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Dan,
 
As I read your insightful comments I have to agree, having been an IBD and TC2000 subscriber.  I've found their pretty face to be enticing, but I never made any money from their products because a step-wise, measurable strategy was hard to develop.  However, part of me would be just fine leaving their large user bases to their "navel gazing".  Call me paranoid (or elitist), but I have a fear that someday the general masses will be able to easily access automated trading systems and then the markets will become one big Battle Bots game.  We may someday look back on these as the good old days when most people regarded us as wizards for being able to play.  When taxi drivers, etc. are talking about their trading robots, the end will be nigh.  I hope I'm wrong.
 
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Clark
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 7:39 AM
Subject: RE: [amibroker] TC2005 & Amibroker

Joe,

 

Actually, to be quite specific…

 

A major advantage of TC2005 is its Sectors and Industries.  Worden maintains both the Sector/Industry groupings and symbols for each Sector and Industry.  I believe this to be one of their strongest benefits.  

 

After I imported the TC Industries and Sectors, I set up each Industry with the TC symbol for that industry (Symbols à Categories à Industries).    Since each Stock symbol is mapped to an industry, the Industry symbol can be used for relative strength analysis in Charts and Scans.  The AFL for Relative Strength to Industry is:

 

RelStrengthSymbolToIndustry = RelStrength(GetBaseIndex());

 

Regarding Sectors, I chart all of the TC Sectors in 6 panes on two charts as a set of lines.  It makes it easier to analyze them.

 

Like Patrick, I’d like to see Worden publish only the data, expose more of their attributes in their API (currently only Money Stream and BOP), and provide full access to intraday data in their API. 

 

Unfortunately, Worden tends to be a bit “idiosyncratic”.    Instead of focusing on their strengths, they spent massive amounts of time and energy with a stand-alone tool call Worden Studio which doesn’t integrate with TC and is very poor compared to competitive products (like StockCharts).  When I took them to task on the issue, they condescendingly pointed out that I just didn’t know how to use the tool.   (Not once, but several times.)   So, I wrote them off as non-communicative and not a serious vendor of charting tools.  

 

In some respects, a similar company is IBD.   AFAIK, IBD is the only other company that has strong Sector and Industry groupings with some charting and scanning at the Industry and Stock level.    And, their analysis is pretty good.  That’s the good news…

 

The bad news is that IBD is a serious hassle to deal with.  They are very expensive, their charting tools and scanning are very poor and they do not expose their data through an API.    The only way to export some of the data is using a manual export process.   They’re still working in the dark ages of stock analysis – lots of marketing with modest content, packaged in a proprietary interface.

 

Hopefully, Worden and IBD will get their act together and start meeting customers’ needs instead of using a “marketing by navel gazing” strategy.    Like many companies, they have some good product features to offer, but leave lots money on the table because of their inability to package and market them effectively.

 

Regards,

 

Dan.


From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Landry
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 5:41 AM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [amibroker] TC2005 & Amibroker

 

Patrick and Dan - I stand corrected and appreciate the very thorough analysis and discourse on your

parrt  - an excellent use of the forum. 

 

Correctly I should have said -TC2000 for simple and quick scans, reliable data feed but weak mutual fund data and market breadth. 

 QP3 has both and a great depth of what I'm calling market internals or breadth data for all US markets., advance/declines, high/lows, up /down volumes.

For other indices like R2000, I have to develop and run daily as composites.

 

However I should ask, how do you get a comparable organization of industry groups in AB if you

don't have TC2000 as your data feed?

 

On the plus side for AB don't forget the backtesting and optimization with native AB optimization

or  with the optimizer called IO by Fred Tonetti.

 

Best regards

JOE

----- Original Message -----

From: TA 4 Charts

Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 10:49 PM

Subject: Re: [amibroker] TC2005 & Amibroker

 

Hi all,

I have to agree with Dan -- TC2005 is ok for data, and perhaps some very
simple fast sorts.

I use ATR as an indicator of preference for sorting -- in AB it's built in
and I can build complex varieties of AA output based on it.  In TC2005, it's
about 32+ operations of code to produce an ATR(10).  Then there's ADX (not
available for scans, just sorting on their static indicator), and  CCI,
forget it, etc.  I too do some stuff like Dan discribes, but only in AB as
TC2005 won't support it.  If any further plug for AB is needed, I'll note
that one can automate the output from the exploration or scan to a watchlist
as part of the code.

So for research, sophisticated scans and ease of use (once you learnit), AB
is a no brainer.  Too bad one can't just buy TC2005 data at a discount
without the charts, etc., as it generally is good data (a few minor
exceptions of course).  Still it's not that expensive -- my commissions are
an order of magnitude greater each month, sometimes two.

Peace and Justice   ---   Patrick

(Dan - we'll see how this post does for time, I saw your last was only about
8 min delayed)

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Clark
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:02 PM
Subject: RE: [amibroker] TC2005 & Amibroker


I have to disagree a bit with Joe.

I agree if all you want to do is perform BASIC scans and filters.    Very
basic!

But the problem with TC is that you quickly run into a wall.

For example, using Linear Regression lines, I perform a scan where:

1) the stock is in a list of tradable symbol and
2) the long term trend of a symbol is up, and
3) the short term trend is down, and
4) the short term trend of Twiggs Money Flow is up (divergence), and
5) the symbol is NOT in a list of manually excluded symbols, and
6) the symbol is NOT already in a target short list
7) the symbol is NOT already in a target long list.

I tried this in TC.

Number 1 is easy.
Numbers 2, 3 and 4 (using Money Stream instead) are a 19 step manual
process!!!
Numbers 5, 6 and 7 are NOT possible!!!

TC has its benefits.  But sophisticated scanning is NOT one of them.

As you probably already figured out, I use TC for data only.

Regards,

Dan.





From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Joe Landry
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 4:59 PM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [amibroker] TC2005 & Amibroker

If all you want to do is scans/filters then  TC2005 will be all you need.

However if you ever want to backtest or use a custom indicator that the
Worden brothers didn't include in their
package then you're out of luck.

When I subscribed to TC2000 it was for the data, preliminary scans, and
industry groups.  Now I'm using
QP3, quotes plus 3 for mutual funds and stocks for less than TC2000, but I
don't get intraday delayed quotes
on stocks.  I do get realtime data from my broker but I can't run the signal
routines that will tell me if a signal will
trip before the close.

Best regards
JOE
----- Original Message -----
From: skilletlicqor
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 6:42 PM
Subject: [amibroker] TC2005 & Amibroker

I notice there are a number of users of both TC2005 and Amibroker.  I
currently use TC2005 and am on the trial month for Amibroker.  I'm
very impressed with Amibroker and wonder what those of you who use
both do in TC2005 that you can't do in Amibroker.  Or is TC2005 just
for the data? I haven't worked with AFL much but I assume that it is
capable of performing any scans that I can do with TC2005.  Is this
not the case?
I'm on a tight budget and can probably only afford one of these
programs right now.

Thanks for replies.




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