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Tomasz
Definitively YES !!
Criticism is a very easy art.
I am also a Metastock user and if AB need still
some improvement, the comparison is for far in favour of AB.
AB need to improve its accessibility but what is
great with AB is the reactivity of Tomasz.
You can ask improvements to Equis but theynever
come.
Once more Tomasz Congratulations!!!
Regards
Bernard Bourée<A
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Tomasz Janeczko
To: <A title=amibroker@xxxxxxxxxx
href="">amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 2:13
PM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: data
import
Hello,Thank you David for your comments and
defending me :-)I hope there are some other guys who like using AmiBroker
sothey are willing to live with some quirks until I fix the
problem(s).Best regards,Tomasz
Janeczko===============AmiBroker - the comprehensive share
manager.<A
href="">http://www.amibroker.com-----
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<amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 5:28
AMSubject: [amibroker] Re: data importTrader,On one
hand, I understand your frustration. Heck, we've all been there
before. But it seems every single one of your posts to this group is
a complaint, and every single message runs down Amibroker relative to
other programs. Here's my solution. If Metastock and
Tradestation are so much better, THAN JUST USE THEM! Wait,
wait, I know what you're going to say. You feel your gripes are
justified because you are too busy actually trading to want to mess around
with an interface that doesn't do what you need it to. Fine, then
use a program that doesn't have those problems. There are certain
features of Amibroker that make the technical analysis process easier
(like the speed of AFL, exploration, etc.). But then, with those
advantages there are obviously tradeoffs, which means that some things
take a little time or are a little complicated. Especially given
that you are trying to do all this so you can get free data from
Yahoo. TJ, I am not trying to speak for you - you certainlyhave
things well under control. I just don't understand why someone seems
to delight in running this product down in a public forum and complaining
about how difficult it is to use as compared to other products in the
marketplace. And while I know that TJ doesn't mind the comparison to
software which costs many times as much, it just doesn't make any
sense to me. Sincerely,David
Beaudoin --- In amibroker@xxxx, traders10@xxxx
wrote:> TJ this note is part humor, part angst.> > How to
waste an afternoon> By Trader> > I wanted to evaluate how
well AB can work for plotting some market > statistics, especiallythe
McClellan Oscillator. Lets see, I need > some advance decline
data in AB.don't have it right now.> > Well, it should be easy
to use AmiQuote to pull some data down from > Yahoo.> >
Oh, yeah, I need to unzip that new version of AQ, OK... Better
> check the readme file to see if it changed a lot...looks OK for
what > I want to do.> > Lets see, I'll need the Yahoo
symbols for A/D data so I can D/L with > AQ.> > Go
the Yahoo Web site, poke around for awhile, can't find any symbols
> for adv or dec data, only today's numbers. Check some
more....looks > like Yahoo does not have any symbols or historical
data for adv/dec.> > No Problem....I have the data in two
different programs on my > workstation, I'll use that.> >
Lets see, I do MetaStock exports from QP2 all the time. That should >
be easy.> > Make a small list with a few indices and adv/dec
data.export to MS > format...no problem.> > Ok, Import
that data into AB. Whoa, what is this? AB is >
complaining about the QP2 symbols for NYSE advances !NY-A and the >
others as well. Hmmmm, different data vendors use all sort of weird
> symbols for market statistic data, surely TJ took that into >
consideration....Hmmmm, maybe not...> > OK, all I want to do is
display the *%*(*& data. I have an ascii > file on my HDthat
gets generated every night that has the MCO > itself. I'll import
that for display. Go to ascii import wizard, > Hmmm skip
the first three lines, then just read the date and close > data oneach
line...piece of cake....> > Whoa, 1500 errors, look
around...damn, the importer wont read the > negative values in
MCO.> > OK, no Yahoo data available, can't get AB to
import my data...time > to send a note to TJ....> > Hours
pass.............> > Get response back from TJ, thank you very
much. Hmmmm either he > does not understand the problem or
else I don't understand his > response....probably the latter.>
> He says I should have used the "foreign" function....what the hell
is > that????> > Dig into AFL reference, says
"foreign" is used to display data from a > second data series in
addition to the data currently being > displayed.
Well crap, that doesn't help.....I can't get the ^&3^%> (* data
into AB to start with.....> > Lets see, what else did TJ
say....something about an e-mail....I > check my regular and alias
e-mail boxes.....nothing> > Mutter, mutter, mumble.....>
> All I want to do is import a couple a data files into AB and geton
> with my life.this is ridiculous......> > Go for walk to
think this thing over.....conclusion....TJ may have a > betteridea
on how to do things but this stinks. How on earth is an
> ordinary computer literate but non programmer supposed to make this
> stuff work to do the most basic of tasks. The simple taskshave
to > be....uh, shall we say....simple????> > I still
don't have the adv/dec data in the program and I am beginning > to
understand why about every third request for help relates to just >
getting some data into the program.> > Comparisons: gettingdata
into Metastock is fairly easy because most > data vendors convert
to MS format. ASCII into MS is a little tricky, > but the
help files are pretty good. > Tradestation/Supercharts is a no brainer
for the user. They read MS > format, ascii, even my odd
FastTrack FNU files directly....no > importing needed. AB isa
real pain in its present state of > development if the user has to
import data.> > TJ....keep up the good work, but HELPyour
users out in this area.> > And I still don't have adv/dec data
in AB.....mutter, mutter, > mumble....I did say it was a wasted
afternoon.> > TraderYour use of Yahoo!
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