Re: [amibroker] Re: Absolute value ATR?

2008-02-26 Thread Ton Sieverding
Préfontaine To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:30 AM Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Absolute value ATR? Hi, Thanks for the suggestion. I must do something wrong however because from the code I wrote _SECTION_BEGIN(ATR); periods = Param( Periods, 15

Re: [amibroker] Re: Absolute value ATR?

2008-02-26 Thread Louis Préfontaine
Ok thanks! :-) Louis 2008/2/25, brian_z111 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Howard's book has a chapter on issue selection (filtering by liquidity). The concepts are the same so it should help in that regard. The main function of this forum is to help learn and apply AmiBroker so most of the time you

Re: [amibroker] Re: Absolute value ATR?--- and some hope for building a system

2008-02-26 Thread Louis Préfontaine
Haha! ;-) Think I should re-read myself more often! But you know what I mean! %%% Louis 2008/2/26, tuzo_wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com amibroker%40yahoogroups.com, Louis Pr�fontaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to get a 40$ return with a EOD

RE: [amibroker] Re: Absolute value ATR?

2008-02-26 Thread asit mistry
dear, you said aronson is very good at sytem design. can you be more spacific about aronson. web address or book name or full name of author ? http://ss1.richmedia.in/recurl.asp?pid=221

Re: [amibroker] Re: Absolute value ATR?

2008-02-25 Thread Thomas Ludwig
A good explanation for ATR can be found on http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:technical_indicators:average_true_range_atr , and for STD on http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:technical_indicators:standard_deviation_v Hi Brian, I think I might confuse

Re: [amibroker] Re: Absolute value ATR?--- and some hope for building a system

2008-02-25 Thread Louis Préfontaine
Hi Brian, Thanks for your last message. Somehow, it inspired me. I still don't understand if I should use ATR or StDev and what is the difference between them, but I feel confident I can learn how to write better codes in the future. Tell me, what is your experience with programming in AFL and

Re: [amibroker] Re: Absolute value ATR?

2008-02-25 Thread Louis Préfontaine
Hi, Thanks for the suggestion. I must do something wrong however because from the code I wrote _SECTION_BEGIN(ATR); periods = Param( Periods, 15, 1, 200, 1 ); Plot( ATR(periods)/Ref(C,-1)*100 , _DEFAULT_NAME(), ParamColor( Color, colorCycle ), ParamStyle(Style) ); LongPer = Param(Long Period,

Re: [amibroker] Re: Absolute value ATR?

2008-02-25 Thread Graham
remove the stylenorescale from the plot statements -- Cheers Graham Kav AFL Writing Service http://www.aflwriting.com On 26/02/2008, Louis Préfontaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for the suggestion. I must do something wrong however because from the code I wrote

Re: [amibroker] Re: Absolute value ATR?

2008-02-25 Thread Louis Préfontaine
Hi again Brian, I think I understand what you mean. Do you think that reading Howard's book will help me splitting the stocks betweeen high volatility and low volatility and then be able to work with that? I sure would like to get a different stop-loss % for each of those groups. I tried to

Re: [amibroker] Re: Absolute value ATR?

2008-02-25 Thread Louis Préfontaine
Hi Brian, Ok thanks. I ordered his book today... I hope it will help me and if I like it I will order his next book as well. Louis p.s. Is the Aronson's book as good? 2008/2/25, brian_z111 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Howard's book has a chapter on issue selection (filtering by liquidity). The

Re: [amibroker] Re: Absolute value ATR?

2008-02-24 Thread Louis Préfontaine
Hi Brian, Thanks for those explanation. I will experiment with this tonight and tomorrow. However, I am not sure about something: are you saying that the only thing I need to know is simply to set the STdev at 2 or 3 (if it's what I want to do) and then automatically ATR will be use that new