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WHY such a weak SCAN OPTION in Sierra

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[2014-10-29 08:09:24] #1 [Go To First Post]
User54027 - Posts: 128
Hello Sierra, I enjoy your platform and what you offer is in my opinion far superior to your competition such as Esignal. However you need an easy to use powerful screening/dashboard function. You dont currently offer this and it is a huge gap in the service you provide. Is something like this ever going to be a possibility on Sierra? I know you have a scan option but it is very weak and not user friendly at all. If you would like to scan 50 instruments over 5 time frames looking at 2 or 3 different indicator readings you have a problem. This should be achieveable where you simply enter the instruments you wish to scan. Select the indicator settings and criteria that need to be met and select the different time frames you want scanned in live data. You should then have a single screen easy to read summary by line of each instrument highlighting the exact state of each instrument in relation to the criteria you have entered. I have requested this a number of times and have no real response and clearly it is not just me that would like something simple and powerful as demonstrated in the below you tube video. Please can you assist or simply tell me its not possible on Sierra. Many thanks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGegKWJ8cww#t=58

[2014-10-30 02:14:00] #2 [Go To First Post]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
There is a significant amount of work which goes into the development of this. The question is how much demand is there for it. With so many other things we have to do, it is just one of those things that just never gets around to any serious consideration. Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, change to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2014-10-30 06:51:05] #3 [Go To First Post]
User54027 - Posts: 128
Support, That is a good question - how much demand is there for it? If there were no demand how is it that other platforms such as Tradestation, Esignal etc etc etc all offer this function. Surely the fact that it is hard work is not a reason to simply not do it? Seriously? Being able to programme a set number of key factors and then search across hundreds of instruments to immediaetly find your ideal set up and trade candidates is a HUGE HUGE benefit to any trader out there. Especially stock traders that are looking for set ups in individual stocks where they need to look at hundreds and hundreds of stocks to find the correct set up. This function is not a gimmick and is a very powerful time saver for the serious trader.

[2014-10-30 16:24:36] #4 [Go To First Post]
ejtrader - Posts: 688
Scan/Dashboard style tools are popular in general: Ninja Trader - Market Analyzer http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?market_analyzer.htm TradeStation - Radar Screen http://www.tradestation.com/trading-technology/tradestation-platform/find-opportunities/radarscreen Multicharts - Scanner http://www.multicharts.com/market-scanner/

[2014-11-19 11:34:15] #5 [Go To First Post]
User54027 - Posts: 128
A point well made ejtrader. Support, please could you look into the options surrounding this, even if you made it a chargeable add on. I am certain you would a large number of traders wanting to use this service. Many thanks.

[2015-03-01 16:03:02] #6 [Go To First Post]
User133800 - Posts: 1
Quite disappointing indeed. I would also like to see this feature. I'm using TC2000 and it has an "Easy Scan" feature to set up scans for the instruments you are interested in, for instance "all optionable stocks", just by clicking together the formula / indicators you like to scan for. I thought your Candlestick Pattern finder would be similar to this, but unfortunately it is not, as you can only use it on a particular instrument / chart. That's indeed a week spot of SC. I was thinking to switch over from TC2000. But without proper scanning or trackers SC is basically useless for me. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2015-03-01 16:07:32

[2015-03-21 06:23:34] #7 [Go To First Post]
Acro - Posts: 436
+1 I have licences for SC and Multicharts. I only fire up Multicharts for its scanner feature and nothing else. I would love it if I could do all my work in SC (and occasionally Excel or R for statistics)

[2015-03-21 18:39:11] #8 [Go To First Post]
maxpi - Posts: 175
Tradestation 2000 had it's grid scanner called RadarScreen but it also had the ability to scan all the open charts for an indicator's signals. I'm guessing that the latter is doable with the existing ACSIL.

[2016-11-27 14:18:28] #9 [Go To First Post]
ctcamb007 - Posts: 5
I would also like the scanning feature. I was hoping to use it to find opportunities and that will tie into automated trading

[2016-11-28 06:00:34] #10 [Go To First Post]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
Sierra Chart does fully support scanning. Refer to: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?page=doc/StudyChartAlertsAndScanning.php#Scanning Also the video linked to in #1 does not impress us. Just a bunch of slick advertising and no substance. Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, change to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2016-12-07 08:17:40] #11 [Go To First Post]
Neo - Posts: 198
@Sierra Chart Engineering Re-scanner/ dashboard/ front end interface Custom alerts can be already be created and output to a spreadsheet which would act as the frontend interface. This can be done across all charts in a workbook, so you already have the backend to rival other platforms in terms of a REALtime scanner/ radar screen. However, using a spreadsheet study as the front end is currently very limited. I have alerts setup with true/false values, all TRUE/FALSE values are the same color. Is there any way I can color code my alerts? i.e where is the conditional color formatting? or column sorting? Even just conditional color formatting would be a good improvement. I realize there currently isn't much demand for this, so I'm willing to pay myself for either to be implemented. Please consider, and please let me know the costs involved. See attachment for example. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2016-12-07 08:20:32


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[2016-12-09 09:48:15] #12 [Go To First Post]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
Did you want to have two different colors, one for TRUE and one for FALSE? Something basic like this is not really much difficulty. The cost would be about 50 USD. Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, change to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2016-12-10 05:15:00] #13 [Go To First Post]
Neo - Posts: 198
Ideally, I would like to set custom colors, TRUE, FALSE for a cell, or for a column, or for both. So a user could manually color format TRUE/FALSE values based on the significance of each condition. Is anything like this within the scope? I'm prepared to pay more. If not, one color for TRUE is the best solution. This could be setup as a global setting and should be independent of what text color is set up in each cell's properties- Eg text color in all cells could be set to the same color as the background color, therefore values in each cell would only be visible if the condition was TRUE- see attachment. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2016-12-10 05:15:25


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[2016-12-10 09:55:46] #14 [Go To First Post]
Marmany - Posts: 303
I would also find it useful if you were to implement conditional formatting based on TRUE/ FALSE. In addition the power of my Sierra Spreadsheet Scanner would be increased if you were able to implement multi column sorting. On the Old Spreadsheet System this was available across 3 columns whereas the current Spreadsheet only allows 1.

[2016-12-15 07:49:33] #15 [Go To First Post]
Neo - Posts: 198
If not, one color for TRUE is the best solution. This could be setup as a global setting and should be independent of what text color is set up in each cell's properties- Eg text color in all cells could be set to the same color as the background color, therefore values in each cell would only be visible if the condition was TRUE- see attachment. Are you still looking into this?

[2016-12-15 17:49:55] #16 [Go To First Post]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
Not at this moment. Please allow about 1 to 2 months before we have a chance to get to this. Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, change to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2016-12-16 00:05:25] #17 [Go To First Post]
Neo - Posts: 198
Ok. When you get to this, please also keep in mind that I'm prepared to pay.

[2016-12-20 00:44:58] #18 [Go To First Post]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
OK we will be looking at this as soon as we can. Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, change to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2017-04-10 22:06:15] #19 [Go To First Post]
Neo - Posts: 198
Re post #11,#12, #13 -conditional color formatting/ color coded spreadsheet alerts. Can something basic please be implemented. I know you guys are busy, hence why i'm willing to pay.

[2017-04-11 17:32:01] #20 [Go To First Post]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
We apologize. We are not in a position to be able to help with this now. Our development load is far beyond our capability to handle right now, and we do not expect that to be improved upon for about six months. Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, change to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing Date Time Of Last Edit: 2017-04-11 17:32:32

[2017-04-11 19:13:46] #21 [Go To First Post]
Neo - Posts: 198
I understand you guys are busy, however, the reality is you're going to be just as busy in 6 months time aswell. So it would seem anyway. So there must be a price I can pay to get something basic implemented sooner rather than later? Name your price. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2017-04-11 19:37:19

[2017-04-13 04:19:59] #22 [Go To First Post]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
The developer responsible for this will look this over next week. The way that we will handle this, is come up with a basic implementation that meets your requirements, and determine 50 percent of the cost. We do not want to make any promises and our interest in helping out is your interest, and really wanting the feature and willing to pay for it. It is not as though we are doing it for money. No not at all. We got far higher priorities. Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, change to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing Date Time Of Last Edit: 2017-04-13 04:20:46

[2017-04-13 06:40:36] #23 [Go To First Post]
Neo - Posts: 198
Thanks, I understand. Any basic implementation would be very much appreciated. I'm sure other users would find it useful aswell. I would happily sort it out myself, however, it's not something that can just be programmed in ACSIL

[2018-01-23 00:29:56] #24 [Go To First Post]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
This is one of these items, where we just simply did not even have a chance to get to even looking at this. -conditional color formatting/ color coded spreadsheet alerts. Can something basic please be implemented. I know you guys are busy, hence why i'm willing to pay. Now that we have the Study Summary window, do you still need this? Alerts from the Spreadsheet studies can be highlighted on the Study Summary window and supports their own coloring. ACSIL can do custom coloring of Study Summary cells as well. Study Summary Window documentation: Study Summary Window Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, change to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing Date Time Of Last Edit: 2018-01-23 00:31:59

[2018-05-13 06:13:59] #25 [Go To First Post]
User164231 - Posts: 278
I am in love!

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