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
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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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