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RE: [amibroker] Potential New User



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Hi Paul (and ShortFox) thanks for replying. I have been monitoring this list for a week now and have been very impressed with it. I'm not sure when Thomasz sleeps (I guess he's in a European time zone) but I'm particularly impressed by his timely replies. I didn't ask about customer service in my original post as I can see that it's first class. BTW I hope it is OK to mention other software in passing as long as its with the view of moving TO AB and not the other way round:-)
 
My reasons for changing - OK I have been trading quite happily with Ensign mainly using some of its  drawing tools (medianlines and Fibonacci).  Drawing and visualisation are great and I think most developers might learn a thing or two by taking a peek at these.
 
I have decided to switch back to another style of trading that relies heavily on a suite of indicators that plots multi time frame support and resistance and constructs zones out of these - its discretionary but the indicators are pretty hardcore. I have implemented a few of these in Ensign but whilst there script language ESPL is flexible and powerful for smaller projects, It just doesn't seen to be the tool for 'hardcore' scripting/programming - some things run quite slow even if you optimise - and managing larger projects/indicator suites is clunky.
 
As I already had the tools for TS2000i I thought I'd dust this off. Whilst these work handling - IB data takes third party software and can be a little flaky. Soooooo I thought I'd take a look at packages that offer solid programming and native IB support. I was hoping also to find something that had great drawing and visualisation (though this less important to me at this moment) in the same package.
 
So I'm kinda ready to go with AB but there is one thing that I need to find a creative solution to.
 
Cheers,
Nick.
 
 
 
 
 
 

From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Ho
Sent: 10 April 2006 13:36
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [amibroker] Potential New User

I''ve never used Ensign, but compared to Tradestation, I see the main advantage being
1. Speed - things are basically impossible in tradestation because of speed constraint is possible with AB
2. In AB there are many ways available to achieve your solution. AFL, java or VB scripts, COM, and dll which also means that you have so many ways to extend the functionality of AB to suit your own specific need.
3. Support here is great, often it doesnt cost a dime
4. Allows many data interfaces including some very inexpensive ones
 
Finally a question for you Nick, Why do you consider changing?




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