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Hello Trader,
Thank you for your e-mail. I am very glad that you managed
to get things done now.
I always consider your post as valuable because having comparison
to other products help me improving AmiBroker.
Maybe I had also bad day yesterday and was not patient enough,
I am sorry for that.
Now I am happy that we worked things out and everything
is back to normal.
Have a nice weekend.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
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AmiBroker - the comprehensive share manager.
http://www.amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <traders10@xxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 5:11 PM
Subject: [amibroker] data import
> Craig Griffen has it right in his post. I am struggling to get
> AmiBroker to do my job, more so than I ever had to do with MS or TS.
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> Several points:
> I only use MS for quick and dirty studies as it does not have the
> programming power to do most of my work. I am using V6.52 realtime
> because all of the subsequent revisions have been mostly marketing
> fluff.
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> Tradestation is my workhorse, yes its expensive, yes the support
> sucks, yes it gets most of the job done. It has its limitations,
> some of which are solved by AB.
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> I think AmiBroker is a terrific program. Otherwise I would not be
> spending this much time poking around in all its capabilities to see
> if they can help my trading. I have recommended it to several people
> with the caveat it is a work in progress.
>
> My apologies about the data import confusion and comments. This
> morning I tested the MS data files and then imported them into AB
> with no problem. I have no idea what went wrong when I tried it
> yesterday and why it works today. AFAIK I have made no changes to any
> aspect of the QP2 export, AB import process. Blame it on Bill
> Gates...
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> As TJ noted, Indicator builder does not like to have two separate
> symbols used in the same statement. So the "foreign" function cures
> that problem. OK, much like specifing data1, data 2 in TS. Got it...
>
> TJ, I was not complaining about the time it took for you to respond.
> I understand that....
>
> As for importing negative values you might want to rethink that
> decision. Other un-named sw just turns off log scale if the data has
> negative values.
>
> AS for TS reading various external data files; yes it is convenient,
> yes you incurr a 2X-3X speed penalty if you do that. Importing data
> into the TS downloader solves that problem, but it is a very poorly
> documented, clunky process.
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> The biggest problems that I struggle with are those areas of AB that
> are quite different from other, older sw. These are the things that
> need additional explanation and more examples to help out users
> making the transistion from other products. It probably is easier
> for a new user that never saw those other products. :-)
>
> The ASCII Importer help files mentions assigning an alias to imported
> data. That might be useful. You need some explanation/examples
> there.
>
> Bottom line, for all you people that have no problems with AB, I'll
> try to turn down the volume a notch or two, but I still need to
> maintain a dialog with the list to solve problems as they arise. If
> other users have the answer to questions, feel free to post the
> answer instead of relying on TJ to answer everything. Well, unless
> you recognise it seems that only TJ can answer most of the
> questions. :)
>
> Stepping of the soapbox
> Trader
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