Graham,
I think the answer to your question is that MetaTrader 3 and now 4
are programmable and come with a free data supply.
I don’t know if you would consider them as programmable as AB.
I do know that the manual for MT3 was shockingly bad, and I understand that
back-testing is poor and so the optimising available in MT4 is of highly dubious
value.
I would use AB in preference to MT any day, but for anyone who
wants a charting package with free data, MT seems to be one.
Barry
From:
amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Graham
Sent: Friday, 7 October 2005 4:02
PM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [amibroker] IB API
can do everything?
Amibroker is a charting package. AB can do backtesting with any data,
al you need is the historical data to backtest on.
Yes it can real time scan, although trying to scan
10,000 stocks
during the day seems excessive to me. The scan
does take time and the
more stocks and more complex te code the longer it
takes, especially
when you also have to wait for the data to
backfill for each stock.
There are details in the help files on using the
IB connection, there
is also a yaoo group devoted to automated trading
with Amibroker, so
maybe you can ask detailed questions there on
using IB with AB. The
group is amibroker-at in the yahoo groups (same
url as this group, but
with -at added to the name
I would however be interested to know which
charting program you can
buy that is be fully programmable for trading
systems like AB, and not
have to subscribe to a data supply (ie pay nothing
more for data)
--
Cheers
Graham
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On 10/7/05, fox97us
<williamwang97@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Currently, i am testing the Amibroker system.
However, basically
> amibroker is just an analysis software. It
does not provide market data
> nor trading permission. It will make things
complicated and costy if i need
> to subscribe a data provider(ie esignal) and
a broker (ie IB) in addtion to
> amibroker.
>
> Anyone knows if I can use the IB API to
develope a system that use MY
> OWN CODES to
> 1) do backtest,
> 2) real time scan (better if it can scan the
whole market, which
> is ~ 10,000 stocks),
> 3) do autotrading when certain conditions are
met?
>
> Plese give some detail info.
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
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