amibrokerAmiBroker 4.90 now has thick vertical selector line that plots behind chart lines to improve clarity and readability (selector does not cover candlesticks). Some users however prefer thin, single-pixel line. There is an easy way to switch. (more…)
Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 6:16 am under User Interface
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By default the values of parameters for given indicator pane are the same (shared) for all symbols. If you want per-symbol parameters, you need to apply technique descibed in this short article. (more…)
Filed by AmiBroker Support at 5:42 am under Charting
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If one wants to display a Candlesticks in one chart pane and Bars in another one, then it’s necessary to use a formula which does not read the settings from: View -> Price Chart Style.
The following custom Price formula allows to achieve this: (more…)
Filed by AmiBroker Support at 9:54 am under Indicators
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In order to display trade arrows, first of all – it’s necessary to enable the arrows for particular chart. To do so – right-click on the chart pane of your choice, choose: Parameters -> Axes&Grid, then set: Show trading arrows to YES, as shown in the screenshot. (more…)
Filed by AmiBroker Support at 2:54 am under Backtest,Indicators
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In the March 2006 “Letters to S&C” section I found the following request:
“I am looking for and add-on […] that would enable me to build an equity curve from buy/sell signals that the trader directly draws over the price graph of a commodity; for example, using specific active vertical lines. Such a software would be of great help for discretionary traders to validate their semiautomatic systems. — PH CHAMBAULT”
And I just thought that it would be nice example of using AFL’s Equity() function and ParamTrigger()
Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 9:06 am under Indicators
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When you are using intraday database daily candles are usually constructed by time-compression of intraday (for example 1-minute data). AmiBroker offers lots of flexibility when it comes to defining intraday-to-daily time compression.
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Filed by AmiBroker Support at 7:31 pm under Data
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The following code sample shows how to get date/time (X co-ordinate) and value (Y co-ordinate) of starting and ending point of manually drawn study.
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Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 6:34 am under Indicators
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To have custom title in the indicator window, you can define Title variable within the indicator’s code, e.g:
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Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 8:34 pm under Indicators
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