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Hi Yuki
I don't want to clog this board too much but I have to say thanks for
the reply. You talked about how there is no one at Equis to talk to -
how very true. And what a difference here. I have sent emails to support
as a demo user and they've responded within several minutes - 1 hour.
Imagine my surprise when one of the responses was from the boss!
I really want to figure as much out for myself as possible, and after I
started trying to reverse engineer some of the formulae in the AFL
library at the site, I started to realize that it can be done! I am up
WAY too late right now because I can't stop working in this program :).
As you said, I can sense that there is so much here.
It was good of you to make me feel at home and encourage me to ask my
questions. I will do as much as I can on my own before starting to bug
you guys.
BTW... congrats on those stats :)
David Thomason, are you reading this?
Yuki Taga wrote:
> 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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