I appreciate all suggestions and there is really no problem
in adding new features provided that there is demand for them.
I specifically asked for charting suggestions, as this is way
more "subjective" thing than backtesting and other rule-based tools.
Discretionary traders seem to be very sensitive to all those
little details and aesthetics. These are are sometimes easy to develop
sometimes not, but unless you hear the feedback it is not possible
to know what every single person uses.
So again, feedback is appreciated. If possible and not too time consuming
for you, I greatly appreciate filling the issue via feedback center. If not,
I can keep track on my internal list.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "sidhartha70" <
sidhartha70@ yahoo.com>
To: <
amibroker@xxxxxxxxx ps.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 5:30 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: 'Rule Based' versus 'Discretionary' trading...
> How97,
>
> I agree. You've stated nothing that I haven't already.
>
> I do use other software... MarketDelta & have been looking at Ninja
> with a market profile plug in as an alternative.
>
> Like others, I'm not desperately keen on using multiple software
> systems. I'd rather try and get it under one roof. And the truth is it
> really wouldn't be hard for TJ to add some of that functionality.
>
> I'm adding my voice to a largely dominant rule based crowd... I hope
> you're ok with free _expression_ of wishes and ideas...??
>
> I think others have also made it clear on this thread that they'd like
> to see some more
functionality on the charting side too.
>
>
> --- In
amibroker@xxxxxxxxx ps.com, "how97" <101.158294@ ...> wrote:
>>
>> 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@xxxxxxxxx ps.com, "sidhartha70" <sidhartha70@ >
>> 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@xxxxxxxxx ps.com, 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@xxxxxxxxx ps.com >> [mailto:
amibroker@xxxxxxxxx ps.com]
>> > On Behalf
>> > > Of Tomasz Janeczko
>> > > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 4:33 PM
>> > > To:
amibroker@xxxxxxxxx ps.com>> > > 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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