[amibroker] Re: Migration to Amibroker from Wealth-lab

["c_r_south" <colin_south@xxxxxxx>]

You may, as I did, find it quite a long learning curve. You will miss some facilities, like the 
interactive debugger, and being able to plot to a separate pane from within the main 
program, although, once you get used to using WriteVal and styleOwnScale in the Plot 
function, you can come quite close to WLab's debugging capability. You will need to 
develop a slightly different mindset, with the predominence on solving using vector 
aritmetic, it really is just a mind set thing. Not being able to draw lines (i.e. anything other 
than horizontal) a la WLab, will come as a bit of a shock, and I miss being able to alter the 
the background colour on a per bar basis. I'm currently struggling with multiple trades, 
and integrated brokerage (with IB), but will persevere and there are other guys in the AB 
formum who are very helpful.

The advantages of AB are well worth the effort, the speed of execution, the ability to move 
between layouts (compared with WLabs worksheets, which I find painfully slow) and the 
continuous stream of improvements are just a few.

To echo a previous response, my biggest leap forward was following Howard Bandy's 
book, which, apart from a simple lead in to programming in AB, has a wealth of useful 
information.

I keep WLB, but it has become a background tool, and have now found that I prefer to use 
AB, and am prepared to spend that extra time to gain the advantages.

Hope this helps,
Colin


--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "neil_cs_um" <neil_cs_um@xxx> wrote:
>
> I have been a long time user of Wealth-lab. I am planning to move to
> Amibroker. I was wondering if somebody can share his experiences. 
> 
> I have got around 30-40 wealthlab chartscripts which I need to
> translate into AFL. So far, it looks it should not be difficult, and
> AFL seems to have all the features and the functions of Wealthscript.
> Is it straight-forward or am I going to be in some trouble? Is there a
> tool for conversion ?
> 
> I also have one EOD and one realtime data adapter and a COM add-in.
> All written in C#. Is it possible to use them in amibroker ?
> 
> Can I execute scripts in Amibroker from other applications through COM ?
>



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