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Re: [amibroker] Re: How to limit to top 5 in an Exploration


  • Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:49:40 -0400
  • From: Herman <psytek@xxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: How to limit to top 5 in an Exploration

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You  could  sort  the results, export the result table, read the top 5
tickers  from the exported file into  a  new  watchlist, and run another
exploration  on  that watchlist. All this can be automated in script -
check out OLE Automation in the help.

herman

> You would have to limit the number of symbols in the exploration to 5 ;)

> But seriously, I think that you're out of luck. One typical
> approach would be to run the exploration, then select the first 5
> and right click to select the popup menu for adding the selected
> symbols to a new watchlist. Do whatever else you were planning on, but using the new watchlist.

> Mike

> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "gelsner99" <gelsner@xxx> wrote:
>>
>> For the simple AFL code below, what would I need to change so that when I run the Exploration it lists only the top 5?  
>> 
>> 
>> Fund                            = Close;
>> 
>> Period                           = Param( ".....Period", 126, 63, 252, 63);
>> 
>> // Calculate Total Gain and Annual Gain
>> TotalGain                        = ROC(fund, period);
>> AnnGain                          = Nz(100 *LastValue(((TotalGain/100+1)^(252/period)) - 1));
>> 
>> // Exploration
>> Filter                = 1;
>> 
>> AddTextColumn(FullName(),"Fund Name",1.0);
>> AddColumn( AnnGain,       "AnnGain",   1.2 );
>> 
>> SetSortColumns(-4,);
>>




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