http://www.amibroker.org/userkb Share your experience, code and everything with other AmiBroker Users'. Fri, 02 May 2008 13:22:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Due to vulnerability found in previous version of Wordpress (2.2) and attack attempts this site experienced and the compatibility issues with Windows Live Writer that surfaced after quick security fix was applied, I was forced to perform upgrade to newest version of Wordpress. This results in old Table-of-content plugin not ... http://www.amibroker.org/userkb/2008/04/15/wordpress-upgrade/ Jim, who is a long term AmiBroker user, regularly provides an updated template that automatically sets up a database of all US stocks available from Yahoo!Finance. The stocks are initially categorized by Market and then as Stocks, Indexes or Funds at the Group level. They are also organized into ... http://www.amibroker.org/userkb/2008/03/27/us-stocks-database/ Objective  The objective, for this post, is to outline a basic method for setting up a custom database, using ASCII importation to install the categorized structure. A Global 1200 database, suitable for use with Yahoo data, is used as the example. Note: it is an outline only ... http://www.amibroker.org/userkb/2008/03/25/ascii-import-standard-and-poors-global-1200/   This post contains a list of AmiBroker 'supported' sites (most of the sites are officially supported by AmiBroker but some are not). Search the main sites by using Google's "Advanced Search" feature at http://www.google.com (search within a site, or domain, by using the URL address). ... http://www.amibroker.org/userkb/2008/03/23/amibroker-supported-sites/ Important note: The AmiBroker 5.09.0 Beta introduced the following new GFX functions: Status("pxchartleft") - returns x-coordinate of top-left corner of chart area Status("pxcharttop") - returns y-coordinate of top-left corner of chart area Status("pxchartright") - returns x-coordinate of bottom-right corner of chart area Status("pxchartbottom") - returns y-coordinate of bottom-right corner of chart area Status("pxchartwidth") - returns ... http://www.amibroker.org/userkb/2008/03/21/using-a-gfx-include-file/ Important note: The AmiBroker 5.09.0 Beta introduced the following new GFX functions: Status("pxchartleft") - returns x-coordinate of top-left corner of chart area Status("pxcharttop") - returns y-coordinate of top-left corner of chart area Status("pxchartright") - returns x-coordinate of bottom-right corner of chart area Status("pxchartbottom") - returns y-coordinate of bottom-right corner of chart area Status("pxchartwidth") - returns ... http://www.amibroker.org/userkb/2008/03/20/creating-gfx-chart-overlays/ To place LMT or STP orders quickly is easiest done by moving the horizontal cursor-line over the desired price and making a left mouse click. The demo code below shows how you can lock in prices this way. To Chart-Trade additional code must be added to make the click perform ... http://www.amibroker.org/userkb/2008/03/16/setting-prices-with-your-cursor/ Here is some simple code you can use to enable you to start developing your own error-parsing functions. In this example, error messages are hard-coded to facilitate code development, i.e. you don’t have to be live with IB to test it. I suggest that you inspect the IB list ... http://www.amibroker.org/userkb/2008/03/16/parsing-tws-error-messages/ IMPORTANT NOTE: DO NOT USE ANY OF THE PROGRAMS PRESENTED HERE TO TRADE REAL MONEY. Most of the programs presented will only work with live data, execution reports, and market conditions. They will NOT work using the AmiBroker Bar Replay or the IB eDemo account. Traditional Day-Trading by looking at TWS ... http://www.amibroker.org/userkb/2008/03/16/introduction-to-real-time-chart-trading/ by Wayne (GP) Introduction From version 4.67.0, AmiBroker provides a custom backtester interface to allow customising the operation of the backtester's second phase which processes the trading signals. This allows a range of special situations to be achieved that aren't natively supported by the backtester. AmiBroker tends to refer to this as ... http://www.amibroker.org/userkb/2008/03/16/amibroker-custom-backtester-interface-2/