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Creating a "Wish List" of improvements I'd love to see Stockcharts do

peterinjapanpeterinjapan ✭
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I've been a Stockcharts.com customer since 2020, and I've been very impressed with the improvements they've added for their users over the years. I've been compiling a short list of things I'd really love them to fix going forward.

So far I have:

a) would love customization. If I want to focus on certain factors, there's no way to make them stand out in different colors or specify what I want on my charts. Relatedly, I'd like an "edit layout" feature so I can put the ticker on the right side of the screen. I trade with a 55" TV, and turning my head to the left to see the ticker, then to the right to see the current bar, gives me whiplash!

b) The more I watch people using other chart systems, the more I feel the annotate needs (another) overhaul. I should be able to hit a key on the keyboard, and the chart would know I want to draw an arrow, then hit another key, now I want to draw a box. Also, there's a frustrating bug whereby I have to click the "select" arrow, wait a second, then click it again if I want the select arrow to actually be selected.

c) I love viewing charts in Chartbook form. Why is there no way to change the sort, like sort by RSI high to low, or anything like that?

Got anything to add to my list? I will send them to the staff, and also to Dave Keller.

Comments

  • lmkwinlmkwin ✭✭
    regarding c) You can sort your list in a number of ways using a rank by on a scan.

    My List
    Rank by [whatever indiction I'd like to sort by]

    The Summary View also allows you to sort and save your list by any of the columns showing in that view. RSI is one of the columns available. You can click on the header of the column to sort in ascending and descending order. At the bottom of that page is a Number in Sorted Order button that will save that sort for your review in any other view, like Chartbook.

    When you are in Summary view, the Columns button allows you to pick and choose what shows on the screeen. If it shows on the screen, you can sort your list by that column. Tom Bowley likes to sort by Next Earnings date to see who is reporting in the near future.




    Just an fyi, Dave Keller is no longer employed as a bigwig at StockCharts.com. He's still a contributor via blog postings.

    I'd like to see all of the Price information be placed together on the Full Quote screen. Currently Open, High, Low are on one side and Last/Close is on the other side. They do have room to reformat that entire header to be more useful or less cumbersome to the user.


  • SteveJSteveJ ✭

    I would like a Search Button on the "Your Chart List".

  • lmkwinlmkwin ✭✭
    You can view all of your chartlists that have a particular symbol in them using the Symbol Summary view. At the bottom of the page is a listing of your chartlists that contain the symbol that you are Symbol Summary-ing on.

    Search Buttons on StockCharts.com are somewhat lean in their abilities.
  • peterinjapanpeterinjapan ✭
    More bugs for them to fix. The weird but that makes me click the Arrow, or whatever I want to manipulate, TWICE, since the first one does not usually take, on Chrome on Mac. The fact that you cannot run scans on your own notes, e.g. the scanning engine knows the name of the company but if you have notes or flags entered in your own chartlist, they are invisible to the scanning engine. I'd like to be able to customize how price info shows, e.g. if I want to see Price to Sales in bold and orange for some reason, give me that. Or a way to highlight negative EPS growth in red so I don't miss it.
  • lmkwinlmkwin ✭✭
    edited May 9
    Excellent suggestions. The data display information definitely should be modified.

    I doubt that the Notes/Flags/(they are called Comments on the site) would work in scans for a lot of reasons, but it would be nice to see them display in the Summary view column options. I use the Comments field, but the only way to see and add/change/delete them is in Edit view, Chartlist View and ChartBook view. Just an FYI, you can Sort the list in Edit view on Comments field, if desired.

    It would also be nice to have all the Fundamentals data available for scans.
  • peterinjapanpeterinjapan ✭
    Another frustration is that it seems you can't force a chartstyle to not adjust for dividends. I click the button off and save my default charts, but it always gets turnback on. The fix is apparently for my chartlists to always refer to _AAPL, _MSFT instead of AAPL, MSFT. I've got 900 stocks in my main chartlist, I don't feel the need to update them all.




  • markdmarkd mod
    Are you saving the style you want (not the chart or list) as a style with a name? e.g. "no adjustments" Then apply that style name to all the charts in the list with the apply all button on the chart workbench. Then save the list.

  • lmkwinlmkwin ✭✭
    I tried this out. Went to the New SharpCharts Workbench. Clicked off the Adjust for Dividends When I clicked off the Adjust for Dividends, the symbol changed from AAPL to _AAPL.

    I then Saved the Chartstyle as a named chartstyle on my account. I then changed to a different saved chartstyle and then back to the unadjusted chartstyle I'd just saved. The Adjust for Dividends box checked as on, even though the chartstyle had been saved with it off.

    So it looks like that is one on that Scale and Display Settings area that doesn't save to the style. I'd imagine that Invert Main Price Scale would also be in that same boat. Maybe Extended Hours as well. I didn't check those out and have no intention to.
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