Scan Hacker and LOADING Issues March 2026

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Since last Thursday, the scan hacker has been having issues.

What has been reported is custom scans were not working, mornings, but "woke up" in the afternoon.
But as of Monday, March 23; have not seen anything waking up.

Simple ToS scans do work intermittently.
Such as:
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Since last Thursday, the scan hacker has been having issues.

What has been reported is custom scans were not working, mornings, but "woke up" in the afternoon.
But as of Monday, March 23; have not seen anything waking up.

Simple ToS scans do work intermittently.
I chatted with support this morning, and he confirmed the issues are known. It seems to be resolved now.
 
My scans, which do border on being too complex are not working again this morning.

They did come alive around 2pm yesterday; after not working most of the morning.
It does appear that we are being throttled during peak hours.

Yesterday, they over-throttled and no scans worked.
Today, scans for volume average less than 1mil; simple crosses; etc... are up and running.

Moral of the story: keep it simple
 
Anyone else experiencing columns loading poorly? Manually editing alerts by mouse dragging the arrow is also causing them disappear after pushing the replace button, and then the ability to create an alert vanishes from the chart's right-click context menu. Might be unrelated, aside from the timing.
 
Anyone else experiencing columns loading poorly? Manually editing alerts by mouse dragging the arrow is also causing them disappear after pushing the replace button, and then the ability to create an alert vanishes from the chart's right-click context menu. Might be unrelated, aside from the timing.
It’s now widely reported that the same throttling I’m seeing in my scans is showing up for others as “loading” behavior in watchlists.

For me, scan throttling or getting stuck in loading occurs whenever I use:
almost any Ehlers-based math—EMA2, FIR filters,​
multi-derivatives, close > close[1], or​
longer formulas like (WTprice - avgPrice) / (0.015 * deviation)​
recursions or multi-subscripts​

None of these trigger the complicated script triangle, and all of them ran flawlessly until last week.
My strategies were built around this math, so the slowdown hits directly at the core of my workflow.

I caught the issue before the weekend and pivoted to built-ins—OBV instead of FVE, MACD crossover instead of the Ehlers Decycler, and so on.

But these built‑ins have nothing to do with how I trade. They get me into the right massive church, and then I’m stuck walking row by row trying to find the right pew.

They’re not substitutes for my forward‑looking, low‑lag custom logic.

Support states the problem has been resolved.
 
And as we entered the afternoon lull, like magic:
my scans worked,​
my watchlists populate;​
my drift column, which was loading all day; now has numbers.​
Alas, my phase oscillator with its ATR and Bollinger calcs is still MIA.
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Broken all morning; resolving in the afternoon.
This has been the pattern since last Thursday.
 
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