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ok...but for now. if i use it as above in the picture - i just wanted to confirm if i click on the button and Send is ON - it will send it to the account in the order ticket (vs the one on the screen?) or not. just need to know how to handle. thanks Or are you saying the saved order ignores the account setting in the ticket?

If I have it set up as a saved order and want it to send directly but i want to send it to a specific account, regardless of what the chart window account is set to - do i just set "send" to TRUE and also set the account in the order and press the button? (see picture) If i just want it to drop and then manually send after i press the button for a saved order... is there a way to do that and make sure it goes to the account in the order instead of the one in the chart window?

Looking at the documentation; does Send have to be True to use the account specified? I'd prefer to see it on the screen and manually send if possible but want it to go to the right account specified in the button/hotkey wihtout having to change it in the window.

Drop is True, Send is False.

I assume I'm just doing something wrong or it could be a bug; probably my error... I have multiple trading accounts in interactive brokers. I set up a new hotkey / saved order. In the "account" I picked account #2 (using that as a placeholder). In the "acct" field in the window itself it is set to Acct #1, which is my default account. I placed a trade but it ignored the account in the hotkey/saved order and went to account #1. Is there something else I need to do so it uses the account that is in the order itself; rather than the account showing under the trading tab?

Thanks. When I set to 1 wide and a light color it doesn't get in the way too much being in the foreground. And yes the shares outstanding calc worked, although it wasn't in millions so I had to use the entire number. Thanks To draw a line is it possible to know a candle number based on an event in the chart. For instance, if I want to say - draw a line from the last day the stock was up 5% I can build an indicator that looks for that situation....but is there a way to know the candle # so I can make that the starting point in the setline?

I put a # of horizontal lines on my chart and have them all is individual indicators so far (putting a line at 100, 50, etc). I was working to convert them all into one indicator using setline but they all seem to be in the foreground; in front of the chart. Is there any way to set them to the background? So far the paintbar option to put it in the background seems to not impact the setline itself. Also, one other question.. I'd like to draw a line at certain market caps - like 1B market cap or 100M market cap. Can I use SystemData.SharesOustanding in my line formula? For instance if I said to draw a line at 50000/SystemData.SharesOutstanding what that draw a line at $50B market cap? (Note I wasn't sure if the SharesOutstanding was in millions or not). Thanks

I have a question; I think I know how to do this but thought I'd check. I have three accounts where I buy and sell the same things at the same time; one is my own account which is larger and the 2 others are smaller accounts for a family member. In interactive brokers I set up a profile where when i buy something 90% of it goes into the one account and then the rest get allocated to the others. It looks like I can have multiple actions with one hotkey so if i wanted to buy i could do the calculations to buy x # of shares into one account, then y # of shares into another account all with one hotkey, correct? So if my main account was say $100K and I wanted a 5% position, I could first calculate the first action to be 100,000 x .05 / stock price and set that account to be main account. Then set another action if that account were $20K to say on that one buy 20,000 x .05 / stock price and send that to account #2 All with one hotkey. Am I thinking about that clearly? THanks

Interesting; what is a potential use case for them as an example?

It's possible this already exists but... I have a handful of watchlists . One of the things I like to do first thing in the morning is scan through news for all companies on my watchlists. I have set the news settings so that I have picked the watchlists I wanted to monitor and the left side of the news window does show the companies on my watchlists. But, it shows all companies and I have to skip down to find those with a yellow/highlighted symbol to find those with news from just today. Would it be possible to add a filter button to the news window like you have on the scanner window so I could toggle that on and only see a list of companies with news today? In other words, I like being able to see news on any company on my watchlists - but would like a streamlined way to see news from my watchlist companies just from today. Thanks

thanks

Hey Mike - I'm not seeing this online (this version).

THanks! I had missed / setting / chart general. And I hear you about backfilling!

Curious - for TD Ameritrade I have it set to 120 days in settings. But my charts are not filling 120 days. For instance, right now if i pick a symbol i have not picked before, it's going back to 7/6, which I think is around 80 calendar days (and less trading days). This is consistent any time I put in a new symbol and look on a 5 minute chart. Do I need to adjust as setting somewhere else to get the full 120 days? (Also, is it calendar days or business days). Thanks.

ok; thanks

I primarily get data from TD Ameritrade and have Interactive Brokers as a backup source. I have not had many issues with TD Ameritrade but (a) sometimes find symbols they don't provide data for (even though they are on major exchanges and have reasonable volume) and I have to backfill from IB and (b) I'd prefer the intraday data go back a bit further. Wondering comparatively how Tradier stacks up in those respects as I could open a Tradier account. Specifically - is the intraday backfill (one minute or five minute, I don't need tick) as long or longer than TD? And, how are they in terms of their coverage of various tickers? Thanks

thanks Mike. sounds great.

I was using as an example to test: floor(1000(Price-TodayLow))

Hi Mike - wondering if you put TodayLow into the hotkey machinery? I"m getting an error that there is an "unknown identifier" todaylow. If not in there yet; can you let me know when it is ?

Yes; just suggesting maybe there was some combo that could make assessing price change over a period of time easier; does not need to be shift drag. Thanks.

Thanks. that works! I'm frequently looking for this info and my trendlines are set for extend right so it's not perfect because it's not that efficient but it does get me what i want. Would be great if in some release if we could do this using a keyboard / mouse combo instead. Tradingview does this really nicely with a Shift click; it shows you the difference and also creates a semi transparent box in the process. Thanks again.

In some other charting systems there is a way to see how much a price has changed over a period of time by clicking on the price/start date (maybe along with a hotkey like shift or ctrl) and then dragging the mouse to another location - in that case the # of days and the change in price (up 18%, down 20% over the period) shows up in a bubble or box. Is there a way to do that in the system?

I just hid the legends as I don't use them anyway. thanks

I do swing trading and have created two indicators; one that shows me when the stock i'm looking at has outperformed the market (on a daily chart) by 1.5%, and another by 3%. If I see them both then I know the stock relative to the market had a strong day; if I see one, I know it was positive but not that strong. I'm testing whether visually seeing a number of positive signals in a cluster helps with performance over the next few weeks. Since there can be signals every 2 or 3 days I didn't want to place this near the price bars as it would get too cluttered. I also have a volume signal taking up the bottom 1/4 of the chart in the background (somewhat transparent). So i was trying to put this somewhere near the top of the price chart. I originally used the 1/4 top option. The issue is that the 1/4 of top is too long/ it overlaps the price bars and/or my chart notes. I then tried putting just a symbol in the top band but it gets' interfered with by the title of the chart. (see image) So two questions: 1. Is there a way to lower the "band on top of chart" option so it displays below the title of the chart (see picture) 2. Alternatively could you add another option to display on top 1/8th of chart or 1/10th of chart in addition to the 1/4, 1/3 etc.

Cool; thanks MIke. This will be interesting to try.