[amibroker] Ranking stocks? possible to create filter with AFL?

["Kropotkin" <backup_dayad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This one has me stumped - I hope someone can help. 

I want to do a 2 part scan/exploration that:

  1. rank the stocks according to some criteria. e.g. this might be 
how high the volatility is, then select the top 10 or 20 stocks on 
this ranking. 

  2. use another criteria (e.g. new highs, or ma crossovers, or 
pullbacks to ma) to look for entries in the stocks from part 1. 


Any idea how to do this? is there a way to create/edit a filter using 
AFL? Or if can write the results to a file, can I then check each 
stock to see if it occurs in that file? (similar to "vlookup" in 
Excel). 

Clearly I can do this manually, by getting the results and manually 
creating a filter, but this isn't very practical if doing a lot of 
different scans.

thanks in advance,
Chris



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