Sorting Chartlists (not charts) in a predetermined order?

Robertplayitloud

Dear friends, do you have any idea how to sort the order of appearance of Chartlists (not charts within a Chartlist)? 001 etc does not seem to work. Thanks for your advice, Robert

markd

You are correct that you can't click (e.g. on List Name on the Member page) to sort your lists.

However, you can determine list order by name because the chart list names appear in alphabetical order.

Here's a screen shot of my lists for the Energy sector:



The numbers on the left determine the order the lists appear in. Probably more complicated than necessary, but it shows that names matter.

If I needed another Energy list, I could name it 10 10 06 ... Other Energy and it would appear after 10 10 05 ... Coal.

If I wanted to change the order of the list, I might have to change the names of multiple lists to get it right.

If you add a list and it doesn't appear where you think it should, click away from the list page and come back. When the list page is refreshed, the lists should be in alpha order.

lmkwin

On this video he talks about how to order things. He also says that the 10 per page view has been replaced with Scrollview. I know that it was back on Bainbridge (a cute name applied to updates) that it got implemented but it got reversed back to 10 per page, at least on my account. So I don't know about that one. He's the Director of Operations at StockCharts, I'm not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qnnFhOMFEc&t=92s

Robertplayitloud

Thank you!

KMD

I also was looking for a way to order some lists and was hoping for a simple way to do it. I need something more exact than the star system in the video above, as I want a precise order for the list. Since a simpler method is not available, I will adjust the chart list with; *AA, *AB, *AC...,*BA, *BB, *BC, etc. It is time consuming, but this method will give me the exact order that I need. I need the order to match an Excel spreadsheet.

lmkwin

If you have a bunch of lists that you create via a scan(s) you can make life easier by naming the scans what you would like to have the chartlist names to be.

Example: My chartlist for this scan needs to be called AB Not as good as AA . If I name the scan used AB Not as good as AA, when I run the scan I can save the results to a new list and the chartlist name will be setup, automatically as AB Not as good as AA (plus the date run).

Naming conventions (how you name things) is a very important thing when dealing with chartlists. The more lists you create the more obviously important it becomes.

markd

With due respect to Grayson's method and your own, I would say if you have some kind of consistent order in the way you like to view things, I think a numbering system offers the most flexibility. Not a 1,2,3 sequential order, but groupings and sub=groupings.

For instance, you can use the first grouping to order by sector

10 Energy
15 Materials
20 Industrials

etc.

Then a second grouping to order by industry

10 10 Energy - Integrated O&G
10 20 Energy - Exploration and Production

Then you could use a third grouping to order the list by, say, dividend, or by SCTR rank or whatever.

10 10 10 Energy - Integrated by yield
10 10 11 Energy - Integrated by SCTR

And so on.

I would think this method would allow you to replicate your spreadsheet pretty handily. You can space out the numbers (e.g. 10, 15, 20.. ) so you can add new groups between the old groups ( e.g. 10, 12, 15, 17, 20, etc.) if your spreadsheet changes.

For new lists, maybe it would help to have an index card taped to the monitor to remind you what each group and sub-group represents.