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Intraday Form

This form allows you to collect and import Intraday data from a variety of sources.

While importing intraday, you also have the option of generating End-of-day price bars. However, to get accurate EOD bars you must run the intraday collector from or before market open, else the open price for the EOD bar won't be correct. (It's best to import a proper EOD file after market close, replacing the automatically generated bars. Despite that, it can be useful to see a market snapshot during the day.)

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Intraday - Alerts

Configure the sounds you'll hear when an Intraday alert goes off.

When an alert goes off FCharts can sound an alert, optionally using a different noise for conditions 1 to 4. (The only time these alerts will sound is when you have an intraday chart open, live data is coming in, and the price/indicator action matches one of your formulae.) If you want to scan more than a handful of stocks, I recommend the Intraday Scanner instead, although this only allows one entry formula.

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Intraday - Quotetracker

If you install Medved Quotetracker you can set it up with a suitable intraday data source and then hook FCharts up to read this data in realtime.

Running FCharts with Quotetracker is simple. Install Quotetracker, activate the http interface (in the Quotetracker settings screen), then select the QT data source in FCharts. In FCharts 2 you can now match a QT portfolio and an FCharts Watchlist, and automatically transfer all the tickers from the watchlist to the selected portfolio. E.g. you could create Quotetracker portfolios for Today, Held, Long Term Hold, etc and automatically populate the stock tickers using your FCharts watchlists. When eyeballing charts in the evening I add tickers I'd like to keep an eye on to a watchlist called Today, and then first thing the next morning I transfer this watchlist into a Quotetracker portfolio so I can track those tickers closely.

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Time Filtering

This form allows you to filter data which falls outside your collection times. E.g. you can block off Saturday and Sunday, to ensure you never get data filled on the weekend by mistake.



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Scanner - Intraday

Use FCharts to scan live intraday prices and display matches for your formula.

This form can help to keep track of intraday price action. For example, if you've drawn your Target Trendlines on the stocks you're watching you could set up an intraday scan to keep an eye on them:

     close > targetbuy or close < targetsell

You could also modify the formula so that triggers when the close is within x percent of the targets, thus giving you a bit of warning. In this example we're looking for stocks within half a percentage point of our target buy or sell:

     within close, 0.5%, targetbuy or within close, 0.5%, targetsell



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