BeginnerEL

inflation is popping everywhere. how long will the FED sit on their hands unless they're going stick thier head in the sand, and ignore the the problem

I think I can use the MSN scanner, but by the time I enter orders to buy the stocks, then they have already gone up beyond my entry price, so I want to automate this process (a program in EL that scans for stocks that meet my pre-set criteria, then it automatically buys the stocks)........or EL is not that sophisticated yet? it seems like you've writen a scan function in EL before ... Would you tell me how this program works. it seems it can scan only one chart at the time (because no do loop or while loop for the repetitive scan in the program), and the chart needs to be opened on the computer screen I think? Thanks // Scan Print (for use in scanner) // version: beta 0.1 // Author: TAMS // License: public use // // this indicator is for demonstration purpose only // // Description: // this indicator scans the last bar on the chart, // if the close is higher than previous bar's high, // it will make a printout to // a) the Output log window, // b) the printer, or // c) a file. // // see this thread for discussion // http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f46/scan-print-6194.html // Input: Send.to.Log(true), Send.to.printer(false), Send.to.file(false), File.name("c:\docs\scan_print.txt"); if LastBarOnChart then begin if c > h[1] then begin if Send.to.Log then print(NumToStr(date+19000000,0), " C>H[1] " + getsymbolname); if Send.to.printer then print(printer, NumToStr(date+19000000,0), " C>H[1] " + getsymbolname); if Send.to.file then Fileappend(file.name, NumToStr(date+19000000,0) + " C>H[1] " + getsymbolname + newline); end; end;

Hi Tams - I also want to implement a scan function in EasyLanguage, but I don't know much about it, and you're EL expert. Could you help me to to get the ball rolling, then I can work on it by myself? this is what I plan to write 1) write a program in EL to scan the markets for stocks whose market cap is greater than$20 billions AND 2) they have been down for 5 days on the roll AND 3) their price has to be greater than $20 AND 4) average volume is greater than 200K THEN 5) buy top ten stocks (basing on market cap) from the scanned result at open Thank you for your help.