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Bernard
Bourée
To: <A
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Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 11:08
AM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: data
import
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 they never
come.
Or worse yet, moving from version
6.52 to 7.0x created bugs that were not fixed until 7.2, which you have to pay
for. There are not many software companies that ask their customersto
pay for fixes.
Once more Tomasz Congratulations!!!
Regards
Bernard Bourée<A
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>From:
Tomasz Janeczko
To: <A title=amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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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
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<amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 5:28
AMSubject: [amibroker] Re: data importTrader,Onone
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 certainly have 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, especially the McClellan
Oscillator. Lets see, I need > some advance decline data in
AB.don't have it right now.> > Well, it should be easy touse
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 HD that 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 on each
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 understandthe
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????> > Diginto
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 get on > with my life.this is
ridiculous......> > Go for walk to think this thing
over.....conclusion....TJ may have a > better idea on how todo
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 tasks have 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: getting data into
Metastock is fairly easy because most > data vendors convertto
MS format. ASCII into MS is a little tricky, > but thehelp
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 is a
real pain in its present state of > development if the user has to
import data.> > TJ....keep up the good work, but HELP
your 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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