AmiBroker 3.24 Release Notes
Amiga version.
Copyright (C)2000 by Tomasz Janeczko.
Created: March 26th, 2000, 20:50

About

AmiBroker 3.24 is the newest minor upgrade of the most advanced stock charting/analysis software for the Amiga (also available for Win32 platform). This update is available at no charge to all registered AmiBroker users of versions 2.7 and above.

The update available on AmiBroker web site (www.polbox.com/a/amibrok) contains only the most substantial files. For docs, guides and other files please check full 3.20 version available on Aminet and AmiBroker web site.

Features

Version 3.24 (Mar 26th, 2000) includes following new features and fixes (compared to 3.22):

• New format definition commands in ASCII import:
  Added $CONT, $MARKET, $GROUP, $HYBRID commands and MARKET, GROUP, INFO, REDUCTION fields descriptions
• Ticker aliases added (recognizable by ASCII, Metastock and Teletext importers)
• Stock information enhancements: address field in enlarged to 128 characters, country and currency fields added (now informative only, but in future currency information will be used in portfolio for calculations)
• Vertical trend lines are now deletable
• Bug fix: Stock list is now refreshed after ASCII import

New format definition commands in ASCII import

The following new commands are available:

• $CONT <0 or 1> - continuous quotations flag
  this affects $AUTOADD 1 mode - if this is set, newly added stocks are switched to continuous quotation mode (this means enabling candlestick charts for example)
• $MARKET <number>
  this affects $AUTOADD 1 mode - if this is specified, newly added stocks are assigned to market with given number.
• $GROUP <number>
  this affects $AUTOADD 1 mode - if this is specified, newly added stocks are assigned to group with given number
• $HYBRID <0 or 1> - combine data in hybrid mode switch
  when this flag is set, you can combine quotations from multiple files - for example one file can contain only open prices and volume and the other file can contain high/low/close data. Useful especially for Warsaw Stock Exchange for combining the data from fixing and later continuous quotations.

Moreover followin new field definitions are accepted now by $FORMAT command:

• MARKET
  specify a field that contains market ID (affects $AUTOADD mode only)
• GROUP
  specify a field that contains group ID (affects $AUTOADD mode only)
• INFO
  specify a field with additional information (WSE specific: nk, ns, rk, rs, ok, os, zd, bd )
• REDUCTION
  specify a field with reduction rate in percents (WSE specific)

Ticker aliases

Now each ticker can have an alias assigned, so the AmiBroker's built-in importers can recognize that stock by both ticker and alias names. This is useful when you are using two data sources that are using slighty different stock naming convention or if you want to give the stocks more intuitive name while retaining the ability to use importers without problems.

Additional information

Localization

Since the user interface was changed in version 3.22 AmiBroker needs new catalog files. This update includes a Polish catalog file as well as the catalog description (broker.cd) and a template catalog translation (broker.ct) file. Polish users should copy the supplied catalog file into the LOCALE:Catalogs/Polski directory.

Installation

No special installation is needed for this update. Simply copy executable files (AmiBroker and AmiBroker.FPU) over the old ones.

AmiBroker on the Web

For latest news, patches and updates please check out AmiBroker WWW site at: http://www.polbox.com/a/amibrok. Check out also a new AmiBroker/Win32 site at: http://republika.pl/amibroker/ . If you want to share with ideas & tips with other AmiBroker users please try AmiBroker Mailing List at http://www.eGroups.com/list/amibroker.