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From what you've said I have no doubt that AB's basic charting is adequate for your purposes both in terms of charting tools and AFL code. For more sophisticated charting one can, as you suggested, program the charting tools or use other progarms as backstops. Certainly some things such as...

IMO, relative to other programs charting is a bit clunky starting with the cursor and extending to an inability to cleanly display and properly handle P&F. Charting tools are on the weak side from simple pitchfork without warning lines/internal divisions to weak execution of the other areas...

I've used it for over 10 years but don't listen to me or anybody else as the only way to really evaluate any program is to use it. So download a trial version (30 days), as well as the Users Guide, and kick the tires. In addition, you can get your questins answered from AB Support and on the...

The best way to handle this type of person is to ignore them as their goal is to simply stir the pot. Responding to them just makes them stir faster.

How about telling us how a "real" programming language beats AFL. Do you even know what the difference is between a "real" language and AFL? I doubt it based on your comments.

For someone who attempts to speak with authority about the AmiBroker language your lack of knowledge as demonstrated by your comments is remarkeable.

Your snotty response really does not deserve an answer. However, if you were not so lazy you would have found it by now or sought assistance on any of the appropriate forums. Surely a hotshot programmer such as yourself can do that trivial task. Ta-ta.

The Turtle Trading System has been done. As I said, if you want to try to stump the AFL crowd you will have to go into their den and challenge them. Then you will either confirm or deny your belief about AFL. It is a waste of time to repeat over and over on Elite that AFL does not hold up...

You are quite wrong. It is not "easy" for a beginner to learn AFL. As I said it takes a moderate effort. I program in C++ and AFL and AFL is definitely simpler, more user friendly and can handle the most complicated algorithms. I have yet to see a programming limitation and I doubt that...

You are behind the times. I have been an AmiBroker user for over ten years and the improvement has been remarkable and arguably is moving exponentially. Although I still use other programs for particular types of analyses I find that my use of them is constantly decreasing.

I guess each of us has an individual learning curve. I'm not a programmer so went and took a community college home study course in C++ and the AFL was a snap.

Your characterization of Amibroker in particular is quite incorrect. It is equal or better than any program when it comes to speed and backtesting. The AFL language is powerful and can be learned by non-programmers with moderate effort. While good programmers can produce almost anything other...

4.3% by when? How about below 3.7% in 2009?

Take a long period of data of shorter periods of bull/bear/flat markets and backtest.

You'll know when you are overoptimized when your results are inconsistent witht he opotimization period. In other words, tweaking a system for "top" results (assume that the way to evaluate a system has been decided) often results in poor results going forward. That's overoptimization. To...

They are helpful if used together with other indicators.

What duration of this bear do you expect? Days? Months? Years? Do you have a projected target? How high would gold have to rise in order to cancel your bear call?

RSI is a good ole boy. However, imo, no indicator should be used by itself but rather with other indicators in a "consensus" fashion, resulting in improved performance.

AmiBroker is one that will do this

EW evolved empirically based on observation by Elliott of market action. In "Dynamic Trading" by Miner, the path taken by Elliott is outlined with reference to various publications by Elliott's from "day one." If you are looking for an underlying hypothesis for EW, Plummer took a stab at it in...