| First, for each of the symbols in your quotepage, you
need to create an associated ticker symbol with format:
TICKER(V#1)
You can replace V#1 with any V# variable you like, and TICKER is just
replaced with the underlying ticker symbol. For instance, MSFT
would have an associated ticker symbol of MSFT(V#1).
For a large group of ticker symbols, I recommend you export your list
of tickers and open in a spreadsheet program like excel, where you can
quickly convert to the new ticker format, (append the V#1), and then
import as a group of new ticker symbols into a new quotepage. In
excel, you can do so quickly with syntax similar to the following:
=CONCATENATE(A1,"(V#1)")
You can quickly import the ticker symbols by first making a new
quotepage in IRT, then selecting all the V#1 tickers in excel, and
copying them (Ctrl-C). In IRT, click the "Ticker" column heading
and then paste "Ctrl-V". All the V#1 symbols should appear in the
new quotepage.
Now, any scan with the syntax:
SET(V#1, whatever)
on the quotepage of the original underlying symbols (the actual
stocks) will in turn generate a tick on the associated V#1. So,
right at the session open, you I would initialize both the V#1 values
and V#1 ticker symbols with:
SET(V#1, 0) AND SET(V#2, 0)
The V#2 will be used to store the volume at the last scan. This
scan should be run on daily data for our purposes. Now, schedule a
scan to run every 15 seconds (or however often you wish) with the
syntax:
SET(V#1, VO - V#2) AND SET(V#2, VO);
This will generate a tick on our V#1 ticker symbols at a value equal
to the difference between the current volume and the volume at the last
scan, and then set V#2 to the current volume so it will be ready for the
next scan.
You can then run open a tick chart on any of the V#1 ticker symbols,
or run a scan on the V#1 ticker symbol quotepage, using moving averages,
statistics, etc. |