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Thanks for your input William.
Your reply has created a few new questions.
(by the way I have hi-speed cable internet service)
>>I think the minimum time interval is 1 minute set in AA. You can
set it up to produce a signal against various tickers by putting
those tickers in a watchlist and setting the filter to that
watchlist. If you want to see a signal in the chart itself then you
could create a custom indicator that plots the buy sell short cover
arrows.<<<<
The EOD AFL trading formulas I use create buy and sell arrows on the
chart when you double click the results. Are you saying that using
this afl formula in scan mode in real time these signals will not
automatically appear on the 1 minute charts? This will require more
programming??? What kind of signal or alert will the AFL formula
generate in realtime??
>>Installing two instances of AmiBroker is not something I would have
done. If you are using Realtime then all you need is the realtime
version installed for both RT and EOD data.<<
I believe that was recommended by Thomasz on the AB site or users
manual for users of both EOD and real time. He also recommended a
seperate database for intraday data, so I figured I would just
install the new AB in another directory and that would solve the
problem. Guess not. What happens now if I use the windows delete
program wizard to delete the second instance of AB? Will it tear up
my old EOD AB to shreds, formulas, settings etc.. ?
>>>The problem is this: If you use QT as your datasource then your
tickers will not have the option to store the data locally so how do
you then import data from Quote.com and have it hold within a
database.<<<
If I grasp what you are saying is that the Data that is imported from
IB through QT is not stored in AB Pro ??? Not sure of what you mean.
Thanks
Jim
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "William Peters"
<williampeters@xxxx> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> I was going to answer before but there are some complex issues here
and was hesitant because of the detail necessary to answer (am i'm
still experimenting myself) but here are some comments....its always
good to experiment yourself on backups and get to know whats going on
first hand.
>
> >1) Can I expect data lag and how much using the IB-QT-AB Pro
realtime
> >setup? I would have about 5 charts open and streaming.
>
> It depends on whether you are using dialup or cable. I've been
using this configuration over dial-up and with 10 tickers and
surprisingly have found it very good. The speed of data flowing from
IB seems to be quite ok.
>
> >2) Are there any problems overwriting the intraday IB data with
Lycos
> >intraday every night?
>
> There is a section in the users guide that talks about this
practice and from my understanding of your requirements it should
work ok
>
> Users Guide: Tutorial-->Updating Quotes-->How to use AmiBroker in
real time mode
> (Read it all but in particular the section near the bottom
titled: 'Things you should NOT do, or you should do very carefully')
>
>
>
> >3) How much lag can I expect for the AFL formula (signal) to react
to
> >intraday data. Can I set it up to signal on 1 or 2 tickers
(charts),
> >the other charts are indexes?
>
> I think the minimum time interval is 1 minute set in AA. You can
set it up to produce a signal against various tickers by putting
those tickers in a watchlist and setting the filter to that
watchlist. If you want to see a signal in the chart itself then you
could create a custom indicator that plots the buy sell short cover
arrows.
>
> >4) I installed a seperate instance of AB to another directory
> >(/AmiBrokerRealTime) Amiquote appears to retain it's settings
across
> >directories? When I opened my EOD AB (/AmiBroker) Amiquote showed
> >Lycos 1 minute for download settings instead of my usual Yahoo
EOD.
> >How can I fix this so I don't accidently "corrupt" the databases?
>
> >I would like the EOD and Intraday databases to be totally seperate.
>
>
> Installing two instances of AmiBroker is not something I would have
done. If you are using Realtime then all you need is the realtime
version installed for both RT and EOD data.
>
> When you create an EOD or a RT database the data component is
seperate but there are some components that are shared like
Indicators, preference settings and default settings etc (this is a
pain I know)
> If you want it seperate you might have to put it on another PC.
>
>
> >5) Any comments from users of this setup please feel free to
comment.
>
> I've just completed a trial of eSignal and will move to them as
soon as possible, it really is the way to go but for now IB/QT/AB is
the method I have to use and it does work.
>
> There is one other issue that i'm currently not clear on and am in
the middle of testing and that is the importing of 1 minute data from
Quote.com
> The problem is this: If you use QT as your datasource then your
tickers will not have the option to store the data locally so how do
you then import data from Quote.com and have it hold within a
database.
>
> I ran an autmation script over all the tickers to set the following
property DataLocalMode = 1 (store locally)
> Just prior to importing each time from Quote.com I run an
automation script against all he tickers in this database to set the
following flags DataSource = 1 (local only) then after importing, set
it back to DataSource = 0 (default)
>
> I'm not sure there is not a better way to do this but at the moment
everything is working well. I'm open to suggestions from TJ or others
on a easier (more correct) way to do all this that i'm currently just
not aware of.
>
> Regards,
> William Peters
> www.amitools.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jnk1997 [mailto:jnk1997@x...]
> Sent: Saturday January 3, 2004 12:52 PM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] TJ Help : AB Professional Upgrade
>
>
> Hello
>
> I am an AB EOD 4.0 registered user, going realtime (must upgrade).
>
> I currently use IB-Quotracker and AB EOD for signals EOD.
> I trade intraday using IB fed into QT (10 ticker symbols only).
>
> I want to use my AFL formulas to provide real time signals on 1 and
3
> minute charts in Amibroker Professional. "IB-QT-AB Pro"
>
> I have considered Tradestation 7.2, however I do not trade intraday
> every day, probably more like 8 or 10 days per month of "possible"
> intraday trading (when I am not travelling-job), so spending $120
> bucks/month makes me cringe (as well as learning another "not so
easy
> language").
>
> I would use Lycos (free) for backfill of intraday data every night
in
> order to keep the database up to date.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) Can I expect data lag and how much using the IB-QT-AB Pro
realtime
> setup? I would have about 5 charts open and streaming.
>
> 2) Are there any problems overwriting the intraday IB data with
Lycos
> intraday every night?
>
> 3) How much lag can I expect for the AFL formula (signal) to react
to
> intraday data. Can I set it up to signal on 1 or 2 tickers
(charts),
> the other charts are indexes?
>
> 4) I installed a seperate instance of AB to another directory
> (/AmiBrokerRealTime) Amiquote appears to retain it's settings
across
> directories? When I opened my EOD AB (/AmiBroker) Amiquote showed
> Lycos 1 minute for download settings instead of my usual Yahoo EOD.
> How can I fix this so I don't accidently "corrupt" the databases?
>
> I would like the EOD and Intraday databases to be totally seperate.
>
> 5) Any comments from users of this setup please feel free to
comment.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jim
>
>
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