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Hi nikku,
I came from Metastock several years ago. (My, how time flies.)
I cannot program at all, really. The concept of algorithm design and
translation to code are just not part of the way *my* mind works. I
do other things quite competently, but programming is always going to
be difficult for me. I long ago realized that.
But none of that stopped me from seeing pretty quickly that this
program, even several years ago, could do things that MS could not.
That was also the opinion of several other (former) MS users whose
opinions I held in high regard. So I came over, and I got lots of
help.
And while there were a lot of helpful people on MS lists who gave me
a lot of assistance coding MS, as you well know, there is virtually
no one at Equis one can talk to, ever. Certainly one is never going
to receive e-mail from the chief of MS product development, nor is
that person even going to even lurk on an MS user list.
Here, it's quite a bit different. Not only does the main guy hang
around (somehow he finds the time; heavens knows how), but he pretty
much carries on a dialog, when able, with the list. Moreover, there
are a host of people here who will answer your questions, often quite
quickly. Ask your questions here. TJ, the main guy, probably won't
answer them personally, but you never know. In any case, there will
be people here who will.
Welcome aboard. If I can get functionality out of this program, any
non-programmer can.
Not only that, but I have the best system stats on this board. ^^_^^
The program "feels" different from MS, because it is different. Quite
frankly, especially in the very beginning, it's not quite as easy to
catch on to. But it's worth the effort, as there is little the
program cannot do, and the developer is working on changing "little"
to "nothing". It can do much, much more than MS of course, already.
With what you've said below, I suspect a lot of your 150 question
will melt away as you get a much smaller core answered. You will
start to see how it works. Ask away. It it turns out to actually be
150 questions, you will still trail my inquiries by a wide margin.
^_-
Yuki
Thursday, September 23, 2004, 6:37:18 AM, you wrote:
n> Hi everyone
n> I hope the experienced Amibroker users here can help me out. I have just
n> downloaded a trial version of Amibroker. I am a long-time user of
n> Metastock, but I have recently become dissatisfied with the product,
n> especially because I now need to do a lot of system testing.
n> It is clear to me that Amibroker is a great program, one that is much
n> better for active traders and system developers. However....
n> I reviewed the AFL tutorial material which came with the program, and it
n> is not exactly designed for someone with absolutely no programming or
n> Excel knowledge whatsoever. I don't consider myself to be particularly
n> slow, but I found that the tutorials in the program itself very quickly
n> went above my head. For example, I wanted to construct a simple system
n> which would plot 1 when it triggered - I couldn't find a specific
n> explanation of how to do this. Luckily, the support for this product
n> seems exceptional, because an email request for help generated a
n> response within a few hours. I am sure, however, that they will not like
n> it if I send them 150 emails over the next 3 weeks asking for step by
n> step instructions for all the things I need to know (or am I wrong about
n> this?).
n> I have searched the site and other sources for the past few days and I
n> haven't found anything like 'Amibroker for Dummies' or any sort of
n> tutorial which takes a complete newbie through a step by step clinic in
n> how to code in AFL. Is anything like this available? Someone suggested
n> to me that the best thing I could do for myself would be to learn how to
n> use Excel first - is this true? Is it best that I learn a programming
n> language before trying to code in AFL?
n> I would be thrilled to buy the pro version of this obviously valuable
n> program but I need to know whether I will ever be able to make sense of
n> AFL before I do so. Again, research and long hours don't scare me - all
n> I need is a source of information, i.e. a very concise reference manual
n> or a person a Amibroker support who is willing to put up with me for the
n> foreseeable future as I ask 150 questions.
n> Any ideas? Thanks a lot.
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