |*Buy* = 1; *Sell* = *Cover* = *Short* = 0;