Amibroker - Technical Charting Software

AmiBroker is a comprehensive technical analysis program, allowing you to study and predict trends in the market and to maintain a portfolio of shares. It incorporates a powerful set of technical analysis tools, OLE Automation/ARexx interface with rich command set and several options for quotation data import. All these features are available from clean and user friendly interface.

Detailed list of features: 

Built-in charts:

price line or candlestick chart (for open/close/high/low display)
volume/turnover with moving average
short-, mid- and long-time moving averages
Bollinger bands
Rate Of Change indicator (ROC)
Wilder's Relative Strength indicator (RSI)
Moving Average Convergence-Divergence oscillator (MACD)
On Balance Volume oscillator (OBV)
Stochastic Slow oscillator
Ultimate oscillator
Relative Strength (RS)
Triple exponential indicator (TRIX)
Money Flow Index (MFI)
Commodity Channel Index (CCI)
Accumulation/Distribution
Chaikin Oscillator
Negative Volume Index
Arms Index (TRIN)
Advance/Decline line
Risk – Yield map
Drawing tool for trend lines. Trend lines are saved along with quotation data. Zoom feature. Automatic chart arrangement. All charts freely scalable.

Custom Indicator Builder

Any number of graphs can be overlaid in the same chart pane
Custom or automatic scaling
Flexible grids
Access to composite data (number/volume of advancing, declining, unchanged issues)
More than 70 built-in functions to use as a building blocks of your custom indicators
Flexible formula language (AFL – AmiBroker Formula Language) supporting variables, unlimited parentheses nesting, nested function calls and multiple logical operators

Automatic Analysis and System Tests based on freely definable formulas

Back testing whole exchange or only limited, user-definable set matching your market, group, industry, sector selection
Test long, short or both long and short trades
Stop-loss orders
Realistic back-testing including brokerage commission
More than 70 built-in AFL functions to use as a building blocks of your trading rules
Flexible formula language (AFL – AmiBroker Formula Language) supporting variables, unlimited parentheses nesting, nested function calls and multiple logical operators

Guru Advisor Commentary

Full, textual descriptions of actual situation on the market
automatic buy-sell arrows visible on the charts
uses AFL engine (one code base for all your indicators, trading systems and commentaries)

Stock information handling

adding new & removing old stock issues
split handling with automated date/ratio detection
corporation finances database
profile view – access to both on-line and off-line profile and news using built-in web browser
fundamental indicators such as price-to-earnings ratio (P/E)
support for composite data such as number and volume of advancing, declining and unchanged issues
automatic recalculation of composites

Convenient quotation data feed methods

integrated Metastock(R) importer
flexible and configurable ASCII import feature
Automation interface allowing script-based data feed
ARexx commands for adding new quotation data
import from teletext ( Warsaw Stock Exchange specific )
manual quotation editor
removing selected quotation/session

Preferences editor:

fully customizable parameters of indicators
palette preferences

Portfolio management

buy/sell transactions handling
dividend (with customizable dividend tax)
pay-in/pay-out evidence
brokerage commission editor
stock adding/removing
portfolio contents printing & export

Leading performance

chart drawing is extremely fast
system tests, automatic analysis and commentaries run several times faster than in any other available T/A program

Ergonomics

all or any selected number of charts can be viewed at the same time
instant access to any quotation data be selecting interesting point on the chart
window auto-arrangement function
asynchronous design, all main windows are independent and can be opened at the same time