Re: [amibroker] Re: Trouble trying to compare industry and market ..., AmiBroker Email List Archive

2008/2/13, wavemechanic <timesarrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

The Users Guide and Library might provide some help. For example:

http://www.amibroker.com/guide/afl/afl_view.php?id=123

http://www.amibroker.com/library/detail.php?id=294

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "louisprefontaine" <rockprog80@xxxxxxxxx>

To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:55 AM

Subject: [amibroker] Re: Trouble trying to compare industry and market ...

> Maybe my last message was not clear, so I will try to explain better.
>
> I know how to use the getbaseindex() to get the base index (DJ, or
> comp, etc.) for each of the stocks, and to apply a formula on that
> index. But what I really want to do is to get BOTH the base index for
> the stock AND the industry or sector index, as to compare the
> industry/sector index with the base index and with the stock.   I am
> looking for 3 informations there to compare one to each other.
>
> If anyone could help me with this issue, maybe by telling me how I
> could write such code to get both index and industry or sector, I
> would greatly appreciate.
>
> I tried to search through all the information in the group in the last
> years, but found no answer to my question.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Louis
>
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, "louisprefontaine" <rockprog80@xxx>

> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am a newbie with Amibroker as well as on this board, but I have some
>> talent for learning and am trying to learn to write code really hard.
>> So far, I had no problem that did not have a solution.
>>
>> But now this is something that I don't understand. I want to compare
>> a market indicator (such as the Dow Jones) and a sector indicator
>> (such as the mining index).
>>
>> Here is the code I wrote so far (I know it's messy; I'm still learning)
>>
>>
>>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Ticker = GetBaseIndex(); // plot industry, need to create composite
>> sectors
>>
>> TickerName = IndustryID(1);
>>
>> TickerClose = Foreign( Ticker, "close" );
>>
>>
>> for( i = 0; ( symbol = StrExtract( Ticker, i ) ) != ""; i++ )
>> {
>>   fc = Foreign( ticker, "C" );
>> }
>>
>> PlotGrid( 0, colorYellow );
>>
>>
>> _N( Title = "{{NAME}} - Relative Performance [%]: {{VALUES}}" );
>>
>>      ticker= ( 100 * ( fc - Ref( fc, -10 ))/Ref (fc,-10)) ;
>> Current= ( 100 * ( C - Ref (Close, -10) ) / Ref (Close, -10)) ;
>>
>>
>>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Basically, all I want to do is to add the Industry index along with
>> the Market index which is what is displayed right now. Anybody would
>> know how to do this? I tried to experiment with getbaseindex and
>> industry() and things like that but I got no way to add both
>> marketid(0) and industryid (0) in the same piece of code.
>>
>> Thanks!!
>>
>
>
>
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