Now let's look at some other useful scan operators and commands...
The command ROU(expression, n) takes the expression and rounds it based on the number n. For instance, if you supply an n of 0.01, it will round the value (HI + LO) / 2 to the nearest 100th. Similarly, if you specified a value for n of 1, it would have rounded the result to the nearest whole number, and assigned it to V#1.
Let's looks at the following scan.....
SET(V#1, LRS) AND SET(V#2, CL-LO)
In this scan, we will be using the SET operator to set the values of the V#1 and V#2 custom data columns. Let's use a periodicity of Daily again for the scan, and choose an appropriate input quotepage on which to run the scan. The ".All Symbols" quotepage contains all the symbols defined in your system. If you are just getting started, you may want to select this one.
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Important Note: This tutorial was originally developed for scans, before the language to write them was referred to as RTL. However, this tutorial will be equally useful in general as a tutorial on RTL for signals and custom indicators. The one difference with scans, is that they allow the user to supply a quotepage and a periodicity for the scan to run on. These items are not present in the signal and custom indicator windows. But the RTL logic applies equally to all three.
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Let's looks at the following compound scan.....
MACD1 <= 0 AND MACD > 0
In this scan, we introduce two new concepts: the compound scan, and the qualified scan token. We are going to run this scan on daily data to find MACD bullish crossovers. In other words, the MACD value for the previous day was less than or equal to zero, while the current day's MACD value is greater than zero.
Let's looks at the following basic scan.....
CL > MA
Let's looks at the following scan.....
(HI + LO + CL) / 3 > MA
In this scan, we will emphasize the importance of bracketing or parenthesizing when using arithmetic in scans. We will run the above scan on Daily data. As you can see from the expression above, this scan is taking the average of today's High, Low, and Closing prices and comparing that average with a moving average. The quotepage that results will consist of instruments whose current days average is greater than it's moving average.
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To create a Relative Performance Chart in Investor/RT, first choose from the main menu, "File: New: Chart". Specify the following settings for your new chart...
This Tutorial will demonstrate how to paint technical indicator lines and histograms based on whether a given condition/signal is true or false. The topics that will be covered include:
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