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Ken..thanks so much for your help...and I will start to do research 
to learn how to at least learn the basics of the language.  I'll take 
your examples and start the process.

Ed

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ken Close" <closeks@xxxx> wrote:
> Ed:
> 
> This will have to do as I am working in my database that only has 
close
> and not H/L/O, so it is a line chart, not candlesticks.
> 
> This code produces the A1.gif attached:
> 
> QQQ=Foreign("QQQ","C");
> Plot(QQQ,"QQQ",4,1);
> Plot(RSI(13),"RSI13",5,4);
> Plot(70,"",colorYellow,1);
> Plot(30,"",colorYellow,1);
> Plot(50,"",7,1);
> GraphXSpace=5;
> 
> This code produces the A2.gif attached.  The only difference is the
> addition of the styleownscale operator following the "|" (vertical 
line
> character).
> 
> QQQ=Foreign("QQQ","C");
> Plot(QQQ,"QQQ",4,1|styleOwnScale);
> Plot(RSI(13),"RSI13",5,4);
> Plot(70,"",colorYellow,1);
> Plot(30,"",colorYellow,1);
> Plot(50,"",7,1);
> GraphXSpace=5;
> 
> You will (must) read enough of the help file to be able to do basic
> things in AB, otherwise it will not produce good results for you. 
Even
> if you consider yourself "not to be a programmer".  No reason you 
have
> to use all of the commands or features--but you have to be able to 
do
> the basics.  With time, you will understand it better.       The 1 
at
> the end of the plot statement makes a line plot.  What code 
produces a
> candlestick chart (when your database has O/H/L/C data??---the 
answer is
> in the help file, search for graphs or graphing or plot)
> 
> Ken
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed [mailto:reach1136@x...] 
> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 4:03 PM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Price Window
> 
> Ken thank...I thought this might be the case.  Unfortunately, I am 
> not a very experience programmen...can you or somone point me to an 
> example of an indicator with this code (e.g. for candlesticks 
> represnting price) so that I can learn how to do it?
> 
> ANd I do like AB much better than MetaStock os foar.
> 
> Ed
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ken Close" <closeks@xxxx> wrote:
> > Ed: you are not doing anything wrong, you are still learning...
> > 
> > You do not overlay an indicator on the standard price window.  
> Rather
> > you plot the price in the same indicator code so they then are in 
> the
> > same pane.  If the values are widely different it will not be very
> > readable, so one or the other variable being plotted needs to have
> > "styleOwnScale" included in the plot statement.
> > 
> > Again, if you have the Price default set to line chart and you 
wish 
> to
> > open a window with candlesticks in it, you have to plot price in 
the
> > Indicator Builder and tell it to plot candlesticks.  Look up 
Graphs 
> in
> > the help file for all details on plotting.
> > 
> > I just reopened Metastock after not having used it since Mar, 
2002 
> (I
> > wanted to see Three Line Break charts and did not know that these 
> can be
> > produced in Amibroker).  Anyway, the Metastock interface and 
> features
> > are much harder to use IMHO, and I say that not just because I 
have 
> been
> > using Amibroker all this time, but because AB is so much more 
> flexible.
> > About the only thing that MS does that AB does not do yet 
> is "dragging
> > indicators around", which is not that big a deal.
> > 
> > Good luck, ask some more if this has not been enough.
> > 
> > Ken
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ed [mailto:reach1136@x...] 
> > Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 12:55 PM
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [amibroker] Price Window
> > 
> > Hello - I am an experienced TC2000, Omnitrader and MetaStock user 
> and 
> > I have the eval of AmiBroker - I cannot figure out a few 
> > things...such as
> > 
> > 1.  opening a new window with just candlesticks, i.e. not using 
> > the "Price" defaults from preferences - I just want the pricing, 
> > bards, candlesticks, whatever;
> > 
> > 2.  On several custom indicators, I get the indicator in the new 
> > window, but not overlayed on Price - it's just the custom 
indicator.
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance, EdM
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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