Scans incorporating different periods.

   Peter;
Is it possible (and if not, can you make it), to have scans that search for criteria incorporating different time periods.
For example, could I develop a single scan utilising Alexander Elder's Triple Screen approach. Ie. Search for stocks in uptrends on Weekly charts, but hitting temporary retracements on Daily charts?
Curious?

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davkell Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Regular Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 47	Post Options Post Reply Quote davkell Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Scans incorporating different periods. Posted: 01 Apr 2005 at 12:02am
	Peter; Is it possible (and if not, can you make it), to have scans that search for criteria incorporating different time periods. For example, could I develop a single scan utilising Alexander Elder's Triple Screen approach. Ie. Search for stocks in uptrends on Weekly charts, but hitting temporary retracements on Daily charts? Curious?
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Peter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List BullCharts Staff Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 241	Post Options Post Reply Quote Peter Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 02 Apr 2005 at 9:45am
	The easiest way to achieve this would be to run it as two separate scans: Run the weekly scan looking for the uptrends Copy the results into a watchlist Create a daily scan that ran over the watchlist

IT-Trader Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Regular Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote IT-Trader Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 10 Nov 2005 at 10:55pm
	I noticed this from April this year, is this still the case in v3.1.0? I'm evaluating Bullcharts at the mo. and one feature I use in Metastock regularly is to perform a scan on one time period first then pipe the results into a second scan on a different time period. While the work around above obviously works it adds an extra step that adds time and effort where none is presently required. Thanks in advance, ITT.

Brendon Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List BullCharts Staff Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 126	Post Options Post Reply Quote Brendon Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 11 Nov 2005 at 9:31am
	Sorry that feature is not supported as yet. We will have a look at how Metastock does it and add as a new feature. It is good idea.


IT-Trader Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Regular Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote IT-Trader Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 11 Nov 2005 at 10:40am
	Thanks for the prompt reply. I do hope it doesn't turn out to be too difficult, this is such a frequent activity in my trading day and would allow me to ditch Metastock entirely. (This of course has knock-on issues of which data provider I use as I'll currently have to stay with Metastock format data until this feature is supported. Thanks for listening, I've been quite surprised how much user feedback appears to have been reflected in the devlopment. ITT.

Brendon Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List BullCharts Staff Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 126	Post Options Post Reply Quote Brendon Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 11 Nov 2005 at 11:26am
	If you can give me step by step what you are doing in Metastock I can be quicker in determining what we can do. (I have Version 8). What would help is any screen captures on Word what you do so we understand more. Please email to brendonL@bullsystems.com Much appreciated. Edited by Brendon


IT-Trader Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Regular Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote IT-Trader Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 11 Nov 2005 at 5:55pm
	That would be great, thanks Brendon. You'll have it by Monday morning. ITT.

Brendon Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List BullCharts Staff Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 126	Post Options Post Reply Quote Brendon Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 15 Nov 2005 at 5:48pm
	We plan to allow uses to do 2 things 1. select multiple scans to scan sequentially. You will be able to chnage the order or the scans 2. for multiple scans the data set can be set as: a. use results from previous scan b. use the select Security list for that scan. Let us know if have any further comments. It is planned for later this year or early next year as we will be releasing 3.1.1 in a few weeks.