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As you know the US dollar is making historical lower lows and we as a bussiness located in Europe must adjust the prices expressed in US dollars to maintain same level of profitability when expressed in our currency. Therefore, starting from April 1st, 2008 the prices for our software will be adjusted to the following levels:

New Licenses:
AmiBroker Professional: $ 279 (1-year free upgrades)
AmiBroker Standard: $ 199 (1-year free upgrades)
AmiQuote: $ 65 (1-year free upgrades)
AFL Code wizard: $ 65 (1-year free upgrades)

Upgrades:
AmiBroker Standard Upgrade: $ 99 (50% discount - next 1 year upgrades free)
AmiBroker Professional Upgrade: $ 139 (50% discount - next 1 year upgrades free)
AmiQuote: $32 (50% discount - next 1 year upgrades free)
AFL Code wizard: $32 (50% discount - next 1 year upgrades free)

If you want to take the advantage of old prices, order quickly (before April 1st).

Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 4:21 pm under News
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FTMonitor.com is organizing a two-day AmiBroker “Trading system design, testing and validation” workshop and following it a two-day conference in Las Vegas, February 21-24, 2008. The workshop will be presented by the author
of best-selling book on trading system design and testing Dr. Howard Bandy. The conference will feature AmiBroker and FT Trade programs. For registration and details please check FTMonitor.com site: http://www.ftmonitor.com/lv08/lv08intro.html

Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 9:01 am under News
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Order AmiBroker today and save. The prices will be increased November 11, to $259 for AmiBroker Professional Edition and $189 for AmiBroker Standard Edition, $59 AmiQuote and $59 AFL code wizard.

Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 5:38 am under News
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The AFL Code Wizard is a new add-on for AmiBroker. It allows creation of trading system formulas without ANY programming experience. The system creation is done using highly intuitive graphical interface. Now trading system creation is available to everyone. No programming, no cryptic blocks or diagrams! Just describe your system in plain English!

See how easy it is and check the AFL Code Wizard instructional video at: http://www.amibroker.com/video/amiwiz/AFLWiz1.html

The AFL Code Wizard is available for purchase for $49 one-time fee. Further upgrades are free. Click here to buy now.

You can download stand-alone trial version from: http://www.amibroker.com/bin/acw1000beta.exe (After running setup, double click on AFLWiz.exe inside the installation directory). Trial version REQUIRES AmiBroker 4.90 or higher.

For best results however we recommend using AmiBroker 4.95.0 BETA that features integration with AFL code wizard.

To run AFL Code wizard from AmiBroker 4.95 just select Analysis->AFL Code Wizard menu.

The trial version has all the functionality *including* export of auto-generated AFL formula to AmiBroker. The only missing feature in trial version of AFL Code wizard is saving the project in .awz format. Project files are only necessary if you want to save your creation for future modification with code wizard and sharing with other people in “wizard” format.

Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 10:52 am under News
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I really enjoyed 2007 AmiBroker conference in Houston organized by FTMonitor. Great atmosphere, great people, valuable presentations, lots of good ideas floating around. Not to forget a couple of decent restaurants we visited :-). Thank you to all participants and speakers and big thanks to Richard for organization of this event.

Check out soon ftmonitor.com site for Camtasia recordings of all presentations.

AmiBroker.com’s own presentation in PowerPoint format is available for download here: New features in AmiBroker 4.90.

Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 11:47 am under News
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A new beta version (4.86.0) of AmiBroker has just been released.

It is available for registered users only from the members area at:
http://www.amibroker.com/members/bin/ab4860beta.exe

(File size: 1 263 347 bytes, 1.2 MB)

The installer includes also the newest AmiQuote 1.92.

If you forgot your user name / password to the members area you can use automatic reminder service at: http://www.amibroker.com/login.html

The instructions are included in the READ ME file:
AmiBroker 4.86.0 BETA Read Me

CHANGES FOR VERSION 4.86.0 (as compared to 4.85.0)

1. Added ‘every tick’ RT chart refresh in Professional Edition to already existing 1-sec and up refresh intervals
2. MDI tabs implemented
3. AFL: Added GetPerformanceCounter( bReset = False ) function
4. Fixed crash that sometimes occurred when chart using RequestTimedRefresh() was closed
5. Added “Cancel” button to “Do you want to save database: Yes/No” dialog that appears on AB exit when database is modified
6. Added registry key for controlling built-in exception handling.
7. AFL: atan2( y, x ) implemented
8. AFL: FFT( array, size = 0 ) function implemented
9. Fixed: pre-defined color table in broker.prefs sometimes got corrupted
10. Repainting of RT quote window is now flicker-free on Windows XP and higher
11. Symbol->Organize assignments, added ability to remove multiple symbols at once from watch list, index and favourite categories

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1. Promised new Account Manager functionality is still under development and has been hidden/disabled in this release and it will appear later in one of upcoming beta versions.
2. If you are using Firewall you may need to check if it did not block Broker.EXE file after upgrade. (It happened to some users that firewall blocked AmiBroker after upgrade and they could not connect to RT data sources due

Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 5:20 am under Beta, News, Releases
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Following IB “tradition” new version 860.9 of TWS breaks compatiblity with existing 3rd party software.
It gives “invalid symbol” error in many cases.

The only TWS recommended version to use is 858.6 or earlier.

If you already upgraded to 860.9 you need to revert back to 858.6
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/download/tws40_install_prev.exe

General rule is NEVER upgrade TWS until we give OK that new version of TWS is OK,
as in the past there were many cases where TWS just broke compatiblity with their previous APIs
and things just stopped working without any warning.

Again: never update TWS until we say that new version is OK.

UPDATE July 5th, 2006:

Apparently there is no problem at all with TWS 860.9 but there is a problem with *SOME* IB accounts,
that behave strangly. A couple of users reported it and I have seen strange things happening on my own account (”invalid symbol” problem) but … it all fixed itself (or rather IB has changed something to fix that) and all TWS versions (including 860.9) work OK now. No changes in software but things stop and re-start to work. The only reason that comes to my mind is that IB is doing some changes on their servers and this is causing problems on *some* accounts.

UPDATE July 6th, 2006: THE PROBLEM IS NOW FIXED WITH UPDATED VERSION 1.6.6 OF IB PLUGIN

Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 3:45 pm under News, Plugins
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Update to previous post about TWS :
it seems that IB staff has fixed this problem as our recent tests show no problems with newest versions of TWS - 858.6 and higher.

Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 12:46 pm under News
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As you know automated trading interface for AmiBroker is provided to everyone for free. You can just download it from http://www.amibroker.com/at/
Quite recently however someone asked me if there is an option to pay for IBController because he wanted to donate the development. So for everyone who wants to donate for further development of IBController I have created a payment option ($100 one time fee) here:
https://usd.swreg.org/cgi-bin/s.cgi?s=1269&p=1269IBC&v=0&d=0&q=1&c=USD

If you use IBController extensively and want to donate for further development you may consider spending $100 for it. Note that it is considered strictly a donation and you won’t receive any extras in return except warm feeling that you helped the development of the software you are using and guarantee that if ever IBController changes its status (i.e. from free software to commercial one), you will have license to use it and receive free upgrades.

Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 9:55 am under News, Web
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The most recent TWS (858.4) has some serious issues, see:
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/discus/messages/2/34933.html?1145996463
and
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/discus/messages/2/34913.html?1146089324

So don’t install it. If you already upgraded to TWS 858 you should install previous version 857 from IB download page:
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/cgi-bin/jtwsControl.pl?ib_entity=uk
scroll down to “standalone downloads - previous versions”.

Direct link:
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/download/tws40_install_prev.exe

Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 9:28 am under News
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