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RE: [amibroker] Request for advice: programming languages



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Hi

Dingo’s document? Anyone got some more info on this i.e. file name or link?

Thanks

Peter

 

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From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of neurotic self
Sent: Thursday, 25 August 2005 5:28 a.m.
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Request for advice: programming languages

 

Hi Ed,

it depends what you mean by problem and it also depends on what you
want to attain (what strategy you want to backtest).

I consider myself a schooled programmer (degree in CS, programming is
part of my job), first problem I found was documentation, until I
discovered Dingo's document (on the beta site if I remember well).
Documentation is probably the biggest issue with AB in general,
luckily there's this list/community and especially Tomasz to help.

The second problem was (and still is) AFL expressive power, not all
strategies can be stated in AFL alone, even using the custom
backtester.

Anyway as far as I know no other package offers a better alternative,
and AFL performance is probably the best on the market, short of
custom programming, so more kudos to TJ.

I strongly encourage reading Dingo's doc and all AB documentation
before jumping on custom coding.

n.

On 8/24/05, emp62 <emp62@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Patrick,
>  
> not sure what your plan is but if you want to design your own backtester as
> a plugin I think one needs to be a schooled programmer and it will take
> heaps of time.  However, on a single symbol level every system imaginable
> can be built using "easy AFL".  It is only on a portfolio level that one
> needs the "backtester interface" if you want to do things like couple a buy
> to a sell signals, using redundant signals or stuff like you are doing with
> rotational trading.  So as I understand it now with the backtester interface
> any trading idea you have can be designed using Amibroker.  It is therefor
> best to concentrate on the interface and ask many questions to TJ.
>  
> I just wonder:  how many schooled programmers out there using Amibroker can
> use the backtester inferface without any problems ... In other words: is it
> sufficient to define the objects + methods for a schooled programmer to
> start using the backtester interface without any problem?
>  
> rgds, Ed
>  
>  
>  
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "vlanschot" <ecbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:07 PM
> Subject: [amibroker] Request for advice: programming languages

>
> > Hi group,
> >
> > I'd like to get some feedback on which (object-oriented) programming
> > language would be most helpful in combination with AB.
> >
> > I've used VB previously, but am wondering whether there are better
> > (i.e. easier) alternatives out there, like Delphi, which I've seen
> > mentioned before on this board. What about others like Fortran?
> >
> > Any freeware I can download? Suggested books, and other readings?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
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