GetSymbol() Not Working

[rick1142]

I'm working on an indicator that combines values from different tickers, so I am trying to use GetSymbol() to get the current values of the referenced stocks. To start off, I pasted the following code from the ThinkScript Learning Center into a study called GetSymbolTest:


declare lower;
plot Diff = close(GetSymbol()) - close("IBM");

which is supposed to plot "the difference between Close prices of currently selected symbol and IBM.". But when I use the script the lower window is blank. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong, and how can I get GetSymbol() to work? Any information will be appreciated.


Or maybe I should have said, referencing symbols other than the current one is not working. If I change the code to

declare lower;
plot Diff = close(GetSymbol());

It works. It's the reference to IBM that is not working, and that is what I am looking for. So I gues the question is why doesn't the following code :

declare lower;
plot Diff = close("IBM");


work?

 

[FutureTony]

I'm working on an indicator that combines values from different tickers, so I am trying to use GetSymbol() to get the current values of the referenced stocks. To start off, I pasted the following code from the ThinkScript Learning Center into a study called GetSymbolTest:


declare lower;
plot Diff = close(GetSymbol()) - close("IBM");

which is supposed to plot "the difference between Close prices of currently selected symbol and IBM.". But when I use the script the lower window is blank. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong, and how can I get GetSymbol() to work? Any information will be appreciated.


Or maybe I should have said, referencing symbols other than the current one is not working. If I change the code to

declare lower;
plot Diff = close(GetSymbol());

It works. It's the reference to IBM that is not working, and that is what I am looking for.

You actually don't need to use getSymbol() at all in your example:
def currentClose = close;
def otherSymbolClose = close(symbol="IBM");
plot diff = currentclose - otherSymbolClose;

Or something like that depending on your end goal. Good luck!

 

[rick1142]

Thanks I appreciate the answer. It's working now. It looks like the reason it wasn't was because I was testing it on a tick chart. The code snippet:

close(symbol="IBM")

is defintely what I was looking for.