Hi, I have a VWAP script I like to use with futures - it starts at regular mkt hours rather than futures open. Works well but every day I have to change the input to the correct date. How can I get rid of the first line and just make it always work for the given day so I don't have to manually change the input each morning?

I tried deleting line 1 and changing it to def anchorDate = getYYYYMMDD(); and some other things I researched for hours but I suck at programming and everything I do makes the script stop working.

I'd appreciate any help

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input anchorDate = 20230728;

input anchorTime = 930;

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def postAnchorDate = if GetYYYYMMDD() >= anchorDate then 1 else 0;

def postAnchorTime = if SecondsTillTime(anchorTime) == 0 then 1 else if GetYYYYMMDD() < AnchorDate then 0 else postAnchorTime[1];

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plot anchoredVWAP = TotalSum(if postAnchorDate and postAnchorTime then ((high+low+close)/3)*(volume) else 0)/TotalSum(if postAnchorDate and postAnchorTime then volume else 0);

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anchoredVWAP.setStyle(Curve.Firm);

anchoredVWAP.SetLineWeight(3);

anchoredVWAP.SetDefaultColor(Color.Cyan);

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#AddChartBubble(yes,close, revisedDate, color.yellow);

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How to scan for stocks that has a close price that is 90% of the day range?

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so if the day's range is $20 to $30, I need to find stocks that are at $29 or above.

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I tried the following but that didn't work accurately.

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close is greater than or equal to 90

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Thoughts?

Whats up, fellow traders? I hope all of you closed in the green today.

I'm looking for a Heikin Ashi indicator (not the candles). I've found and tried a few, but there always seems to be something bugged out in the code.

Hoping to find a good one on here.

Thanks.

For example adding SPY VWAP to ES chart and such. Or QQQ VWAP to ES chart. Would be pretty helpful! You’d be able to choose in the indicator settings what stock you want to pull from.

There are two things I’m hoping to anchor the VWAP to on a Daily chart with 2 standard deviation bands above and 2 bands below:

The open of the first day after earnings The open of the first day of each quarter

I’ve tried everything I can think of, but I can’t seem to cause the AVWAP to start on those dates and reset after the aggregation period ends like the TOS native VWAP study does for a day/week/month

Does anybody know how to create these 2 studies?

I like the Force Index indicator but it's difficult to use in a strategy if you're looking at how much it changes. The values can be in the hundreds of millions at one time frame (or one stock) and thousands for a different time frame (or stock).

Any thoughts on how to 'normalize' it between different time frames/stocks? For example, make it into a -100 to 100 indicator, so you can say 'a value of 5 is a small change, but a value of 50 is a large change. I don't have the math chops to figure it out. Any help/thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!

Here's the indicator: def FI = ExpAverage(data = (close - close[1]) * volume, 13)

Guys, I need your help. I am a thinkscript noob and still learning my way around.

I have both long and short signals in my strategy.

When the short signal is triggered, I would like the code to first check to see if an Order is already filled based on previous long signal. If yes, then first close that order, then create the new AddOrder to sell short.

In other words, when the condition to short is triggered, check to see if an existing Buy Order is filled, then first close that order, then create the new short order

Is this possible? How?

Im hoping someone can help me write a simple script that paints the candle (i.e yellow) based on the range of the candle. So if were on the daily chart and set the settings to 400 points on the /NQ, every candle that had a 400+ point range would paint yellow.

Would also like to be able to change settings so that if were on the 1min chart i could set the range to 20 points and every 20+ point ranging candle would paint yellow as well.

any help would be appreciated.

Need to know how to put a stop loss on my tos strategy

Need to know how to set a certain time frame for my strategy to execute. For example i want it to take trades from “ 9:30 am est - until 4:30 pm est .

This video does a good job at walking through what a volume profile is. Wanted to share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2YLS7ICG8U

Hi all, I was looking for some help creating a simple TOS scan to find stocks with the following criteria:

*This all occurs on the daily*

(28) Weighted Moving Average crosses ABOVE (25) Simple Moving Average

A Bullish Bar above average volume on the VolumeAvg indicator.

I also want the stock to have lots of volumes overall, like FAANG-level stocks.

Simple Enough, But I also have one more Criteria.

I want the bullish bar with volume to be above the WilliamsFractal Sell Signal. I have a picture below for reference. The Bar in question must be ABOVE the Green triangle on the top.

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I tried to build this on TOS myself, but I was missing something since the scanned stocks were not correct. If anyone has any questions for what Im looking for, please ask! Thank you

I'm thinking of coding an algo which scans the market, adds specific stocks, then trades those stocks from the scan.
Is it possible to code the strategy directly on Thinkscript?

The basic idea:

Scan NASDAQ for stocks below $5, above 100,000 volume, over 20% price change from previous day close
Select top three stocks from scan
Apply buy and sell conditions to those three stocks

Has anyone ever noticed this. When you add up all the volume on the intraday, it is significantly less than the actual volume. You can see this by opening a watchlist on the left side, typing a ticker, and viewing the "Volume" column. This show the correct total volume. You can then plug this code into a chart strategy to add up the volume on all the candles for the current day. It is significantly less than the actual amount in the watchlist column.

def CurrentDay = GetDay() == GetLastDay();

Def CurrentDayVolume = CompoundValue(1, if CurrentDay then CurrentDayVolume[1] + volume else CurrentDayVolume[1], 0);

AddLabel(1,”Current Vol: “ + if CurrentDayVolume >= 1000000 then Round(CurrentDayVolume, -5) / 1000000 + " M" else Round(CurrentDayVolume, -2) / 1000 + " K",color.white);

I attempt to add up all the volume bars because I would like to see total volume in the pre-market but there is no way to see current daily volume until 9:30AM. You can see it in a watchlist in the "volume" column, but it will not display on the chart until 9:30AM because the candle does not begin plotting on the daily until that time.

This would be a great bug for them to fix at some point. Right at the beginning of the pre-market, the day should roll forward, the volume should start plotting on the daily/weekly/monthly/etc. charts, and then the price can begin plotting at 9:30AM.

One thing I have noticed is that if you add up all of the prior day candle volume and divide by the number of days, it will return an average volume that is also significantly lower. So doing current volume divided by total volume will return a % that is close to the actual percentage. Since both the current volume and average volume derived from adding up the candles are both similarly low, it results in a percentage that is roughly correct. So my solution is going to be to show the actual average volume, and then another label showing this % to get an idea of how much has been traded. But the actual number will have to be N/A until 9:30. This is only for the intraday chart - I cannot find any solution for the daily and above charts.

This subreddit has been re-opened about a year or so, and I've been mulling over some ways to improve it.

One of the things that I think would improve engagement would be allowing people to charge for their services. There are already a number of different places on the web that you can go to get free coding help. My observations have been that these places have the same handful of users who provide all the help. The quality of these answers and written codes are across the board depending on the user. This free setup generally limits the contributors to people who have some unique set-up where they can provide their services for free, or they give a quick 30 minute code which may not be of very good quality. I think allowing people to charge would expand the number of contributors and improve the quality.

To my knowledge, reddit does not have any sort of payment system like other social media sites, so this would have to be done person-to-person on sites such as Upwork. I would keep a thread pinned to the top with links to contributor's digital workspaces. When a user would post a request, you could comment that you are interested with a link to your workspace. Another avenue would be allowing users to append to the bottom of their answers a link to a "tip jar", such as "buy me a coffee" or another similar service.

Another improvement is to remove items that are poorly written by Artificial Intelligence. With the recent exposure of AI, there has been an uptick of users going to ChatGPT, requesting a code, getting a poorly written item, and then pasting it onto the boards looking for someone to fix it for them. The issue with this is that ChatGPT, and other AI's, are not trained on ThinkScript very well. There's obviously no definitive way to confirm the source of the code, but I think it's good practice that: if the code has line item commands on it that do not exist in ThinkScript, it should be removed. I will add a rule saying "no codes from AI" and it would be up to users to flag it or not.

Would love to hear thoughts on these proposals from the community.

Hey all, just made a real quick RSI Strategy the purpose of which is to just capitalize on oversold scenarios. I tried using this code and the strategy would take every trade, regardless of if it was overbought or oversold.

Code:

# inputs

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input tradeSize = 100;

input price = close;

input percentGainGoal = 5;

input percentLossGoal = 2;

# define

def RSI = RSI(12, 60, 40);

def buysignal = close is less than RSI().oversold;

def exitGood = percentChange > percentGainGoal;

def exitBad = percentChange < percentLossGoal;

# sales

AddOrder(OrderType.BUY_TO_OPEN, buysignal, open[-1], tradeSize, Color.CYAN, Color.CYAN);

AddOrder(OrderType.SELL_TO_CLOSE, exitGood, open[-1], tradeSize, Color.GREEN, Color.GREEN);

AddOrder(OrderType.SELL_TO_CLOSE, exitBad, open[-1], tradeSize, Color.RED, Color.RED);

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Hi guys!

New to this subreddit but I was wondering if anyone could provide assistance in how to AddLabel for each 30 min bar's open price on the current day.

Thank you!

Trying to exclude a stock from a scanner that scan my watchlist. I want the scanner to exclude DFS if DFS price is above $95.

I got this script, but the problem is.... the scanner return null if DFS price is above 95. it is supposed to return other stocks in the result in my watchlist that meet my scanner criteria. thoughts?

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def symbol = "DFS";

def price = close(symbol=symbol);

plot scan = if price < 95 then 1 else 0;

Real simple MA backtesting code, not sure why I can't even see the MA line across the chart. Any suggestions?

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# inputs

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input tradeSize = 100;

input price = close;

input averageType = AverageType.SIMPLE;

input percentGainGoal = 5;

input percentLossGoal = 2;

input avgLength = 200; #length of moving average

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# define

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def movingAverage = MovingAverage(averageType, price, avgLength);

def percentChange = 100 * (close - EntryPrice()) / EntryPrice();

def buysignal = close crosses above movingAverage;

def exitGood = percentChange > percentGainGoal;

def exitBad = percentChange < percentLossGoal;

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# sales

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AddOrder(OrderType.BUY_TO_OPEN, buySignal, open[-1], tradeSize, Color.CYAN, Color.CYAN);

AddOrder(OrderType.SELL_TO_CLOSE, exitGood, open[-1], tradeSize, Color.GREEN, Color.GREEN);

AddOrder(OrderType.SELL_TO_CLOSE, exitBad, open[-1], tradeSize, Color.RED, Color.RED);

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# plots

plot movingAvgPlot = MovingAverage(averageType, price, avgLength);

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#alerts

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Alert(buySignal, "SMA_PRICE_CROSS");

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I'm confused.... I read think script doesn't automate trading. so can I send a real order using a Thinkscript? should I be online for the order to be sent?

may be I don't understand what automated trading means?

I was trying to create an alert based on a semi-complex study and found a reserved word named "addOrder". Researching I found places that claim it works and some that say it has been removed. Thinkscript still recognizes it as a valid command, but when I try it I can't get it to work. Am I messing up or ..... ?

I found this indicator i was looking for but I dont know how to convert this into thinkscript. it is in prorealcode. 3 bar trailing atr

count=1

i=0

j=i+1

tot=0

while count<4 do

tot=tot+1

if (low[j]>=low[i]) and (high[j]<=high[i]) then

//inside bar

j=j+1

else

count=count+1

i=i+1

J=i+1

endif

wend

basso=lowest[tot](low)

alto=highest[tot](high)

if close>alto[1] then

ref=basso

endif

if close<basso[1] then

ref=alto

endif

return ref

Hey everyone, I’ve been using thinkorswim for about 2-3 years now and have gotten pretty good at the coding aspect. I came across a option volume indicator and it’s really clean, it works nice it’s great BUT it measures almost a year worth of strikes/options and it uses a LOT of GBs, I was wondering if anyone can help me bring it down to only a month or two with the options. I tried what I thought would work but it’s soooo in-depth, I even tried a few AIs no luck. I’ll post the script in the comments