Hi All,
I have a multi-pane Chart
layout that I use both from the AA results window and from the drop-down box
at the top of the chart screen.
Some of the securities I
trade have missing bars. In the AA I can set “Pad and Align” and this
handles missing bars perfectly. When I come to display the results of a
Chart (with missing bars) the display does not correspond with back-tester
results, due to the missing bars.
I have been working with
the Foreign and SetForeign commands in chart presentation. This enables
me to show the missing bars, provided I set a reference symbol (say the Index
that trades every day) as the “Subject” symbol and make the symbol I want to
display the “Foreign” symbol. This works for a “one-off” test but I have
not yet found a way to use it “cleanly” in my system.
Can any-one suggest an AFL
coding approach that:
Would allow a symbol to be
selected from the drop-down list at the top of the chart pane and would
display it in a “pad and aligned” manner (Missing bars shown as dashes at
previous close price, with volume at zero).
Would allow a symbol to be
selected from the AA results window and have the resulting Chart displayed
again in a “Pad and Aligned” manner.
(Behind the scenes there
may need to be a process of setting up a reference symbol , e.g. the Index,
and then “swapping” the foreign symbol (the index) and the subject
symbol. Anyway, this has been the approach I have been working on with
little success.)
Perhaps there is a better
approach? As a new user of AmiBroker I feel as I am constantly drinking
from the fire-hose!
Any help would be
appreciated.
Robert