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Introducing stability ranks

Tomasz Janeczko — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:23:51 +0000

In order to give you better idea about what kind of stability and reliability you can expect out of different BETA versions, we are starting to give stability ranks to all releases.
It is important to understand that BETA mark does not always mean the same. Sometimes BETAs are rock solid, sometimes they are experimental. It all depends on what has changed since last production release. If there were only additions, without changes to existing functionality, one can expect BETA to be perfectly stable, exactly the same as official version. On the other hand, when BETA brings significant changes to existing code base, sometimes turning large portions of code upside down (like with multi-threading rewrite), one should expect that BETA is experimental and it is likely to exhibit problems. To distinguish between these completely different situations we introduce stability rank.

The following ranks will be used:

Stability: – Experimental, possibly unstable
Stability: – Early BETA, introducing new features and changes, may exhibit minor problems
Stability: – Regular BETA, pretty stable, works fine in most environments
Stability: – Stable, almost as good as final release version
Stability: – Final production release quality, fully tested and stable

New AmiBroker Development Kit v2.0 released

Tomasz Janeczko — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:33:39 +0000

A new version of AmiBroker Development Kit (ADK 2.0) has been released

http://www.amibroker.com/bin/ADK.exe (356KB self-extracting exe)
http://www.amibroker.com/bin/ADK.zip (330KB plain zip file)

A new API contains updated documentation, source code samples and header definitions to support newly introduced features of AmiBroker 5.27 such as 64-bit date/time resolution, floating point volume/openint fields, new auxilliary data fields and extended symbol information fields.

The documentation and samples covers writing indicator (AFL function) plugins, data plugins and optimizer plugins.

The package is provided for native code developers (mainly C/C++) wanting to write their own plugin DLLs.

ADK 2.0 is free to use in both commercial and individual software.

AmiBroker is being promoted and taught in Australia

Tomasz Janeczko — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:35:52 +0000

Dr Howard Bandy (author of “Quantitative Trading Systems” and “Introduction to AmiBroker”) is speaking at the Australian Technical Analysts Association (ATAA) – National Conference, 23-25 Oct 2009, Melbourne, Australia , he will discuss and demonstrate Quantitative Trading Systems making use of AmiBroker.

Following the ATAA National Conference Howard Bandy will present three workshops in a “Howard in Australia” series over five days. These Workshops will be “Introduction to AmiBroker” (1 day), “Design Testing and Validation of Trading Systems” (2 days) and “Advanced Design, Testing and Validation of Trading Systems” (2 days). See the respective web sites for details.

NOTE: These events are organized solely by ATAA, not AmiBroker.com. The above is for information only and should not be considered as endorsement of any kind.

Special offer with FREE “Introduction to AmiBroker” book

Tomasz Janeczko — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:03:07 +0000

UPDATE: This special offer is extended till December 6th, 2008 !!!

AmiBroker.com now has special limited time offer for FIRST-TIME purchasers of AmiBroker Ultimate Pack Pro (AB UPP).
If you purchase AmiBroker Ultimate Pack Pro for $409 from today until December 6, 2008, you will receive a FREE copy of Howard Bandy “Introduction to AmiBroker” book with FREE* shipping.

You can place your order using http://www.amibroker.com/order.php page.

LIMITATIONS AND OTHER INFO

Only customers from USA, European Union, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand are entitled to receive FREE shipping.
The book is shipped from USA. Overseas destinations take usually 6-10 days to deliver.
Customers from other countries are kindly asked to consult support for availability and cost of shipping to their country – to ensure safe delivery to some countries a courier (UPS) service is recommended but this means extra cost
The offer applies to FIRST TIME buyers only and only to purchasers of Ultimate Pack Pro (the pack includes AmiBroker Professional, AmiQuote and AFL Code Wizard)
The book was written by Dr. Howard Bandy and this offer is possible thanks to co-operation of AmiBroker.com and Blue Owl Press, Inc, the publisher of the book.
More information about the contents of the book http://www.introductiontoamibroker.com – you can order the book alone from that site too.
The offer is valid from November 25, 2008 till December 6, 2008

Upcoming price increase (order now and save)

Tomasz Janeczko — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:21:07 +0000

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).

Workshop and conference in Las Vegas, February 2008

Tomasz Janeczko — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:01:37 +0000

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

Order today and save

Tomasz Janeczko — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:38:19 +0000

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.

Introducing AFL Code Wizard

Tomasz Janeczko — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:52:53 +0000

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.

Houston conference – mission completed :-)

Tomasz Janeczko — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:47:58 +0000

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.

AmiBroker 4.86.0 BETA released

Tomasz Janeczko — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:20:30 +0000

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)

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

IMPORTANT NOTES:

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.
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