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Hello Fred,
> [...]
> I sighed .. "sectors and industries" at last ! then, instead, you went on to
> write (an incredably useful tute) about "Commentry" writing ! All your NLs
> have been useful .. so 'thank you' for them .. and the 'resizable windows'
> in V3.41.
Yes, I realized that I left the "Welcome" text unchanged after sending NL to the list. However an updated version is available on my
web site at:
http://www.amibroker.com/newsletter/06-2000.html
Sectors and industries will come back soon in NL :-)
>[...]
> So, Question 1]: What is the role of these two broker files (sectors and
> industries) ? are they 'just' a part of the 'documentation' - or are they
> supposed to be ' .ini' like ? ( broker.exe will run without them being
> present too). When I look at the properties of the Stocks object I can see
> Fullname:string but IndustryID, MarketId and GroupID are type :number
> suggesting that broker.(sectors and industries) are documentation ?
No. I wrote some time ago on this e-mail list that broker.sectors and
broker.industires are used as a template when creating new workspace.
Once workspace is created these files are not taken into consideration.
In this way you may have different categories in each workspace.
If you want AmiBroker to load them into already existing workspace
please delete broker.workspace file BEFORE opening the workspace.
If you now open the workspace AmiBroker will read broker.sectors and broker.industries.
> Q2] is it possible to display the 'open' marker on the price-bar ?
What do you mean? The open price? It is displayed when candlestick or bar chart
is used.
> Q3a] In the price window would it be possible in a future release to include
> the y-coordinate ( the x-coordinate is already shown) of the mouse cursor -
> maybe this display mode could be toggled ? This would be useful when trying
> to determine the price value position of, say, a placement of a horizontal
> line study.
Well, with "data tooltips" enabled (See Prefs->Misc) if you stay a while over
a point on the chart the Y position (Value) is displayed.
> Q3b] Could the values displayed on the top line of the 'Indicators' panes be
> made dynamic like we have with the Refresh button in the 'Guru Commentary'
> window ?
This is long discussed topic - sometime I will switch to that.
The reason why it was not implemented originally was that AmiBroker was
originally (in 1995) designed to run on Amigas with one megabyte (1MB) or RAM !!!!
It implied several limitations and it was one of it.
> I am new to this 'game' so decided to put the whole ASX 'data base' in. At
> the moment I am using the 1-1 correspondence between sector and industry
> (entered manually) as suggested elsewhere by Tomasz. It works OK and it is
> very satisfying, for the first time ever, to be simply able to enter a
> ticker or partial name and instantly to be able to see a price graph+ of
> what ever stock( commodity, foreign market, financial!!) I want to check. I
> can actually follow the newspaper reports now! Sure, there's a lot of
> 'rubbish' in the data base but I can manage that (partially by the use of
> Groups and Filters and correcting the data if it is 'important' !) . If
> there are other ASX users who want to exchange 'ideas' please feel free to
> contact me - I'm no expert but between us we might clear up some problems
> instead of always 'distracting' Tomasz :-) .
Thanks a lot, Fred! I think that this is the most important goal of this mailing
list - helping AmiBroker users to share their ideas and solutions.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
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