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Re: AB vs Wealth Lab



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Mark,
I think 3D maps are coming soon.
As for your last (but not least) reason, I have to repeat my opinion: 
Tomasz is a person you can trust and this is rare, if not unique.
Dimitris Tsokakis
--- In amibroker@xxxx, "MarkF2" <feierstein@xxxx> wrote:
> Doug -- I looked at the two for almost a month before deciding on 
AB. 
> I finally chose AB because of it's speed, language (similar to MS 
> which I have a lot of experience with), ability to code and provide 
> exportable output on anything I want to test, community and, last 
but 
> not least, developer (Tomasz).
> 
> On the exportable output part, this is extremely important to me 
> because I take AB's output and analyze it further with other
> software. This gives me MUCH more than any single package ever
> could. For example AB, when paired up with Miner3D Excel ($149),
> will produce 3D optimization maps that will put WL to shame.
> 
> Mark
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxx, "sguod99" <dnstarich@xxxx> wrote:
> > This question may have been asked before but I can't find it in 
the 
> > AB thread index. What do the members of this thread see as the 
> > advantages of Amibroker vs Wealth-Lab Developer aside from cost? 
I 
> > have an evaluation copy of both and have played around with each 
in 
> a 
> > fairly simple way. From what I can tell both have large 
supportive 
> > user groups, both support my QP2 data vendor (but AB may offer 
more 
> > QP2 fundamental data support), both have powerful 
> trading/backtesting 
> > languages, AB adds support for JScript & VBScript in-line dlls
> (many 
> > of which are available via the AB Yahoo database), WL has a huge 
on-
> > line trading strategy script base, WL allows its language to 
> > reference multiple tickers in the same script (not sure if AB 
> does?), 
> > and WL has a slick user interface with lots of graphical 
> > presentations including a neat 3-D optimization variable map.
> > 
> > I do understand that Thomasz is working on an improved charting 
> > engine/user interface for V4.2. But if I were to sum up at this 
> date 
> > my conclusion is that, for about 6.5X the cost, WL offers roughly 
> > what AB does plus a very professional user interface and a large 
> > number of trading scripts at their website.
> > 
> > Is this an accurate comparison or an over simplification? Are
> there 
> > other factors that I'm overlooking? Thanks in advance for your 
> > response.
> > 
> > Doug