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I believe it is clear that the large majority of the AB users want 
to have the possibility for rule-based trading, backtesting, 
automatic analysis, automatic trading etc. For that group Amibroker 
is just excellent and it is constantly enhanced in these 
possibilities. And that is what the large majority of its users 
wants. And AB strongly supported by its users and driven by their 
wishes.

The large majority of users is clearly not the discretionary 
traders. These may need better or specialized charting. That may 
well be. If this better charting software exists already as you are 
saying, why are you not using it, why did you come here to AB? What 
were you looking for? 

I think it is also a clear preference of Tomasz to develop AB into a 
direction where most of its users wants to ahve it. And that is 
good. A lot of the stuff in AB is much too complex if you are just 
looking for other kinds of charting. So why bother? You need to use 
a different software. 

By the way: In my opinion AB allows excellent charting.

Regards
how97

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "sidhartha70" <sidhartha70@xxx> 
wrote:
>
> From my perspective, and this is really why I connected charting to
> the ideas of 'rule based' vs 'discretionary' trading... if you are 
a
> discretionary trader, from a software perspective it is ALL about
> visibility. If the software you are using doesn't or can't give you
> the best visibility available then you are at a disadvanatge. You
> can't make sensible discretionary trading decisions without being 
able
> to see how current market structure has evolved, what market 
dynamics
> are at play, how the auction process is evolving at different time
> frames etc..etc.. You simply don't get that from bar & candle 
charts.
> 
> Hence my obsession with Market Profile & Equivolume and generally 
more
> accessability and adaptability to AmiBroker's charting facilicites.
> 
> Currently it's a fabulous piece of software, particualrly for 'rule
> based' traders.... But probably a less fabulous piece of software 
for
> discretionary day traders for example. But of course, I appreciate,
> it's hard to be all things to all men...
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ken Close <ken45140@> wrote:
> >
> > One simple suggestion for charting improvement:
> > 
> > Put in the ability to insert a "Tab" character in a Title 
statement
> in order
> > to make it easier to produce multi-line tables with "columns" 
left
> justified
> > no matter how many decimal places in previous values in the same 
row.  I
> > have done it via complex IIF statements but how nice it would be 
to
> insert
> > the code for a tab character to create columns.  No, I do not 
want to do
> > this with the gfx commands (too complex for this application).
> > 
> > Ken 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf
> > Of Tomasz Janeczko
> > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 4:33 PM
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [amibroker] 'Rule Based' versus 'Discretionary' 
trading...
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Not wanting to hijack this thread but whenever I ask about some 
itemized
> > list of what is exactly "weak" in AB charting, I don't receive 
any
> > meaningful reply. I would really want to know some objective list
> instead of
> > statements I heard on ET that "charts are ugly" which for me
> unfortunatelly
> > means nothing, considering the hunderds of ways charts can be 
customized
> > according to user taste in AB.
> >
>



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