Mike,
Have you tried out opening few linked
charts of same scrip in the amibroker and then changing the time frames of
those charts.
For eg.
Open 4 linked charts of one same scrip and
then change the time frame of one to 5 min, other to hourly,daily and weekly.
Try it out if you haven’t.
Rupesh
From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of mikelaurataylor
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005
6:06 AM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amibroker] Help me get
rid of Tradestation
I've been using AmiBroker for
a few years now and love it as an EOD
scanning tool.
Meanwhile for tracking stuff during the day I'm
still using
Tradestation as described below.
I'm trying to figure out how to
get rid of it because I really would prefer to
focus all my
attention on one platform and I've gotten pretty
good at AFL and
manipulating AmiBroker.
Here is the issue, which I'm hoping to get some
feedback on or maybe
(if I'm lucky) spark an idea for the next version
of AmiBroker.
I really like to see weekly, daily and intraday
charts all at once
before making a final decision on a trade, which
Tradestation can do
seemlessly.
I first tried to do this w/ AmiBroker by having
two live AmiBrokers
running at the same time, one with my EOD
database, which contains
8000+ stocks and the other w/ a realtime database
consisting of only
those that I was currently tracking (a few
hundred)...
I just subscribed to Esignal thinking I'd
consolidate into one
database, but I learned that this isn't practical
for thousands of
stocks since the EOD data loading would be too
cumbersome for
thousands of stocks. Therefore,
even with a mixed Esignal
database, I still need one database for scanning
thousands of stocks
for patterns, etc. and the other for just those
that I am looking at
in detail.
The problems w/ two databases are as follows:
1. If I finish and EOD scan and want to do some
line drawing or
notes on the chart and I do this in the EOD
database, it is not in
the other one and I have to recreate these manual
drawings when I
move to the intraday database.
2. If new stocks come up I have to add them to the
intraday database
and (in theory) clean out the older ones that are
no longer needed
for intraday scans. (Possibly by
exporting/importing a watch list).
In general this works but is clunky.
The only ways I can think if to fix this are
changes that would be
made to the actual softare. For
instance...
1. If there was some way to share drawn data on a
chart between two
Amibroker databases I could draw on one EOD and
see it in the
intraday database when I look at a daily chart.
2. If there was some way to syncronize two running
instances of
AmiBroker, I could have 2 windows open, an EOD
from one database and
an Intraday from the other, and when I move from
symbol to symbol
both versions running could change symbols at the
same time.
I may be rambling (so I apologize) but I really
want to adopt
AmiBroker fully and get rid of Tradestation but
until there is some
way to look at data on an intraday / daily basis
in a more
integrated fashion I don't think I can.
Does anyone have any better solutions or ideas?
Thanks
Mike
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