Amibroker FAQ

[professor_frink]

howdy folks,
quick question on Amibroker's intraday capabilities-
Does anyone know if I can create a 30 second chart in Amibroker at all? It gives me the option of 5 and 15 seconds, but I have no idea how to get a 30 second chart up

 

[stink]

Arghhh

Hi all, i am in need of help with Amibroker. I am trying to just import some data into the program and it just wont work? I have tried to open the ASX database of the ftp site but it shows nothing?

Is there any step by step tutorials on how to get the basics going on this? I have EOD data which i can open as a text file, i should be able to import this into Amibroker right?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards Stink

 

[GreatPig]

You can import text price data in a variety of formats using the "Import ASCII" option on the File menu.

You first need a format file that matches the data. AmiBroker comes with a number of format files already, but I use the attached one with data from float.com.au. They are in the Formats folder under the AmiBroker installation folder.

Note: for the attached file, you need to remove the ".txt" extension. I had to add that to allow it to be uploaded here.

GP

 

[kaveman]

Using the Import Wizard allows you to create the format file for the files.

 

[wayneL]

howdy folks,
quick question on Amibroker's intraday capabilities-
Does anyone know if I can create a 30 second chart in Amibroker at all? It gives me the option of 5 and 15 seconds, but I have no idea how to get a 30 second chart up

I'll bet this is for the Nikkei

Try Tools/Preferences/Intraday You can set custom time intervals there.

Cheers

 

[professor_frink]

I'll bet this is for the Nikkei

Try Tools/Preferences/Intraday You can set custom time intervals there.

Cheers

It's for the Hang Seng. Nikkei is actually pretty tame(most of the time)

Already tried that- in the custom time interval section, it will give the option of xx minutes, hours or days, but it won't let me enter 0.5, or 1/2 for the amount

I could use a tick chart to get what I want, but the way ami deals with IB's data makes tick charts basically useless

Thanks anyway for the help Wayne

edit: just looked at the yahoo group and someone has asked the same question as me in there with no answer. Maybe it can't be done.

 

[kaveman]

did not think IB provided actual tick data

 

[professor_frink]

did not think IB provided actual tick data

No, it's not a pure tick feed, but tick charts work quite well with their feed. Most of the time, there is going to be very little difference between a tick by tick feed and one that provides a snapshot every 200 milliseconds.
Obviously I'm going to get a slightly different 20 tick chart with IB's feed compared with a tick by tick feed, but it works quite well for me, and flows alot better than looking at a 15 or 20 second chart(which is what's important to me). The snaphot style feed also has it's advantages- it doesn't lag behind as much in a fast moving market, like pure tick feeds can do, which is quite comforting.

It would be nice if Ami simply accepted the data as it came in(which quotetracker seems to do quite well), not bundle it together into multi second intervals.

 

[kaveman]

quotetracker to AB is only in 1 minute snapshots

 

[professor_frink]

quotetracker to AB is only in 1 minute snapshots

sorry, I was referring to QT running off IB's feed, not feeding QT data into AB.

 

[Techbuy]

Can someone who uses Amibroker answer a couple of questions please.
I have downloaded and run the demo and am using the Metastock data from Bhodi and that is all working fine.

But the more I look at the program it seems it has quite a steep learning curve to get comforatable with it, how have you found it?

It seems though you need to be able to program the scripts to get the max use out of it. is this the case?

I was looking at adding the book by Bill Seward as it sound like it will be a good starting point as well as the add ons from Pattern Explorer as they have the Guppy MMA which I like to use.

Also would it be suitable for live data feeds to work along side of comsec protrader as you cannot do searches on protrader for stocks that meet set criteria during the day to day activity or if you can I have not worked it out.

Any advice will be appreciated.

I currently use EzyTrader at night but the charting is very average and the analyzer is also quite limited. I get the EOD and run the anaylzer looking for the next days watch/trade list then run through the charting side to see how they stack up and do some reseach on this forum to get a feel of the other traders sentiments about the stocks and then read all the info on the companies and any trading news I can find on some of the tipsters sites as well as Comsec and Google to see whats happening then at least I am ready for the pre opening and from about 9:30 to open I watch the SV and IAP price for gapping to get a feel for the days sentiment.

 

[albi000]

I'm a computer programmer so I may not be the best person to discuss the steep learning phase.

You can program your own Guppy MMA without Pattern Explorer. Go to this download page and search for Guppy and you will find a formula you can download. Click on details as for this formula as there is a better example of the way Daryl Guppy uses MMA. If you need further instructions on how to install formula's then let me know or check the help file.


I currently have Amibroker connected to QuoteTracker, which is connected to E-Trade to get my live data feed during the day.

 

[flyhigher]

newbie need help with simple coding
i want to test the idea that long when ROC<-10 and sell when price dropped below 5 day ema. but there is always syntax error for my sell legs.
besides,there is no match up when i just use filter=ROC<-10 and explore on ASX data. thanks for help.

 

[kaveman]

this will give buy signal when the ROC drops bleow -10 and sell when C drops below ema

buy = cross(-10,ROC(c,5));
sell = cross(ema(c,5),c);

you might also want to add condition to buy that the Close is above the ema for entry, otehrwise exit will occur straight away

buy = cross(-10,ROC(c,5)) and C>EMA(C,5);
sell = cross(ema(c,5),c);

filter = buy or sell;
addcolumn(C,"Close",1.3);
addcolumn(ROC(c,5),"ROC",1.3);
addcolumn(ema(c,5),"EMA",1.3);

hope this helps

 

[flyhigher]

Hi, kaveman. thank you very much for your help.

 

[mrWoodo]

Surfing around, found this set of tools for AmiBroker.

PatternExplorer

The Pattern recognition for Charts looks handy - Haven't bought it yet

 

[It's Snake Pliskin]

I have some original set-ups and indicators I would like to code and test.
What is the functionality of Amibroker like? Can it help create any indictaor?
Is Forex spot data available for Amibroker or does anybody use it for forex?

 

[kaveman]

Amibroker is extremely strong in the functionality, assuming you mean ability to write your own indicators.
You can use forex data. Not sure on live feeds as I do not trade the forex, but a lot use IB as live feed to AB and I believe this has forex, but not 100% sure on this.

 

[wayneL]

Amibroker is extremely strong in the functionality, assuming you mean ability to write your own indicators.
You can use forex data. Not sure on live feeds as I do not trade the forex, but a lot use IB as live feed to AB and I believe this has forex, but not 100% sure on this.

Yes, it does.

 

[lesm]

IB has Forex and Amibroker has an IB plugin.