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Andy Bower-3

Alchemetrics.org WAS Dolphin 6.0

Runar,

>> "Andy Bower" <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> As you may have seen on c.l.s, the beans are spilled here:
>>
>> www.alchemetrics.org

> It was very nice to see a presentation of your product. I hope this
> initiative can turn out positive also for Dolphin Smalltalk. My
> attention was caught by the diagrams you usein you application.
>
> - Are these diagrams made using some kind of third party tool, like
> an OCX, or programmed directly in Smalltalk?
>
> - If you developed them yourself in Smalltalk, are they independent
> packages that you will consider including with Dolphin Smalltalk?
>
> - Do the diagrams support printing?

The charts are all produced by an ActiveX control called TeeChart:

www.steema.com

We did have a chart MVP component written in Dolphin at one point. It
did work quite well but honestly would have needed a lot more work to
compete with the range of plots available in TeeChart. So we switched.

We do the prints by getting the control to emit PNG/JPG/GIF files and
then creating an HTML page containing these. We then print these to PDF
or a printer. The resultant reports look like this:

http://www.alchemetrics.org/pictures/Boat1Report.pdf

You can, ask the control to print directly to a printer if you wish.

Best regards,

Andy Bower
Dolphin Support
www.object-arts.com

Sean Malloy-5

Re: Alchemetrics.org WAS Dolphin 6.0

> http://www.alchemetrics.org/pictures/Boat1Report.pdf

Andy,

Thats some seriously nice investment over 10 years. Are those are real
numbers or just made up?

If real, where is your snake oil and how can I buy it?!?! :)

rush

Re: Alchemetrics.org WAS Dolphin 6.0

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"Andy Bower" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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> The charts are all produced by an ActiveX control called TeeChart:

If you made a bit larger wrapper around TeeChart, maybe that would be of
interest for wider audience as part of the image or more likely separate
add-on product?

rush
--
http://www.templatetamer.com/

Andy Bower-3

Re: Alchemetrics.org WAS Dolphin 6.0

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Sean,

> > http://www.alchemetrics.org/pictures/Boat1Report.pdf
>
> Thats some seriously nice investment over 10 years. Are those are real
> numbers or just made up?

Well it's a theorectical analysis of how that system (called BOAT1)
*should* have performed over the years. The viability would depend on:

1) Whether you would actually be able to purchase all the shares you
want at the price the system thinks it would get.

2) Whether the analysis is accurate*

3) Whether you would be able to tolerate the 37% drawdown without
getting cold feet and giving up.

4) Whether the system would continue to work the same way as in the
past.

In fact we judged that 1, 2 and 3 were not going to be true so BOAT1
was never traded. We *are* currently trading two derivatives of this
system though; BOAT9 and BOAT10. I'll publish the theorectical
performance of these on the site shortly and when there's enough
history I'll put up the real figures as a comparison.

*We discovered that two filters were needed to improve the accuracy of
the tools - as discussed on the website.

Best regards,

Andy Bower
Dolphin Support
www.object-arts.com