calculate difference between today and specific previous date

[abotoni]

would like to ask for help creating a study that calculates the difference between last price and the closing price on a certain previous date like 05/13/2021

 

[scott69]

Not a script, but the trend line drawing tool will do that for you. Make sure in the settings that "snap drawings to" is set to OHLC, then on the chart middle mouse click or choose drawing tools from chart menu, choose the trend line tool -> click on the two points of interest. You will get time, number of bars, move points, move percent, angle of line. Please note these before clicking on the second point, as this data disappears. I use this all the time to get points and percent of moves.

 

[abotoni]

Thanks. That helps for one stock at a time but I want to use it as a scanning tool.

 

[SleepyZ]

Thanks. That helps for one stock at a time but I want to use it as a scanning tool.

See if this helps. The label code is only included for debugging and needs to be removed for scanning.

input date      = 20210513;
def prior_close = if GetYYYYMMDD() == date
                  then close
                   else prior_close[1];
def close_diff  = close - prior_close;
plot scan       = close_diff > 0;;

input showlabel = yes;
AddLabel(showlabel,  "Today Close: " + AsText(close)
                   + "  " + AsPrice(date) + " Close: " + AsText(prior_close)
                   + "  Diff: " + AsText(close_diff),
                     if close_diff >= 0
                     then Color.LIGHT_GREEN
                     else Color.PINK);

 

[abotoni]

See if this helps. The label code is only included for debugging and needs to be removed for scanning.

input date      = 20210513;
def prior_close = if GetYYYYMMDD() == date
                  then close
                   else prior_close[1];
def close_diff  = close - prior_close;
plot scan       = close_diff > 0;;

input showlabel = yes;
AddLabel(showlabel,  "Today Close: " + AsText(close)
                   + "  " + AsPrice(date) + " Close: " + AsText(prior_close)
                   + "  Diff: " + AsText(close_diff),
                     if close_diff >= 0
                     then Color.LIGHT_GREEN
                     else Color.PINK);

works like magic! thanks