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Re: [amibroker] Advancing Stocks Scan or Exploration


  • Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:23:01 -0600
  • From: Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [amibroker] Advancing Stocks Scan or Exploration

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Hi Patrick,

I love it. Now I have two ways of looking at Advancing and Declining 
stocks. I will study the code so I can understand how it works. Thanks! 
I will then try to add to this market relationships explorations.

Alan

NW Trader wrote:
>
> Hi Alan,
> With AB there's usually more than one way to skin a cat. I prefer 
> explorations over scans for most purposes as I can display more 
> information about the output beyond buy and sell.
> For example, I have an more extensive market relationships 
> exploration, a snippet of which follows which does what you asked 
> about (I think). This needs ver 5.2 or higher to run to total the 
> columns of the exploration. The benefit for me is that I am 
> calculating a number of relationships (e.g., price up & volume down) 
> besides just price up and price down and I can display them all after 
> one exploration as a line of code at the top of the exploration.
> Peace and Justice --- Patrick
> // =============================================================
>
> /*
>
> PRICE--Volume RELATIONSHIPS
>
> Run this exploration on different watchlists for S&P 500, Russell 
> 2000, NAZ 100, etc, stocks.
>
> BREADTH
>
> Breadth is a term referring to the number of rising versus the number 
> of falling stocks.
>
> Breadth offers an alternative method of judging strength -- versus 
> market averages.
>
> Breadth Grouping: Any group of stocks that have something in common. 
> example the 500 stocks of the S&P 500 can be used as a Breadth 
> Grouping (which I do). A group of bellwethers (which we choose 
> subjectively, according to our own experience) can serve as a Breadth 
> Grouping. The Semiconductor index compontnts as an example. Another is 
> the Naz largest market cap stocks.
>
> /*
>
> Version(5.20); // requires v5.20
>
> Filter = 1;
>
> BreadthUP = C > Ref( C, -1 );
>
> BreadthDown = C < Ref( C, -1 );
>
> AddColumn(C, "Last ", 3.2, colorYellow, colorBlue, 75);
>
> AddColumn(IIf(BreadthUP, 1, 0) , "BreadthUP", 8.0, colorWhite, 
> colorDarkGreen );
>
> AddColumn(IIf(BreadthDown, 1, 0) , "BreadthDown", 8.0, colorRed, 
> colorBlack );
>
> AddSummaryRows(1,3.0,4,5);
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Alan Northam <mailto:alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     *To:* amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     *Sent:* Friday, November 20, 2009 8:48 AM
>     *Subject:* Re: [amibroker] Advancing Stocks Scan or Exploration
>
>     Hi Prashanth:
>
>     Yes this is what I am trying to do and thanks for the code. I
>     tried the code and got error messages for both the Scan and
>     Exploration modes. I am trying to resolve the errors.
>
>     Regards,
>     Alan
>
>
>     Prashanth wrote:
>>
>>     Hello,
>>
>>     If you are looking to get the figure of Advancing Stocks (stocks
>>     that have
>>     closed above yesterday's close) and Declining Stocks, you could
>>     use Add to
>>     Composite to create a ticker so that you can co-relate today's
>>     figure with
>>     historical figure.
>>
>>     To do this, just place the following in a AFL and hit Scan (All
>>     Symbols, All
>>     Quotations). When the scan finishes, you should be able to get 2
>>     tickers for
>>     Advancing, Declining stocks.
>>
>>     Filter = 1;
>>     // ==================== Adv Issues/Decliners==============
>>     AddToComposite(IIf(Close - Ref(Close, -1) > 0, 1, 0), "~Adv", "X" );
>>     AddToComposite(IIf(Ref(Close, -1) - Close > 0, 1, 0), "~Dec", "X" );
>>
>>     Cheers
>>
>>     Prashanth
>>
>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>     From: "Alan Northam" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>     <mailto:alan%40thenorthams.us>>
>>     To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:amibroker%40yahoogroups.com>>
>>     Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 20:30 PM
>>     Subject: [amibroker] Advancing Stocks Scan or Exploration
>>
>>     >
>>     > I am new to writing Scans and Explorations. Infact I don't know
>>     if I
>>     > want a Scan or an Exploration so I hope that you all will be
>>     patient
>>     > with me.
>>     >
>>     > I want to create a Scan or Exploration (which ever is the most
>>     proper)
>>     > to determine how many stocks are still advancing in my database.
>>     > However, I don't have a clue as to how to write the code. Can
>>     someone
>>     > please provide this code for me so that I can study it and
>>     learn from it?
>>     >
>>     > Thanks!
>>     > Alan
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
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