This page contains section 1 and section 2 of course Guide to Quantitative Investing and Algorithmic Trading. For course index, visit back the course page.
- 1 Section 1 Course Overview
- 2 Section 2 Setting Up Amibroker
- 2.1 Section 2.1 Installing Amibroker
- 2.2 Section 2.2 Setting Up Historical Database
- 2.3 Resource:
- 2.4 Section 2.3 Setting Up Live Database
- 2.5 Resource:
- 2.6 Section 2.4 Watchlists
- 2.7 Section 2.4 Realtime Quote, Time & Sales
- 2.8 Section 2.5 Charting Guide
- 2.9 Section 2.6 Chart sheets, Templates
- 2.10 Section 2.61 Layouts
- 2.11 Section 2.7 Database Settings for FOREX, Equities, Commodities
- 2.12 Section 2.8 Database Structure
- 2.13 Section 2.9 Database Tricks
- 3 Related Forum Discussions
Section 1 Course Overview
Section 1.1 Introduction
Section1.2 Why Amibroker is Exceptionally Useful for Professionals
Section 2 Setting Up Amibroker
Section 2.1 Installing Amibroker
Resources:
Categorized list of Amibroker Tutorials: https://www.amibroker.com/guide/tutorial.html
The Amibroker Knowledge Base contains a large number of categorized articles: https://www.amibroker.com/kb/toc/
The Amibroker User Knowledge Base contains a large number of development articles: https://www.amibroker.org/userkb/
Section 2.2 Setting Up Historical Database
Resource:
Yahoo Finance India
Google Finance India
Section 2.3 Setting Up Live Database
Resource:
Free IB TWS Demo Account for FX live data.
Paid Live data for NSE/MCX by Vbiz
Paid Live data for NSE/MCX by GFDL
Also attached watchlist symbols for IB TWS:
IB list (rename this file from .txt to .tls for direct import in Amibroker Watchlists)