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Hello,
You people don't seem to realise that I am THE ONLY PERSON who
works on AmiBroker code.
The day has only 24 hours and one person has only two
hands.
Now if even few people ouf of 8000 users submit
"ideas" everyday, no matter what I do I can not implement
them IMMEDIATELLY.
And no, I can not hire 2 more programmers because then I would
need to rise the cost of the program 3 times
and then everyone would scream that it is too expensive and
will walk away. Then it would mean the end of product.
So, considering that I am the ONLY DEVELOPER of AmiBroker and
wrote everything from scratch with my own hands, I can say
that:
a) I am doing more than anyone in this business to make
customers happy
b) I am implementing MORE features/user requests/ideas than
anyone else in this business
c) I am going an extra mile with responding PERSONALLY on the
public mailing list to many of your posts.
I can not do MORE than I am doing now. It is physically
impossible for anyone.
So, if I tell you that I am going to check things, I will do
that, but this is all subject to TIME and PHYSICAL ABILITY
constraints.
Pushing the string does not help at all. It makes things
worse.
Best regards,
Tomasz
Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Study Charting
dare I say bugs...
Dennis:
I completely agree with your overall assessment and
know that at least several users also completely or partially agree
but may or may not respond - so you are not alone. Much has been said
through the years on the Yahoo board/AB website/support mail about bugs,
"clunkiness", and desired/necessary features. Because of the type
of problems that you mentioned (I am also indicator mode oriented), I use
the EOD version of AB and then only at "half throttle" because
my applications and programming needs are not as extensive as that
of a number of other AB users. Like you, I use broker supplied and
personal software for RT streaming and charting studies (no "shoe" fits
all). These issues, however, are not restricted to AB as evidenced by a
recent review on another board where the user compared
AB/Metastock/Tradestation/Blocks and ended up (as I understand) with a Blocks
package that includes charting/streaming data/EOD data/backtesting/useful
standard features - so things are evolving.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 12:12
AM
Subject: [amibroker] Study Charting
dare I say bugs...
Friends,
AmiBroker is a wonderful program for many
things. In fact I use only
a fraction of its total
capability for my trading style. I trade only
single ticker
(futures) real time and write whole trading systems just
in AFL in
indicator mode. This is actually more like the traditional
chart trading that is offered by many brokers.
I would expect
that AB, which supports all these functions as a very
basic
operating mode would be at least as good as other charting
programs.
However, even though the fundamental operations are
there (and I think
potentially better), the interface (either
design or implementation
bugs --I don't know which) has made it
hard for me to use this product
for drawing even basic lines on
the charts while trading. In fact, I
need a second chart
from my broker's application open to the same
ticker just so I can
draw lines where I want them even though AB would
be superior at
this if it were not for the bugs. This has been going
on
with me for over a year now and it is costing me.
I have other
trading friends that I have recommended try AB in the
last week,
and I am embarrassed to think what they will say to me when
they
figure out that these basic features don't work properly. I have
actually refrained from recommending AB to them for quite a while --
hoping these things would be fixed first.
I don't know how many
other traders are frustrated by the same bugs,
but if you are,
please join the conversation so that Tomasz knows that
this is
important to you also and perhaps we can get some higher
priority
on getting the study charting to work properly.
Here is a short list
of my frustrating bugs --there are others on the
suggestions and
bug lists, but I am only pointing out the ones that
cost profits
by either making it very slow to do a simple operation
that makes
one lose the trade opportunity, or creates frustration and
emotion
which takes one out of the trading "Zone", or makes the line
drawn
correctly to become inaccurate causing one to miss the trigger
point for a trade. If I have missed any that you feel are costing
you
profits (not the nice to have pretty things) than please add
them to
the conversation.
#726. Handles from a
selected study line are not respected. Often
several lines
are anchored or pass through the same pivot points.
Price
levels, Trend lines, Forks, Fibs, etc., often use a common pivot
point. However, as a trade progresses, new pivots become
more
important and the lines need to be adjusted in real
time. It is easy
to select a study just by clicking on it in
a spot where it is unique,
and the handles will appear along the
line. However, unlike any other
charting program I have ever
used, clicking and dragging on the
visible handle will not usually
work properly if any other study
crosses very close to that
handle. The problem is that AB will grab
the earliest drawn
study and not the selected one --it will un-select
the one you
selected and select the oldest one and drag it instead.
After playing around for a few valuable seconds trying to grab the
right line, I end up having to move the whole line away from its
current location and reposition all its handles. Very frustrating
and
takes the time and concentration away from the trading
action.
#728. Horizontal price levels do not stay
horizontal. The horizontal
lines (price levels) do not snap
to a bar with the magnet mode on.
They just are placed at
the cursor level. However, if you click on
the line, it
jumps to an angled line that snaps to the bar on the left
side of
the screen. Its operation is just bizarre and causes errors
in placement of the price level after the fact. Completely
unacceptable behavior for trading.
#890. Study handles
change when off screen. Lets say you have the
magnet on and
are zoomed out and draw a trend line between two peaks.
Next
you zoom in on the trading action so that only the right hand
handle is visible on the chart. Now say the prices have advanced
to a
new peak and you need to adjust the right handle to the new
peak (this
is a very common occurrence). Most of the time,
that handle that is
off screen jumps to a new bar position and is
no longer on the peak
you selected. Of course that changes
the slope of the trend line to
the wrong one, but you never know
it when trading and you end up
placing bad breakout trades because
the line is in the wrong place
now. Completely unacceptable
behavior for trading.
#990. Drag shadow is on the wrong
bar. When dragging a study, there
is a thin "shadow" line
that shows which bar you have dragged the
handles to.
However, when the mouse is released, the study gets moved
to a
different bar than the one indicated by the shadow. This wastes
valuable time with two or three attempts to figure out which wrong
bar
to put the shadow on to get the study to go where you want
it. This
is an annoyance.
And here is one more that I
just found today. If I draw trend lines
on a one minute bar
snapped to peaks, then switch to a 5 minute view,
the trend lines
are shown on the wrong 5 minute bars. And heaven help
me if
I select the line in that view, because it will snap to these
wrong bars.
There you have my short list. Please speak up
if these issues affect
you.
Best
regards,
Dennis
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