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I done paintbars for indicators and scans; have not tried hotkeys yet. Best case scenario i can calculate # of shares by saying {fixed amount}/(current price - TodaysLow) = # of shares So if my fixed amount (risk) was $1000 , the low was 20, and the price was currently 21, it would calculate: 1000/(21-20) = 1000 If that can be programmed into a hotkey where i can click on it and say buy now at either market or current price + a few cents and it would populate the # of shares automatically; that would speed things up. I have not looked at the trading system built into medvedtrader yet but would i also be able to put in a stop loss = low of day at the same time w/ same hotkey (or attach it to the original order) assuming my order gets filled? thanks!

I've been using the system for the last few months and have found ways to do most of what I want and the paintbars and scans are great. Considering using it for entering trade orders (with Interactive Brokers) and was wondering if there was any way to do the following: I primarily swing trade and my stop if I enter a trade early in the day is normally the low of the day. I then dictate the # of shares based on the amount I'm willing to risk / difference between the current price and the low. So if the low of the day is 20 and the stock is 21 and the standard I'm willing to risk on each trade is $1000, I can buy 1000 shares. I was wondering if there was any way to use the system so if I'm trading from the chart, it could figure out the # of shares programmatically, which would speed up my entry process. I figure it's a stretch but thought I'd ask. Thanks

Maybe there is a way to do this; not sure. I swing trade. I keep a master watchlist of maybe 250 symbols. They may represent purely momentum stocks; like crypto miners, some stronger longer term growth names like ROKU or CRWD, some young IPOs I'm interested in, etc. At first I kept them in separate lists so I could review them as groups; but some crossover and I'd have duplicates. Also, once the day starts I like to be able to quickly see out of my universe which are moving and which have higher volume that day; so having them all in one list without breaks is valuable. Therefore, the groupings or subgroups on the screen don't work that well as I can't see how everything is doing relative to everything else. I was thinking today it would be great to have a way to flag a ticker to be on one or more "sub lists" if you will. Maybe one column where you could add/see flags and then filter by them or you could toggle them on where the news and lightbulb characters are...or something else. Its' possible you already have something like this or that I could use in lieu of this.. For example, in the example i included, red might mean it's from the high momentum list; blue might mean it's got high grown, green might mean its' ipo's in the last year (and the user can decide what each one means). Key would be ability to see them and potentially filter the list. Could be many other ways to implement but bottom line wondering if there is a way to flag or tag things in a list and then filter.

FYI.. my workaround right now is i'm using the triangle. It takes 3 clicks rather than 2 but is much easier than trying to use the line. I just create a narrow pointer.

When I annotate a chart I usually draw some lines and at different times sometimes add an arrow to point at something specific. Right now the arrow and lines share the same characteristics and defaults. Would you consider adding an arrow into Draw with it's own set of defaults like you have done with trendlines and alert lines? For instance, my drawing lines are usually one color, extend to the right and don't have arrow points on them. My arrows are normally a different color; do not extend and do have arrow tips. I use more trendlines so just putting an arrow on the screen means Ihave to place it but then go in and change 3 settings. Would be great if I could just click the arrow icon and draw an arrow with it's own defaults. Thanks

Hi, I've put an indictor on the chart that shows when the close has crossed above the 3EMA and also meets some other criteria. Two questions; 1. I used a "3" as the shape and set it to show below the bar to indicate 3EMA. I don't know for sure that I'd do it, but was wondering if you can use user defined text to display as the shape, so whether I could show on the chart "3E" or "3EMA" below the candle if I wanted to? 2. I was also wondering how much control I had over the indicator placement. For instance, I have it below the bar. Can I add any padding so it drops down x pixels below the bar to add any additional space or in some other way adjust the placement? Thanks

Thanks. The variable discussion will help. But more importantly; if the data gets saved from one candle to the next candle then the code makes a lot more sense to me.

Thanks. Will look at this.

Hey Mike, a few questions: - what are the parameters for setline. Are they listed somewhere? - also, trying to understand the code... when you run this as a paintbar and it goes bar by bar - do the values/variables carry over from one bar to the next bar? I previously used another product and they did not but the code seems to be written that way ?

Thanks Mike. Great code and I'll study it and let you know.

Also, trying really hard to learn how to code paintbars. Something like Candlenumber looks like a built in function or variable? Is that right? To a question I asked elsewhere tonight, is there documentation for this and similar things?

Thanks again; working great. One variation...if I wanted to get the high from yesterday SINCE the 11am bar; would I add a loop into the code to keep checking the 5 minute bars from the prior day; or is there any easier way? for instance, change addhours(1.5) to a variable and loop in 5 minute increments checking if the high is higher or the low is lower?

Hi, two questions: I use volume a lot in indicator formulas, etc. Is there any way using either the easy or advanced paint bar to get average volume for a period of time? I could be just missing it if it's there. If not, would it be possible when you define a moving average in paintbar and get the dropdown of high,low,close, etc. to add a volume option to easily do that? I found a post from December that showed a formula way to do it but wasn't sure if there was a simpler way. Also, in looking through the paintbar options that are in the drop down on the rule editor, there are a number of items marked symboldata. xxx Are these usable and defined anywhere (as to what they are?) Thanks

Thanks Mike. That's pretty cool. I'll give it a try.

Thanks. Regarding doing it w/ a paintbar... I'll work to figure out the code but can you get me started by explaining if there is an easy way to just get the high and/or low of the 11am bar from the day before?

Is it possible to draw lines on an intraday chart (say 5 minute chart) showing the highs and lows from a specific point yesterday? For instance, highs and lows after 11am the day before?

Yeah; something like 30 ema or sma of volume. So basically if you look at PLTR; you had unusually high volume on Thursday. So the idea is to be able to paint a line from the close of that high volume bar and go to the right end of the chart from there. Meanwhile, something like UPST has had 3 extremely high volume days in a row now; but you don't want all 3; so you'd find the largest of the group and only draw from there.

My goal was that if a stock trades - for instance 3x (or 5x) the normal average volume, then I want to draw a horizontal line from that close across the right of the chart. In theory it could be forever but even a 1 yr timeframe would be fine. Also, sometimes stocks will have a cluster over 3 or 4 days of unusually high volume, in that case I also needed some logic that would look backward over some set of time - say 30 days - and only pick the highest one.

Hey Mike: Thanks for the update. Question: I may have been one of the requesters because I like to mark high volume closes on the chart and draw a line from the high volume close (close of a bar with exceptionally high volume relative to other days). A month back you did some code for me to do this but the code most of the time doesn't work that well and I have not gotten back to you on it. Would this feature provide an easier way to have the system draw a horizontal line from a high volume close to the last day on the chart? Thanks

Thanks. THis works great by the way.

Tried; doesn't let me. Most of the ancillary windows (dashboard, layout editor, etc) can be pulled up no problem; just not watchlists or charts.

I'm getting ready to travel for a few months and got a power laptop and an external monitor for my setup. When I load up the system on my laptop monitor everything works great. Since I have my laptop screen in front of me and the big monitor behind and above it i wanted to drag things UP from the laptop to the external monitor. So the external monitor is configured above the laptop (primary) screen. I can drag the settings box and the colorful starutp box up above the laptop screen but charts and watchlists will not go up. They hit the top of the laptop screen and stop. If I reset it so the external monitor to be on the right it works but I'd prefer to be able to drag things up. Is this a setting I can change?

Hey Mike - works great as a scan result but I'm seeing like 8 digits to the right of the decimal. Is there a rounding function or some way to format the column to limit the # of digits?

I was able to see this on the chart; I think it's going to be great. And I think it may even be better as a scan result. if I'm watching a # of stocks during earnings after hrs; will be easier to see the ones that immediately jump to say 10% or 20% of normal volume as they are the ones that typically turn out most interesting. Thanks again.

Thanks Mike; I'll take a look at it!