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"....we'll have an email for you soon with ALL of the details, but I can share a couple of things with you now:
- Scheduled Scans: the ability to automatically run a scan at a specific time of day and save the results for later review
-- Continuous Scrolling ChartLists: no more clicking on "next"
-- Earnings Dates on the charts!
... and much more."
As someone who uses Alerts pretty extensively, I'll put this change in the FANTASTIC Change bucket. This will actually improve some of my processes tremendously.
If a wheel is round, don't upgrade it and make it square.
The Performance View is a nice feature.
Symbol Summary view is also a nice add. Doesn't look like they updated the Symbol Summary yet, but it's nice to be able to access it for a list.
I do like the column adds to Summary view. Being able to sort on different indicators without having to run a Rank By scan is somewhat beneficial. I don't normally use the default settings on indicators but it's better than it was before in my opinion.
Interesting feature in that area. If you select "Your Scans" section, it will display all of your saved Scans with all of the text of the scans. Could be useful for "backing up" your scan code. Also could be useful in identifying and removing no longer needed scans that have been saved. You can delete them right from this listing. You can also edit and run them from here as well. Pretty useful.
Here's a link to the latest round of sitewide updates.....
https://stockcharts.com/new/
If your car drives fine with ROUND wheels, why would you put SQUARE wheels on it??
Still has some benefit over what was there before, which was nothing.
Now that they set up some scan capability for ACP indicators, it should be interesting.
It took me 18 EIGHTEEN CLICKS ..... and ONE MINUTE TWENTY SECONDS to get to the bottom of a ranked chartlist containing 570 items.
I could get there in ONE CLICK previously.
Auto scrolling candleglance charts makes the RANK feature almost USELESS if you want to see the ranked highs and lows of your lists.
BLAH ....... if it ain't broke, do not fix it.
And ranking is useless with Candleglance because it takes WAAAAY too long to get to the end of the list.
Doesn't anyone BETA TEST these new features first?... Who dreams this stuff up?
Sheduled scans and automatic scrolling ..... ..... FAR WORSE THAN WHAT WE HAD PREVIOUSLY.
So, if I want to click / review 10 charts in my list, I now have to return to the TOP of the list 10 TIMES, and again WAIT TEN TIMES .. and CONSTANTLY KEEP CLICKING my task slider ... for that spinning circle to get me back to the bottom of the list. ............. THIS MAKES THE CANDLEGLANCE VIEW -- TOTALLY USELESS -- for reviewing charts.
They replaced a very good ONE SECOND, 2 CLICK process .... with a 1 MINUTE, 20 CLICK ONE. And that is just to see ONE chart. ... We are now slaves to that SPINNING CIRCLE.
Thank you for contacting us. The issue you are reporting is a bug on our end that has been passed onto the programming team to review and correct. Unfortunately I don't have a specific time-frame for when this will get reviewed and fixed but we are aware of this issue with scheduled scans.
The spinning wheel isn't an improvement. Grayson says that you know you are at the bottom of the CandleGlance when you don't see the spinning wheel anymore. NICE!!! I prefer to know where I am on a list at all times. Some times I want to focus on a certain section. Page 13 on the 10 per page, or page 4 on the CandleGlance. Page 4 no longer exists.
With that TERRIBLE Auto Scroll, it takes me 18 CLICKS ... 18 SPINNING CIRCLE WAITS ... and over 1 FULL MINUTE ... to get to the bottom of a chartlist.
Plus, with e4very spinning circle, the charts JUMP on the screen, forcing me to memorize precisely where I am before I hit another click.
The problem is, as you have noted, with a long list, the page takes a LONG time to load (the spinning circle).
NOTE: clicking while the circle is spinning does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. The cursor is "dead" until the page stops loading. It might look like you are doing something because one batch of pages gets loaded at a time, and then the next batch gets loaded. But it's doing that automatically, not in response to your clicks. So, you could go get a coffee and come back and it will load just as fast (well, slow).
I'm not sure why the page takes so long to load. It probably loads faster if your charts are simple - no indicators at all might be pretty fast (relatively speaking), while a lot of them (I have thirteen) would really slow it down (loading the sp500 takes about 3 minutes on my machine (a guess - didn't time it: edit I did time it - 2:15 approx). It might also depend on the speed of your internet connection (and whether your connection is wireless (slower) or ethernet cable (faster) or what kind of graphics card you have, or whether you are on a laptop or PC (or Mac).
I'm guessing a lot people might like the slider for reviewing charts - once you get used to it, its probably faster than clicking on pages and having them reload every time you want to go to different charts. But I agree the initial wait for the single page to load is a deal breaker unless they can find a faster way to do it.
It takes my long chartlist of 578 symbols.... 18 clicks ... 18 spinning circles ... and over a FULL MINUTE to load.
The problem is they are downloading "pages" just like before. It is NOT my internet speed, NOT my clicking too early, NOT my computer, etc. It is THEIR server speed. My candleglance charts are simple charts, 3 moving averages, no indicators, no indicator pane display.
The power of candleglance charts is you can see a lot of RANKED charts very quickly. Ranked means see highs and lows, the list top and bottoms, the extremes. That is where the opportunity is. Oversold, undersold, ran too far, turning up, etc.
The 18 clicks ... 18 spinning circles ... 1 FULL MINUTE to load occurs BOTH on my work computer and my home computer, on my work internet and home internet. I let one spinning circle stop, before clicking again. ... 18 spinning circles x 3 seconds = 54 seconds. At 4 seconds each, it is 72 seconds. THAT IS TOO LONG to get to a chartlist bottom.
I ran this scan:
[group is sp500]
rank by sctr.large
It brings back 500 symbols ranked by sctr on the results page.
I used "replace" and "preserve sort order" to save the symbols in sctr order to my existing sp500 list.
I opened the list in candleglance.
I waited (and waited) while it loaded completely without any clicking. It takes a little over two minutes to load everything. I can't click when the wheel stops spinning because the next set of charts starts loading before the wheel stops spinning. I have to keep sliding down to see the spinning wheel, but as I get there the next set of charts start loading.
WHEN THEN LOADING IS DONE, all the symbols are displayed IN SCTR ORDER on one (very long) page. The symbols with the best sctrs are near the top of the page, and the poor sctrs are way down the bottom of the page. I can quickly slide from the top to the bottom of the page and anywhere in between - very quickly and faster than the old way. I can tell where I am in the list - half way down, quarter way, two thirds, etc. - by the position of the slider bar in the slider. (The slider represents the whole page - the slider bar represents how far up or down you are on the page).
I can't explain why you have to click to load pages and I don't. I don't know if it matters, but I use Firefox. Other browsers might work differently. There may be a setting somewhere for how to load pages. It's not a problem for me so I haven't looked.
I agree with you the loading process is much too slow.
I also agree that some people might find numbered pages easier to navigate and for finding symbols with specific characteristics. I think it's easier to find a page number again than it is to remember how far up or down the page a symbol was.
WAITED TWO MINUTES .... this says everything.
With no Auto Scroll ... I wait TWO SECONDS to see my entire candleglance list.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I am AMAZED that the SC programmers pushed this "new feature" out the door so carelessly.