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Joe,

 

Hi.  One of the issues of which I was concerned was that there would be PPT to PDF conversion issues.   I downloaded the PDF version of Houston2 and compared to the PPT version.   There’s no visible difference that I can see.  I’m convinced that PDF is that best way.

 

Best regards,

 

Dan.

 


From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Landry
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 6:17 AM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [amibroker] "AmiBroker" conferences IN PDF

 

Thanks for doing this. Excellent work and 250KB for PDF vs 465KB for PPT as best I can tell.  Could you fill me in on what product to use to do this conversion?  I want to get it for the web site I work with.   It definitely downloads faster as you would expect from the size.

 

Good old Adobe.

Regards.

Joe  

----- Original Message -----

From: martinod

Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:21 AM

Subject: RE : [amibroker] "AmiBroker" conferences

 

Houston 2 converted to PDF,

 

A. Martinod

 

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De : amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Herman van den Bergen
Envoyé : mardi 28 février 2006 00:37
À : amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Objet : RE: [amibroker] "AmiBroker" conferences

 

Thanks to all for the reports on the Houston conference; sounds like it was a real succes and that a lot of interesting topics were covered. Perhaps I'll make it there one day...

 

Meanwhile i hope that the contributors who have not already published key ideas about the work they presented will find the time to summarize some of the topics on this list. 

 

An alternative would be that someone posts a copy of the HG, that way all 4000 or so of us can make it to the next conference ;-)

 

best regards,

herman

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
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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Terry

-----Original Message-----
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

 

Herman,

 

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

----- Original Message -----

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?

 

Best regards,

herman 

 

 

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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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-----Original Message-----
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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