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--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "bilbo0211" <bilbod@xxx> wrote:
>
> >>Anyway AB definitely doesn't do frequency distributions and/or
plot them
>
> I have done similar things using very simple, albeit rather tedious
> methods, within AB (it is a good place to do it because I get the
> visuals with the charts and also the Reports from Explorer to back
up
> the study).
>
> I do use Excel a lot because I am familiar with it<<
>
> I don't really need AB or Excel for plotting/statistics. I think you
> should use the most appropriate tool for the job.
>
> 1st let me start out by saying that I am not a programmer and I
don't
> want to become one; however, over the years I have found it
necessary
> to use a variety of programming languages. IMO, the best use of AFL
is
> the built in array functions. If you have to write your own for
loops,
> unless it is something really simple, you are better off using a
> different tool. Also, in my experience, if you write your own loops
> instead of using the built in arrays, the formula runs slow.
>
> AFL is a C like language and IMO is not a good choice for non
> programmers. For my own programming, I use a scripting language
called
> Python (www.python.org). It is the easiest programming language to
> learn and use that I have found. W.r.t. the current topic, there
are 2
> addon modules for Python that I use, scipy (scientific tools for
> Python, it could be called applied math tools for Python) and
> matplotlib (a plotting library designed to be an improvement of
> Matlab). It is very easy to use AB to take the analysis as far as
the
> built in array functions can, then output the data to a file and use
> matplotlib/scipy to finish and plot the results.
>
Yes, my current skillset limits me to 'less than optimal' methods.
Thanks for your answers, they are very good and help me to get ready
to move on.
> >>I guess by Pivots that you mean the (H+L+C)/3 version<<
>
> I have a number of things I would like to test. There is more than
one
> way to calculate Pivots and S/R (3 I know of are traditional, Woodie
> and Camarilla). I also read an article in which the author compared
> Pivot-S/R to random S/R lines and claims there is no value to
> Pivot-S/R. I need to verify that research.
>
> Bill
>
Fair enough.
S/R is amongst the most basic of TA methods.
As a rule of thumb my analyse confirms that the simple TA methods are
amongst the best and do hold up but as you say we always need to
verify in a specific context.
brian_z
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