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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.
-----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
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?
-----Original Message-----
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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-----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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