I love Amibroker

I’ve just found out, much to my (pleasant) surprise, that Amiquote (a free quote downloading program from Amibroker) is able to download current stock trading prices from Yahoo!Finance. That means I can actually do ‘real time’ (well, as real time as offered by Yahoo!) stock screening. I can jolly well screen for candlestick patterns around 1am (1pm EST) and enter a conditional order. Then I can go on to zzzzz. This way, I won’t miss out wonderful opportunities like UA, which dropped like a rock all the way down the moment the market opens the next day, after I spotted it as a potential sell candidate.

Wow! Ain’t that bery the powderful…. THANKS AMIBROKER! I lub u man!

Bears are back?

The market has been ‘behaving itself’ lately… at least for the past few days. It’s been trending downwards, mainly because of the rise in oil price and the fear of inflation. Unfortunately, I only have one position at the moment. I hope this strategy can work well.

As I’m writing this post, I’m concurrently downloading data from Yahoo!Finance for use with Amibroker, and I’ve written my own screener. Pretty excited cos I don’t have to write a full program to screen for candlesticks. Amibroker is easy to use and accepts data feeds from Yahoo!Finance and EODData, both of which are free to use. Now I can write powerful and flexible screeners myself, without having to subscribe to expensive data feeds.

I’m also pretty excited because I just subscribed to NEWSWEEK at a 77% discount. Now I don’t have to carry heavy books to read whenever I travel, and I won’t be wasting my time whenever I am on the bus.