New Volume % feature needs tweaking

[stock777]

 Getting a slew of INFINITY triggers.  Some div by zero issue ?

 Also , triggering on indexes.  Know I can filter those, but maybe you want to do that by default .

 

[Mike Medved]

You said something about filtering for low volume. What kind of parameter would you like to see for that?

[stock777]

  pretty simple, a minimum volume amount,example (1000)  so a 600 share bar doesnt trigger on an average volume of 200 when set to 200%

 

  Were you able to see those bogus INFINITY alerts I mentioned ?

 

 

Edited November 12, 2019 by stock777

[Mike Medved]

Yes, I saw why they were happening. Will put in the minimum criteria.

[stock777]

 Houston we have a ....

This scan is not saving the parms ,  zeros on reload of MT

Noticed the scan description  text does not update to show the current % used when you enter a value.

Also , APPLY button not activating when I enter new values

 

 

 

Edited November 15, 2019 by stock777

[Mike Medved]

Yes, Jerry released the beta where I didn't finish this yet Will be in next one.

[stock777]

good enough!

[stock777]

  Still not working .   You cant enter a decent value for % increase,  like 50%,  it reverts back to  a much lower value.   5% max!

[Jerry Medved]

fixed. emailed you

[stock777]

Seems to be working as intended

This is a good scan, surprised we didnt thing of it sooner 😂

 

[stock777]

Have a feeling the Min Volume param might need work.  Seeing hits when volume is a lot less than what I've set

[Mike Medved]

Ok I checked the code and traced some things and it seems to work as it should.

Note: the one-min volume as used in the alert is not what you see in the volume indicator. That volume is divided on 1 min (if that is the frequency) boundaries.

The alert machinery just keeps a queue of all ticks in the last 60 seconds. Then it totals the volumes in those ticks and divides it by the number of seconds between the last tick in the queue and the first tick. Then it multiplies that # by 60 to get the running one-minute-volume.

That would skew things a bit for very thinly traded stocks...

I did it that way so that if you have a sudden uptick in volume in a stock that may not trade every second, the reaction would be faster. Maybe I could just take the total in the last 60 seconds and NOT scale it by the actual time between the last and first tick...