Yep, Pretty much what you’re saying. AFL is pretty expansive and to remember everything requires a photographic memory. It all comes dow to practice practice practice. The whole idea of the snippets is to utilise as much as you can and then fill in the blanks. I find the logic of the looping easy to remember and difficult to recreate. Having said that I can now see where I’ve made errors and I’m able to correct it because I have the understanding

here are some tricks that may help:

1- after you see the code in the course open Formula Editor in Amibroker and rewrite the code no need to write it by yourself just type it in at least in the beginning. So you will get used to the syntax later stage you can write it in your own style. The reason for this is that in the beginning most of the mistakes will be syntax errors rather than coding errors such as missing ; typo and so on.

2- if you have idea try not to code it all at once make it small parts at a time, in the course they did great job in this i think it was the ADX system.

3- Flow charts it is useful tool you can do it on a piece of paper write your code or idea in words then you can code it. Regarding looping you can use this trick normally looping is doing certain thing over and over till the condition is not met. So do not think of it as a loop just imagine one step and write what you want the code to do in this step after that add the array formulas ([j] or or whatever character you use) to your code and it will be ok. With time it becomes better and easier.

6- I will be glad to help anytime if i can

Of course there’s progress – you’re using terms like Looping which means you’re on the road to geekdom.

Great advice Maurice and Said. Thanks.

I have always used a template style right back to the early days in the 90’s using TradeStation. I have templates for numerous entries, numerous exits, positions sizing and all sorts of stuff. I can just slot them in where I need.

But as Maurice, says, it becomes clearer as you go forward.

Next 1000 lines of code!

My opinion is that it is clean as it is

Maybe you can add parameters instead of the hard wired values for the sake of flexibility and they will be handy in later stages if you want to modify them so you don’t have to touch your code just you modify from parameters window. My opinion the less we touch the main code the better.

This is totally opposite of what you wanted in compacting the code

Filter = BuySetUp;

There is a tiny mistake in BuyPrice it should reference the previous H not the current

Here is how I will do it
BuyStop = H + 0.02;
Buy = Ref ( BuySetUp,-1) And Ref (BuyStop, -1) <= H;
BuyPrice = max (O,Ref (BuyStop,-1) );

I just wanted to post on this thread to seek a little help with some coding. I am currently on site so my internet connection is probably too weak to attend a skype session.

I’m on module 12/27 and and trying to suss out the coding entries code.

This is what I have coded up so far and would love some help to see if I am on the right track or what could be changed with an explanation. I’m a bit stuck.

_SECTION_BEGIN (“Example Slow Stoch + ATR Buy Limit Entry”);
//===============================================================
C1 = StochK(5,3) < 10;
C2 = C < (C-1);
BuySetUp = C1 AND C2;
BuyLimit = L < 1.5*ATR(10);
Buy = Ref (BuySetup,-1) AND Ref (BuyLimit,-1) <= L;
BuyPrice = Max(Open,Ref (BuyLimit,-1));

Cheers

Thanks Craig!