What is the best way to become familiar with the AFL language and the use of the softaware. Is there away to use semi auto trading directly from AB to send orders to IB like the way with NT?
http://amibroker.com/guide/AFL.html http://amibroker.com/library/list.php http://amibroker.com/support.html http://amibroker.com/news.html abt totally AUTO'D trading DIRECTLY via AB itself (you don't need anything else): http://www.amibroker.com/at/index.html some examples could be also found by search inside the foll'g url: http://amibroker.com/library/list.php if you need SEMI-auto'd trading in AB (aka visual trading fm charts), pls note that NinjaTrader is MUCH MORE intuitive and advanced about that (just to save you fm possible dissapointment by AB in this regard). but if you're still interested, somewhere in the past i placed a bunch of urls related to the visual trading fm AmiBroker charts, and you may find them searching by name or by proper keywords combination among the other posts.
I am so pleased with AB speed but I make a lot of manual trades from the charts. So I need to decide either NT or AB? I like NT support and I think their forum is very good but my C# knowledge is my handicap. I will learn it though if I purchase the software. Regards
i'm proficient in C#/CLR/.NET technologies, but i can tell you that you really don't need to know all C# trickacies at all to be very successful in NT/Wealth-Lab or anything related to trading and C#-based. Everything is already prepared and very friendly wrapped for your convenience, and mostly you just fill up some properties, reusing and/or slighly modifying some functions and/or extend some libraries. It's not like you need to really develop something from scratch, or even understand object-oriented model in full, or grasp total event-driven concept of delegates, etc. You're inside the framework of another framework, and in very developer-friendly environment. A lot of new C# developers are the former Java developers or new amateurs started using free Microsoft IDE & GUI initially for fun. The most important part is always the idea, algorithm, and not f*king implementation/code.
I'm not afraid to tell you that I'm an total idiot (but, to be totally honest with you, I don't believe in "total" part, doh ). Now, when your dream came true and we already cleared this up, it could be potentially easier for you to come out of the sphere of personal relationships, and make the next so uneasy move drilling down into more details ABOUT THE VERY SUBJECT of the discussion (about Amibroker or whatever your beaf is). I believe it could potentially make sense, too -- again, IMHO .