Setting up Gaps

[ashwoka]

I have SharescopePro and want to find gaps at the market opening.
What is the best way to set one up on say a LSE List screen.
Any help and ideas would be great.

Thanks

Karl

 

[TanushiHeadbash]

Never tried writing any scripts for the real time data- I have SSplus so 15 mins delayed (when i can use it)
The immediate way i can think would be to write a script to check the open price (there is a getOpen() function) the only thing I am not sure of is if this would work on the real time data. I am not sure if SS stores this data inthe same place as the end of day data such that the function would "see" it.
I might give it a go see if I can get something working on mine in the 15 mins delayed- the principle is the same. You would want to check the open against the previous close.
Only issue beyond this I can see is that the gap is effectively between the Opening selling price (bid) As its the lower of the bid/ask and the previous days close. I'm not sure if the re is a function that can pull out this level of detail- ie the bid rather than the mid price.

 

[SS Marketing]

Ashwoka, in the imminent new release of ShareScope Plus/Pro, ShareScript will have access to intraday data. Therefore you would be able to create a very simple script that looked for instruments where the intraday open (or low) is higher than the previous day's high. Likewise gapping down. You could use this script as a data mining filter - giving you a list of matching instruments - or you could use it in a column - maybe displaying the string "GAP UP" or "GAP DOWN". If you don't know how to script, I'm sure someone on the ShareScript forum will happily oblige. ShareScope ShareScript