Re: [amibroker] batch testing?

["Steve Dugas" <sjdugas@xxxx>]

Hi Ken,
 
Thank you very much for your reply. If you dont mind me 
asking, how were you planning to use this program with AB? I only ask because I 
have never used one of these recorder programs, and I am not sure if it could do 
what I had in mind. My idea was that, because the time I have to work 
with AB is very limited (about 1 or 2 hours a night, a bit more on 
weekends), it occured to me that I could really improve my productivity if 
 I could write a script or plug-in that would set up a list of files 
for AB to run and then call it to run them, and save each test to a file. It 
would work similar to a job control language running a batch job. Thatway, 
I could put my list together every night and run it when I go to bed - it could 
run all night and all the next day, and all the results would be waiting for me 
when I get home from work. But, I really dont know if it would even be possible 
to do this. What do you think? Thanks again!
 
Steve
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Ken Close 
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Subject: RE: [amibroker] batch 
testing?

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I downloaded 
for trial a "macro" program in which you can record keystrokes, 
mousemovements, mouseclicks, etc.  It is claimed to work in any program 
and seems to work fine with programs like Excel, Word, etc.  When I tried 
to record mouseclicks and movements within AB, AB crashed.
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Oh, well.  
Maybe some other macro program would work within AB but I have not tried 
it.
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The web site of 
the macro program is 
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<A 
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class=290383223-25042002>Ken
<FONT face=Tahoma 
size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Steve Dugas 
[mailto:sjdugas@xxxx]Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 7:22 
PMTo: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: [amibroker] 
batch testing?
Hi everyone, especially all programming gurus   : 
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I was just curious if, by using a script, .dll, or whatever, it 
would be possible to write something like a macro to have AB do 
testing in "batch mode"?
 
For example, read File A, perform the backtest in that file 
on Watchlist 1, write results to a CSV file. When that is done, readFile 
B and perform the exploration there on Group 3, write those results to another 
file, etc...Is it possible? Thanks very much!
 
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