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DenaGela
Posted : Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:33:02 PM
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Is there any formula to find highly volatile stocks such as we find in the Coal or Shipping industry where you can have price wings of 5, 10, 15 points or more.

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Craig_S
Posted : Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:01:30 PM


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Yes.

How exactly do you want to define the volatility?



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DenaGela
Posted : Sunday, September 14, 2008 6:02:36 PM
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[QUOTE=Craig_S]

Yes.

How exactly do you want to define the volatility?

I want for example to see stocks that in one day can be as low as 55 and as high as 65 (just an example) even thoughit will close at 58

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Bruce_L
Posted : Monday, September 15, 2008 10:40:39 AM


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DenaGela,
Keep in mind that the trainers can't give setting, interpretation or investment advice What we need from you to help you create a Personal Criteria Formula is a detailed and objective definition of your requirements. An example or an "I'll know it when I see it" type definition is generally not going to be enough to allow us to help you create a formula. For example:

Range at least 5:

H - L >= 5

Average 10-Period Trading Range at least 5:

AVGH10 - AVGL10 >= 5

Minimum 6-Period Trading Range at least 5:

H - L >= 5 AND H1 - L1 >= 5 AND H2 - L2 >= 5 AND H3 - L3 >= 5 AND H4 - L4 >= 5 AND H5 - L5 >= 5

Might all be seen as possibly meeting your original request (with or without your clarification). You may wish to review the following:

How to create a Personal Criteria Forumula (PCF)
Using EasyScan to find stocks that meet your own criteria
PCF Formula Descriptions
Handy PCF example formulas to help you learn the syntax of PCFs!

-Bruce
Personal Criteria Formulas
TC2000 Support Articles
ats33
Posted : Friday, August 28, 2009 2:06:43 PM
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How do I set up an easyscan that finds stocks with big daily moving range, and back and forth few times a day?

Bruce_L
Posted : Friday, August 28, 2009 2:32:39 PM


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ats33,
It's impossible to do with an EasyScan because Personal Criteria Formulas and EasyScans are always based on the twenty minute delayed Daily data. Since you only have an Open, High, Low and Close for the Day, there is no way to know if the stock moved back and forth during the day.

It might be possible to do using Custom Percent True or Custom Indictars with Realtime Indicator Sorting, but that would be limited to the top 200 symbols in the Watchlist and would require an unambiguous objective definition of "big daily moving range".

Visually Backtesting Specific Symbols
Plotting Custom Indicators with Examples
Real time indicator sorting (available at the Platinum level)

-Bruce
Personal Criteria Formulas
TC2000 Support Articles
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