[daedalus]

I have a show me indicator that shows a simple candlestick pattern. I'd like to be able to have a list of say 300 stocks in a market scanner table in MC and then be alerted the when the criteria is met.

I'm planning on swing trading equities part time and it would be great if I could just check the scanner table once a night and see out of the list of stocks the 3 that have potential trades as of the close of trading that day.

Right now as it is the scanner shows the last value of a valid signal on a given stock. But what I really need to be able to sort out or identify is how long ago that occurred so i'm only focusing on setups that have occurred in the last day or two.



Is there any way to make this a reality?

I'm thinking of modifying the show me indicator so that there is some kind of "false" default flag that would get modified to true when the condition is met on that bar and then going back to false the next bar... but it seems complicated and I think my logic may be a bit flawed.

Any of you guys know a quicker and easier way to skin this cat?

Thanks for your help!

[Tams]

if you are just checking the results once a day,
a PRINT routine might be better for your purpose
http://www.traderslaboratory.com/for...uage-6000.html

[daedalus]

Thanks TAMS, but my concerns is that as of right now the show me is just keeping the last valid data point in its entry and on the print command it will just print out the last data point on all of the symbols rather than telling me if it occurred in the last day won't it?

[Tams]

You can program the PRINT command to spit out a report whenever a condition is met.

You can scan 300 stocks (or 1000 stock), if 3 meets the criteria, you will have a print out stating which 3 stocks are those.
i.e. you don't have to visually review all 1000 lines on the scanner.


I will post an example at the Print thread.
http://www.traderslaboratory.com/for...uage-6000.html

[Tams]

Originally Posted by daedalus »

Thanks TAMS, but my concerns is that as of right now the show me is just keeping the last valid data point in its entry and on the print command it will just print out the last data point on all of the symbols rather than telling me if it occurred in the last day won't it?

if you can imagine it, you can program it.

;-)

[Tams]

OK, here's the PRINT demonstration:
http://www.traderslaboratory.com/for...rint-6194.html


This example scans for stocks that Closes Higher than previous day's High,
then prints out the names of the stocks that met the condition.

[daedalus]

Thanks Tams -

Would it also be possible to add the LastBaronChart to a conditional IF statement?

I have the statement built with one big If statement that if high = such and such and low = such and such plot a dot above or below the bar...

Could I just add another AND LastBaronChart = true to the If statement and then alert "sell signal"?

[daedalus]

Dahhh... I just did that and I think it works!!!!