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- Instructions for Installing Custom Scan thinkScripts in the thinkorswim Platform
- The following instructions explain how to install a custom thinkScript
- scan filter into the thinkorswim (TOS) platform. This will allow you to
- create your own custom scans, extending the functionality beyond the
- built-in scans, studies, and filters. Use these instructions to install
- thinkScripts labeled "thinkScript Scan" in my Pastebin library.
- By Chris Baker <ChrisBaker97@gmail.com> @ChrisBaker97
- Latest version maintained at: http://pastebin.com/wGi1Mvuh
- More thinkScripts at: http://pastebin.com/u/ChrisBaker97
- This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
- 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit:
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US
- To install in the TOS platform:
- • Click on the Scan tab and select the Stock Hacker sub-tab
- • Click on Add Study Filter
- • Note that an ADXCrossover study has been added by default
- • Click ADXCrossover and select Custom...
- • Click on the thinkScript Editor tab
- • Select all of the study's text and hit Delete to clear it
- • Copy and paste the desired study's text in its place
- • Click OK
- —
- Frequently Asked Questions:
- Q: Why can't I save my custom scan study? Do I need to go through this
- procedure every time I want to reproduce my scan?
- A: Unlike custom chart studies, there is no way to save this custom
- Stock Hacker filter. I suggest that you instead save this (along with
- any other criteria of your choosing) to a custom scan query by
- clicking on Save Scan Query... You will then be able to bring up and
- edit this custom scan by selecting it from the drop-down list as part
- of a complete Stock Hacker query.
- —
- Q: Why don't "input" variables produce nice data entry fields like they
- do on chart studies, or like those in the built-in studies?
- A: This is a limitation of the current implementation of thinkorswim.
- While built-in scan studies have provisions for this, custom studies
- do not. Custom studies just show as much of the code as will fit in
- this area and don't allow for easy user-configurable input.
- —
- Q: How can I help get thinkorswim fixed so that we can save our custom
- scan queries and easily enter user-configured parameters?
- A: Please contact support@thinkorswim.com to voice your support for
- fixing these issues.
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