Sophisticated Scanner Tool
Okay,
I know that I had hijacked the feature request section, but I really want Protrader to be the best platform out there. So I decided to give an idea for a panel that we can usually find under the terminal section.
This feature is geared more towards stock traders than forex. This is how this feature would work:
Let's say that you're looking for a stock, but don't know where to start. There are thousands and thousands of stocks out there. Well, you can use this powerful feature to filter out the ones that you're interested in. Not only that, you can even assign a weight to have important that filter is. Once this scanner scans the market, it will return possible stocks with the ones that matches your preference being a dark green and the ones that are off, somewhat, being a dark red.
So, here is an example:
Let's say you're looking for a stock that is around $15 per share and dividends that are paid out to be 1%. This sophisticated scanner will then look around and find two companies (I'm using two for simplicity). One was $16 a share and paid out 2% for dividends. The other one was $18 a share and paid out 0.5% per year. Obviously, the first one is going to be a darker green since it matches your conditions better.
I give this feature a score of 9/10 and this would be great for PTMC 2.0. No worry PFSoft, I'm about done. I will stop posting new ideas because I'm about out of ideas :). This would be neat to have, but users can find a scanner out there on the web and it isn't essential that this feature is located within Protrader. I'm just giving out ideas.
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andrew 14.07.2016
Check out EquityFeed. While it is obnoxiously irritating to have to pay many different companies for access to the same market data, right now it is the best scanner that i know of. There is another called TradeIdeas but haven't tried it yet. It's on my ever growing list of things to do.
PTMC in its current state, right now, is the single best platform around. Hands down, period, end of story. I've evaluated dozens of solutions since starting this adventure and have become very picky.
If i had to pay to use this now, i would. It's that f******g good.
Look at it this way, any new features like this would just be icing on an already delicious cake.
You could try to develop something like this on your own. As far as i know the plugin API gives you access to a tickers fundamental and price data. It's all C# which is one of the most popular programming languages and should be very easy to pick up, especially since there is a learning context. (You have a reason to learn and advance yourself because you're building the thing you want most.)
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Bogdan Alexey 15.07.2016
Sure, we undestand how important scanner for stock trading. At the moment we don't want to develop something similar (because it should be server side solution), so we've started researching market for suitable data from other companies. Our favorite is Finviz, but we'll analyse all options. Once we have any results we will inform you.
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wsDK_II.msn 23.11.2017What is the latest with this feature request?
It is a great idea.