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[amibroker] Re: Never Took Trigonometry



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Yes ... 

The angle is a relation of rise ( Price ) over run ( Time )

When rise is measured in terms of percent or log10 of price there 
will be no change in the angle after a split ... Percentage or log10 
based moves in price are really the only reasonable way to measure 
them any way ... or chart them for that matter ... this is for the 
same reason that CAR is calculated the way it is i.e Total Gain ^ ( 
1 / Number of Years ) as opposed to something that typically gets 
referred to as ANN and has a formula like Total Gain / Number of 
Years ... The latter is at least imho a semi meaningless statistic.

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "quanttrader714" 
<quanttrader714@xxx> wrote:
>
> Would you agree there's a problem if the slope changes when the 
stock
> splits?
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Joe Landry" <jelandry@> wrote:
> >
> > Don't apologize but you're not bursting my bubble, yet! ( but I'm
> open to 
> > having it deflated).
> > I've heard this knock off before and let's put it to bed if we 
can.
> > 
> > Did you try zooming the chart?  Both x and y?  Surely the slope 
of the 
> > plotted line
> > changes as you move both the x, abscissa and the ordinate, price, 
> but the 
> > calculated
> > values of the slope from using linregslope does not.  I think of 
the
> slope 
> > as representative of the rate of change of
> > that price (or other) array.  I don't know what Eckhardt said or 
in
> what 
> > context he said it.   Maybe
> > he was talking about using pencil and paper.  There the scaling on
> the chart 
> > would make a difference.
> > 
> > Also, you have to ask yourself,  why would Tomasz have coded a
> linregslope 
> > function, or Dimitris Tsokakis and others
> > used it so frequently in their work on the forum?  In my 
collection
> alone of 
> > valued AFL clips I get 200 hits by many different
> > users of this board.
> > 
> > Best regards
> > JOE
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "sebastiandanconia" <sebastiandanconia@>
> > To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:31 AM
> > Subject: [amibroker] Re: Never Took Trigonometry
> > 
> > 
> > >I apologize for bursting your bubble, but angles are not going 
to be a
> > > consistent measure.  If the scale of the chart changes so does 
the
> > > angle, even if the price data and timeframe are precisely the 
same.
> > >
> > > Trendlines that connect highs/lows, however, are consistent 
regardless
> > > of scale.  In "The New Market Wizards" mathmatician William 
Eckhardt
> > > explains why methods based on angles are fallacious, but 
methods based
> > > on trendlines are more legitimate.
> > >
> > >
> > > Luck,
> > >
> > > Sebastian
> > >
> > > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Charles J. Dudek" <trader@> 
wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I don't know how to convert a slope value (LinRegSlope) to an 
angle.
> > >> I took a line from the Woodie's CCI script and converted it, 
but I
> > >> don't think it's right.
> > >>
> > >> PI = atan(1.00) * 4;
> > >> angle = round(180 * acos(1/LinRegSlope(C,sp)) / PI);
> > >>
> > >> Chuck Dudek
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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