Practical Approach to Amibroker AFL Coding

What you will learn during the course?

Amibroker AFL Programming – Day 1 Learning

• Basics of Amibroker & Amibroker Features & Datafeed
• Basics of Amibroker AFL Programming.
• Understanding AFL Editor & Code Snippets
• Amibroker identifiers, constants, operators
• Amibroker Built-in Functions (Plot, PlotShape, LastValue, Cross, EMA)
• How to Plot Trading Signals

Amibroker AFL Programming – Day 2 Learning

• Building Simple Scanners (Exploration)
• Understanding Filter Variable, Addcolumn function, Addtextcolumn function
• Customizing Scanners & Formatting Scanner output
• Real-time Scanners
• Difference between IIF, WriteIF, IF functions
• How to Write Nested IIF Functions
• Live Examples on Exploration (Live Coding)
• How to compare Current data with past datasets

Amibroker AFL Programming – Day 3 Learning

• Where to Get the Complete list of Amibroker Built-in Functions Understanding Valuewhen Function
• Understanding Barssince Function
• Understanding HHV, LLV, Highest, Lowest, Highestsince, LowestSince Understanding Param Functions & Controls
• Understanding Classical Indicators Built-in Functions (MACD, Bollinger, ATR, CCI..etc)
• Understanding Exrem Function
• Building Simple Donchian Channel Breakout Strategy

Amibroker AFL Programming – Day 4 Learning

• Building Your First Trading Strategy
• Understanding Basic Building blocks in a trading strategy
• Backtesting your trading strategy
• Portfolio level backtesting
• Backtesting Ema Crossover, Supertrend Trading System
• Backtesting Vlintra V6 – Bank Nifty 5min trend following system

Amibroker AFL Programming – Day 5 Learning

• Understanding Scan Vs Exploration
• Different Backtesting modes available in Amibroker
• Applying Stops and Targets to your Trading Strategy
• Building First Intraday Trading Strategy
• Building End of the Candle Execution Strategies
• Basic optimization techniques

Amibroker AFL Programming – Day 6 Learning

• Building Non-Repainting Strategies
• Building Intra-Bar Execution Strategies (Limit Order)
• Understanding Multi timeframe Functions

Amibroker AFL Programming – Day 7 Learning

• How to Send Alerts to Output Window
• How to Send Voice Alert
• How to Send Sound Alert
• How to Send Popup Alert
• How to Send Alerts to Smartphones using Push Bullet
• How to use AlertIF, Say, PopupWindow, SendEmail, Playsound function
• How to Configure Gmail SMTP and How to Install SSL Addon tool for sending Email Alerts using Amibroker
• How to use ParamTrigger & Param Toggle Function and what are the core differences between the two.
• How to use Javascript, VB Script inside Amibroker AFL

Amibroker AFL Programming – Day 8 Learning

• What is Optimization? and How to Perform Optimization?
• Exhaustive Optimization Vs Smart Optimization
• Smart Optimizers SPSO, TRIBES, CMA-ES
• What is Brokers API?
• How to Create API from Brokers Developer Portal
• What is Algoaction (Web Based Algo Trading Platform

Amibroker AFL Programming – Day 9 Learning

• How to send Automated Orders using Broker API
• How the Orders form Amibroker is sent via Broker API to Exchange
• Amibroker Configuration Settings for Automated Trading
• Video Links to Learn more about Tradejini Arrow API + Algoaction
• Monte-Carlo simulation for Strategy Validation
• Importance of Slippage Handling and other Transaction Cost Analysis

Amibroker AFL Programming – Day 10 Learning

• Amibroker Low Level GFX Functions
• How to use the Set the font, Set the GFX background mode
• How to use GFX Pen, Brush
• How to understand co-ordinates
• How to draw Dashboard with Profit and Loss
• Difference between Last value and Selected Value Function
• Using Status function to retrieve the pixel width and height
• Difference between Barcount and Barindex
• What is Quick AFL? How to turn off Quick AFL
• How to use advance looping
• How to plot trailing stop using Advance loop method

Amibroker AFL Programming – Day 11 Learning

• Introduction to Advanced Looping
• How to use Advance looping to plot Supertrend
• Different Phases & Flags used in Advance looping to plot the Supertrend trailing stoploss

Amibroker AFL Programming – Day 12 Learning

• How to apply stoploss,profit target, N-Bar stop, Trailing Stop in Amibroker using Backtester Settings
• How to use Applystop Function in Amibroker (Types, Modes of Stoploss)
• How to plot initial stoploss

Amibroker AFL Programming – Day 13 Learning

• How to apply trace & tracef functions
• How to use Amibroker AFL Debugger
• Debugging Settings, Settings Breakpoints & Watching Variables

Amibroker AFL Programming – Day 14 Learning

• What are the challenged faced while coding multi-strike options backtesting
• What are the solutions to fix multi-strike options backtesting
• Sample code walk through and how to create a template for Multi Strike Options Backtesting
• How to Create a Portfolio of Symbols for Options Backtesting
• Ideas to implement the backtesting for multiple years of Options data