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AmiBroker TA Course

Full Curriculum

Thirty-seven parts, 206 pages, five difficulty levels, and about 113 hours of time on task including labs, projects and the capstone.

The five levels

Section titled “The five levels”

Levels are a dependency graph rather than parallel tracks. Level 4 assumes Level 3 because you cannot audit a backtest you cannot read.

Level 1 — Chart Reader

6 parts39 pages18 h

Understand market data, read charts, recognise structure, know what common indicators measure, and use AmiBroker interactively.

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1. Market and Technical Analysis Foundations2. Understanding Market Data4. Reading Price Charts5. Support, Resistance and Price Structure6. Indicators7. Candlesticks and Chart Patterns

Level 2 — AmiBroker Analyst

2 parts17 pages9 h

Manage databases and universes, build workspaces, run scans and explorations across a whole market.

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3. Getting Started with AmiBroker12. Scanning and Exploration

Level 3 — AFL Developer

9 parts54 pages30 h

Think in arrays, write custom indicators, build multi-timeframe and multi-symbol tools, and reuse your own code.

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8. AFL Programming Fundamentals9. Working with Arrays and Historical Bars10. Building Custom AFL Indicators11. Reusable AFL Programming13. Ranking and Relative Strength14. Multi-Timeframe AFL15. Multi-Symbol Analysis16. Market Breadth36. Advanced AFL

Level 4 — Trading System Researcher

9 parts50 pages28 h

Turn ideas into objective rules, backtest them at portfolio level, detect bias, optimise responsibly and evaluate robustness.

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27. From Trading Idea to Trading System28. AmiBroker Backtesting29. Understanding Backtest Results30. Backtesting Mistakes31. Optimization32. Out-of-Sample and Walk-Forward Testing33. Monte Carlo and Robustness34. Risk Management35. Developing a Complete Trading Research Process

Level 5 — Real-Time AmiBroker User

11 parts46 pages29 h

Understand live data architecture, configure intraday databases, troubleshoot feeds, build live charts, scanners and alerts.

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17. Introduction to Real-Time Markets18. Real-Time Data Providers19. Creating an Intraday AmiBroker Database20. Trading Sessions, Exchanges and Time Zones21. Real-Time Charts22. Real-Time Quotes and Time & Sales23. Real-Time AFL24. Real-Time Scanning25. AFL Alerts26. Bar Replay and Simulated PracticeCapstone: Build Your Own AmiBroker Trading Research Workstation

Page types

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Type What it is
Lesson Teaches something, usually with a formula and a quiz
Lab You run something and record the results
Project You build a complete, reusable tool
Challenge Something is broken; you diagnose it before reading the solution
Reality check A popular market claim, made testable and then tested
Reference Material you return to rather than read once
Overview A part’s introduction and contents

The whole course

Section titled “The whole course”

Part 1Market and Technical Analysis FoundationsLevel 1 · Chart Reader2.2 h

What markets are, how prices form, and what technical analysis can and cannot claim.

Part 2Understanding Market DataLevel 1 · Chart Reader2.7 h

What is actually inside a bar, how market data gets corrupted, and why data quality decides whether analysis means anything.

Part 3Getting Started with AmiBrokerLevel 2 · AmiBroker Analyst3.9 h

Installing AmiBroker, understanding its vocabulary, and building a database and workspace you can actually work in.

Part 4Reading Price ChartsLevel 1 · Chart Reader2.3 h

Getting real information out of a chart: chart types, scaling, swings and market structure.

Part 5Support, Resistance and Price StructureLevel 1 · Chart Reader2.9 h

The most-used and least-tested ideas in technical analysis, treated as hypotheses rather than laws.

Part 6IndicatorsLevel 1 · Chart Reader5.5 h

Indicators as transformations of price and volume: what each one measures, how it is misused, and how to test it.

Part 7Candlesticks and Chart PatternsLevel 1 · Chart Reader2.3 h

Pattern vocabulary without pattern worship, and the bridge from visual recognition to systematic testing.

Part 8AFL Programming FundamentalsLevel 3 · AFL Developer4.2 h

AmiBroker Formula Language from zero, built around the one idea that makes AFL make sense: it works on arrays.

Part 9Working with Arrays and Historical BarsLevel 3 · AFL Developer3.4 h

The array toolkit: looking back, running extremes, counting, and the state-versus-event distinction that separates working formulas from broken ones.

Part 10Building Custom AFL IndicatorsLevel 3 · AFL Developer5.2 h

From a single Plot() call to configurable, multi-pane analysis tools you will actually keep.

Part 11Reusable AFL ProgrammingLevel 3 · AFL Developer2.9 h

Functions, scope, include files and the start of a personal AFL library you will use for the rest of the course.

Part 12Scanning and ExplorationLevel 2 · AmiBroker Analyst5.2 h

Using the Analysis window to ask questions of an entire market instead of one chart at a time.

Part 13Ranking and Relative StrengthLevel 3 · AFL Developer2.8 h

Comparing symbols against each other at a point in time, which is a different question from filtering.

Part 14Multi-Timeframe AFLLevel 3 · AFL Developer3.1 h

Using weekly context with daily setups without accidentally reading the future.

Part 15Multi-Symbol AnalysisLevel 3 · AFL Developer2.7 h

Reading another symbol's data from inside a formula, and the alignment problems that come with it.

Part 16Market BreadthLevel 3 · AFL Developer2.4 h

Measuring how many stocks are participating, and building the composites that let you do it.

Part 17Introduction to Real-Time MarketsLevel 5 · Real-Time AmiBroker User1.8 h

The full architecture from exchange to chart, and an honest account of what real-time access costs and requires.

Part 18Real-Time Data ProvidersLevel 5 · Real-Time AmiBroker User2.2 h

A provider-neutral decision framework, followed by verified provider-specific appendices.

Part 19Creating an Intraday AmiBroker DatabaseLevel 5 · Real-Time AmiBroker User2.9 h

Base interval, storage, backfill and maintenance for a database that holds minutes instead of days.

Part 20Trading Sessions, Exchanges and Time ZonesLevel 5 · Real-Time AmiBroker User2.1 h

The most under-taught source of silent intraday errors, demonstrated rather than asserted.

Part 21Real-Time ChartsLevel 5 · Real-Time AmiBroker User2.3 h

Building an intraday chart layout that updates correctly and tells you when it has stopped.

Part 22Real-Time Quotes and Time & SalesLevel 5 · Real-Time AmiBroker User0.9 h

The quote fields, the windows that display them, and what order-by-order data really tells you.

Part 23Real-Time AFLLevel 5 · Real-Time AmiBroker User2.4 h

Reading live quote fields from AFL, controlling refresh, and knowing which context your formula is running in.

Part 24Real-Time ScanningLevel 5 · Real-Time AmiBroker User2.0 h

Running Analysis repeatedly against updating data, and the costs that decide whether it is practical.

Part 25AFL AlertsLevel 5 · Real-Time AmiBroker User1.8 h

Getting told when something happens, exactly once, for the right reason.

Part 26Bar Replay and Simulated PracticeLevel 5 · Real-Time AmiBroker User2.0 h

Practising chart reading and intraday decisions on historical data, without a live feed and without risking money.

Part 27From Trading Idea to Trading SystemLevel 4 · Trading System Researcher2.9 h

The disciplined translation from something you noticed into something a computer can evaluate.

Part 28AmiBroker BacktestingLevel 4 · Trading System Researcher4.8 h

The backtester in depth: signals, sizing, costs, stops and the leap from one symbol to a portfolio.

Part 29Understanding Backtest ResultsLevel 4 · Trading System Researcher2.8 h

Reading AmiBroker's report using AmiBroker's own vocabulary, and knowing which numbers deserve your attention.

Part 30Backtesting MistakesLevel 4 · Trading System Researcher4.7 h

The strongest section of the course: the errors that make bad systems look brilliant, and how to catch them.

Part 31OptimizationLevel 4 · Trading System Researcher2.9 h

Searching a parameter space without fooling yourself, and why the best value is the wrong target.

Part 32Out-of-Sample and Walk-Forward TestingLevel 4 · Trading System Researcher2.9 h

Keeping data you have not looked at, and re-estimating parameters the way you would have had to in real time.

Part 33Monte Carlo and RobustnessLevel 4 · Trading System Researcher1.8 h

What resampling can tell you about a strategy, and the much larger set of things it cannot.

Part 34Risk ManagementLevel 4 · Trading System Researcher2.9 h

The part of a system that decides whether you survive long enough for the edge to matter.

Part 35Developing a Complete Trading Research ProcessLevel 4 · Trading System Researcher2.0 h

Assembling everything into a repeatable weekly and daily process, with the human decision left where it belongs.

Part 36Advanced AFLLevel 3 · AFL Developer2.9 h

Optional material for readers who want to go further: dynamic and static variables, matrices, performance and the custom backtester.

CapstoneCapstone: Build Your Own AmiBroker Trading Research WorkstationLevel 5 · Real-Time AmiBroker User8.4 h

Nine components that combine the whole course into one working research environment, ending in a written research report.