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Thank you for your considerate reply.
Just backing up to a firewire drive -- of course can change the xcopy
script to do it less frequently. So thatis not the main issue at
all; wasjust surprised to see page after page of files being backed
up.
Yours and others' comments as to usability, programabiliy, charting,
rapid explorations are obviously of much greater importance.
Thanks again.
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Kevin243@xxxx wrote:
> AmiBroker is very fast, easy on memory, and very programable. I
use
> relatively simple systems. One of my favorites is Turtle trading
(buy/sell 15 bar
> High/Low) on intraday stocks. Help is just an email away and there
are extensive
> archives of files and emails.
>
> As far as backing up, are you using CD-RW for your nightly backups
on
> databases? This is very practical. I don't backup every night -
more like monthly.
> I could replace the lost data fairly easily.
>
> Metastock is way too slow cruise through big databases using
explorations,
> scans and especially backtests. It is very profitable to keep big
databases, so
> you find the best stocks to trade a particular system. My returns
have gone
> up significantly by extensively backtesting several systems across
big
> databases. This would take weeks on Metastock and you wouldn't get
the output you
> need to make intelligent choices. (like drawdown statictics, etc.)
Equis used
> to know what traders needed, but went downhill about when Reuters
took over.
>
> I gave up on Metastock when it started to take 15 hours to run a
backtest on
> single system across my main database. How much is your time worth
to you?
>
> Need I say more...
>
> Kevin Campbell
>
> In a message dated 7/2/03 11:56:14 AM Central Daylight Time,
> cowdude650@xxxx writes:
>
> >
> > Decided to check out AmiBroker based on som heavy "testimonials"
on
> > other sites.
> >
> > Anyway, there are parts of it that are interesting. But has
anyone
> > spent a bunch of time with AmiBroker and then switched back to
some
> > other program?
> >
> > One thing that seems strange is AmiBroker stores each symbol's
price
> > data as a separate file which is amazingly inefficient on space
and
> > awkward because i would imagine, literally thousands of files
could
> > get touched at the end of the day on price updates. I backup
daily so
> > waiting for my backups to complete would be painful as each of
the
> > thousands have to be written to my backup drive.
> >
> > Aso the trial version for 30 days does nto let you save so you
cannot
> > really play with it after you spend time downloading. a definite
bad
> > idea.
> >
> > Thots?
> >
> >
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