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Tomasz,
I wouldn't be trying to push this software unless i really liked it! The basis for my wanting enhancements to the Title= function stems from how I've tried to address my desire to perform auto-trading (as well as developing new strategies and AA/exploring/scanning) multiple strategies/ideas simultaneously (e.g., some on 15 min bars, some on 5m bars, some trend followers, some support/resistance strategies, some on one group of stocks or another) on a single real-time quote service subscription on multiple .afl rules (without having that code all end up in a single .afl file, because that would complicate matters). Maybe there is a very easy solution to this - I don't know it.
To address this, I have investigated or partially investigated:
(a) Multiple AA/Scan. Have multiple AA/Scan and AA/Explore windows running simultaneously (to best of my knowledge this is not available - msg 101889 in this forum)
(b) Multiple Interpretation Windows linked to Multiple Indicators. This seems like what you are suggesting below. Ideally, though not necessarily, the interp windows would have very nice color/tabbed output, but this would definitely require the ability to have multiple Interpretation/Commentary windows linked to multiple indicator panes. I don't think colors are available in the Interpetation window, and I cannot figure how to have mutiple interp windows simultaneuously open and connected to separate indicator windows.
(c) Run multiple .afl codes using loops of tickers in multiple indicator windows, plus have title=/indicator printout features use the tab feature, plus slightly more length output (this is what I've been trying to do recently)
(d) Use various .afl codes with different filenames and incorporate them into an single AA/Scan using something like #include, but this is a pre-processor command and that doesn't work.
(e) Running multiple instances of Amibroker on same computer partially addresses this, but overwriting files (msg 101971), mixing up which un-mounted windows are which, difficulty coordinating with amiquote, issuing wrong commands, and memory access violations occur in my experience.
(f) Running multiple instances of Amibroker on different computers results in (to best of my knowledge) the need to get permissioned for datafeeds on each computer.
As it stands now, I'm not sure how else this can be done besides how Herman has suggested (c above) on the AT forum where he's got multiple strategies running on real-time data using Indicator windows. This allows me to also run AA/Scan and AA/Explore while the indicator(s) auto-trade.
As for using Courier font, I tried this, but it does not address the problem you get when the left hand data varies in length (3-5 letter ticker lengths, prices varying single digits to thousands, position sizes ranging, etc.). I tried some PlotText variations to accomplish this: it seems very complicated to use because requires a significant amount of work just to get the x and y locations to match for varying length rows and columns.
Thanks for jumping in on this thread. I look forward to any help.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: Tomasz Janeczko
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Title= question
Hello,
Title string is provided to display chart TITLE (usually single line), not any kind of spreadsheet-like output (columns and rows),
that's why it was never supposed to handle tabbed output. Title strings are supposed to get automatically wrapped and
should not use tabs because tabs just take screen real estate.
For tabbed output there are other options like: exploration (preferred), commentary, interpretation.
If you *must* do tabbed output in indicator better switch to fixed width font and use StrFormat() to format your output padded with specified number of spaces:
Title =
"MSFT"+StrFormat("%20.2lf\n", Foreign("MSFT", "C" ) )+
"UTX "+StrFormat("%20.2lf\n", Foreign("UTX", "C") );
Or use PlotText() function that allows you to plot text in arbitrary x,y position.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris DePuy
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Title= question
This lack of "tab" function makes the output screen messy for lots of rows/columns and limits how much can be put there legibly. The only way I can follow multiple lines of entry is to use encodecolor(colorblue) for column one and then encodecolor(colorwhite) for column two and so on (so visually I can see down as the entries snake their way through).
Thanks for the _N suggestion. That does neaten up the commentary output window a lot, though.
I snooped around a bit on this group's archive looking for a solution. The \\cc functions don't cause a tab (these change color and Tomasz doesn't suggest using because encodecolor(colorred) is better. I spent half an hour looking at escape characters (in wikipedia) and ASCII character codes but i couldn't find a combination that works to permit a TAB.
Given that the \n works to cause a newline, i suspect a new release of amibroker could easily add \t to cause a tab. I'll submit that suggestion.
Thanks very much for your help, Terry.
----- Original Message -----
From: Terry
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 1:29 PM
Subject: RE: [amibroker] Title= question
Chris,
I ran this little test. The \t works in the interpretation window, but it does not work in the chart Title. This code prints both places since I did not surround the Title = statement with _N(Title = "stuff"); However, the \n does work to create a newline.
Plot(C,Name(),1);
Plot(m = MA(C,20),"MA",2);
Title = "Close:\t\t" + C + "\nMA\t\t" + m + "\n{{VALUES}}\t{{DATE}}";
--
Terry
-----Original Message-----
From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris DePuy
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 23:00
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Title= question
Is it possible to place a TAB format into a Title=?
Using interpretation, "\T" is a tab, but in the Title (title = "\T") just gives you a box and doesn't push the next text over neatly.
Terry, thanks for your help on the title=title+"new stuff" below.
----- Original Message -----
From: Terry
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 4:00 PM
Subject: RE: [amibroker] Title= question
Title is just a variable so,
Title = Title + "new stuff";
--
Terry
-----Original Message-----
From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris DePuy
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 16:24
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amibroker] Title= question
It seems like Herman used two separate Title= commands here, one for the text up on top and another inside the T=0 loop that follows. How do you make so the second Title= command doesn't just supersede the one before it?
I am blasting this question to the normal amibroker list even though it was initially sent this to the AT list because my question relates to non AT issues.
PS: Herman, thanks for the ticker list idea, by the way.
----- Original Message -----
From: Herman
To: AmiBroker-at@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 2:25 AM
Subject: Re: [AmiBroker-at] FW: Re: ONE SECOND REFRESH IS HERE! (was [OT] AT State-Engines)
You use a loop to test all the tickers in a watchlist, see example below. I use such loops to calculate RT prices, to place orders, to create display table, etc. I use includes when code is "finished" but somehow my code is never finished :-) Except for debugging I don't usually display chart & signals, a table with system status and trades in progress is all I need - see below.
TickersTraded = StaticVarGetText("TickersTraded");
for( T=0; (Ticker = StrExtract( TickersTraded, T ) ) != ""; T++ )
{
TickerLastPrice = GetRTDataForeign("Last",Ticker);
... etc ...
}
A typical (off-line now) trading screen:
best regards,
herman
jppt0k wrote:
Hello Herman,
a couple of questions because I'm not sure I have understood.
You have your chart with the system loaded (the system written within or
do you use #include?) and then every trading signal that's generated by
the system is plotted onto it (plotshapes or else?).
But you don't limit this way the trading signals to the current ticker?
Or there's a way to run a scan every tick this way?
Thanks in advance for you inputs.
j
Herman wrote:
> Hello Angelo,
>
> Code in an Indicator window executes with each new quote or each second
> if you use the new function. For me , in real-time trading I want my
> system to trade as soon as possible after it detects a price change that
> triggers a trade, not 5 seconds later. As far as i know the AA doesn't
> do that, also RT systems are hard to debug in the AA as you can't
> display debugging charts.
>
> I use the AA for explorations, backtesting, etc. but not for RT trading.
>
> best regards,
> herman
>
>
>
> Angelo wrote:
>>
>> --- In AmiBroker-at@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:AmiBroker-at%40yahoogroups.com>, "Herman" <psytek@xxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > I run my trading systems in the Indicator window, this normally
>> refreshes
>> > each time a quote comes in
>>
>> Hi Herman,
>>
>> it seems that this is just what I'm looking for (I maen, what I've
>> been asking at
>> http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/amibroker/message/100305
>> <http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/amibroker/message/100305>) .
>>
>> Could you please elaborate a bit more on what exactly means "run a
>> system from the indicator window"?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Angelo.
>>
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