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tulanch
24 posts
msg #48904
Ignore tulanch
1/3/2007 1:03:06 PM

I have read again and again to watch volume (and price) around 10am is to see if the stock is performing as expected, but how does one judge volume is up? It's obvious it volume is above the average at that time, but what if it's a fraction (say less than 33%) of average volume? Are there any guidelines on this concept say if volume is > 25% aver vol then it's up?



lockwhiz
206 posts
msg #48905
Ignore lockwhiz
1/3/2007 3:45:53 PM

Through trial and error, this is the screen I run at 10am.
Looking for both volume and price spikes.

Fetcher[
set{vv,volume 1 day ago divided by 1.1}
set{pp,price 1 day ago * 1.3}
price is greater then pp
and price is greater then price 1 day ago
and volume is greater then vv
and price is between 1 and 80
and volume is greater then 5000
]




TheRumpledOne
6,407 posts
msg #48906
Ignore TheRumpledOne
modified
1/3/2007 4:16:06 PM

You have

set{pp,price 1 day ago * 1.3}
price is greater then pp
and price is greater then price 1 day ago

If pp is "price 1 day ago * 1.3"

then if "price is greater then pp " is TRUE

then by definition "price is greater then price 1 day ago" has to be TRUE and thus redundant.

Is there a mistake of some kind?

HTH.





lockwhiz
206 posts
msg #48907
Ignore lockwhiz
modified
1/3/2007 5:05:32 PM

Hmmm ...

well, looking at this, I am in total agreement with you....

so I deleted "and price is greater then price 1 day ago"

...and the screen went from returning 1234 stocks to 1604 ???
(run at after market close 01/03/2007)

How can this be ?

A look at the results and all the stocks that have a negative return (%Chg)
were filtered out (using the original screen) .......










TheRumpledOne
6,407 posts
msg #48911
Ignore TheRumpledOne
modified
1/3/2007 7:54:53 PM

Fetcher[
set{close1ago, close 1 day ago }
set{ppx, 1.3 * close1ago }

add column ppx
add column close1ago

and close1ago equal 1
]



This filter should have PPX = 1.30

There's a bug UNLESS I am missing something!!

2 minutes later....

NO BUG and here is why...

PP is the pivot point reserved word!!

When I changed PP to PPX the problem went away so...

Lockwhiz, here's your filter...

Fetcher[
set{vv,volume 1 day ago divided by 1.1}
set{ppx,price 1 day ago * 1.3}
price is greater then ppx
and volume is greater then vv
and price is between 1 and 80
and volume is greater then 5000
]




HTH.



lockwhiz
206 posts
msg #48912
Ignore lockwhiz
1/3/2007 9:23:34 PM

WOW ... Thanks !
TRO .... The CSI of StockFetcher !
I am in awe.

Now to see why it was giving me some decent stocks....giving me the performance
that I had intended..... It obviously is not coded correctly... but ...like
that old adage "If it works, don't fix it".... says it all.

Like I had said, alot of trial and error started giving me the results that I
was looking for.... Try it and see ....10:00am ! (so with the 20 minute delay,
its actually looking at 10 mins into the trading day)... and now, knowing what
it is actually doing, maybe it can be fine tuned....lets see !

I had developed this when Muddy spoke of the streaming HOD ... with this idea,
and including VOLUME, I figured thats the way to get SF to give me a similar
"window of opportunity".

Thanks again !







lockwhiz
206 posts
msg #48922
Ignore lockwhiz
1/4/2007 9:03:13 AM

... the one line of the filter that is meaningless
is the "set{pp,price 1 day ago * 1.3}" ... I modified my
origianl screen, so it will use
Pivot Point as the measure to base the screen on.... and it
does give me the "window of opportunity". But the intent, and the
original post was truly missed.


MODIFIED ORIGINAL
Fetcher[set{vv,volume 1 day ago divided by 1.1}
set{pp,price 1 day ago * 1.3}
price is greater then pp
and price is greater then price 1 day ago
and volume is greater then vv
and price is between 1 and 80
and volume is greater then 5000
]



I am going to re-focus on building a screen that works
with the opening trends ... ie price spike on volume. The price
, set{pp,price 1 day ago * 1.3} seems to be a good fit. Volume
I would expect to be more in the order of 10% - 15 % of yesterdays
total volume.




TheRumpledOne
6,407 posts
msg #48925
Ignore TheRumpledOne
modified
1/4/2007 12:00:58 PM

Lockwhiz

PP is used by StockFetcher for the Pivot Point.

Your SET statement DOES NOT CHANGE the value of PP!!



Fetcher[set{vv,volume 1 day ago divided by 1.1}
set{Xpp,price 1 day ago * 1.3}

price is greater then pp

and price is greater then price 1 day ago
and volume is greater then vv
and price is between 1 and 80
and volume is greater then 5000

ADD COLUMN XPP
ADD COLUMN PP
ADD COLUMN VV

]



Take a look.

HTH.





lockwhiz
206 posts
msg #48926
Ignore lockwhiz
modified
1/4/2007 12:48:21 PM

... duh, I attempted a quick edit (during work) to have it ready for 10:00am...... (sometimes work interuptions just get in the way of my trading day , lol) ... What I had posted WAS the original ... oops.... I meant to delete that one set line (PP)....

Thanks for the updated version ... I like it !





lockwhiz
206 posts
msg #48927
Ignore lockwhiz
1/4/2007 1:04:53 PM

added a couple of columns ... filter is the same modified version (I hope ... lol)...Thanks again TRO

Fetcher[
set{vv,volume 1 day ago divided by 1.1}
set{Xpp,price 1 day ago * 1.3}
set{xp_percent,price divided by XPP}
set{open_gap,open - price 1 day ago}

price is greater then pp
and price is greater then price 1 day ago
and volume is greater then vv
and price is between 1 and 80
and volume is greater then 5000

ADD COLUMN xp_percent
add column open_gap

and sort column 5 descending
]




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