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Don
See comments below:
Steve
At 07:10 PM 7/7/01 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Steve,
I'm surprised that you have QP2 data but you are not using it in
AmiBroker, and you are using Yahoo EOD instead.
Yes QP2 has good data. Where I find problems I can go into QP2 and
get better than Yahoo. QP2 has much better data than Yahoo or some
others that I have tried. My only problems with QP2 have been with
data compaction problems or 3112 errors.
Everyone here says that only
QP2 has good data. Do you see a difference
between Yahoo EOD and QP2 EOD? I have no first hand knowledge about
the
quality of other EOD's, and have never used anything but QP2 EOD. I
just
believe what everyone here tells me about it, and assume it's
better
than anything else.
I have not had any compaction issue problems.
I've been rereading your previous note about the AmiBroker author.
He
sounds interesting. How long does it usually take him to reply to
user
questions and requests?
Usually a response if provided within hours sometimes it is a day.
Rarely longer. Hopefully, the user group is getting large enough
that Tomasz will not have to do as much.
Are you using the full HGS, or
the version which comes with QP2.
Full version. Much better than that which comes with QP2.
Indexing for the full version is daily while the basic one is weekly as I
understand it.
Is it possible to graph moving
averages on the volume charts?
What you do with Amibroker is define your indicator with whatever you
want on it. You can have volume, price or whatever in the same
chart. Compared with MS which allows drag and drop, Amibroker
seems a little awkward here but it allows for a high degree of
flexibility.
Say I want four indicators on one chart. I have to define each of
the four within a single indicator calling out each with its own graph
number, Example; to graph volume, close and Moving average of
volume and mov of Close one would do this within a single
indicator.
graphmax = 4; // note that this is only needed if you are graphing
more than three graphs in a chart.
graph0 = close;
graph1 = volume;
graph2 = ma(Close, period) for simple or ema(Close, period) for
expoential
graph3 = ma(volume, period) for simple or ema(volume, period) for
expoential
you can modify the graphs using
Graph0style = something; can be thin line, heavy line, candlestick,
histograms or logical combinations
Graph0Color = something; colors can by dynamic depending on value
using IIF(expression, value1, value2)
Graph0BarColor = something; same here
There have been many code snipets that you could use without having to
reprogram everything all the time if you have them in files ready to
go. In the future Tomasz says that he will implement something like
a C include statement so that external code snipets can be included
without having to retype or past them into an indicator.
Each graph in a chart can be modified and each chart can have as many
graphs as you need. A chart is a single pane in a sheet. A
sheet can have several charts and you have four sheets to place a set of
charts in for a single security.
One other thing that you may find interesting is that many of the
standard indicators since 3.5 in Amibroker allow variable periods,unlike
MS which requires constants. Tomasz has implement this since
version 3.5.
You may want to take you questions over to the Amibroker user group where
more people will see what you have interest in.
Steve
Sorry for all these
questions.
Hopefully, this will help you. I don't mind questions if I can help
someone.
Don
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