Sleep till process completed
Is there a way to make QS sleep till the current process is completed?

For example: ...

Script to run scanner and increment date?
I saw the following How-To, and I was wondering if it's possible to have the script increase/decrease the date of the scan and rerun until a certain date/number of days incremented? I want to scan historical

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Add daily values to intraday scan
I am looking for volume on an hourly timeframe in a scanner. I would like to compare volume from multiple previous days. Am I using TimeframeDecompress and TimeframeApply correctly? Will this work?

Main...

Backtest help
Hello Quantshare,
how do I backtest the following?
Buy any stock at 10:30am that had a high of at least 20% above open and sell at 2% profit the same day....

Reg. Custom Database
Hello,

I have a CSV file, which I want to read using "ASCII Import" option and associate data with a custom database. How do I do this?...

Trading with Real-Time data API
I wonder whoever try http://finage.co.uk/ before writing their own algorithm? According to them they providing global stocks tick level basis waiting for your feedback?

Export Custom Database data - all symbols - including text fields
Hello - I'm trying to export a custom database for all symbols - several fields are text -

What is the best way to do this?...

Downloader ISSUES- NO ERRRORS REPORTED
Hello -

I have a download script that works fine for almost all symbols except a few - when reviewing the parser output window there are no errors - HOWEVER the data appearing in the quotes database...

Mac users
Is there a software link to download the PKG for Mac users

Reg. offline access of Quantshare
Hello,

Looks like whenever your server is not working no one will be able to start and use quantshare software. In the past I have observed this issue couple of times and I am now really worried because...

Date addition and substraction
In custom drawing tool, how can you substract two dates (objects) to get difference of number of days between two dates.
eg.
DateTime date1; DateTime date2; DateTime date3; ?...

My trading algorithm won't stop buying shares
I have a trading algorithm that I use in Python and have been testing over the course of the summer. For the most part, the algorithm runs very well but it ran into an issue this week where it purchased

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Backtest buying a group of stocks during a certain time frame intraday
Is it possible to backtest buying a group of stocks based on a specific time of day i.e 10:20am? without needed an indicator to trigger the buy or sell..So basically if I want to backtest buying aapl at

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Auto-Manage Symbols
Hello, "Auto-Manage Symbols" (menu symbol) seems to be outdated. I miss some symbols after using it for Hong Kong Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.
For example 9888.HK is missing (listed in Hong Kong Stock Exchange).
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AddTradeMetric AMM
Hi

I am exporting the "Realized Trades" data from a simulation to LibreOffice Calc....

Intraday data with volume
Hi,

I'm studying intraday charts of DAX and Dow indices (^GDAXI & ^DJI) using live data from IEX/Yahoo. I noticed neither source provides intraday volume for ^GDAXI. ...

Reg. market profile plot
My question:

I was referring to your following blog:...

Passing date variable from custom drawing tools to custom function
Is it possible to pass a string variable, date, of the bar clicked with custom drawing tool to a custom function. The custom function will take the date input from the mouse position clicked with custom

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Charting
I've got an indicator containing both positive & negative values. These values are automatically plotted by system in a way the 0 value appears at or near
the bottom of the chart.
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Quantshare keeps freezing
My quantshare keeps freezing as soon as I start the application. I tried to load database and it froze and since then I cant close it (have to terminate it) and when I start it , it keeps freezing at this

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Historical Options data backtesting
I was thinking of buying historical options data and was wondering if I can use quantshare to load this data and use it for back testing. I guess we will have to use external database feature to do this.

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Screener: average (20 bars) of (close-previous close)>10%
Hi,

can you please help me to show, how to build a screener:...

Max Trade Drawdown vs Max System Drawdown
Hi all,

Running a simple simulation on the SPY (buy and hold) to compare SPY risk reward metrics vs portfolio backtests....

Creating Trading System/Simulation doesn�t work
Hi,

the following backtest doesn�t work:...

Top 50 Weekly Increasing Close
How would I write a screener that simply looks for an improving average weekly close over past 30 days?

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One RT stream(s) to close ... ignore?.
Some times when I close quantshare I cannot because the mesage of the title appears, the suggestion is to wait but it seams that it never ends.
if I force it to end then some data saved during the session
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Multiple occurrences of a pattern
Say I have a pattern of opening price higher than the previous high, how do I find 5 occurrences of that pattern within 120 bars?

Download Insider Trading data
Hi all,

I'm new to Quantshare and writing my thesis at the VU University in the Netherlands about insider trading in the U.S. during the COVID Pandemic....

Trend Regime as a function
Hi, I'm looking for a function that is very similar to the "ExRem" in amibroker
the exrem works as follows:
ExRem (array1,array2);...

Wrong Date
Hi,

I am using Metastock data via. Download -> External Database....