Michael's Musings

Truck that hit me and the car I was driving.

Don't take life too seriously, for tomorrow it may not be here...

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Anyone know how to get the Backtester and Optimizer to include all trades in their results? The code below (firstSystemPostCopy.afl) initiates trades that get captured by the logfile, but they don't show up or get accumulated in the Backtester or Optimizer. The results are from ~six months of 1-minute bars of FAS. The Backtester shows 16 trades with profit of $7,110.38. Per the logfile there were 24 trades with profit of $3,751.29.

Anyone know why the extra 8 trades weren't included in the Backtester?

Linux really needs a "I'm a noob" button, such that it quits asking the user questions we don't have a clue how to answer. (Unless of course we're kernel developers or the like.) Hopefully Mandriva 2010.1 will have a better install interface...

Summary
Using the Interactive Brokers (IB) plugin with AmiBroker requires a delicate touch. It's not that it doesn't work, it's that the current instructions are old and miss highly important points to achieve full automation of downloading multiple symbols.

Objective
This document will identify the method to automate AmiBroker 5.30 on Windows XP(*) to fill ~180+ days of historical 1-minute data for up to 100 symbols using the AmiBroker IB plugin to connect to the Interactive Brokers, Trader Workstation's API.

For back testing possible automated systems for use by a hedge fund, I have a need for 2 years of 1 minute intraday stock data, with at least monthly updates. I might as well publish the research I've done so far...

There is no real order below, I chose {haven't chosen yet}

If you have a source that isn't listed, please add it in a comment.

Thanks,
Michael

Future Review of the "Zalman ZM-NC2000Black Notebook Cooler (Black)"

(It's arriving in a few days and I need a stub to play with...)

Okay, I have to admit I've never heard of this...

I went to Newegg to check on getting 8GB for my new baby, and found the:

G.SKILL 4GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Laptop Memory Model F2-6400CL6S-4GBSQ - Retail
@ $114.99 per

Possibly against my better judgment, I bought a Dell... I guess eight months of looking created enough "shopping fatigue" that pretty much the first company that would have offered what I wanted, even close to my price range, would have gotten my business. And I need something to replace this crippled Frankenstein I'm currently using.

Cache of my interactions with the OCZ DIY Laptop Support forum.
Original Thread: ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=67016

michael- 01-01-2010, 08:21 AM

Okay I'll bite, you say you have DIY, build your own laptops, but where exactly is the link to do it?

I'm on this page:

OCZ / Products / DIY Notebooks / OCZ DIY 17" Gaming Notebook - Intel - NVIDIA Edition