Re: [amibroker] lastvalue and N last quotations

2009-07-27 Thread cstrader
what about: if (buy == 1); murthysuresh wrote: i add to watchlist in my scans using lastvalue(Buy) however if i set my N last quotations 1 then it will not work properly as the Buy signal could have been in a earlier bar. how can i detect the value of the N last quotations and check for

Re: [amibroker] Yahoo ticker downloader

2009-07-27 Thread cstrader
How often do you need to update? Things don't change that fast do they? Anthony Faragasso wrote: Has anyone done anything with the downloader that Jim provided. I feel the ticker updater would be a great addition to keep the database up to date with new tickers added... The

[amibroker] No quotesplus plugin

2009-06-17 Thread CSTrader
I was thinking of getting some futures data from QuotesPlus, but that plugin doesn't show when I try to create a new EOD database. I'm a registered user with 5.20. I see the QP2.dll in the plugins folder. Thanks

Re: [amibroker] AmiBroker under attack :-)

2009-02-25 Thread CSTrader
Tomasz, I can see your concern but you have little to fear.. AB rocks and people are not stupid. - Original Message - From: Tomasz Janeczko gro...@amibroker.com To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 6:01 PM Subject: [amibroker] AmiBroker under attack :-)

Re: [amibroker] A shorter syntax to reference past elements of array

2009-02-19 Thread CSTrader
Most simple seems: EarlyClose = Close(5) I'd use positive integers to refer to the past, as that is the normal way to reference data. - Original Message - From: Tomasz Janeczko gro...@amibroker.com To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:08 AM Subject:

Re: [amibroker] A shorter syntax to reference past elements of array

2009-02-19 Thread CSTrader
Re: [amibroker] A shorter syntax to reference past elements of array Either C(-5) or C(5) seems fine to me. Whichever you choose, programmers will quickly learn how to use it. - Original Message - From: Tomasz Janeczko To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February

[amibroker] Show list of equity prices

2009-01-21 Thread CSTrader
How do I put the bar x bar equities into an exploration or scan? I tried with exploration, but this didn't work (always put the last bar's equity) Thanks Filter = 1; AddTextColumn(WriteVal(Equity()), Equity);

Re: [amibroker] Email list Protocol question on 'thank you' type posts.

2008-10-31 Thread CSTrader
Most of us get hundreds of emails every day. And when we answer a question we don't know if it helped or not unless someone replies. Personally I am pleased when somone bothers to say thanks. cs - Original Message - From: jim fenster To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent:

Re: [amibroker] Re: Semi-OT: Portfolio Manager for frequent Swing Trading

2008-10-22 Thread CSTrader
Mike, Could you please elaborate? Specifically, what do you mean when you say: I prefer to trade futures because it eliminates 99.9% of the tax paperwork in the US. I didn't realize the reporting was different on stocks and futures trades in the US Thanks! - Original Message -

Re: [amibroker] Re: IB plugin 1.8.0 released - This is a fix? I don't think so!

2008-10-17 Thread cstrader
I've had no trouble with IB at all... In which version of the platform has this new problem (the repeating ID problem) occurred? - Original Message - From: scourt2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 6:17 PM Subject: [amibroker] Re: IB

Re: [amibroker] Limit number of shares per symbol?

2008-09-10 Thread cstrader
: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cstrader Sent: Wednesday, 10 September 2008 11:44 AM To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [amibroker] Limit number of shares per symbol? Well, OK, I see that. But what if I try to scale in using sigscalein

[amibroker] Limit number of shares per symbol?

2008-09-09 Thread cstrader
Dumb question I'm sure, but what's the best way to limit the maximum number of shares per symbol in the backtester? (for instance, only allow a maximum of 500 shares even if there's cash for more) Thanks

Re: [amibroker] Limit number of shares per symbol?

2008-09-09 Thread cstrader
), spsShares); From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cstrader Sent: Wednesday, 10 September 2008 10:22 AM To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amibroker] Limit number of shares

Re: [amibroker] Date format

2008-08-17 Thread cstrader
these settings is for all of your windows system / programms cstrader wrote: How can I change the Date format, for instance to dd-MM- or change the decimal separator from . to ,? I see that the thousands separator can be changed. Thanks Please note

[amibroker] Date format

2008-08-16 Thread cstrader
How can I change the Date format, for instance to dd-MM- or change the decimal separator from . to ,? I see that the thousands separator can be changed. Thanks - Original Message - From: Rakesh Sahgal To: Amibroker Yahoogroup Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 7:59 AM

Re: [amibroker] Date format

2008-08-16 Thread cstrader
? But I think this belong to region settings in control panel Region settings /region Option and go to TAB Customize/date In the tab “ short day” write dd-MM- and press ENTER P.S Remember these settings is for all of your windows system / programms cstrader wrote: How can I change

Re: [amibroker] Re: free delayed streaming tick data or historical tick data

2008-08-14 Thread cstrader
streaming tick data or historical tick data Thank you very much for your advice. The problem ist that Opentick does not take up any new users presently according to the information on their website. Are there any other possibilities? how97 --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, cstrader [EMAIL

Re: [amibroker] Trendline Indicator

2008-08-13 Thread cstrader
check out the linregslope indicator, for instance: x = Cum(1); lastx = LastValue( x ); Daysback = 10; aa = LastValue( LinRegIntercept( Close, Daysback) ); bb = LastValue( LinRegSlope( Close, Daysback ) ); y = Aa + bb * ( x - (Lastx - DaysBack) ); Plot( Close, Close, colorBlack, styleCandle );

Re: [amibroker] free delayed streaming tick data or historical tick data

2008-08-13 Thread cstrader
try www.opentick.com - Original Message - From: how97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 4:36 PM Subject: [amibroker] free delayed streaming tick data or historical tick data I am interested to get free tick data for testing purposes. I

Re: [amibroker] Optimizing Rotational - Curious Result

2008-08-12 Thread cstrader
But did the cmae approach actually increase or decrease the time when you ran it? - Original Message - From: Ken Close To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:19 AM Subject: [amibroker] Optimizing Rotational - Curious Result I thought this was a

Re: [amibroker] Re: Freakishly fast backtest using 64 cores

2008-08-12 Thread cstrader
Wow... is this why the second and subsequent runs of many optimization problems seem so incredibly fast? (first run loads data into memory, subsequent runs do not?) Thanks - Original Message - From: Tomasz Janeczko [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [amibroker] Custom AFL Programming Service?

2008-08-08 Thread cstrader
Maybe... what do you need? - Original Message - From: ozzyapeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 3:56 PM Subject: [amibroker] Custom AFL Programming Service? Hi, I wrote an AFL trading system and am looking for an experienced coder to

Re: [amibroker] Custom AFL Programming Service?

2008-08-08 Thread cstrader
Ooops sorry, that was meant to be a private. - Original Message - From: cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [amibroker] Custom AFL Programming Service? Maybe... what do you need? - Original Message

Re: [amibroker] Re: Freakishly fast backtest using 64 cores

2008-08-06 Thread cstrader
Which video cards provide this feature? As far as I can tell, it's only the 8-Series (G8X) GPU from NVIDIA, found in the GeForce, Quadro and Tesla lines. Who will have one of these? Are many people likely to have them in the future? Thanks - Original Message - From: dloyer123

Re: [amibroker] Re: Freakishly fast backtest using 64 cores

2008-08-06 Thread cstrader
those chipset. --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Paul Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn_products.html _ From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cstrader Sent: Wednesday, 6 August 2008 10:51 PM To: amibroker

Re: [amibroker] Re: Freakishly fast backtest using 64 cores

2008-08-05 Thread cstrader
able to run a subset of c, making it programable with freely downloadable tools. --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re: [amibroker] Freakishly fast backtest using 64 coresYes, I'm puzzled too. Looping should depend upon the speed of the CPU

Re: SV: [amibroker] Re: Anyone actually making money?

2008-07-31 Thread cstrader
The only way to really answer this question is to get some objective information, the best that you can. One place is www.collective2.com. The traders there are forced to place their trades in a transparent and objective way, and the system even tries to monitor how close you as a follower

[amibroker] Symbol count

2008-07-21 Thread cstrader
...should know this, but how do I see how many symbols were scanned in an exploration? Thanks

Re: [amibroker] Re: Symbol count

2008-07-21 Thread cstrader
. Something along the lines of: ... AddToComposite( 1, ~Counter, X, atcFlagDefaults | atcFlagEnableInExplore); ... AddColumn(Foreign(~Counter, X), Count); ... Mike --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...should know this, but how do I see how many symbols

[amibroker] Computing CAR

2008-07-02 Thread cstrader
Is there a formula available for the computation of CAR? I'm working with this: (Ending Value) /(Beginning Value)^(1/Number of years)-1. On a daily chart, I used number of years = number of bars in trade/ 251. But this doesn't match the AB backtest output. Thanks

Re: [amibroker] Computing CAR

2008-07-02 Thread cstrader
Excellent! Thanks Thomas! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ludwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [amibroker] Computing CAR Hi, TJ presented this code some time ago: Symbol = ~~~OSEQUITY; // change the ticker

Re: [amibroker] The EASIEST way to use new optimizer engines

2008-06-27 Thread cstrader
Yes, and more generally, what are these systems? They seem to mimic evolutionary processes... how are they applied to optimization? And how do we know that they work well for our particular needs -- are financial markets and Darwinian evolution really the same processes? Any sources,

Re: [amibroker] The EASIEST way to use new optimizer engines

2008-06-27 Thread cstrader
: cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [amibroker] The EASIEST way to use new optimizer engines Yes, and more generally, what are these systems? They seem to mimic evolutionary processes... how are they applied to optimization

Re: [amibroker] The EASIEST way to use new optimizer engines

2008-06-27 Thread cstrader
for plateau regions with stable parameters and this is the area where intelligent methods shine. Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original Message - From: cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 8:25 PM Subject: Re

Re: [amibroker] The EASIEST way to use new optimizer engines

2008-06-27 Thread cstrader
process we are rather looking for plateau regions with stable parameters and this is the area where intelligent methods shine. Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original Message - From: cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008

Re: [amibroker] The EASIEST way to use new optimizer engines

2008-06-27 Thread cstrader
if the range of best objective values of last X generations is zero c) stop if adding 0.1 standard deviation vector in any principal axis direction does not change the value of objective value d) others Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original Message - From: cstrader

Re: [amibroker] future symbols for AB from interactive brokers

2008-06-23 Thread cstrader
Hello??? June 2004 futures are long since expired (as are June 2008 for that matter!)) try ESU8-GLOBEX-FUT - Original Message - From: petenglish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 9:45 AM Subject: [amibroker] future symbols for AB from

Re: [amibroker] Re: Questions for people using automatic transactions with IB

2008-06-23 Thread cstrader
Hi, Well, I'm not really sure but it seems that one-minute bars have so many trades (assuming your contract is at least somewhat liquid) that these errors should pretty much cancel out and stop being a problem. - Original Message - From: Louis Préfontaine To:

Re: [amibroker] Fundamental data for Australian stocks

2008-06-18 Thread cstrader
Well, yes it might be possible to create these dat - Original Message - From: alan4171 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:33 PM Subject: [amibroker] Fundamental data for Australian stocks I have read the few previous threads on this,

Re: [amibroker] Fundamental data for Australian stocks

2008-06-18 Thread cstrader
Well, yes it would be possible to get these data into a .csv file pretty easily which could then be used in AB. But we need a list of .AX stocks first. I don't know how to download a complete list. Thanks - Original Message - From: alan4171 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [amibroker] AFL

2008-06-11 Thread cstrader
function linregslope() - Original Message - From: John J [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:25 AM Subject: [amibroker] AFL Hello, I want to write an AFL to print the angle of any indicator line crossing a horizontal line on the

Re: [amibroker] Re: Can Amibroker do Top-Down Trading?

2008-06-09 Thread cstrader
Well, yes you can link to the appropriate industry and sector from each stock. But what data are you expecting to retrieve by industry and sector? For instance, perhaps, the mean change of the stocks in the industry or sector over the past day? - Original Message - From: matrix10014

Re: [amibroker] Re: JimSwindle US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE

2008-06-06 Thread cstrader
It seems to me that developing a historical database is best left to those who have the time and inclination -- probably need to pay them for their effort. However, keeping a relatively uptodate list of of the current tickers trading on the AMEX, NYSE, and NASDAQ seems doable. I uploaded my

Re: [amibroker] Re: JimSwindle US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE

2008-06-04 Thread cstrader
- Original Message - From: cstrader To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:32 PM Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: JimSwindle US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE Well, I'm not sure why anyone needs to pay for stuff that's available free. For instance, CSI

Re: [amibroker] Re: JimSwindle US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE

2008-06-04 Thread cstrader
will respond, he is out of the country for extended periods, hopefully soon. Dick H. --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I can find the ETF and AMEX list. But I haven't yet found a list of NAZ or NYSE stocks. - Original Message - From

Re: [amibroker] JimSwindle US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE

2008-06-03 Thread cstrader
Perhaps we should try to help Jim out a bit. What features would we want to see in such a stocks database? Thanks - Original Message - From: Ronald Davis To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:21 AM Subject: [amibroker] JimSwindle US STOCKS DATABASE

Re: [amibroker] JimSwindle US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE

2008-06-03 Thread cstrader
. === - Original Message - From: cstrader To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 1:46 PM Subject: Re: [amibroker] JimSwindle US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE Perhaps we should try to help Jim out a bit. What

Re: [amibroker] JimSwindle US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE

2008-06-03 Thread cstrader
. If YAHOO discontinues carrying a symbol, then their NEW CURRENT list of symbols will , NOT have it anymore, and it will have been purged from your AB database of SYMBOLS in the AB US STOCKS FOLDER. Ron D - Original Message - From: cstrader To: amibroker

Re: [amibroker] Re: JimSwindle US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE

2008-06-03 Thread cstrader
more. S - what's a price that people are willing to pay and and how many would be interested. If theres not that much interest then I won't bother. d _ From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cstrader Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 6

Re: [amibroker] Re: JimSwindle US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE

2008-06-03 Thread cstrader
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cstrader Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:32 PM To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: JimSwindle US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE Well, I'm not sure why anyone needs to pay for stuff that's available free. For instance, CSI

Re: [amibroker] New Yahoo US-Stocks Database

2008-05-30 Thread cstrader
Dear John Swindle, Has there been a recent update of your Yahoo US-Stocks database? Thanks! - Original Message - From: jrswindle2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 5:57 PM Subject: [amibroker] New Yahoo US-Stocks Database Greetings

Re: [amibroker] NAAIM Presentation -- How to Build an Effective Trading System

2008-05-09 Thread cstrader
Outstanding presentation Howard. Thank you so much! Chuck - Original Message - From: Robert Grigg To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 3:08 AM Subject: RE: [amibroker] NAAIM Presentation -- How to Build an Effective Trading System Hi Howard,

Re: [amibroker] Re: Intraday Volume

2008-05-09 Thread cstrader
LLoyd. What day are you looking at for your LNN Volume (May 8th?) - Original Message - From: burlap58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 7:52 AM Subject: [amibroker] Re: Intraday Volume I've been doing it that way, but today it's not right. V

[amibroker] Stochastic calculations

2008-04-26 Thread cstrader
I'm wondering how StochK and StochD are computed. I thought that StochK was based on the MA(KSmooth) of MA(Period) High, Low and Close values. And that StochD was based on the MA(DSmooth) of StochK. If period = 5 and Ksmooth = 3 shouldn't the first value of StochK appear on bar 7 (calculated

Re: [amibroker] Re: AmiQuote 2.00 released

2008-04-23 Thread cstrader
Try something like: http://finance.google.com/finance/historical?q=NASDAQ:CSCOoutput=csv But unlike Yahoo it seems that we must know the right exchange ahead of time? I can only figure out how to get 1 year of quotes, unlike Yahoo which allows specifying the start and end dates of the query.

Re: [amibroker] Futures Rollover

2008-03-27 Thread cstrader
I'm not really sure what's desired here -- some type of continuous futures contract? If so, what method of calculation would be preferred? Thanks - Original Message - From: Dennis Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 1:01 PM Subject:

Re: [amibroker] live data

2008-03-25 Thread cstrader
interactivebrokers -- rated, as I recall, as #1 for forex trading in the TASC survey. - Original Message - From: mariancostin22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:09 AM Subject: [amibroker] live data Hello to all member's of ambibroker

Re: [amibroker] Re: Using #include but not wanting those indicator's PLOT

2008-03-24 Thread cstrader
Well create the whole file together, run it, be sure it works, then break out the #include. The include is mostly to put code that you don't really want to see every day somewhere else. - Original Message - From: gmorlosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday,

Re: [amibroker] Re: Free EOD futures contracts downloads?

2008-03-21 Thread cstrader
@yahoogroups.com, cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this exist? I guess britefutures is gone in this regard? Are there any alternatives? I'm tired of paying for CSI... Thanks Please note that this group is for discussion between users only. To get support from AmiBroker

Re: [amibroker] Re: Interactive Brokers plugin policy change

2008-03-12 Thread cstrader
Yes, completely silly as we can trade FUTURES contracts at many brokerages with only $2K. What the heck are they thinking? - Original Message - From: Yuki Taga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomasz Janeczko amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:14 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [amibroker] Please direct me

2008-03-05 Thread cstrader
Plot using stylecloud I think - Original Message - From: Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 7:51 AM Subject: [amibroker] Please direct me Hi, I remember that read article about paint the area between the bands line in userkb.

[amibroker] ecbot to cme/globex?

2008-02-26 Thread cstrader
Aren't some futures moving from cbot to cme? Does IB support the new tickers? I can't seem to find them. Thanks

Re: [amibroker] Re: ecbot to cme/globex?

2008-02-26 Thread cstrader
OK.. thanks... same tickers, same exchange? - Original Message - From: blakerandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:44 PM Subject: [amibroker] Re: ecbot to cme/globex? --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [amibroker] static portfolio of stocks

2008-02-13 Thread cstrader
Sure.. account manager ... file, new account - Original Message - From: Antonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:54 PM Subject: [amibroker] static portfolio of stocks Hello, is it possible with Amibroker to see the evolution of a

Re: [amibroker] Re: Trading platform + AB

2008-01-30 Thread cstrader
Oh, right.. the new stylecloud might be easier than my incremental line function which I just posted. - Original Message - From: Herman To: brian_z111 Cc: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Trading platform +

Re: [amibroker] Re: Trading platform + AB

2008-01-30 Thread cstrader
To make a thicker line, just plot the same line a few times at small increments. For instance, I use this function for indicators: Hope it helps function Drawthickline(Startpoint, DrawColor) { Offset = 0.01; if (ST == ER) {Offset = .001;} if (ST == YM) {Offset = .3;} if (ST == EU OR ST

Re: [amibroker] Re: ZB data feed

2008-01-28 Thread cstrader
My regular ECBOT feed is working fine for ZB. no need to change yet that I can see. - Original Message - From: hoolee0820 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 11:30 AM Subject: [amibroker] Re: ZB data feed One more thing I want to

Re: [amibroker] Average Range

2008-01-28 Thread cstrader
MA(H-L, 14); ?? - Original Message - From: longarm61 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 3:59 PM Subject: [amibroker] Average Range I would simply like an indicator that shows the average range, from high to low, of x number of bars. Just

Re: [amibroker] Re: ZB data feed

2008-01-28 Thread cstrader
data feed Thank you. My AB is 5.00.1 with IB plug-in 1.6.8, what's yours? --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My regular ECBOT feed is working fine for ZB. no need to change yet that I can see. Please note that this group

Re: [amibroker] New Yahoo US-Stocks Database

2008-01-07 Thread cstrader
Thanks Jim! Really appreciated! chuck - Original Message - From: jrswindle2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 10:08 PM Subject: [amibroker] New Yahoo US-Stocks Database Greetings all, I have posted a new Yahoo US-Stocks database

Re: [amibroker] Import signals from file ?

2008-01-06 Thread cstrader
One way is to read your signals in as a ticker. Put the signals in for instance the closeprice. Then access the signals using the foreign() function. - Original Message - From: irek_smaczny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 12:36 PM

Re: [amibroker] Hello Tomasz, Which C++ compiler do you use to compile AmiBroker ?

2008-01-05 Thread cstrader
What's most impressive perhaps is that Tomasz has succeeded in developing and marketing AB DESPITE his nerdy background :) Not only did he understand the hardware and the software but he understood, and was willing to work with, marketing, GUIs, and yes, user support. Furthermore, despite his

Re: [amibroker] How to Calculate Probabilities and Statistics?

2007-11-27 Thread cstrader
Well you could get the data by running a scan, but to get the statistics you'd have to I think enter them into another program, such as Excel. - Original Message - From: bilbo0211 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 7:28 PM Subject:

Re: [amibroker] Price-to-nearest-tick alogrithm

2007-11-01 Thread cstrader
) * TickSize; // rounding down PriceRounded = ceil( Close / TickSize ) * TickSize; // rounding up Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com - Original Message - From: cstrader To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 7:25 PM Subject

[amibroker] Price-to-nearest-tick alogrithm

2007-10-31 Thread cstrader
For someone who is smarter than me, I have a question: I would like to find an algorithm that locates the nearest tick (up or down, as specified) to a given price. for instance, if the price is 106.76, and the tick is 1.00, then I'd like to find either 106 or 107, as requested Similarly, if

Re: [amibroker] broker with API

2007-10-29 Thread cstrader
what's wrong with mb as an alternative? - Original Message - From: spa969 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 3:44 PM Subject: [amibroker] broker with API Hello A bit off topic..sorry...I use Interavtive Brokers API to connect Amibroker

Re: [amibroker] re: lost IBc unlock code

2007-09-28 Thread cstrader
Did you get the new code? Try: http://www.amibroker.com/at/agreement.php - Original Message - From: Herman To: AmiBroker Users Group Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 10:53 AM Subject: [amibroker] re: lost IBc unlock code Sorry folks, clicked the wrong email address,

[amibroker] AB Datafile format

2007-09-19 Thread cstrader
Is the format of AB datafiles (labelled simply for instance as IBM with no file extension in the database directory) publicly available? Seems like it might be nice to write data directly to these files. Thanks - Original Message - From: areehoi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [amibroker] Re: Please Help

2007-09-19 Thread cstrader
: Please Help Hi cstrader; Thank you very much, But this plot Price in line style, I need it to be in bar style. Regards --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this: Plot( Close, , IIf( LongSetup, IIf( TBuy, EntryColor, DownColor ) , styleBar

Re: [amibroker] Re: Please Help

2007-09-19 Thread cstrader
I wonder why messages that I sent 5 days ago are just appearing now? Where the heck have they been hiding? - Original Message - From: cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Please Help Make

Re: [amibroker] Please Help

2007-09-14 Thread cstrader
Try this: Plot( Close, , IIf( LongSetup, IIf( TBuy, EntryColor, DownColor ) , styleBar | ParamStyle (Style))); - Original Message - From: Mohammed To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 12:03 PM Subject: [amibroker] Please Help Hi, Any one can

Re: [amibroker] generating orders from amibroker to a text file

2007-09-12 Thread cstrader
Seems like it would only be for AB to know if the file has been changed. fileischanged is not written to the textfile that I can see. - Original Message - From: Padhu To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:58 AM Subject:

[amibroker] Mass text file read: plugin or AFL Code?

2007-09-11 Thread cstrader
I was wondering why although we have a plugin that reads from metastock files we do not (that I know of) have one that reads all of the text files in a subdirectory into AB at once. Anyone figure that out yet? Thanks

Re: [amibroker] Mass text file read: plugin or AFL Code?

2007-09-11 Thread cstrader
: cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:54 AM Subject: [amibroker] Mass text file read: plugin or AFL Code? I was wondering why although we have a plugin that reads from metastock files we do not (that I know of) have one that reads all

Re: [amibroker] Mass text file read: plugin or AFL Code?

2007-09-11 Thread cstrader
OK, sorry... I didn't realize you could choose multiple files in the ASCII import. That solves the problem. Thanks GP and everyone. Chuck - Original Message - From: cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:09 PM Subject: Re

Re: [amibroker] OpenTick Data

2007-08-29 Thread cstrader
Historical works great for me... What symbol can't you get? - Original Message - From: optiontrader6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 2:04 PM Subject: [amibroker] OpenTick Data Has anyone had any luck using opentick data. I have gotten

Re: [amibroker] Re: ascii to metastock

2007-08-28 Thread cstrader
Hi Lester. This is super code, and I want to use it I think, but I'm curious when you say the Old Metastock EOD format... Is this Old format still in use? For instance, is this the format of current CSI EOD downloads? The folder that I get has Master and *.DOP files as well as the *.DAT

Re: [amibroker] Interesting Story about a Japanese Trader

2007-08-24 Thread cstrader
Yukiko Ikebe is our own one and only Yuki!!! Really! That is amazing! Yuki please let us know how you are doing when you get a chance! - Original Message - From: jim_trades_stocks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 10:43 AM Subject:

Re: [amibroker] IB plug in users - wrong closing value

2007-07-30 Thread cstrader
Well trades after hours -- does IWM? If so, this could be the issue. Check the timestamps on the quotes. - Original Message - From: Barry Scarborough [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 8:29 AM Subject: [amibroker] IB plug in users - wrong

[amibroker] Problem calling Amiquote using the object model

2007-07-30 Thread cstrader
If I open AB and then choose tools -autoupdate quotes, everything is fine. However, if I try to do the same thing calling Amiquote from vb.net: Dim oAQ = CreateObject(AmiQuote.Document) oAQ.GetSymbolsFromAmiBroker() oAQ.Autoimport = True oAQ.Source = 0 oAQ.Download() Then the download starts

Re: [amibroker] Re: Amiquote question

2007-07-25 Thread cstrader
a limit to the number of symbols. --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Prashanth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, File - Import ASCII Select File of Type as AmiQuote (.aqd). Cheers Prashanth - Original Message - From: cstrader To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent

Re: [amibroker] Re: query from Vb.net-work around

2007-07-15 Thread cstrader
Nice... I'm looking forward to do something similar chuck - Original Message - From: murthysuresh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 9:03 PM Subject: [amibroker] Re: query from Vb.net-work around Here is the workaround that i did afl file

Re: [amibroker] Re: query from Vb.net-New hitch

2007-07-15 Thread cstrader
: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cstrader Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 2:14 PM To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: query from Vb.net-work around Nice... I'm looking forward to do something similar chuck - Original Message

[amibroker] AB Com Object OK Quotes Com Object not

2007-07-15 Thread cstrader
to alter a static AFL's behavior. d -Original Message- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cstrader Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 2:14 PM To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: query from Vb.net-work around Nice

Re: [amibroker] Re: AB Com Object OK Quotes Com Object not

2007-07-15 Thread cstrader
OLE automation interface using unregistered version you will be presented with a message box telling you to register. --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have both AB and Quotes open. In vb.net: This works fine: Dim oAb = CreateObject

Re: [amibroker] Re: Volatility vs. STD?

2007-07-13 Thread cstrader
on an annualised basis. Therefore multiply your calc by the square-root of the #bars for the year, i.e. sqrt (12) if you've calculated in monthly mode, sqrt (256) or sqrt (365) in daily, etc. PS --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but what's

Re: [amibroker] Re: Volatility vs. STD?

2007-07-13 Thread cstrader
Message - From: cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 8:05 AM Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Volatility vs. STD? Formula attached... - Original Message - From: cstrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com

[amibroker] Volatility vs. STD?

2007-07-12 Thread cstrader
Sorry, but what's the difference? Is the annualized volatility of a stock about the same as STDev(C, 200)? Thanks!

[amibroker] Open, Explore, Close from Command line?

2007-06-25 Thread cstrader
Is it possible using jscript or vbscript (or other) to open an AB database externally and then run an exploration and then close AB? thank you

Re: [amibroker] Re: VBScript / Jscript

2007-06-25 Thread cstrader
Sorry, I've been away... what are ATC's? thanks - Original Message - From: bruce1r [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 8:39 AM Subject: [amibroker] Re: VBScript / Jscript Ara - I addressed it - just not in detail. I mentioned that ATC's

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