3acor Posted February 8, 2021 Report Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) Hey, Is TWS Market Scanner implemented in Medved via API? It would be a great feature so that we can scan Premarket Gappers and those who have limited symbols on datafeeds to be able to scan more symbols such as low float stocks since there are many and no datafeed allows to scan that many symbols. Here is a link https://interactivebrokers.github.io/tws-api/market_scanners.html Thanks Edited February 8, 2021 by 3acor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted February 8, 2021 Report Share Posted February 8, 2021 No it is not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin8121 Posted February 9, 2021 Report Share Posted February 9, 2021 14 hours ago, Jerry Medved said: No it is not But MT needs the ability to create gainers/losers list to be a truly standalone platform, Perhaps its time to project it Jerry? Pls 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Medved Posted February 9, 2021 Report Share Posted February 9, 2021 The problem with that is that in order to create such lists you have to have internal access to the whole universe of stocks' wide pipe. Brokerages do. We don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasper Posted February 9, 2021 Report Share Posted February 9, 2021 If there's demand then may be worth adding at least one data source offering larger symbol limit or no limit. polygon.io metastock xenith dxfeed Perhaps, MT can negotiate package with an existing data source and offer a bundled data package. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin8121 Posted February 10, 2021 Report Share Posted February 10, 2021 20 hours ago, Mike Medved said: The problem with that is that in order to create such lists you have to have internal access to the whole universe of stocks' wide pipe. Brokerages do. We don't. No MIke; Ninjatrader do that with the same datafeeds ( IQfeed, IB etc etc) . I have another platform called Agenatrader and the same, i just use ib datafeed with only 100 symbols to run it. Yes, must be reloaded to update the symbols, but its possible to set an autoreload every x minutes. I dont say its easy, but yes its possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin8121 Posted February 10, 2021 Report Share Posted February 10, 2021 (edited) 17 minutes ago, merlin8121 said: No MIke; Ninjatrader do that with the same datafeeds ( IQfeed, IB etc etc) . I have another platform called Agenatrader and the same, i just use ib datafeed with only 100 symbols to run it. Yes, must be reloaded to update the symbols, but its possible to set an autoreload every x minutes. I dont say its easy, but yes its possible. Most probable the platform scans just the % change (and perhaps last and volume data) for all symbols subscribing and unsubscribing until a list is created, filtering only the first 50/100 gainers and continuing only with them subscribed. You can easily check both platforms. Ninjatrader its free for papertrade and agenatrader its free the first month to try. You can use my IB papertrade account as datafeed. Honestly this ability is what really MT needs to be a standalone platform for all kind of traders. As today, momentum plays are not playable with MT without an additional software/scanner. And of course there is the problem of the number of ticket for each datafeed; having this capability a 100's datafeed should be enough . I think you and Jerry are underestimating this need. Edited February 10, 2021 by merlin8121 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnc Posted February 10, 2021 Report Share Posted February 10, 2021 That would be great and I wouldn't mind paying extra for MT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Hayman Posted May 6, 2021 Report Share Posted May 6, 2021 I trade futures (IB) prob 70% of the time via MT, and maybe 10% long-term stock plays (TDA) also via MT. But when I trade momentum stocks and options I just wind up using TOS as my platform, to use their integrated scanning facilities. I too, would love what others above suggest, although I understand the universe of symbols issue. The MT scanner is great and quite extensible, but its limitation is the # of symbols that can be processed (for me, 1,500 via TDA). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3acor Posted July 27, 2021 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2021 Is it not possible to establish an API for an outside scanner such as TWS Scanner which can scan the whole market then have the user filter/screen the results on MT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted July 27, 2021 Report Share Posted July 27, 2021 not at this time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin8121 Posted August 16, 2022 Report Share Posted August 16, 2022 Maybe is the right time to implement/add a top gainers/losers feature? or integrating the IB scanner via API? I'm suggesting this from years now. Is the only feature needed to add to complete MT. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasper Posted August 23, 2022 Report Share Posted August 23, 2022 I agree, this will be nice feature addition to MT. A relatively filtered list of symbols from IB scan to MT to process further scans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin8121 Posted August 30, 2022 Report Share Posted August 30, 2022 This is the list of possible scanners from IB gateway/TWS api listed in the "hot list" window of another platform. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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