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Hi Tomasz and everyone,
Just a couple more suggestions/wishes for version 3 of an already
excellent program!
1] I have already mentioned the option of having the company name as well
as/instead of the ticker symbol in the ticker selection window, but it
ocurred to me that it might be possible to put the company name on the
chart title bar(s) instead of in the stock selector window. The chart
title bars already show the ticker symbol on them, so it may be possible
to display the company name there as well, rather than putting it in the
selector window. This would be just as helpful to people like me, who have
a hard time remembering just which stock XYZ refers to, particularly when
you have close to 3000 tickers in your database like me, and a poor memory
like me :-(
2] The toolbar is the only window which does not have a resize gadget on
it, and on my screen (800x600 on a 15" monitor) there is about a
centimeter or so of wasted space between the toolbar and the price chart.
It would be nice to be able to widen the toolbar to eliminate the wasted
space, or even better, have another row of tools fitted into the space!!
3] It is already possible to click on a particular day in the stock price
window to bring up a vertical line along that day's data, but would it be
possible to extend that vertical line down through any other charts which
are open on the workspace at the time, so that we can get a better direct
comparison with all the data on all the charts at the same time? My
50-year old eyes are not perfect, and I feel pretty stupid sitting here
with a plastic ruler held up to the screen to compare the data on
different charts :-)
4] You have already mentioned the possibility of implementing Gann and
Fibonacci lines in the next version, but would it be possible to have the
option of implementing a time line set by the user as well? I have been
told that our (Australian) main index, the All Ordinaries Index, normally
turns on multiples of 90 calendar days, so it would be good to have the
option of setting time lines each 90 days, for example, to warn me of this
possible turning point. I am sure that this would be a valuable option for
other people as well. Incidentally, this 90-day turning cycle compares
pretty well with the Fibonacci timelines, which use a timeline at 89 days.
5] More speed!!! Even on my system, an 030/50 with FPU and 40 mb of fast
ram, it takes around 14 minutes to load AmiBroker, and about 16 minutes to
save the data. I realise that I do have a lot of data stored (close to
3000 tickers at the moment, with a couple of months' data on each ticker),
but it would be nice to cut that time down a bit :-)
I have noticed that it does not make much difference to the saving times
whether I update a full weeks' data on all tickers, or just update one
days' data on one ticker, so I guess that AmiBroker is simply resaving ALL
the data, regardless of which ones were updated. Would it be possible to
implement some sort of flag system to tell AmiBroker which data has been
updated, and only resave that data, rather than having to resave all the
data each time? Without seeing the source code for the program, it is
impossible to know how AmiBroker saves its data, but it seems to me that
it may be possible to use some sort of flag system, and that would cut
back tremendously on the saving times if you only updated a few tickers
each day. Again, I realise that I am saving a lot of data, and most people
would not have this problem, but I know that there are a few who do keep
as big a database as me, so any speed increases in this area would be
greatly appreciated.
Finally, I would like to stress that these are NOT meant as criticisms of
the program, but simply suggestions (or wishes) to try to help make a
great program even better! The more that I look at the features (??) of
MetaStock for Windows, the more I appreciate just how good AmiBroker is,
and how much better it will be in the near future. Keep up the good work,
Tomasz, your work IS appreciated, even if we do not tell you often
enough!!
Bye for now,
Terry
--
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
-- Lily Tomlin
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