Recent content by robbrit

You're perfectly right. What I was talking about was AFL specifically, not Amibroker. The example that I meant is this situation: you write 100 scripts in AFL and then one day decide that you want to switch to some other trading software. Unless they support AFL (unlikely) you're going to...

Just starting running a dual-boot system with Windows 7 and Linux Mint. Gotta say it's amazing: Mint runs beautifully on my system, only thing I had to install was the Nvidia driver. Good to see that some folks out there aren't going the "let's make our OS primarily for tablets" route.

Oh right, forgot to mention that Python was free ;) so are all the libraries for it, I have yet to come across a Python library that wasn't free (and I use Python every day for work). The same holds for R, I also haven't found any library for it that you had to pay for - although I haven't...

I've worked extensively with all three, here's my take on them: All of them are fairly easy programming-wise (compared to things like Java or C++) and easy to install. They are also all a bit slow, however if you're feeling ambitious you can write C plugins for any of them. AFL: Pros...

I've been using either the built-in TIME and DATE types within MySQL or a UNIX epoch (just an integer) for years and it's never steered me wrong, but since I've never needed to store millisecond data which isn't supported I wouldn't be able to tell you how well it works there. However I can tell...

Another question is: what happens when things go wrong? Your computer dies, or you accidentally overwrite some code and now it doesn't work? A useful thing to use is something called "version control" like Github (have to pay for private code hosting but has a better system) or BitBucket (free...

I've been using IronRuby for the last year, I've found it works very well as I'm able to go from idea to a working script in no time flat. Performance is not amazing, but the majority of my ideas do not require performance. For the evaluation (note that pretty much every point also applies to...