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From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Terry
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006
3:14 PM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [amibroker]
"AmiBroker" conferences
I was also in Houston and second everything
Dan says below. Every presenter was excellent. Bill's use of the Parameter box
is brilliant. I'm still wondering just "how" he is able to save each
set of parameters upon clicking Reset All. He basically has a visual
back-tester, change a few parameters and you see the results instantly in the
chart. There were some nice trading ideas presented in detail. Fred is a real
genius and IO is one incredibly amazing product. Tomasz is really great guy, in
spite of the tone in some of his emails ;-) His presentation on the Custom
Backtester really opens up nearly limitless possibilities in back
testing…you'll have to go next year. All presentations were recorded in
Camtasia (slide show with audio) and you'll be able to buy those from FT
Monitor for well less than the cost of attending, but being there is person is
the best.
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From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Dan Clark
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006
10:14
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [amibroker]
"AmiBroker" conferences
Hi. I just got back from the AB
conference last night. Great conference! More about that in a
minute…
Regarding the Tomasz’ PowerPoint
presentations… To save the effort converting them to HTML or flash,
users can simply use the PowerPoint viewer:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en
It’s free and allows anyone to view
PowerPoint ’97 and later presentations.
Regarding the conference…
It was a very interesting experience.
It’s fascinating how your perspective changes when you meet people in
person. Joe Landry, Duke Jones, Richard Borroff and especially Tomasz are
very different from the way I imagined them. Even nicer in
person!
Regarding Tomasz, he’s obviously one
of the brightest people around. What is NOT obvious until you meet
him in person is that he’s one of the nicest, most self-effacing guys you
will encounter. It was a pleasure to listen to him speak and
to talk with him in person! He got a standing ovation after his
presentation!
Greg Cook did a great job covering an
overall system for trading stocks. His analytical approach
and blending of traditional AB concepts other web resources aligns nicely with
my way of thinking. It’s a great structure for me.
Jimmy Hixson talked about secular and
cyclical markets. This was a way of viewing the long and
shorter term cycles in the markets historically. Great context for
looking at the markets.
Fred Tonetti’s discussion covered
using IO for optimization. Fred’s presentation was excellent,
but very advanced for me. I figure with about 2-3 years of hard
work, I’ll get to level where I can understand it. Fred is
one serious rocket scientist! ;-)
Besides meeting people with whom I’ve
“conversed” online, I’d say that most interesting thing I
learned was how different people view AmiBroker. A goodly number of
people came from the FastTrack world. They spoke a language and
shared concepts that were entirely new to me. This was true in general,
but it really came home with Bill Barnard’s presentation…
Bill comes from the FastTrack world and
uses AmiBroker to generate trading signals – good in general and
especially good for FastTrack users. He demonstrated and discussed
his AFL code. When he started, I was only mildly interested because
many of the concepts he discussed were FastTrack concepts.
However, as he moved forward, I realized that I was looking at one
amazing piece of work!
Bill’s presentation and code were
incredible! IMO, this is the most advanced AFL code that I’ve
ever seen or heard discussed. He uses AB and AFL in ways that are
ground-breaking. As an example, Bill uses the “Reset all”
button in the Properties window in a way that (AFAIK) no one else has every
thought of. I don’t fully understand what he is doing
(understatement alert), but it appears that he is saving sets of chart
properties to text files and then reading them back in to change the whole
context of charts. This changes the whole context of a chart.
Using Bill’s methods, I think it is
possible to implement the concept of “drill down” in
AmiBroker. For example, you could display a line chart of the top
10 “Hot” Industries. Then you could select an industry
and click “Refresh all” and repopulate a Properties “ParamList”
with the component symbols from that Industry. Then click a
ParamToggle and click “Refresh all” to take you back to the
original “Industries” chart. I’m going to try
this and let you know how it works. I can NOT overstate how
incredible I found Bill’s work to be. Absolutely fantastic!
PICTURES - I took pictures at the
reception. I’ll edit them over the new few days and post a link
where you can view/download them. (Hint – Did you know that
Tomasz’ favorite hat comes from Texas?!?) Also, I you
took pics, want to share them, but don’t have a way, let me know
and I’ll upload and share them with my pics.
To Richard Borroff for organizing the
conference, and to Tomasz and all the presenters, please accept my sincere
appreciation for a great conference!
Best regards,
Dan.
From:
amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tomasz Janeczko
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006
4:08 AM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [amibroker]
"AmiBroker" conferences
I can not speak for other authors, but my own
presentations are now available for free from AmiBroker site
so everyone can just download it.
Probably I will convert them to HTML or Flash so people without
PowerPoint
are also able to see them.
As for recorded audio materials and remaining presentations Richard
Boroff from FTMonitor, will be preparing CD set with
everything. It will take 6 or more weeks to prepare those CDs.
As far as Bill Bardard's code is considered - I asked him and he said
that he is willing to share his code with other AmiBroker users.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
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Sent:
Monday, February 27, 2006 12:17 PM
Subject:
[amibroker] "AmiBroker" conferences
Conferences are nice but benefit the
few.
imo, Unless proceedings are
published the AmiBroker user community will become divided and cliquish.
Are there any plans to publish the Houston
presentations?
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From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Thomas Z.
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006
2:28 AM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [amibroker] News from
Houston
Hello Duke,
>Bill Barnard blew us away with what you can do within the parameter
box...
>even Tomasz jaw dropped when he saw what was packed into the dialog box..
Do you know more about that or examples ?
Regards
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Thomas
www.tradingbasis.com
support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Duke Jones, CMT
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 5:42 PM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amibroker] News from Houston
Just a quick update from Houston
News from Tomasz ...Just a few of the potential features coming down the
road:
Ways to define Minimum Hold Bars and type of penalty/fee expressed in a
percent for Rotational Trading.
Multiple accounts in updated portfolio manager.
Multi Threading in Optimizer
64Bit version - already available and on the website (note: currently
only IB plug in is 64bit ready)
New Easy Alerts Features
User definable filtering in T&S window
many more....
Presentations:
Bill Barrack's & Bruce Robinson - presentation was excellent but
ideas
from conversations afterward worth the price of admission alone.
Bill Barnard blew us away with what you can do within the parameter
box... even Tomasz jaw dropped when he saw what was packed into the
dialog box.
Regards,
Duke Jones, CMT
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