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Welcome to the AmiBroker User’s Knowledge Base (UKB)! This site was created to save you time, raise your productivity, aid you in your Amibroker Formula Language (AFL) learning experience, and help you become a more successful trader. Although this site is owned and operated by AmiBroker, its contents are entirely contributed by users like you. More…

Note: this site is separate from official Knowledge Base (KB) at http://www.amibroker.com/kb/. The official KB holds information authored solely by amibroker.com, while Users’ KB site is community driven. Other must-follow AmiBroker links are the AFL Reference, User Guide, AmiBroker Supported Sites, and the user-contributed AFL Library.

Posts

  1. - How to use this site
    1. Contributors
      1. Capturing Images Using Microsoft Paint (v3)
      2. Introduction To Editing (v2) (3)
      3. Introduction To Graphics (2)
      4. UKB Post Formats (v2)
      5. Using Blog Editors
        1. Converting Word Documents Into Posts
        2. Introduction To Windows Live Writer (1)
      6. Using WordPress
        1. Code editor special characters demo
        2. Introduction To The Admin Center
        3. Introduction To The Code Editor
        4. Ordering Posts
        5. Quick Posting
        6. Quick Posting Example - PDF Attachment
        7. Quick Posting Example - Word Attachment
    2. Readers
      1. How to make Suggestions and ask Questions (6)
      2. Tips and Tricks
      3. Viewing Microsoft Attachments
      4. RSS Feeds
        1. Example Feed Reader Program
        2. How Do I Read RSS Feeds?
        3. Introduction To RSS (1)
        4. Using AmiBroker's RSS Feeds with Internet Explorer
  2. AFL programming
    1. AFL - The Basics
      1. Introduction to AFL
      2. Abbreviated Identifiers v2 (1)
      3. AFL Shapes Cheat Sheet (5)
      4. BarCount versus BarIndex (1)
      5. Plotting Functions
      6. Selected Date Range
      7. Weekly High or Low Days
    2. AFL - Utilities and Functions
      1. How Many Trading Days In A Year?
      2. Plotting Trade-Lines
      3. Restore Last Used Range
      4. Zoom-to-Range Applications
      5. Using the AddToComposite()
        1. Introduction to the ATC
        2. Deleting Tickers and Composites (6)
    3. GFX Programming
      1. Creating GFX Chart-Overlays (v3) (1)
      2. Finding Pixel Boundaries (1)
      3. Moving Low Level Graphics (GFX) Objects on your Charts (2)
      4. Using a GFX Include file
    4. Backtester
      1. Backtesting Example - NewHighs/NewLows
      2. Buy And Hold
    5. Custom Backtester
      1. AmiBroker Custom Backtester Interface (1)
    6. Indicators
      1. MACD Histograms (v1) (1)
      2. Plotting Gap Prices
    7. Scans
      1. New Highs/New Lows Indicator (v3) (2)
  3. Blogroll
    1. AmiBroker Supported Sites (2)
  4. Data
    1. AmiQuote FAQ's
    2. Data Adjustment - Yahoo (2)
    3. Data FAQ's - Commodities
    4. Data FAQ's - EOD Equity
    5. Data FAQ's - Forex
    6. Data FAQ's - Fundamental
    7. Data FAQ's - Miscellaneous
    8. Data FAQ's - Real Time Equity (1)
    9. Introduction To Data (1)
    10. Data Resources
      1. Data Resources - Australia
      2. Data Resources - Commodities
      3. Data Resources - EOD Equity (1)
      4. Data Resources - Forex (2)
      5. Data Resources - Fundamental
      6. Data Resources - Real Time Equity
    11. Yahoo
      1. US-Stocks Database (v2) (1)
      2. Yahoo Data FAQ's
      3. Yahoo's Data Providers (v2) (4)
  5. Database Management
    1. AFL Testing Databases (5)
    2. ASCII Import - Standard and Poor's Global 1200
    3. Database Management FAQ's
    4. Example Database (1)
    5. Setup A Custom Database (v3) (3)
    6. Setup A Custom Database - Nasdaq (2)
    7. Database Management Resources
      1. Indexes - Dow Jones
      2. Indexes - Nasdaq
      3. Indexes - Russell
      4. Indexes - Standard and Poor's
      5. Instruments - American Depository Receipts
      6. Screener - Nasdaq Stock
      7. Sector Classifications - Hemscott (v2)
      8. Tracking Stock Changes (de-listings, name changes, events, adjustments etc).
  6. Real-Time AFL Applications
    1. Debugging AFL
      1. Introduction to Debugging AFL (7)
      2. Adding Manual Test Signals
      3. Bar-Scaling Tool
      4. DebugView vs. Interpretation Window
      5. DebugView: Introduction and Setup
      6. DebugView: _TRACE() Statements and Logging
      7. Detecting Look-Ahead Problems
      8. Numbering Bars
      9. Order Simulation using DebugView
      10. Plotting Trade-Prices
      11. Price Bound Checking
      12. Wrapping Functions
    2. Real-Time AFL Programming
      1. Static Variables in RT Systems
      2. Introduction to Real-Time AFL Programming
      3. Session Timing
      4. A Real-Time Message FIFO
      5. Backfill Exploration for Real-Time data (1)
      6. Data Holes in Real-Time Trading (3)
      7. Date Calculations (v2) (1)
      8. High-Precision Delay and Interval Timing
      9. Keeping Your Chart Right-Justified
      10. Keying Static Variables (2)
      11. Measuring AFL Execution Times (v3) (5)
      12. Pane and Window Execution order
      13. Persistent Variables (v3) (3)
      14. Preventing Repeat Orders and Whipsaws
      15. Reading/Backing-up the TWS Exported Execution Report
      16. Real-Time Bar Period Timing
      17. Real-Time Bar-Period Timing (1)
      18. Real-Time Delays (2)
      19. Removing Static Variables
      20. Resetting Indicators
      21. Time Calculations
    3. Real-Time Auto-Trading
      1. Introduction to Real-Time Automated-Trading
      2. Internet Resources for AT
      3. Parsing TWS Error messages
      4. Request Real-Time Topics here (4)
      5. RT vs EOD Trading
    4. Real-Time Chart-Trading
      1. Introduction to Real-Time Chart-Trading
      2. Setting prices with your cursor
    5. Real-Time Control-Panels
      1. Introduction to Real-Time Control-Panels (1)
      2. A Basic Messaging Panel (1)
      3. Button Header (Collapse/Expand)
      4. Button Rotate
      5. Command Buttons (Trigger type) (3)
    6. Real-Time System Design
      1. Introduction to Real-Time System Design
      2. Designing a Tradable System - Spikes
      3. Gap-Trading demo, Session Timing Example
      4. High-Frequency Automated Trading (HFAT); Part 1 (12)
      5. High-Frequency Automated Trading (HFAT); part 2
      6. Real-Time Gap-Trading Demo, Basics (v3) (2)
      7. System-Design Pitfalls
    7. System Automation
      1. The Edge of Auto-Trading
      2. Setting up your TWS for Automatic Trading
      3. The Master AT switch
      4. Testing your AB-IBc-TWS Communication
  7. Research and System Explorations
    1. Introduction to Research and Exploration
    2. Analyzing Ticker Relationships
    3. Candle-Stick Evaluation (v2) (1)
    4. Using Zig() to reveal profit potential (1)
  8. Statistics
    1. Expectancy
    2. Statistics Resources For Traders
  9. The Trading Room
    1. Computer Selection and Set-up
      1. Your Trader Workstation
    2. Internet Communication Issues
      1. Internet Connections
    3. Multi-TWS Set-ups
      1. Running Multiple copies of AmiBroker
    4. Setting up a Trading LAN
      1. Sharing Data over a Private LAN
  10. Trading Systems
    1. System Ideas on the Internet (1)
    2. Ideas (Experimental)
      1. Introduction to Trading Systems - Ideas
      2. 15 Day Performers Trading System
      3. Inverse Return To Mean System
      4. KISS-001: Gap Trading
      5. MACD Trend System
    3. Practical (Profitable)
      1. Introduction to Trading Systems - Practical
  11. Trading Systems - Development Tools
    1. Intelligent Optimization
      1. Intelligent Optimization - An Introduction (1)
      2. IO - Distributed Processing
      3. IO - Ease of Use
      4. IO - Exhaustive Search .vs. Intelligent Algorithms
      5. IO - Fitness, Goals and Constraints
      6. IO - More Advanced Problems (4)
      7. IO - Out of Sample and Walk Forward Testing
      8. IO - Robustness, A Sensitive Subject
    2. System Management
      1. Introduction to Trading Systems - Management
  12. Uncategorized
    1. Pattern Recognition Across Timeframes (2)
    2. Wordpress upgrade (1)
  13. User Interface
    1. AFL Templates v2 (1)
    2. Combination Charts
    3. Modifying Built-in Formulas
    4. Naming Formula Files
    5. Naming Formulas
    6. Organizing Formula Files
    7. Using Custom Colors
      1. Color Formulas
      2. Color Picking
      3. Colored Plots (2)
      4. Extending The Range
      5. Palette Editing
  14. ~~ Author Profiles
    1. Brian_z
    2. Herman
  15. ~~ Test Area
  16. Pages

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