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Did
hell just freeze over?? I have to take Fred's side here Dimitris. Are there
easier ways to accomplish the task of a simple export? Sure. Is this the best
use of ABtool? No, but UM has obviously put a lot of time and effort into his
plug in and while it may not be for every body it certainly does hold promise
for some. I always read your posts and you have shared some creative (at times
over complicated) solutions. We learn from each others trials and hopefully find
ways not to reinvent the wheel. That is the strength of this forum. I find ways
to handle all my needs with AFL some do not...If you see no use for the plug-in
simply do not use it but you should also give credit where credit is due and UM
has offered some extended abilities to some of the more programmatically
inclined.
Regards,
Jayson
<FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Fred
[mailto:fctonetti@xxxxxxxxx]Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 12:41
PMTo: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: [amibroker] Re:
converting amibroker quotes into ascii
formatPlease. There is more then one way to skin
a variety of cats and if you don't like or want to use ABTool then
don't. As far as university degrees go I have found there to be no
correlation between the level of degree held and the ability to tie ones own
shoes.--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "DIMITRIS TSOKAKIS"
<TSOKAKIS@xxxx> wrote:> Dear UM,> What are you talking
about ?> You are a programmer and you create a little monster to export
data > into a *.txt or a *.csv file.> You should read first the
users's guide, see what is readily > available and then contribute with
your programming knowledge and > experience to solve what is NOT
AVAILABLE for the present time for > the benefit of amibroker
users.> You simply sacrifice the ultimate simplicity principle, in order
to > answer ANY question through your sophisticated tool.> As for
my codes, I did not see ANY question from you.> Many users asked a lot of
things and they have had a prompt reply, no > matter if it was
EXACTLY what they asked or it was a simple and > honest "I don't
know".> If you don't understand my codes then you don't study AFL,
because > ANYTHING I HAVE POSTED is nothing but AFL.> Sometimes my
codes were not the shortest possible. The most creative > in this
open forum is the criticism : Tomasz, Peter, Herman, Ken, > Bill
(the Wavemechanic) to name a few criticised my methods/codes. > The
result was always creative for the benefit of the average user. > We
changed a lot of messages and, finally, we found the best way to > Rome,
far from personal opinions. These dialogues often gave an > opportunity
for new AFL requirements, which, thanks to Tomasz > sensitive ears, are
now available to the average user at a VERY > REASONABLE COST.> As
for this "...aimed mainly for programmers only...", can you PLEASE >
be more specific ? Are you a programmer, do you have any studies or >
titles or MSc or even PhD and what school provided such a certificate
> to a person who writes 40 lines in order to EXPORT data to a >
*csv/*txt file?[Do not hesitate, please, to give schools, names, > dates,
e-mail addresses of your tutors, WE ARE IN THE SAME MARKET, WE > KNOW
EACH OTHER FOR YEARS and I would like to communicate to your > teachers
right now, they know Dimitris, they send a lot of mails to > Dimitris for
general OR detailed questions, and have a nice talk > about the present
and the future of the various programmers they gave > a PASS sometime
ago, let us speak the language of the market, at > least once, dear
!!!]> Your teachers should give you the No 1 scientific postulate :
Accept > the criticism, whereever it comes, good will or not and try
TO PROOVE > your position.> As for your "you even don't have
tried yet", of course I haven't and > I will not try an unknown
proprietary code to solve what > the "creator" thinks as unsolved [you
are very far, my friend, to > judge what is unsolved or not for a very
simple reason : You don't > even know AFL, one of the most powerful T/A
languages I am so lucky > to meet]. > It would be the most
miserable moment of my life if I believe that > the only solution to all
these AFL unsolved questions is your > experimental ABtool. > I am
glad to follow the evolution of amibroker the last 2 years, I > think
Tomasz is probably the best person to meet, he is always here, >
there, everywhere, day and night, 24h on line and I am more than sure
> he will give us, for many years, a great part of his genious
spirit.> I will be happy, 10 years later, to say : I was there, feeling
this > fresh air of ideas [the only comparison is before jumping with the
> parachute, if you ever have this marvellous experience] and I added
> my contribution to this great event.> Since many readers are
interested for your work, you should be more > serious and, at least,
accept that you reinvent the already existing > wheel.> BTW, I
would be more than glad to answer ANY of your questions for my > AFL
examples and, much more, I would accept your creative criticism > for any
improvements/shorter expressions/better syntax or more > profitable
trading ideas, if the programmers are also care for > trading their
masterpieces.> Let's do a better start, I don't like this style of
communication and > I will not continue it.> If it is OK for
you, I may put my signature that you are the best, > your ABtool is
unique, what would we do without you etc. Just prepare > the
papers...> Dimitris Tsokakis> > --- In
amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, uenal.mutlu@xxxx wrote:> > Hi
Dimitris,> > as you might know there are many roads to rome
:-)> > > > BTW speaking of simplicity. I myself must
admit> > that over 95% of your code presented has been very >
> hard to understand for me. No comments, no indendation etc.> >
> > And: I would like to remind you that ABtool is still in the beta
> phase.> > I'm sure that there are many other problems which
can be> > solved only by the use of ABtool (or another such
tool).> > It is of course your own choice and freedom not to use
ABtool,> > and I doubt you would understand its power, because
it> > is at the moment aimed mainly for programmers only, as>
> was also written some msgs before (see my reply to IVA GmbH).> >
> > > Is this the tool you want to certify, as I read somewhere
else ?> > > Will you also certify this kind of "logic" to solve a
problem > like > > > exporting data in ASCII format
?> > > If positive, I have lost the measure of common
understanding.> > > > Dimitris, I don't think you have the
right to critize something > > you even don't have tried yet. Are you
criticizing the code/method> > posted below or the ABtool plugin? As
said: don't use it and be > happy.> > > > UM>
> > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >
From: "DIMITRIS TSOKAKIS" <TSOKAKIS@xxxx>> > To:
<amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> > Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 8:48
AM> > Subject: [amibroker] Re: converting amibroker quotes into ascii
> format> > > > > > > UM,> >
> Do you really consider this "simple" way to export data in ASCII
> > > format ?> > > In other words, an average
amibroker user needs to> > > a. use a 3rd party plugin> >
> b. use a while loop> > > c. move his tickers to a WL>
> > d. save somewhere this code you suggest> > > e. read all
tickers as "foreign"> > > and all this stuff in order to have an
ASCII csv file without > dates ?> > > [Perhaps he will need
another code to insert dates and if, like > > > myself, he does not
understand your magnificent code ask for help > > > again and
again...]> > > There is no reason to rediscover America, Colombus
& co did the > job > > > many years ago.> >
> On the other side, amibroker would be quite miserable if it could
> not > > > export data before while looping+ABtool+so
complicated coding. > And it > > > isnt, as far as I
know.> > > Is this the tool you want to certify, as I read
somewhere else ?> > > Will you also certify this kind of "logic" to
solve a problem > like > > > exporting data in ASCII format
?> > > If positive, I have lost the measure of common
understanding.> > > Dimitris Tsokakis> > > PS
Impressionism was not always the best trend in arts evolution, >
IMHO> > > > > > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
uenal.mutlu@xxxx wrote:> > > > The following is for exporting
the last quotes> > > > of all tickers in a watchlist using the
ABtool plugin.> > > > UM> > > > > >
> > /* export the last quote of all tickers> > >
> in a watchlist using ABtool plugin> > > >
> > > > Run in AA Explore by first setting
> > > > AppyTo=current stock,
> > > > Range=n last quotes,
> > > > and n=1> > >
> */> > > > Filter = 1;> > > > AddColumn(C,
"dummy");> > > > > > > > WL = 60; // set
your watchlist# here> > > > > > > > filename =
"LastQuotes.csv";> > > > fh = xxFileOpen(filename,
"wt");> > > > ticker = xxWLtickerFirst(WL);> > >
> while (ticker != "")> > > > {> > >
> tO = foreign(ticker, "O");> > >
> tH = foreign(ticker, "H");> > >
> tL = foreign(ticker, "L");> > >
> tC = foreign(ticker, "C");> > >
> tV = foreign(ticker, "V");> > >
> tI = foreign(ticker, "I");> > >
> line = ticker + "," + tO + "," + tH + "," + tL
> > >
>
+ "," + tC + "," + tV + "," + tI + "\n";> > >
> xxFileWriteStr(line, fh);> > >
> ticker = xxWLtickerNext(WL);> > >
> }> > > > xxFileClose(fh);> > >
> xxMsgBox("See " + filename, "Finished");> > > > >
> > > > > > > /* The result will look like
this:> > > > > > > >
^NDX,1109.92,1137.45,1109.66,1136.51,0,0> > > >
AAPL,14.46,14.59,14.34,14.45,5.75275e+006,0> > > >
ADBE,36.24,38.14,36.15,37.92,5.78614e+006,0> > > >
ADCT,2.37,2.52,2.36,2.5,6.16774e+006,0> > > >
ALTR,15.79,16.56,15.7,16.51,1.10336e+007,0> > > >
AMAT,14.95,15.31,14.79,15.15,2.7393e+007,0> > > >
AMGN,62.27,63.62,62.01,63.27,9.42019e+006,0> > > > ...>
> > > > > > > */Send
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