AmiBroker 3.37 beta Release Notes
Amiga version.
Copyright (C)2000 by Tomasz Janeczko.
Created: November 24th, 2000

About

AmiBroker 3.37 is the newest minor upgrade of the most advanced stock charting/analysis software for the Amiga (also available for Win32 platform). This update is available at no charge to all registered AmiBroker users of versions 2.8 and above.

The update available on AmiBroker web site (www.amibroker.com/amiga/) contains only the most substantial files. For docs, guides and other files please check full 3.20 version available on Aminet and AmiBroker web site.

New Features

Version 3.37 beta includes following new features and fixes (compared to 3.36 beta):

• Fixed display of the prices in the title bar
• Database loading code reads new and old formats now

Version 3.36 beta includes following new features and fixes (compared to 3.30 beta):

• I AFL

  1.1 New built-in functions in AFL:

  • sar( accel = 0.02, max = 0.2 ) - Parabolic Stop-And-Reverse
  • pdi( period = 14) - Plus Directional Movement +DI
  • mdi( period = 14 ) - Minus Directional Movement -DI
  • adx( period = 14) - Average Directional Movement
  • atr( period ) - Average True Range
  • relstrength( tickername ) - comparative Relative Strength

   

  1.2 Detailed statistics after back-testing your system (saved in HTML format using "SAVE" button in Automatic Analysis window - use AWeb or Voyager web browser to see it)

  1.3 Automatic analysis window:

  • now allows scanning for only buy or only sell signals

  
  1.4 Indicator builder:

• new graphXstyle and graphXcolor allow more control over custom chart appearance
• now custom indicators can include even candlestick charts

1.5 AFL engine now supports overwriting built-in O, H, L, C, V arrays so you can calculate all built-in functions from different data.

For example you can calculate macd() from rsi():

close = rsi(); // overwrite built-in close with rsi()
macd_from_rsi = macd(); // macd indirectly uses close but this is overwritten with rsi

II USER INTERFACE & GRAPHICS TOOLS

2.1 New built-in indicators: ADX/DMI, SAR

2.2 The OPEN price in the grab bar of the main chart

III IMPORT / DATABASE ENGINE

3.1 $PRICEFACTOR command allowing multiplying prices by definable factor
3.2 Import of long histories speeded up to 10 times
3.3 Database and program is enabled for storing OpenInterest data. Support for OpenInterest is added to:

• ASCII importer
• Metastock(R) importer
• Quotation editor
• AFL (openint predefined array)

Additional information

Localization

Since the user interface was changed in version 3.36 AmiBroker needs new catalog files. This update includes a Polish catalog file as well as the catalog description (broker.cd) and a template catalog translation (broker.ct) file. Polish users should copy the supplied catalog file into the LOCALE:Catalogs/Polski directory.

Installation

No special installation is needed for this update. Simply copy executable files (AmiBroker and AmiBroker.FPU) over the old ones.

AmiBroker on the Web

For latest news, patches and updates please check out AmiBroker/Amiga WWW site at: http://www.amibroker.com/amiga. Check out also a new AmiBroker site at: http://www.amibroker.com . If you want to share with ideas & tips with other AmiBroker users please try AmiBroker Mailing List at http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/amibroker/info.