Indicator for Think or Swim based on Rob Smith's The STRAT

@Pelonsax Awesome scan. However I think it needs to be changed so that the inside bar 1 bar ago and the twodown is the most current, because we want to catch the next day if it goes above the two that closes green. Current the scan is showing how it would work after thet fact. For example I pulled WIX from the scan today, it would have worked amazing!


example-insideday-previous-2down.jpg
 

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Hi Gang,

I'm hoping someone can help me understand something that I know is extremely simple...but my brain will just not compute. Using Pelonsax's amazing and most recent Time_Frame_Continuity indicator, I can't seem to wrap my brain around something. Below is a screenshot of my setup. I have charts spanning Month all the way down to 5 minute and set everything up as per the video that was posted. Easy. No problem.

1 - My brain isn't able to make sense of each timeframe's green backgound continuity down the stack from largest timeframe (monthly) to smallest. I would expect that if the week and day are both showing timeframe continuity, the month should be too. Right? Maybe I have something configured wrong for the Month settings?

2 - Also, the blue or magenta lines on each individual chart indicates where the price action needs to get to in order to achieve full time frame continuity for only the time periods active on that chart, correct? Example; I have Month/Week/Day/Hour selected on a chart. If the blue line is $1 above the current price on an hourly chart, once price hits that blue line the chart will turn green since everything on the higher ranges are already green. Is this correct?

BK4indE.png

yfMvIaO.png


Anyway, thanks in advance for anyone's help on this.
 
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Here's another example for $DXY. Shouldn't the 2nd and 3rd down on the left also show red? Im wondering if i have something configured wrong in my time frames within each chart...

wdfEDZq.png
 
@Pelonsax Thank you so much for this scan. When are we supposed to run this scan? Do we run it before market open? Thanks!
I have it saved as a watchlist that sends text alerts when the conditions are met

@greco26 email me and I'll try to do a zoom session with you where we can go over all of this. It'll be a lot quicker and hopefully avoid any confusion. pelonsax[at]hotmail.com
 
@Pelonsax I agree this would be a great scan, if it was one day earlier. The move on the day after the 2 Down green candle is the one we need to catch. Novice here with Think script. I have been trying to play with the code, but I couldn't figure it out. Any luck on tweaking it on your end? Thanks for all you do in making these scripts. You are awesome!
 
I was playing with this over the weekend and was able to set it up this way. Not sure if this is what you were looking for. Let me know if i can help.

PcQv2aj.png
 
Hi Gang,

I'm hoping someone can help me understand something that I know is extremely simple...but my brain will just not compute. Using Pelonsax's amazing and most recent Time_Frame_Continuity indicator, I can't seem to wrap my brain around something. Below is a screenshot of my setup. I have charts spanning Month all the way down to 5 minute and set everything up as per the video that was posted. Easy. No problem.

1 - My brain isn't able to make sense of each timeframe's green backgound continuity down the stack from largest timeframe (monthly) to smallest. I would expect that if the week and day are both showing timeframe continuity, the month should be too. Right? Maybe I have something configured wrong for the Month settings?

2 - Also, the blue or magenta lines on each individual chart indicates where the price action needs to get to in order to achieve full time frame continuity for only the time periods active on that chart, correct? Example; I have Month/Week/Day/Hour selected on a chart. If the blue line is $1 above the current price on an hourly chart, once price hits that blue line the chart will turn green since everything on the higher ranges are already green. Is this correct?

BK4indE.png

yfMvIaO.png


Anyway, thanks in advance for anyone's help on this.
can you share this worksplace?
 
@Pelonsax - I believe small correction needed to your MTF watchlist code. Please confirm. Nice work btw.

Ruby:
def outsidebardown1  = outsidebar[2] and O[1] > C[1];

should be

Ruby:
def outsidebardown1  = outsidebar1 and O[1] > C[1];
 
@Pelonsax - I believe small correction needed to your MTF watchlist code. Please confirm. Nice work btw.

Ruby:
def outsidebardown1  = outsidebar[2] and O[1] > C[1];

should be

Ruby:
def outsidebardown1  = outsidebar1 and O[1] > C[1];
BROO!!!!!! Hell yeah man!! I'll bet that's the problem everybody had been having with this script! Wow man, I'm so glad you caught that.
 
Excellent work and thank you for all of this! I was playing with watch list columns and saw the 1st titled Strat FTC didn't match up so I basically combined the 2 to show color codes with price. This plots more to my thinking as I want FTFC across the board as the individual frames will take care of themselves. Anyway it works for my brain. It loaded 50-70 symbols pretty quick (weekend), S&P 100 it started bogging down.

WATCH-LIST-FTC.jpg


Code:
#------------------------------------
#
#        M T F      S T R A T
#         W A T C H L I S T
# a Study by Ramon DV. aka Pelonsax
#
#------------------------------------
#------------------------------------
# S T R A T    R E V E R S A L S
#
# A study by Ramon DV. aka Pelonsax
#
# Version 1.0  8/01/20
#
# Version 2.0 8/4/20 Corrected errors in logic for scenarios
# Version 2.1 8/15/20 Added Reversals
#
#------------------------------------
plot O = open;
def H = high;
def L = low;

def C = close;
#------------------------------------
# DEFINE SCENARIOS
#------------------------------------
def insidebar =  (H < H[1] and L > L[1]) or (H == H[1] and L > L[1]) or (H < H[1] and L == L[1]) or (H == H[1] and L == L[1]);
def outsidebar =  H  > H[1] and L <  L[1];

def insidebarup  = insidebar and O < C;
def twoup  = H > H[1] and L >= L[1];
def outsidebarup  = outsidebar and O < C;
def insidebardown  = insidebar and O > C;
def twodown  = H <= H[1] and L < L[1];
def outsidebardown  = outsidebar and O > C;
#------------------------------------
# LABEL SECTION
#------------------------------------

AssignBackgroundColor(
if
twoup then Color.GREEN else if
twodown then Color.RED else if
outsidebarup then Color.DARK_GREEN else if
insidebarup then Color.LIGHT_GREEN else if
outsidebardown then Color.DARK_RED else if
insidebardown then Color.ORANGE else if
!insidebarup and
!insidebardown and
insidebar then Color.WHITE else if
!outsidebardown and
!outsidebarup and
outsidebar then Color.YELLOW else Color.CURRENT);
addlabel(yes, O, color.black);
 
Apologies for the silly question - for scans like https://tos.mx/sml8vKo (that are posted in the first post), how do you edit them? I would like to run the scan, for example, from 40 bars ago. If you try to edit the scan, it seems to be referring to something else, and you aren't able to edit it - thanks very much
 
Excellent work and thank you for all of this! I was playing with watch list columns and saw the 1st titled Strat FTC didn't match up so I basically combined the 2 to show color codes with price. This plots more to my thinking as I want FTFC across the board as the individual frames will take care of themselves. Anyway it works for my brain. It loaded 50-70 symbols pretty quick (weekend), S&P 100 it started bogging down.

WATCH-LIST-FTC.jpg


Code:
#------------------------------------
#
#        M T F      S T R A T
#         W A T C H L I S T
# a Study by Ramon DV. aka Pelonsax
#
#------------------------------------
#------------------------------------
# S T R A T    R E V E R S A L S
#
# A study by Ramon DV. aka Pelonsax
#
# Version 1.0  8/01/20
#
# Version 2.0 8/4/20 Corrected errors in logic for scenarios
# Version 2.1 8/15/20 Added Reversals
#
#------------------------------------
plot O = open;
def H = high;
def L = low;

def C = close;
#------------------------------------
# DEFINE SCENARIOS
#------------------------------------
def insidebar =  (H < H[1] and L > L[1]) or (H == H[1] and L > L[1]) or (H < H[1] and L == L[1]) or (H == H[1] and L == L[1]);
def outsidebar =  H  > H[1] and L <  L[1];

def insidebarup  = insidebar and O < C;
def twoup  = H > H[1] and L >= L[1];
def outsidebarup  = outsidebar and O < C;
def insidebardown  = insidebar and O > C;
def twodown  = H <= H[1] and L < L[1];
def outsidebardown  = outsidebar and O > C;
#------------------------------------
# LABEL SECTION
#------------------------------------

AssignBackgroundColor(
if
twoup then Color.GREEN else if
twodown then Color.RED else if
outsidebarup then Color.DARK_GREEN else if
insidebarup then Color.LIGHT_GREEN else if
outsidebardown then Color.DARK_RED else if
insidebardown then Color.ORANGE else if
!insidebarup and
!insidebardown and
insidebar then Color.WHITE else if
!outsidebardown and
!outsidebarup and
outsidebar then Color.YELLOW else Color.CURRENT);
addlabel(yes, O, color.black);
very nice!
 

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