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Re: [amibroker] Market Profile Calculations



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Dimitris Tsokakis
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dave Merrill" <dmerrill@xxxx> 
wrote:
> One odd thing, in that article, he's talking about the Close of the 
VIX
> relative to its Open. In my QuotesPlus data, the VIX dosn't have 
separate
> OHLC before 9/22/03, and I thought I remembered that that's because 
the VIX
> was redefined by its sponsoring organization.
> 
> Is that right? Or is this just a QP artifact? If it's real, that's 
not much
> of a backtest window to play with. Even besides the vailability of 
OHLC
> data, how important is that redefinition to its use as a trading 
indicator?
> Is it more or less comparable to the old version, or has its 
behavior
> changed sigificantly? Hard to tell by eye.
> 
> Dave
>   An intriguing system by Larry Connors -
>   http://biz.yahoo.com/tm/040204/11209_2.html - reminded me of
>   something I'd like to backtest: using extremes in the VIX to trade
>   SPY.
> 
>   How could I program a backtest of this in AmiBroker? In general, 
I'd
>   like to try trading SPY using overbought/oversold levels in the 
VIX
>   for buy/sell signals.
> 
>   Thanks for any help on this!



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