Filter Request: I know you already have the "up 5" filter, an "up 1" option would be awesome to find 3 or 4 red or green 1 minute candles in a row.

I have all TI tutorials available to me through ScotTrade. If I become a paid subscriber, what form is the training? Phone, email, fax, onsite training? You have a wonderful product. I dont know what your business model is but it seems to me that you could inhance your bottom line by offering clinics/training to those of us who see the potential in TI and are willing to pay for being fast tracked.

thanks again for a great product.
chadow

THAT EXPLAINS IT!

Sorry I had no idea!!!

Thanks for clarifying!!!

HEAR Ye, HEAR Ye: multi time frame MACDs are coming!

On the blog - more details: http://marketmovers.blogspot.com/2010/04/trade-ideas-stock-scanner-guilty-of.html

Unfortunately at this time we don't, but we can support you on IM and via this forum regarding any questions you have - it's a question of limited training resources that we reserve for our paid subscribers. We may move in the future to a model that allows us to support fuller training for Scottrade.

Yes, this is right.

That's how we always roll these things out.

New stuff is available from the day we release it going forward. We don't fill the old history with it.

No, its not working..And I have figured out the issue.

When using the oddsmaker and min 5 day volume filter you just added, we are ONLY getting results from after the 30th of march (the day you rolled out the min 5 day volume average filter)

When using the EXACT same strategy, and taking of the min 5 day volume average, and putting the 10 day vol average, which is what trade ideas has always used, oddsmaker works fine..

Plz feel free to compare for yourself..compare the min 5 day vol with the min 10 day...Use the same strategy, and see what you get....


5 day
min price 5$
min 5 day volume 100,000 shares
min gap up 10%


10 day
min price 5$
min 10 day volume 100,000 shares
min gap up 10%

Does TradeIdeas offer training to people who use the product
through ScotTrade?

Try placing a '2' in this filter to get the stocks to which you refer:

http://www.trade-ideas.com/Help.html#WSF_MinRV

I assure you everything is working. Let's start with the scan you are using and what stocks are generated as a result. Post it here and we'll start there. Thanks!

3/30/2010 Added one week average daily volume filter NOT working

Hi, was testing your new filter in the oddsmaker, and for the 5 day interval, it is not returning any results..10 day works just as it did/should...

Thx.

hi i am trying to configure a window to scan for stocks that are trading at double there normal daily volume in say the last 30 days. If i goto select alerts Strong Volume 200 Ratio would that do it?

If I read your comment correctly we ARE showing you stocks with dividends while Y!Finance is reporting N/A or missing data. When we look deeper into source data among different data vendors we get different results - this happens commonly among the low volume issues and it explains the steps we go through to ensure the highest quality data is analyzed - and not the most accessible.

From 1 of my colleagues:

"Two data feeds say one thing. Two other data feeds say something else entirely! It sounds so familiar. It sounds more than a little like a standard part of our bad print discussion.

From the symbols you asked for, PKJ has been getting 1.00 dividends twice a year. The last one was in December... yahoo says 0, the 'indicated rate' on [vendor name withheld] is 2.00, which seems to make sense. Our DataBase has a 1 under dividend [indicating a dividend is present], so presumably it's seeing the same thing as [vendor name withheld]. DailyFinance.com doesn't list any dividends in the last 5 years, so maybe they and yahoo are using feeds with missing data."

Sure. Sometimes with the scroll it's hard to see, but at the top of the scan list from our blog, http://marketmovers.blogspot.com/, is the title which reads, "Largest Number of Consecutive Up 5 Min Candles Today".

It's meant to be informative in and of itself, but it is also meant to be an invitation to more of the free data and custom scans you can design yourself at our Traders Area of the website: http://www.trade-ideas.com/IndexTradersArea.html

Yes. the top 5 out of 25 on todays blog are ATO,DPL,FPO,AGII,SCSS.
Could you tell me how I'm suppose to use this info? Thanx.

Are you talking about the scan that appears on our blog? Please specify what you mean, thanks

How do I use the "Data from the last 5 min. before the close"?
Window heading "Data from Trade-Ideas". Thank You.

Here's a more detailed answer from our tech dept.

"While unusual, these are far from impossible. I went through the database just now. At the end of the day Friday, ATU had 4 puts, and 0 calls. The put / call ratio should be positive infinity. We use a number somewhere around 2 billion. If you ask for stocks with a put/call ratio of over 100, I specifically wanted stocks like this to appear. If you ask for stocks with a put/call ratio below 100, ATU would disappear.

MDP was a similar case, with 7 puts and no calls. As was BND with 4 puts and no calls. YTEC with 20 puts and no calls. Lots more exactly like this.

IBKR had a put call ratio of 139. That was 695 puts and 5 calls.

And, of course, there are similar results on the other side. AEE ended the day with 0 puts and 3 calls. So the put call volume would be 0.

What do all of these have in common? Relatively low volume. In fact, if you did this test shortly after the open, rather than late in the day, you'd see a lot more of this. You reduce this effect by setting a minimum put call volume. And you should also be careful using this filter in the early morning.

Also, remember that the oddsmaker will cut you off after a certain number of entries. If you have a query that matches a lot of stuff, and another one that matches twice as many things, they might both give you the same number of hits before they give up. If you want to see how many stocks matched, try using our history feature our our intraday top list.

To answer his specific question, it works as advertised for values between 0 and about 2 billion. If he put in 3 billion, that would break our assumption that 2 billion and positive infinity are approximately the same."

The standard deviation formula is based on a year's worth of data. If we do not have a year's worth of data, we do not compute the standard deviation.

If you want a standard deviation for one of these stocks, look at the volatility, or the average true range, instead. These are similar, but they look at shorter time frames. Almost every stock has a 15 minute volatility. (There are some exceptions. Many people would be surprised to know there are a lot more stocks out there that don't trade every day than do, and a lot move around all day by a small fraction of a penny.) The average true range Configuration Window: Average True Range requires 3 weeks of daily data.

This is a common policy at Trade-Ideas. If a formula (like ATR or standard deviation) requires a certain amount of data, and we don't have that much data, we don't compute the formula. If you ask the see the value, it will be blank. If you use that value in a filter, you will filter out any stocks where we could not compute the value. This works on intraday and daily formulas. We are a little bit more liberal on the daily formulas. If a stock did not trade one day, we look back further until it did trade. Intraday, we don't allow any missing candles in the middle of the formula.

Just do a high speed test, make sure you have "standard deviation" as one of your columns and look at history from ANY day, about 1 in 40 stocks have a space for standard deviation

http://www.trade-ideas.com/View.php?O=7FF9FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF3FFFFFFFFFF0_1D_0&WN=High+Speed+Test

Thanks, Just what iwas looking for.

Put/Call Ratio Filter problem

I am having an issue with the put/call ratio filters in oddsmaker.
If I enter an unrealistic value like 100 into the minimum put/call filter, or .0001 into the maximum put/call filter, my results will still be just as large as if I hadn't entered any value into either filter. Can you help me with this? Is there an acceptable range of values?

Thanks,
Russell

Dividend Filter problem

I have been having a problem with the dividend filter in backtesting.
To illustrate, I created a scan that looks for stocks with at least $1000 in annual dividends. I did this by entering a "1" in the min dividend filter.

You can see the scan here:
http://www.trade-ideas.com/StockInfo/_ScreenerScan.html?SYMBOLS_PP=25&sort1=MinDividend&sort2=None&sort3=None&MinDividend=1&XN=on&X_NYSE=on&X_AMEX=on

When I looks up some of the stocks that the scan returns in Yahoo finance and view their key statistics, they have N/A listed in the dividend fields, indicating that they do not have a dividend.
Some of the symbols with no dividends are PRAA,PKJ,PJA,GNK,ISSC.
Some but not all of these are ETFs.

Can you explain what's happening here, and why the min dividend filter isn't showing me stocks with dividends?

Thanks,
Russell

You can read the definition of VWAP at Trade-Ideas here: http://www.trade-ideas.com/Glossary/VWAP.html

I would also recommend following a trader named Brian Shannon of AlphaTrends who explains VWAP thusly:

http://alphatrends.blogspot.com/2007/11/institutional-trading-benchmark.html

Good point. We'll work on making the forum easier.

I don't. Give me more details of what you saw and when you saw it. Thanks

Can someone explane what VWAP means?

I've 'complained' about the lack of threading and readability with this BB 'software'. Converting to real forum software is really something that needs to be done sooner (as in now) rather than later - were I management of trade-ideas, I'd be concerned that this reflects poorly on the product. Just buy a cheap and supported commercial package and install and run it yourselves, TradeIdeas! Yes, it would take a weekend to move this stuff over but ....

And the fact that I would have to pay to use investorhub to do searches on the posts, is absurdly bad.

Why is there no structure with these forums and threads? It appears as if they're just random posts.

Why hasn't there been a script like vBulletin, Invision or phpBB implemented to make the reader's experience easier?

Some stocks, like A today, show a blank for Standard Deviation. Any idea why?

Clickable symbol to TOS active trader chart - having the clickable symbol functionality to TOS would have a lot more usefulness if it worked with the chart within the 'Active Trader' area. Thanks ....

does anyone have a good consolidation alert they would care to share..or TI can you help me.

ive tried many different things:
channel b/o w/ min range contraction = 5, min consolidation =5
and others but i dont like what Im getting.


this is what Im after;

stocks upto $5max
showing daily consolidation (not concerned w/ intraday)
of 5 days min
w/ or w/out falling volume.
volatility drying up
could you Bollinger band constriction as well

basically just a "classic" daily chart consolidation.

Dan, THANK YOU SO MUCH!


I really appreciate you following up with dev team..This is AMAZING functionality, that I never new about!

Out of curiosity, any other "neat tips" you have, plz share :)

Any way to use one of these "shortcuts," to change the amount of time on a filter?

Any shortcut to get the 8 period EMA :)

THANKS AGAIN for the follow up!

Hi, I got a reply from our development team that points out how we already do what you are asking and point to a neat tip:

"we added a few special tools that allow certain customizations. These were too complicated to explain to the users in general, but in some specific cases I can help. This request is a perfect example.

He wanted to start with the volume today filter without the %. This, as described in the help, looks at the number of shares traded today.

http://www.trade-ideas.com/Help.html#WSF_MinTV

Then he wants to enter a value like "**P1000000" next to that icon. If he puts that in the min volume today field, he will only see stocks where the current price (in dollars) times the current volume (in shares) > 1,000,000. The shares came from the icon that he chose, and the price came from the "**P" prefix. He can change the part after the "**P" to any number he likes.

Of course, he could also do the same thing with the max volume today, to convert it into the max dollar volume today field. Here's an example which uses both. This strategy looks for stocks with a dollar volume today between 900,000 and 1,100,000.

http://www.trade-ideas.com/View.php?O=8000000000000000000000000_1D_0&MaxTV=%2a%2aP1100000&MinTV=%2a%2aP900000&WN=Dollar+Volume+Today+Near+1%2c000%2c000

Just paste that into the collaborate window.

A couple of notes:
1) This only works with TI Pro, not the web.
2) Make sure you use an upper case "P".

I like it. Thanks for the request. It's been added to our queue.

BEst,

D

These are thinly traded stocks (< than 50k/day) so the normal calcs that are part of the running up/down alerts may not be serving you as well in these 'waters'.

The Stocks Like This tool we have can provide some other options. Here is what we reported for MEW.UN.CAT for the 5 minutes beginning at 10:20 on Monday:
http://www.trade-ideas.com/StockInfo/_StocksLikeThis.html?symbol=MEW.UN.CAT&start_date=1269241200&start_hours=10&start_minutes=20&time=5

I see the intermediate alert you mentioned. But I would add or replace it in the future with alert like the Standard Deviation alert (BT) or even the trailing stop down alert which factors in the volatility aberration such drop moves exhibit.

Looking at the alerts you chose in your strategy and comparing them with 60 minutes worth of data beginning at 11:25am on Monday that we collected on CTQ.CAT, reveals that none you selected we reported for that period. Here is how we reported that hour for that stock:

http://www.trade-ideas.com/StockInfo/_StocksLikeThis.html?symbol=CTQ.CAT&start_date=1269241200&start_hours=11&start_minutes=25&time=60

By selecting key alerts and filters (some not all) and removing the Min or Max range values in the filters appropriate to your universe, you can find Stocks Like CTQ

Without knowing the context within which you trade, I'm guess at what might be appropriate for you.

That said you might find interesting our instantaneous alerts and filters that deal with Current or Relative Volume.

You might also find appealing our Unusual print alert: http://www.trade-ideas.com/Help.html#UNOP

There's also our gap alerts and opening range alerts just to name a few. Hope that helps

Hey Minny2006

I second the 8 period EMA filter request as well!!! If TI could roll out some 8 period EMA filters, like the 8 period SMA filters (2min, 5 min, 15 min, etc), TI would be #1!!!!

Filter Request...

Hi, Was wondering if you could have a filter that takes current dollar volume into account ..In other words current volume X current price= current dollar volume...

Currently you have a filter titled dollar volume, which takes the current price X the average daily volume...

However, I think if you could take the current volume into account as mentioned above, this would give us a much better idea of what the current dollar volume is (since often, stocks trade many times above or below there average volume)


THANKS

can someone please try and answer this for me..

mew.un.cat at 10:22 falls $0.40+ on higher than normal volume.

this symbol did no show up on the running down now, running down, or running down confirmed.

at 10:23 however it did show on running down intermediate.(BUT THE MOVE WAS OVER AT THAT POINT)


why would it not show on the running alerts?????

Hi
please take a look at CTQ.CAT today at 11:25 I am looking for this type of pattern for a potential reversal. I had the following set up to try and capture just this type of move. http://www.trade-ideas.com/View.php?O=100000000000000000000000003C00000000000000000000000000000000000000_C0_0&QHMR5=10&QHMR10=10&QHMR15=10&QHMR30=10&QHMR60=10&WN=HAMMERTIME
I didn't get an alert, any suggestions on how i might configure it in order to capture what CTQ did today.
Thanks

Some traders work off the MACD. Since that is a lagging indicator, what other indicators should be used?

You know of course about our regular block symbol list. But I like your short cut suggestion and time in effect idea.

Thanks but, I'm already using lists to include only those symbols I'm interested in.

What I'm suggesting is a separate block list that overrides the symbols I've included and a way to quickly add to that block list.

Thanks - great suggestion. You know of course about our regular block symbol list. But I like your short cut suggestion and time in effect idea.

Suggestion: Short-term block list

I have a few alert windows set up to look for volume spikes across a large list of stocks to alert for potential short-term news plays.

What would be really helpful to reduce the noise these windows generate would be a short-term block list to prevent new alerts for any symbols in it and, of course, a way to easily add symbols to it on the fly, probably using a right-click menu selection.

TIA

No need to add...APPRECIATE the offer...Just wanted to make sure I wasnt doing something wrong :)

Any Update on the 1 min rsi filter?

As mentioned and requested by many users, we all are looking for an rsi filter JUST LIKE YOU HAVE NOW...Just instead of the 15 min time frame, we would like it on 1 min intervals?

Plz advise as too where we stand, and if this is even being cosidered or worked on, rather then "we will add it to the que."


I dont mean to be rude, just looking for an update.

THANKS!

I want to scan for stocks crossing above the sma 8 like the video, I can't find it.