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Re: [amibroker] Re: So Long Amibroker, [No Volume Charts]
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hi,
Amibroker is based on time as the X-axis.
Equivolume charts could be drawn if Amibroker would have a setting where the
Y-axis as well as the X-axis could be chosen by the user. Then you could make
volume versus price charts for instance but it would also enable to draw results
of statistical studies to a chart. I also asked for such a feature a year ago or
so.
rgds, Ed
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 3:37
PM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: So Long
Amibroker, [No Volume Charts]
Al,
What Steve means is that volume charts are most
popular among futures traders and not stock traders. Technically you can
set you IBM stock to let's say 10,000 volume bars.
The most
economical way to test volume charts is to use SierraChart software with IB
feed.
I was also a bit confused when someone on this forum
mentioned "equivolume" charts some time ago. I had "equivolume" eod(!)
charts available in my old MetaStock for DOS 10 years ago (I don't
remember what they were all about).
Let's clarify for TJ what we
mean by "volume charts" here:
2000 volume chart:
each bar is
completed when the number of contracts/shares reaches 2000. After that the
next bar starts and 2000 count starts again.
So "volume charts" are
just like "tick charts" but based on volume (number of contracts/shares)
instead of on ticks.
Lesmond
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amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Al Venosa` <avcinci@xxxx> wrote: > Hi,
Steve, > > I'm not familiar with volume charting. Why is it not
amenable to stock > traders? For example, why couldn't you create
bars representing, say, IBM's > OHLC of 10,000 shares or whatever?
Just curious. > > Al Venosa > > On 6/25/05,
scourt2000 <stevehite@xxxx> wrote: > > > > >
> Joe, > > > > eSignal/TradeStation/Sierra Chart/Ensign
all have volume charting > > capability. Tomasz said they he would
try to get this in the next > > few beta releases coming up. Here's
my repost from the amibroker- > > beta group describing it. What
Amibroker also needs is way to > > backtest large amounts of
tick/volume bars: > > > > [note to traders who have never
heard of volume price bars: no, it's > > not equivolume
charting] > > > > 1. Support for price bars that represent
a fixed volume size. For > > those not familiar with this feature
which is supported in eSignal, > > an ER 250v would represent the
Russell 2K e-mini futures contract > > where each price bar
represents the open/high/low/close of 250 > > contracts. > >
> > 2. Support for backtesting of large amounts of tick/volume
bar data. > > This would require a plugin that could read a data
source (like an > > eSignal tick formatted file) and compress
tick/volume interval bars > > on the fly. With this, I could scan
years worth of tick/volume > > interval bar data without memory
overload problems. > > > > Volume charting is used mainly
by futures traders, not stock > > traders. Unlike tick charts, volume
charts can be reproducible bar- > > for-bar in backtests and they
tend to be smoother. If you've ever > > traded futures off of volume
bars, you'll probably never go back > > looking at minute charts for
the trading chart you take actual > > entry/exit signals off
of. > > > > Steve > > > > > >
> > > > Please note that this group is for discussion
between users only. > > > > To get support from AmiBroker
please send an e-mail directly to > > SUPPORT {at} amibroker.com
<http://amibroker.com> > >
> > For other support material please check also: > > http://www.amibroker.com/support.html >
> > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
> > > > > > > > > > >
> >
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Please note that this group is for discussion between users only.
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