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Run every works with SECONDS intervals too, for example: just type 5 sec in "run every field.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "liberte721" <daniel.laliberte@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 5:37 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: Delayed buy/sell signals in Realtime.
> After I wrote about this before, someone suggested a brilliant
> workaround. Use "Run every", but with shorter time, and wrap your
> code with a conditional check for whether it is time to run. I
> haven't implemented this yet (still testing my system), but I can
> think of two ways to do this.
>
> One way is to check whether the current time is past the start time
> but within the shorter time interval. There might be a risk of
> missing a start time, however, if there is some delay longer than the
> shorter time interval.
>
> Another way is, using a static variable, remember the last time a run
> was done, and if the current time is past the next start time, and the
> previous run was before that, then it is time for another run. This
> would be more reliable.
>
> dan
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "pmxgs" <pmxgs@xxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dan,
>> I agree with you. "Run every x minutes" might be misleading.
>> Anyway regarding the main subject, as long as the scan doesn't take 5
>> minutes to run (which is perfectly possible, since AB runs fast), it
>> would be nice to write code (maybe using some script languae) to make
>> the scan run every five minutes.
>> I think this is possible, but can you confirm Howard?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "liberte721" <daniel.laliberte@>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Note that if you are using the AA Scan "Run every:" 5 min, it will not
>> > run every 5 minutes, but delay 5 minutes between each run. I
>> > complained about this as a bug - it is at least a UI design bug since
>> > it is not clear. (It would be more useful if it actually did run on
>> > regular intervals, as soon as it could anyway, making noise if it runs
>> > out of time.)
>> >
>> > I don't know about your delayed buy signals, which might be due to
>> > your broker. But if you are estimating time of the order based on the
>> > number of intervals executed, then you will be out of sync. If your
>> > 5 minute intervals take 3 minutes to run, then you will be delayed by
>> > about equivalent real time.
>> >
>> > Hope that helps.
>> >
>> > dan
>> > liberte@
>> >
>> >
>> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "j_john66" <j_john66@> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hello,
>> > >
>> > > I am trying to write AFL code to trade in realtime.
>> > >
>> > > The problem I am facing is this.
>> > >
>> > > I have a watchlist of around 150 stocks.
>> > >
>> > > Buy/sell signals for these stocks in the watchlist get generated
>> > > using common indicators MACD and stochastics in a 5 minute
>> > > timeframe on completed bars.
>> > >
>> > > I run this AFL after 10-15 minutes of market opening at regular
>> > > intervals of 5 mins. ( each pass takes around 3 to 3.5 minutes )The
>> > > system lists buy sell signals in the AA window.
>> > >
>> > > what happens is, buy sell signals for some stocks which actually
> get
>> > > generated at a earlier time gets listed late. ie., at 12:00PM
> I may
>> > > get a buy sell signal for a stock to be bought /sold at 10:30 AM.
>> > >
>> > > What mistake I may be doing? Have any one faced such situations ? (
>> > > the current version of amibroker is 5.05 beta).
>> > >
>> > > Thanks in Advance.
>> > >
>> > > John.
>> > >
>> >
>>
>
>
>
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