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Where can I find a very basic novice explanation of how
to use the RTL language to create Scans, Signals, or Custom Indicators? |
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Where can I access additional information on the RTL
Tokens / Functions (used to build Scans, Signals, and Custom Indicators) and exactly what each one means? |
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What's the difference between a Signal and a Scan? |
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How do I reference the historical 52 week high (or low)
for a daily chart or backtest? |
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I'm seeing discrepancies between my indicator values in
a Custom Column (Scan, Signal, or Backtest) versus the values I see in
my chart (or in another program). What might account for this? |
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How do I create a Scan or Signal that looks for
consolidation and then break out
of say a 4-8 week consolidation period? |
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How would I setup a scan or signal to find Hammer,
Inverse Hammer, or any other Candlestick Patterns (CPR)? |
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How would I create a scan or signal which accessed data
from multiple periodicities simultaneously (1-min, 5-min, 30-min,
90-min, and Daily)? |
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How can I paint a technical indicator line or histogram
based on any given signal or condition? |
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I have symbols broken up into groups using quotepages.
When I run a scan on all my symbols, in the resulting quotepage, I would
like to be able to identify which quotepages each symbol resides in.
How can I do this? |
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Is it possible to build the comment into the setup
dialog box for charts and scans so it could be left unchanged or
modified slightly when updating? |
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How can I find and delete "dead" symbols or symbols that
do not have sufficient historical data? |
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How can I merge the symbols from several different
quotepages into a single quotepage? |
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How would I create a signal that found MSH (Market
Structure High) and MSL (Market Structure Low)? |
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How do I scan for the biggest gappers during the
pre-market? My symbol limit is 200 symbols but I would like to
monitor 2000 symbols for gaps. Can I do this? |
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Is there any way to set certain properties (display
format, security type, monitoring options, session, highlight color,
user data, etc) using a scan? |
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I have a technical indicator (Exponential Moving Average
- EMA) whose values in a chart, custom column, or scan does not match
those of another source. What could account for the discrepancy? |
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When scanning daily data, at what time in the day do my
current tokens (CL, HI, MA, RSI, etc) rollover and become previous
tokens (CL.1, HI.1, MA.1, RSI.1, etc)? At what point does TOKEN
become TOKEN.1? |
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Is it possible to create moving averages of specific
technical indicators (Money Flow, Money Flow Index, Fischer Transform,
etc.), that would be shown in the same pane as the indicator? More
generally, can I see an indicator of an indicator? |
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How can scans or signals be incorporated into a chart so
that visual backtesting may be performed? |
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How do I create a cumulative daily A-D Line for the S&P
500 (or any other custom group of stocks or symbols)? |
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I've noticed that when I assign a name to a scan like"
Liquidity Check "it converts the space to an underscore, like "Liquidity_Check".
However, this practice is not used for quotepages. What are the rules
for assigning names to scans, quotepages, and other objects? |
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I need a Scan/Signal that will... |
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How would I write a scan to pick out symbols based on a
date or word pattern? |
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How can I monitor the difference between the ask volume
and bid volume (AVOL - BVOL) historically on an intraday chart? |
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Is it possible in the RTL language to mix ticker symbols
within the same signal, scan, or custom indicator? For instance, a
signal which detects that both MWD and MER are above their upper
Bollinger band. |
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What is the conditional operator (? operator) in RTL,
and how is it used? |
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I have several questions regarding the RTL language with respect the
if/then/else statements, nested statements, comments, and multiple
statements or expressions. Where can I find this information? |
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In the RTL language, how can I use the same technical indicator token
multiple times within the same expression? |
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In an RTL expression, is there any way to use the CI or Signal names
directly in the syntax? |
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I have a scan that I would like to run every 5 minutes throughout the
day, but I would like a quotepage to accumulate all hits throughout the
day and record the time of entry into the quotepage. How can I do
this? |
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I have a complex scan formula, here is just a part of it: (CL >LRF_B)
AND ((LRF_B - LRF_LOWER) > 0.85). When I run the scan I see columns for
CL, LRF_B and LRF_LOWER in the resulting quotepage, but I also see some
columns with funny names like T3 = LRF_B - LRF_LOWER. I'm not a
programmer, what are these and how do I get rid of them in the resulting
quotepage? |
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