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Percentage Value Change

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The % Value Change scan identifies securities that have displayed a price percentage change in value over a user-defined period of time. e.g. A 50% increase in price over a period of one month.

Properties

Depending what date is selected at the Date Range option in the Scanning Manager main window, this scan would search for a 50% Increase price values over a Average Period of 1 month from the date selected in the Date Range. The scan would use the closing prices based on Daily bars.

For example, if you selected the 1st of March in the Date Range option, this would search for a 50% increase in closing price from 1st February to the 1st of March. It would look at the Daily close prices.

Change %

Select the percentage value of change to search for. Selecting 50% would look for a 50% change in closing price.

Direction

  • Increase
    Select this option to scan for a % increase in the close price over the period of time specified in the Average Period.
  • Decrease
    Select this option to scan for a % decrease in the close price over the period of time specified in the Average Period.

Average Period

  • Day
    Select this option to scan over a period of x amount of days.
  • Week
    Select this option to scan over a period of x amount of weeks.
  • Month
    Select this option to scan over a period of x amount of months.
  • Year
    Select this option to scan over a period of x amount of years.

Average Period Count

Sets the number of Average Periods to scan over.

Period Type

This setting sets the period type to use when selecting the close price for the % Value Change scan. For example, by selecting Daily, the % Value Change 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 11:05