The Filters module is part of the ScanExpert Viewer application. The ScanExpert Viewer Grid is a powerful tool in its own right. With the Grid you can monitor price and volume information along with a large number of built-in and/or custom study formulas, or user-defined conditions. You can sort on any column and you can format the display in each column in a number of ways. However there will be times when you want to identify specific trading opportunities or search for securities behaving in a specific fashion, and that is where the Filters module comes in.
Note: Filters are based on the columns of information available in the ScanExpert Viewer Grid. When creating the script that will be used to drive the Grid, make sure you include columns for all data points that you are likely to need for your filter operations (i.e., if you know you want to run a filter on a 40-period RSI, make sure you include a 40-period RSI as one of the display columns when you create your script. See Creating a New Script for more information.)
Use filters to further organize the Grid data as well as to perform realtime scanning operations.
Filter Features
| • | Multiple filters can be active at any given time. There is no limit to the number of filters you can create. |
| • | Each filter provides a different view of the data contained in the Grid. |
| • | Double-click on Symbol name and symbol link will be sent to eSignal desktop application. |
| • | The columns displayed in any filter can be the same as those displayed in the main Grid or they can be a subset of those columns. |
| • | Each filter has its own visual and audible alerts mechanism. |
| • | Filters will update in realtime throughout the trading day. The update interval can be set anywhere from 1 to 300 seconds. |
| • | As new symbols appear in a filter, they will be highlighted. |
| • | Filters can be sorted on any column or on several columns (i.e., multi-column sort) |
| • | Filters can be saved for quick reuse. |
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