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High / Low Scan

Written by Administrator Monday, 31 July 2006 10:00
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The High / Low scan, identifies securities that have closed above or below statistically significant prices over a user-defined period of time. e.g. closed above the all time high or 52 week high etc...

Properties

This scan would search for the All Time High over the time period specified in the Date Range. The scan would use the closing prices based on Daily bars.

For example, if you selected a date range of 1st of January to the 31st of December in the Date Range option, this would search for an All Time High of this date range. It would look at the Daily close prices.

Direction

  • All Time High
    Select this option to scan for the All Time High over the period of time specified in the Date Range.
  • All Time Low
    Select this option to scan for the All Time Low over the period of time specified in the Date Range.
  • 52 Week High
    Select this option to scan for the 52 Week High over the period of time specified in the Date Range.
  • 52 Week Low
    Select this option to scan for the 52 Week Low over the period of time specified in the Date Range.

 

  • 26 Week High
    Select this option to scan for the 26 Week High over the period of time specified in the Date Range.
  • 26 Week Low
    Select this option to scan for the 26 Week Low over the period of time specified in the Date Range.
  • 30 Day High
    Select this option to scan for the 30 Day High over the period of time specified in the Date Range.
  • 30 Day Low
    Select this option to scan for the 30 Day Low over the period of time specified in the Date Range.

Period Type

This setting sets the period type to use when selecting the close price for the High / Low scan. For example, by selecting Daily, the High / Low Scan will be calculated off the close price of a day bar period (a daily chart), if it was set to Weekly, it would be calculated off the close price of a Weekly bar period (a weekly chart). You can select from the following options.

  • Daily
  • Weekly
  • Monthly
  • Yearly
Last modified on Thursday, 29 April 2010 11:03