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The scanner allows you to find stocks of interest, cutting through the mass of price and volume information. You can scan live Intraday or End of Day, the latter with daily, weekly, monthly, yearly price bars.

Scanner - End of Day

Use FCharts to scan End of Day prices and sort the results into categories or watchlists.

The scanner can use a very simple formula such as

     Close > Open

or something much more complicated, as per the Formula Examples. You can scan for multiple matches, or just the most recent price bar. You can also choose to scan daily, weekly, monthly or yearly prices.

FCharts will automatically generate weekly, monthly and yearly price bars from the daily ones, as required. There is no need to find and import this data.



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Scanner - Intraday

Use FCharts to scan live intraday prices and display matches for your formula.

This form can help to keep track of intraday price action. For example, if you've drawn your Target Trendlines on the stocks you're watching you could set up an intraday scan to keep an eye on them:

     close > targetbuy or close < targetsell

You could also modify the formula so that triggers when the close is within x percent of the targets, thus giving you a bit of warning. In this example we're looking for stocks within half a percentage point of our target buy or sell:

     within close, 0.5%, targetbuy or within close, 0.5%, targetsell



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