Intraday time period scans

mark2016

Hi, is it possible to scan intraday? For example watch for stock price cross above a 20 period moving average within a 15 minute chart. Also can you set an alert to watch for this intraday cross of price and 20 period moving average on 15 minute chart? If so I would appreciate any sample code to do it. Thanks in advance, Mark

markd

The scan engine can only see daily, weekly and monthly data, and the most recent intraday update. So it cannot scan for time periods less than a day. If you run a scan intraday, it treats the most recent update, say 2:03 pm, as the close of the day, week or month, depending on what your scan asks for.

So, if you wanted to find an intraday event, maybe a crossover, for a daily, weekly, or monthly indicator or overlay - say a 5 day moving average, you could do it (although, by the end of the day, it might not be a crossover anymore). But you can't track intraday periods like hourly, ten minutes, etc.