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PPO Hist Alert No Signal

JimJames — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:25:22 +0000

Is anyone able to point me in the direction as to why this syntax isn't producing a signal?

[[Symbol is 'SPY']

AND [Yesterday's Daily PPO Hist(5,20,0,Daily Close) > 0.0]

AND [Todays Daily PPO Hist(5,20,0,Daily Close) < 0.0]]

Different time frame charts

dhall6938 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:08:09 +0000

Is it possible to create horizontal lines (S& R) and then convert the chart to a lower TF chart without losing the lines? Example; Can I create an hourly chart with support and resistance lines and then convert it into an 5 minute chart and keep the lines? So far, I have lost the lines when I change the setting from hourly to 5 minutes.

Frustration with 1000 stock limit in chartlists

peterinjapan — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:46:28 +0000

So I started actively investing in 2020 along with the pandemic, and discovered Stockcharts through Chris Ciovacco's guest videos he did for them, and David Keller's super helpful information on The Final Bar. I've learned a lot and now do swing trading in 25% of my account, and have the rest managed by a money manager.

My problem is that it's easy to manage a lot of stock tickers in a single chartlist, setting numbers in front of the names so I can organize them into things I own, things one of my mentors owns, things I want to check every day, etc. BUT, since I can only have 999 stocks in the chartlist, there are things I'd like to keep tabs on (mainly things I have traded in the past and still want to run scans on), but I have to delete tickers to make room for new ideas suggested by a couple channels I follow. I sometimes find a move I missed because I had to remove it from my main chartlist.

I know, we should all be like Grayson Roze and have everything super organized into 25 different chartlists. The big problem is how hard it is to move a stock from one chartlist to another one.

Seemingly, the "best" way to move a stock from one list to another is to click the current chartlist at the top of the screen, click Edit, wait for the huge page to load, find the stock, add a check to the item, and use the two arrows to move the stock to another chartlist. This takes several seconds and is way slower than the excellent method used in TradingView (right click the ticker, turn off one watchlist, turn on another, to move from one watchlist to another).

My question is, is there a better way to move a stock I'm looking at currently to another chartlist other than this method? Am I the only one who finds it much easier to manage things from a single chartlist rather than maintain several?

This limitation honestly has me wanting to move to another platform…

Number of characters

dhall6938 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:06:35 +0000

I have asked this question before, but I am going to ask it again. The last time that I asked you advised me to delete every single scan and alert and rebuild them all. I have not tried to take on that task yet because it's an enormous job. I have done something which limits all of my scans and alerts to approximately 5500 characters maximum. Because of what you told me last time, I think it has to do with the cutting and pasting that I have done over the years. Maybe it has removed the space for approximately 2500 characters in my scans and alerts. Anyway, if any of this makes sense, is your suggestion the same, delete everything and start from scratch rebuilding everything?

Can I check to see if Spy is above its 50 dma within a scan of other stocks?

BobS — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:54:24 +0000

Within a scan of a group of stocks, I would like to check to see if the ETF "Spy" is above its 50 day moving average. I know the following code will not accomplish that. But can someone tell me if it is possible and what code would do that? Thanks in advance.

['Spy' close > 'Spy' sma(50,close)]

BobS

SCTR Scores

JPW — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:33:30 +0000

Based on your experience and studies - is it better to buy a stock whose SCTR recently breaks above 60, because of more potential gains or is it better to buy a stock ranked in the high 80's or 90's? I have not been able to find an article in the system that shows the historical returns over any time period for any particular score range. Any help would be appreciate.

Point and Figure Price Objective

lmkwin — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:38:12 +0000

A unique feature of Point and Figure charts is the ability to calculate Price Objectives (PO). The PO can be a Bullish PO or a Bearish PO based on the last Point and Figure signal showing on the chart. The PO is actually established by the 1st signal's column length, and PO counts can be done manually from any significant column. The ones that appear on the chart though, are generated from the standard calculations, i.e. the 1st signal's column length. The link below describes how they are calculated. https://chartschool.stockcharts.com/table-of-contents/chart-analysis/point-and-figure-charts/p-and-f-price-objectives/p-and-f-price-objectives-vertical-counts https://chartschool.stockcharts.com/table-of-contents/chart-analysis/point-and-figure-charts/p-and-f-price-objectives/p-and-f-price-objectives-breakout-and-reversal-method The Price Objective will display on the PnF chart if you select the Price Objective type you'd like to use. Once you get your PnF chart settings where you want them, click on the Save As Default and every time you use a PnF chart, your settings will be saved. Your default PnF chart will also be used in the Gallery View listing. Price Objectives are simple math applied to the momentum (column length of the original breakout) to arrive at a value that will display on the PnF chart. You may see a PO with a number and the word Tentative next to it. This means that the PO column has not "completed", by reversing columns, so the PO could change with each additional box filled on that column, therefore tentative . You may see a PO with a number and the word Met next to it. This means that the chart has already equalled or exceeded the initial PO value. You can also see the Price Objectives using the PnF charts in CandleGlance view. This can be a fun view to quickly see securities that have 'met' current Price Objectives and those that haven't yet.

New SharpCharts Workbench

lmkwin — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:59:20 +0000

On the New SharpCharts Workbench, in the upper right there are two icons. One (the Gears) to change your chart alignment in the workbench. The other ( a Question Mark) gives you direct links to various things. The Question Mark has several options. The Contact Us is a link to the Tech Support Request page. The Report An Issue is a link to the Tech Support Request page. The Share Your Feedback is a link to the WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU page. The Support Center is a link where it really gets fun. For those that find the Search on the main site to be lacking, or severely lacking, they have moved the AI-driven Search feature inside the Support Center. Use the Search at the top of this page. If defaults with the standard Search, and then it pops up the Find the Answer with AI option. The standard search still plays dumb. The AI search at least provides some information. It's nice to have these options inside the workbench.

NYSE TICK and Nasdaq TICKQ

xtric8 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:22:02 +0000

Can stockcharts bring back the $tick or $tickq index? They stopped tracking it in 2019, but would have been helpful in 2020 and April 2025. I remember when this stopped but forgot the reason and can't find documentation, although historical data is still available on the indicator. Would be nice to track this going forward

Another Wyckoff candidate

markd — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:00:55 +0000

Some action in the lithium space recently. Lithium America was the big one, but there are others worth a look. Here's one that shows dramatic accumulation without price rise, a hallmark of Wyckoff situations. note: although there appears to be "streak up" in July, the bottom fishing scan in a previous post ( "A scan to spot strong buyer interest near 52 week lows" ) doesn't pick it up because it contains a couple of equal closes that interrupt the streak. Unfortunate.

Scan to find an industry group about to take off

BobS — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 21:19:07 +0000

I am trying to write a Scan to find an industry group about to take off. To do this I want to find an industry group which has recently (within the last 2 - 4 weeks) had its 10 week slow Stoch cross out of oversold and then had its price climb above the 50 dma. Below I will insert some code which I think can do this for a stock. But I am not sure how to do it for an industry group. Is there a way?

Below is the code I would use to find such a stock. How much of it can I use to find such an industry group?

and [ [1 week ago Weekly Slow Stoch %K(10,1) < 20] // or 2 week, 3 week or4 week ago?
and [0 weeks ago Weekly Slow Stoch %K(10,1) > 20 ] ] // w-KosO
and [ [Weekly Slow Stoch %K(50,1) < 20] or [Weekly Slow Stoch %K(50,1) > 80]] // K50w os, ob
and [today's Close > today's sma(50,close)] and [yesterday's Close <= yesterday's sma(50,close)]

AUTO Scan Editor

azb — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:06:45 +0000

Making the AUTO Scan Editior the default is TERRIBLE. I no longer see my scans in PLAIN ENGLISH coding. This option is now GONE.

ACP Scans Not Working

rling51 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:58:43 +0000

For the past day, none of my ACP scans are working. Same code and stock universe as before. Nothing has changed. When I run the scan from the Advanced Scan Workbench it works fine and produces results. When I run the same exact scan from the ACP scan panel nothing happens. I have tried different browsers, signed out and in, rewritten the code, nothing works. Send a request to SC for help, but that takes a while. Anyone else having this problem?

Suggestions to StockCharts

lmkwin — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 18:51:27 +0000

I have a thought on suggestions for improvements to StockCharts.com website. I know I make inquiries to StockCharts.com Support suggesting changes/ improvements for their consideration. I'm sure others do as well. If they get enough interest (multiple requests) or it falls into something that they are planning on doing already, it seems to get done. My suggestion is that "we" also post those suggestions on this forum (after having sent it to Support). If you see a suggestion that you like, you can make a similar request to StockCharts Support. This would allow for multiple requests for a similar suggestion, possibly improving the chances that it can be implemented. Anyway, just a thought. I sent this one in earlier. I'll be sure to share my others in the future. When using the "Inspect" feature, it would be nice if the font was black or blue or anything darker than light gray. It would also be nice if the font size was bigger but, darker font would be a tremendous, readable solution. Thank you for your consideration of this suggestion.

A scan to spot strong buyer interest near 52 week lows

markd — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:08:38 +0000

The recent Oracle jump made me curious about whether it was a Wyckoff accumulation. It didn't appear to be, but, I did notice several consecutive days of strong buying in late April when the stock looked weak. I've seen this before in stocks that later perform well. So here's a simple scan that picks up strong buying when a stock is weak enough to be trading near it's 52 week lows. Like most scans, it picks up some symbols that don't work out, but some have legs. I haven't thoroughly researched this, and it is a bull market; almost anything will "work" in a bull market. But the logic behind it is, retail buyers generally don't buy weak stocks. They buy stocks already on the way up, or, stocks that are pulling back from new highs that look like a bargain. So that implies the buyers on weakness are "strong hands", i.e. knowledgeable institutions and funds, and several days of buying shows commitment to the story behind the stock, whatever it turns out to be. Professionals make mistakes, too, but not as many. Run this for May 2, 2025. Oracle is just one of a number stocks that have done well since then. // begin scan [group is sp500] // or your choice, indexes, industries, market cap, etc. // at some point in the last twenty days, price closed in the lowest 20 per cent of the one year range. and [min(20, Fast Stoch %K(251,1))< 20] // at some point in the last twenty days, there were at least 5 consecutive up closes and [max(20, Streak Up(close)) > 4] // end scan That's it. Try it for other dates and see what it comes up with.

Time offset

dhall6938 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:03:57 +0000

I assume that these still functions, but I get the little yellow time off set triangle warning me. Is there something wrong with this expression? [Favorites list is 31] and [1 Day ago Close < [[1 Day ago High + 1 Day ago Low] / 2.0]]

Wyckoff in the news

markd — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:30:43 +0000

This story was in the news lately (Nasdaq MarketBeat) : " The long-running mystery around Warren Buffett’s latest stealth investment is finally over. In Berkshire Hathaway’s (NYSE: BRK.B) newest 13F filing, the Oracle of Omaha revealed a fresh stake in UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (NYSE: UNH). Berkshire ended Q2 holding five million shares, valued at about $1.6 billion, a position it likely began building quietly in the prior quarter after requesting permission from regulators to accumulate shares without triggering a rush of buying....David Tepper picked up 2.27 million shares, while Renaissance Technologies added 1.35 million shares... " Here's a chart of UNH showing its (simplified) Wyckoff characteristics: The essence of Wyckoff is that knowledgeable big money accumulates a big stake in a sold out but promising stock without raising the price too much. They first let the stock come to them from discouraged late sellers. Then they begin to actively buy, raising the price as little as possible. If they attract a following, they discourage it by strategically shorting what they have bought until the short term oriented outsiders get discouraged and leave. Once they have their stake, and the followers are gone, they begin the mark up by advertising the stock with a few days of buying, which with no more sellers after the followers are gone, runs up easily. Then the good news comes along ( in this case, its just that Buffet bought) and the stock is on its way. You don't really need to know all the technical aspects of the Wyckoff method. The essence shows up in the Force indicator moving mostly up faster while price is flat or down more than Force. It works best when price hangs out in a range above its most recent low, while Force rises. Then things go quiet, or the price low gets tested, and then price breaks out. Not every operation works. Even the smart money can be wrong. p.s. UNH seems to be progressing in the mark up stage after a period of consolidation following the last post.

re Candleglance drilldown chartstyle

throop — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:28:48 +0000

I use Candleglance a lot to scan lists of stocks. When I see one that's interesting, I click on it to drill down to details. I'm not happy with the chartstyle that I find when I drill down. How do I save another chartstyle so it appears when I want to drill down from a Candleglance display?

Writing a scan on Scan workbench

TraderY — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:51:08 +0000

How to write a scan of a piercing candle signal on a weekly chart on advanced scan workbench? Thank you

Tips, Tricks and undocumented feature for StockCharts.com

lmkwin — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 02:49:43 +0000

There are a bunch of tips and tricks and undocumented features shared on this forum over the decades. Most are buried in the threads of various other topics, but we haven't a place that stored any of it in it's own thread. So, similar to the Suggestions to StockCharts thread, where we can share our suggestions we made to StockCharts.com for enhancements / improvements, maybe this tread will be a place to share things we do to customize our StockCharts experiences. I'll start. I use the Full Stochastic on my time based charts. I use the Full as its versatility allows you to have it replicate the Fast or the Slow Stochastic simply by changing the parameters. A 14,3,3 Full equals a 14,3 Slow. A 14,1,3 Full equals a 14,3 Fast. The Stochastic is made up of a %K line and a %D line. The %D line (the last number in the parameters) is the simple moving average of the %K line. George Lane, credited with creating the stochastic indicator, paid attention to the %D at some point in his long and illustrious career. Tips and Tricks: There are ways to modify the look of the Stochastics on your charts by adding overlays to the indicator. The Standard or Default view is fine, but you may want to focus your attention or make it easier to see levels or occurances that are important to YOU. I try to help myself by making what I want to see, POP off the screen. 4 examples below You can Highlight the line of interest (%K or %D) by placing a SMA Envelope overlay on the Stochastic. To highlight the %K use a SMA Env with a parameter of 1,1.5 for example. This will put a thicker outline on the %K line. To highlight the %D use a SMA Envelope overlay on the Stochasic with a parameter of the last parameter number of your Stochastic. Example: SMA Env parameter 3,1.5. This will put a thicker outline on the %D line. The 1.5 in the parameter is the distance from the SMA, so a 1,1.5 puts a line 1.5% above and below the SMA to create the Envelope. The lower panel has Horizontal Line overlay on the Stochastic. The parameter on that one is 10:red,15:red,33:cyan,35:blue,49:red,50.65:red,63:cyan,65:blue,75:lime,76:green,20:white,80:white I look at that like a hockey rink. Starting at the bottom at my goal line, until I move past my Blue Line, I'm on Defense. As I move past my Blue Line I transition to Offense by crossing the Red Line and am definitely on Offense when I cross the opponents Blue Line. You can create multiple colored lines using the number colon color comma number colon color technique in the parameter field. The default lines on the Stochastic are 20,50,80. I "hide" those lines by making the 20 and 80 white.

MACD Hist SMA

dhall6938 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:12:13 +0000

Is it possible to scan for a sma of a macd histogram? [(20,SMAMACD hist(72,154,54) > 1 Day ago (20,SMAMACD hist(72,154,54)]

trying to write a scan in technicals the monthly perfornance , like 5day perf > than one month.

dab2lab12 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 22:20:46 +0000

thanks if you can help

Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine

riverful — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 10:20:13 +0000

It appears the complementary link to the Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine is no longer available. l thought it was part of our subscription but I am not able to find it. Thank you in advance.

Alert Capacity

dhall6938 — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 13:52:34 +0000

I have asked a similar question in the past and you advised that I delete every scan and alert and rebuild them all. I have not done that because it's a massive effort. Not sure that I have the vocabulary to describe this mess but here goes again. A while back I noticed that some of my alerts and even some of my scans would not save the full 8000 characters any longer and we assumed that it was somehow because of all the cutting and pasting that I have done that somehow limited the number of characters that the machine would save in a scan or alert. Just this morning, I noticed that I was having the same problem with another large scan that I was attempting to modify. However, when I changed the name of the alert, it saved just fine, just like it used to do before I started having the problem. If it helps, there is some kind of autofill that likes to use previous alert names that have been used before. If I change the name of the scan to something that I have never used before, it seems to accept and save it. Does that help you to understand what the problem with saving large scans might be and what to do about it?

counter trend entry scans - K21 crosses below 20

markd — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:26:25 +0000

This scan finds potential set ups for medium term trades. A strong stock that ventures into the lower 20% of its monthly (21 day) range may offer an opportunity for good gains over longer term than the K10 set up, although like the JGBS set up in the K10 discussion, the two sometimes overlap. The scan is essentially the same as the K10 with the parameters changed for K 21. See the K10 discussion for comments explaining the scan code. // 00 30 020 K21 xb 20 hits in STOCKS [[exchange is NYSE] or [exchange is NASDAQ]] and [ // sectors open bracket [[market cap > 100] and [group is EnergySector]] or [[market cap > 100] and [group is MaterialsSector]] or [[market cap > 100] and [group is IndustrialSector]] or [[market cap > 100] and [group is ConsumerDiscretionarySector]] or [[market cap > 100] and [group is ConsumerStaplesSector]] or [[market cap > 100] and [group is HealthCareSector]] or [[market cap > 1000] and [group is FinancialSector]] or [[market cap > 100] and [group is TechnologySector]] or[[market cap > 100] and [group is CommunicationServicesSector]] or [[market cap > 100] and [group is UtilitiesSector]] or[[market cap >100] and [group is RealEstateSector]] ] // sectors close bracket and [symbol not contains '/'] and [sma(21,volume) > 1000000] and [close < 20] and [close > sma(251,close)] // this replaces the SCTR > 70; see below for why // get first close or low into the bottom 20 per cent of the last 10 days' range // avoid second or third crosses // K21 has been above 80 in the last 20 days and [max(20, Fast Stoch %K(21,1)) > 80] // K21 has not been below 20 in the last 5 days and [1 day ago min(5, Fast Stoch %K(21,1)) > 20] // check for low xb 20 AND K21 xb 20- strong stocks may not close xb 20; moving LPC may be too far from 20? and [ [ 1 day ago min(21, low) + [ [1 day ago max(21, high) - 1 day ago min(21,low)] *.2] x low ] or [20 x Fast Stoch %K(21,1) ] ] rank by SCTR Here's an example that worked very well; don't expect them all to work like this. GRPN was a hit on 4/28/25 because of the long tail, and then again on May 6 because of K21 xb (cross below) 20 Like JBGS in the K10 discussion, GRPN doesn't retrace below MA 3 of highs when it takes off. You could anticipate this by entering a buy stop each day after the scan hit just above the MA 3 of highs, if you are OK with the possible wider draw down (to your stop under the Lower Price Chan(21) if the trade tanks. Again, this set up was good because this was the first retreat from a breakout after a fairly long consolidation range. Note that there was a K10 entry earlier that fit all the entry criteria but was disappointing. There doesn't seem to be any way to avoid this. You can prevent a serious loss by putting a stop under the MA 3 of lows (blue line), but not too close to avoid noise. Maybe choose the MA 3 of lows two days before the current day and move it up after momentum slows down. These are trades, not investments, so its OK to get stopped out with a gain. A note on 'close above sma 251' in this scan vs. SCTR > 70 in the K10 example. Use 'close abv 251' for research running scans on paste dates but use SCTR for current date scans if you decide to try it. It seems that if you include SCTR in your research scan, Stockcharts uses *today's* SCTR value even if you set the scan date back to a past date. That will skew the results toward set ups that work (because SCTR improves between the scan date and today's date), giving you an unrealistic picture what the scan picks up. Often, only one or two of maybe 20 hits will work out. The important things to look for on a scan hit chart are the consolidation period (not shown on this chart - its too the left before the chart begins) and breakout, and (add these to your chart style) either $SYMBOL:$INDUSTRY generally rising (the green dots on my chart) or $SYMBOL:$SECTOR generally rising (the orange dots). On the GRPN chart, you can see GRPN:$INDUSTRY (the green dots) picked up and gradually settled back to its rising 63 day MA (the green solid line). In fact, the trade occurs just when the dotted line gets back to the MA. Maybe just a coincidence, but too bad you can't scan for that event.

counter trade entry scans - price in lower 20% of 10 day range

markd — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:55:28 +0000

If you like short term trades, buying a pull back in an up trending stock is a reasonable strategy. Here is a scan for finding stocks that have traded into the lowest 20% of their 10 day range. The most strongly trending stocks often won't do this that often. However, with a scan that casts a wide net, it's possible, at least in some markets to find opportunities often enough to make it worthwhile. // 00 00 00 30 010 K10 xb 20 hits in STOCKS // find K10 xb 20 hits in stocks only [[exchange is NYSE] or [exchange is NASDAQ]] and [ // sectors open bracket [[market cap > 100] and [group is EnergySector]] // comment out sectors that don't interest you or [[market cap > 100] and [group is MaterialsSector]] or [[market cap > 100] and [group is IndustrialSector]] or [[market cap > 100] and [group is ConsumerDiscretionarySector]] or [[market cap > 100] and [group is ConsumerStaplesSector]] or [[market cap > 100] and [group is HealthCareSector]] or [[market cap > 1000] and [group is FinancialSector]] or [[market cap > 100] and [group is TechnologySector]] or [[market cap > 100] and [group is CommunicationServicesSector]] or [[market cap > 100] and [group is UtilitiesSector]] or [[market cap > 100] and [group is RealEstateSector]] ] // sectors close bracket and [symbol not contains '/'] // this avoids special issues and [sma(21,volume) > 500000] // or your choice and [close > 5] // or your choice // and [close < 100] // or your choice; use one or both to limit hits to a price range that suits you and [SCTR > 70] // or your choice; you do want good relative strength stocks // K10 has been above 80 in past 2 weeks (price has shown some strength) and [1 day ago max(10, Fast Stoch %K(10,1)) > 80] // K10 has not bee below 20 in past 2 weeks (try to get first crossing) and [1 day ago min(10, Fast Stoch %K(10,1)) > 20] and [ // close crossed into bottom 20% of yesterdays's ten day range [20 x Fast Stoch %K(10,1)] or // low crossed into bottom 20 per cent of yesterday's ten day range [1 day ago min(10,low) +[[1 day ago max(10, high)-[1 day ago min(10, low)]]*.2] x low] ] rank by SCTR Even with SCTR, not every hit will be great. You should probably prefer hits coming off a new trend high, and earlier in the trend. Also, the entry should be AFTER a close above the MA 3 of HIGHS. Enter probably next day below that MA, with a stop below the 10 day lower price channel. If ranges are wide, pass on the hit. Here's an example: The first scan hit is June 20 (because the long tail gets into the Fast K10 bottom 20% range). Price continues down - so the hit itself is not the entry. Price stays below the MA 3 of highs on a closing basis until Jul 8. In this case price doesn't pull back into below the MA 3 of highs. JBGS is a good candidate because it has just broke out above its 63 day channel (green) after a long basing period, and this is the first pull back. Note the Fast K 20 also crossed below 20, which is another variation on this idea but more for mid-length trades. Here's another example, also scan date Jun 20. Here again price continues down after the hit, closes above MA 3 Jul 1, then dips back below it, offering a chance to get in. This is also a good candidate because it follows a recent breakout above the 251 and 63 day upper channels and is not too far from a long basing period. One more example: This one doesn't work out, even though it fits all the scan criteria. The hit was the more the result of the ranging price - the channel comes up to meet price instead of price dropping to the channel. Also the big jump in price and volume in early Jun is an irregularity that interferes with the normal pattern. p.s. specifying the sectors at the top of the scan excludes ETFs and other issues not belonging to a sector (some foreign issues, mutual funds, commodity and bond funds, etc.). I don't know if non-common stock issues respond similarly.

Avoid Long Candles

PeterPan8 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 19:58:00 +0000

Is there a way to scan for stocks in order to avoid very long candles? (Left) I've tried with ATR and ADX but no setting seems to work. Any ideas?

VWAP

JJJJ — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:58:40 +0000

I am trading short term daily using the vwap as a guide. I wait until the stock price hits the vwap line and starts to rise up. Now if this happens, but the vwap line is trending down, it is good practice to still buy or should the vwap line always be rising ?

TSAA-SF exam

FantomasX — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:16:50 +0000

Hi, i am writing to inquire whether it is possible to take the TSAA-SF exam online. I am currently residing in Switzerland and have been studying technical analysis independently, primarily using StockCharts.com and other online resources.As someone who is passionate about market analysis and highly interested in furthering my education in this field, I would be very grateful for the opportunity to sit the exam remotely if possible. Could you please let me know if international candidates are able to take the exam online? Thanks :)

A scan to detect possible well-informed buying

markd — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 13:15:31 +0000

Here's a bottom feeding scan to detect possible well-informed buying in sold out stocks, such as Wyckoff might be interested in: [group is sp500] // or your group, sector or list of interest and [min(10,Fast Stoch %K(251,1)) < 20] // stock is near low of 52 week range and [Streak Up(close) > 4] // 5 or more consecutive days of buying. and [max(10,volume) > max(10, sma(20,volume))] // volume is meaningful Price itself may move significantly soon after a hit, or many weeks later. The scan only shows big money interest, not necessarily readiness to move. It's more a scan to fill out a watch list, than a scan to act on right away. Run for scan date July 23, 2025 to see examples. Many dates will return "no data" because it doesn't happen all the time. Also try it for May 16, 2025, but for [group is sp600], see esp BKE, KSS already launched; PRAA, VSCO possibly on the launch pad. p.s. reviewing past results from other dates, I would add, the chart should show at least one form of relative strength to get on your list - rising $SYMBOL:$INDUSTRY, rising $INDUSTRY:$SECTOR or rising Force(251). Also, before entering, it helps if the stock has a period of ranging just above the 251 lower channel on the daily chart. That is the Wyckoff accumulation phase. Sometime during the ranging or on the breakout, $SYMBOL:$INDUSTRY should get above its 63 day MA and stay there, showing improving relative strength versus its peers. Entries have a better chance after that happens. If you have the patience, run the scan for several months in 2024 to see the variety of results. Here are the chart style values to see the indicators involved Here's the KSS chart For clarity, I've shortened the chart start-end. See current chart for full picture. The vertical blue line is the scan date.