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Re: [amibroker] Re: Does anyone else find volume charts valuable?



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Hello,

Will add volume-bars in some of the future beta versions that
will appear AFTER release of 4.70

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "scourt2000" <stevehite@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:36 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: Does anyone else find volume charts valuable?


> 
> 
> 
> Yes Ed, that's it.  Time is not relevant to the price bar with tick 
> and volume charts.  They appeal mostly to futures traders.   eSignal 
> and TradeStation have volume charts.  It should be no big deal to 
> include them into Amibroker since they should be very similar to 
> tick charts programatically speaking...the difference being that 
> the "tick" is replaced with the actual number of contracts traded 
> for that transaction.
> 
> Steve
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "ed nl" <ed2000nl@xxxx> wrote:
>> basicly I believe what you are saying is that you want to make a 
> chart of Price as a function of Volume instead of Price as a 
> function of Time. 
>> 
>> In general I agree that it would be nice to have an option to be 
> able to chose both the X and Y coordinates of a chart and not just 
> for volume but in general; Plot(X,Y,"",colorBlue,1);
>> 
>> rgds, Ed
>> 
>> 
>>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>>   From: scourt2000 
>>   To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>>   Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:00 PM
>>   Subject: [amibroker] Re: Does anyone else find volume charts 
> valuable?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>   Herman,
>> 
>>   Do you know what I'm referring to?  Everyone knows what a tick 
> chart 
>>   is.  Each price bar represents a fixed number of transactions, 
>>   regardless of the size of each transaction.   With a volume 
> chart, 
>>   on, say, the ES (the e-mini S&P Futures contract), each price 
> bar 
>>   represent a fixed number of contracts traded.   A 2500v chart on 
> the 
>>   ES would have each price bar represent 2500 contracts 
> transacted.  
>> 
>>   You'll find these charts to be very smooth and quite tradeable.  
> All 
>>   of your standard indicators will work on them to give you 
> signals to 
>>   take a traded.  The volume information is "built in" to these 
>>   charts.  The speed at which the bars move lets you know that.
>> 
>>   Steve
>> 
>>   --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Herman van den Bergen" 
>>   <psytek@xxxx> wrote:
>>   > Never use volume, wish I could make it do something useful :-) 
>>   beside
>>   > screening stocks for liquidity..
>>   > herman
>>   >   -----Original Message-----
>>   >   From: scourt2000 [mailto:stevehite@x...]
>>   >   Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:47 PM
>>   >   To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>   >   Subject: [amibroker] Does anyone else find volume charts 
>>   valuable?
>>   > 
>>   > 
>>   > 
>>   > 
>>   >   I use volume charts for all of my real-time trading.  I think
>>   >   Amibroker would have everything that I'd need for automated 
>>   trading
>>   >   if it had volume charts and the ability to backtest them.
>>   > 
>>   >   [yes, I formally requested this over a year ago.  I'm just 
>>   trying to
>>   >   see if anyone else on this list uses volume charts for real-
> time
>>   >   trading]
>>   > 
>>   >   Steve
>>   > 
>>   > 
>>   > 
>>   > 
>>   > 
>>   > 
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