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Brian,
Ok, I understand where you are coming from.
The reason I ask the question is because I work from the assumption
that AB/AFL is a worthy general programming language for taking series
data (of most types) and transforming it into files or displays. I
know my assumption is flawed, because Tomasz wrote AB with the express
purpose of quickly processing time series data in the form of stock
information in specific ways and generating displays that were
relevant to the same. Some of the implementation choices he made
limit the general purpose usability of AB for tasks he did not expect
it to be used for. Many of my suggestions for improvements are simply
requests to make AB/AFL more general purpose so that I can be more
creative with how I process stock and related information, interact
with the user, and display the results. If it were not for the fact
that Tomasz listens to his users, and responds with improvements, I
would have abandoned AB a year ago for some other more general tool.
In the case of the statement you made, I do not know if it is possible
to do it all in AB. I assume it is. I ask because I thought you had
tried, but found some roadblock to success.
On the Mac topic. I expect you will have a great time exploring the
alternate universe I live in, regardless of what you ultimately decide
to do for you next machine.
Have a great time at the beach. It is just getting towards Summer
weather here and the fruit trees are all in bloom.
Best regards,
Dennis
On Apr 24, 2008, at 5:34 PM, brian_z111 wrote:
> Dennis,
>
> I'm off to the beach for a few days to catch 'the last wave of
> summer'.
>
> A quick answer:
>
> Don't worry about it on my behalf.
>
> I assume that the intellectual/programming price to do it inside AB
> is too high for me (I take it you are suggesting it can be done).
>
> I have a policy (based on my age, temperament and efficiency) to only
> do the programming that I have to.
> I prefer to outsource my 'non-essential' programming to people who
> are brilliant at it and focus on what I do best.
>
> My preferred option is to just get the trade series, plus key
> evaluation inputs, from AB and do analysis/evaluation/MM elsewhere.
>
> I am heading towards beefing up my Excel skills OR buying a stats
> package and/or adding custom evaluation/management (either outside of
> AB or eventually with an AB plugin - I'm likely to pay a programmer,
> or do a joint venture, to get the plugins I want).
>
> BTW - you have got me interesed in Mac.
>
> I'll check them out further later - I'm due for a new desktop so I
> might expand my computer world (I keep my second oldest computer
> until the next cycle anyway so I will still have a MS Windows
> desktop).
>
> I thought the computer earth was flat and ended at Microsofts back
> fence!
>
> Now that you have told me otherwise..............
>
> cheers,
>
> brian_z
>
>
>
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dennis Brown <see3d@xxx> wrote:
>>
>> Why can't you? What is the function that is missing to do that?
>>
>> ~Dennis
>>
>> On Apr 23, 2008, at 9:51 PM, brian_z111 wrote:
>>> I would jump up and down on my pogo stick for a week if I could
>>> return a custom metric as a data series, get a stdev, bin it (do a
>>> frequency dist) and view the dist in a chart with the push of a
>>> button.
>>>
>>> Heaven, I'm in heaven! (Lisa Minelli?)
>>>
>>> brian_z
>>>
>>> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Duke Jones, CMT" <Duke@> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Tomasz,
>>>>
>>>> Neat trick with the GFX exmple in the KB. Now if we could only
> get
>>> you
>>>> to show us how to do a bell curve distribution plot! :-)
>>>>
>>>> http://www.amibroker.com/kb/?p=72
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Duke Jones, CMT
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>
>
>
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