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Yes, Graham, that seems quite workable.... but I still think a dynamic table
plugin is the way to go. Shouldn't need to R/W from the notepad!
thanks again..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham" <kavemanperth@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Programming advice requested
> in your code use a bit of AFL to write your trades to either the
> notepad in AB, or to an external text file.
> Your chart needs then to include code to read either the notepad
> information or from the external text file
>
> --
> Cheers
> Graham
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>
>
> On 3/1/06, cstrader <cstrader232@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> OK, I can see the logic of making, in essence, a new static variable for
>> each bar of interest. But aren't these static variables completely lost
>> at
>> the end of the day? I'd like to be able to mark the bar permanently with
>> the information, so that I can backtest it over time. Also, using static
>> variables and/or selectedvalue() are problematic for me because they are
>> not
>> conducive to plotting the trades over time. And AA simply can't deal
>> with
>> them. What I want to do is to write the information into an array....
>>
>> It seems to me that there might well be an internal function that allows
>> this....all that's really necessary is to create a dynamic table with
>> datetime() and whatever other values one wants to save. It's just like
>> the
>> data plugin writing to the data table as bars come in.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to Mike's solution too.
>>
>> chuck
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Herman van den Bergen
>> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 7:39 PM
>> Subject: RE: [amibroker] Programming advice requested
>>
>> Yes, that is what I tried to explain... you place your cursor on the
>> selected bar, which identifies its X-datetime position by way of the
>> SelectedValue(DateTime()). You save the trade information something like
>> staticvarsettext("Trade"+DateTimeNum,
>> OrderType+Numtostr(TradePrice,1.2). You set the OrderType and TradePrice
>> using param(). Then in your plotText() loop you compare this variable
>> name
>> to the DateTim in the loop, if it matches you PlotText(...
>> staticvargettext("Trade"+DateTimeNum),...). Most of the
>> time the staticvar you are reading return empty, and you don't plot
>> anything.
>>
>> hope this helps...perhaps i miss something
>>
>> herman
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
>> Behalf
>> Of cstrader
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 7:08 PM
>> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [amibroker] Programming advice requested
>>
>> That's not quite what I need.
>>
>> Say my guru tells me to buy at 11:12 tomorrow AM. I'd like to mark that
>> bar
>> with a buy, and remember that it is a buy. So i'd like to be able, on
>> the
>> fly, to mark a bar with a signal and perhaps a price, and to save it for
>> later use.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> chuck
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Herman van den Bergen
>> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 5:47 PM
>> Subject: RE: [amibroker] Programming advice requested
>>
>> If you haven't done so, have a look at the PlotText(), this allows you to
>> place text anywhere on the chart. It gives an example of how to display
>> the
>> words "Buy" and "Sell" and price next to the bar. Also look at the
>> VarSetText() and VarGetText().
>>
>> To add text to the selected or lastbar you would use the SelectedValue(
>> barIndex()) or LastValue(BarIndex()) as the name for your StaticVar in
>> which
>> you store the info you want to show. When looping you read the barindex()
>> for each bar, set BI = barIndex() and in your loop use BI[i] to look for
>> a
>> non-empty static variable.
>>
>> At the start the system can read a simple text file and transfer them to
>> StaticVar. At the closing of the system you can use a ParamTrigger to
>> load
>> and save the parameters to a simple text file.
>>
>> Hope this sketchy info helps...
>> herman
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
>> Behalf
>> Of cstrader
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:34 PM
>> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [amibroker] Programming advice requested
>>
>> I would like to add something to my trading that I have not yet found to
>> be
>> available. Basically, I'd like to be able to write my own information
>> onto
>> a bar in real time (for instance a manually-entered trade entry or exit),
>> and to do this from the chart window (parameters menu). This information
>> should remain available in a hard disk file when AB closes.
>>
>> I'm thinking I need to create a dynamic array table of some sort that
>> also
>> gets written to disk and which contains both the date/time code and the
>> new
>> information. I know that there is the OSAKA plugin which seems to do
>> something like this, and perhaps that is my best option? Alternatively,
>> I
>> could write to a foreign ticker, but I'm not sure that's possible from
>> the
>> chart menu.
>>
>> Any advice appreciated....
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> chuck
>>
>>
>>
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