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Background: I am currently a stockfetcher customer with awful programming skills, but have found success with their user friendly scan language. I also use QCharts as my realtime charting service.

Problem: Stockfetcher can only scan on daily, weekly, and monthly candlestick charting intervals, and I need to be able to perform my scans off of various custom charting intermals (example: 8 min, 55 min charts etc). I looked at both Neoticker and Tradestation, and it appears that their programming language is not as user friendly as Stockfetcher's.

Goal: Are there any other services with scan programming language identical to stockfetchers that provide intraday scans off of custom charting intervals or where can I find someone that can convert my stockfetcher scans to Neoticker or Tradestation at a reasonable cost???

I day trade on the T/S platform and use http://www.trade-ideas.com/ to show me where the action is. No programming skills are necessary and it can be fine tuned to pretty much any requirement.
Disclaimer: No connection with the company, just a happy customer.

Thanks for the feedback. Anything helps. I will check into it.

You can look at this

http://www.prophet.net/home/premiumservices.jsp

lutra wrote:I day trade on the T/S platform and use http://www.trade-ideas.com/ to show me where the action is. No programming skills are necessary and it can be fine tuned to pretty much any requirement.
Disclaimer: No connection with the company, just a happy customer.

Hi lutra
Living in Eleuthera and a tan to proove it! How lucky.
I am a Scott Trde elite customer and a newbie. To be frank it has been a steep learning curve. while I have a pretty good handle on the ST platform, I am struggling with the Trade Idea scanners.
I am scalping along with an occasional swing trade. Like everyone else I am looking for the elusive scanning formula that will get me into the first one or two minutes of a runner. I have tweaked the ST high and low list with pretty good success, but the TI lists I have created are less than optimal. I have copied some suggested strings into some templet text boxes and have them found wanting. I wonder if you have any comments. Thanks

Hi 1492,
if you ever find the the scan that gets you into a runner before it takes off, please send me a PM. If there is such a thing, it would be a license to print money. Before you get yourself to tied up in knots looking for the holy grail remember that all indicators are based on past price action and therefore history. Trying to find an indicator that predicts the future is an exercise in frustration and makes you easy prey to vendors that have just what you are looking for for only 2,999.00.
Like building a house you will need first of all the foundation. Find a time frame find a couple of setups that will work for you and then tell the scanner what your looking for in longs and shorts. For example for my longs I am looking for stocks that have been up for the past 2 days are above the 20MA minimum 1 mil daily volume no more then 3 cents spread, the alerts are then set for pre market highs, new highs filtered 75% pull back from high, 25% pull back from High, crossed daily resistance high relative volume (double), running up confirmed, Fibonacci buy signal, Linear regression uptrend, 10min hammer. Something similar for the shorts but in reverse, plus a filtered high and low ticker. The scanner the spits out the stocks meeting the criteria and I pick the ones that fit my trading plan and play them according to the plan.
Every weekend I review the settings and try a few new alerts from the incredible choice offered. With the history function you can see what alerts were offered and at what time and you can see what worked and what did not work. Before placing a trade check your tick and trin, your 5 min, 15 min and 60 minute chart of the market to make sure you are trading with the market( you would not drive you car out of the drive way without first looking left and right for traffic ?) and then when everything is clear put your trade on with a clear target and stop. Do not put on trades with less then 2 to 1 reward to risk ratio. Ring the register when the target is reached and take your stops cheerfully. Keep it simple and you will be on your way beating the incredible bad odds to succeed in trading.

lutra wrote:Hi 1492,
if you ever find the the scan that gets you into a runner before it takes off, please send me a PM. If there is such a thing, it would be a license to print money. Before you get yourself to tied up in knots looking for the holy grail remember that all indicators are based on past price action and therefore history. Trying to find an indicator that predicts the future is an exercise in frustration and makes you easy prey to vendors that have just what you are looking for for only 2,999.00.
Like building a house you will need first of all the foundation. Find a time frame find a couple of setups that will work for you and then tell the scanner what your looking for in longs and shorts. For example for my longs I am looking for stocks that have been up for the past 2 days are above the 20MA minimum 1 mil daily volume no more then 3 cents spread, the alerts are then set for pre market highs, new highs filtered 75% pull back from high, 25% pull back from High, crossed daily resistance high relative volume (double), running up confirmed, Fibonacci buy signal, Linear regression uptrend, 10min hammer. Something similar for the shorts but in reverse, plus a filtered high and low ticker. The scanner the spits out the stocks meeting the criteria and I pick the ones that fit my trading plan and play them according to the plan.
Every weekend I review the settings and try a few new alerts from the incredible choice offered. With the history function you can see what alerts were offered and at what time and you can see what worked and what did not work. Before placing a trade check your tick and trin, your 5 min, 15 min and 60 minute chart of the market to make sure you are trading with the market( you would not drive you car out of the drive way without first looking left and right for traffic ?) and then when everything is clear put your trade on with a clear target and stop. Do not put on trades with less then 2 to 1 reward to risk ratio. Ring the register when the target is reached and take your stops cheerfully. Keep it simple and you will be on your way beating the incredible bad odds to succeed in trading.

Thanks Lutra
Very funny, but not a chance that I will ever pay a fortune teller.
I guess I did not make myself very clear . I am really just looking for a formula that will point out the more volatile stocks those that have a large increase in volume coupled with a unusually high Point spread in the first one or two minutes . I know setting a filter on that criteria alone would probably generate to many signal. there would have to be some other criteria to generate a valid signal . When looking at CETL last week and the 138% increase one can see that the first few minutes registered huge fluctuations in any case I am going to try to program trade ideas according to your form I hope I can call on you for some help if necessary and I certainly would like to thank you for your advice thanks . Sorry for the typos they were generated by my first try of a speech to text program and I am going to have to figure out how to do corrections .

Hi 1492,
I know what you are looking for. Everyday I get envious when I look at some of the new highs and see that they run 75 cents, a dollar or maybe even more in the past 5 minutes. I have spend quite a few weekends tweaking the scanner to produce those leads before or just when it was happening. So-far no luck.
That is why I said, if you can find it it would be a license to print money.
Having said this there is however a way to profit from it. On my high and low ticker I do have a 10% up or down for the day. When they pop up I quickly check if they fit into the Climactic criteria and if the do, well there is a trade to catch the reversal.