Show SPY current value and gain as labels

[stormy77]

I know how to add a label for the current ticker on chart, but am having trouble adding a label for a different ticker.
For example, I want to see the following labels :
SPX value %changetoday
$DJI value %changetoday

and so on... can someone please point me in the right direction?

 

[SleepyZ]

I know how to add a label for the current ticker on chart, but am having trouble adding a label for a different ticker.
For example, I want to see the following labels :
SPX value %changetoday
$DJI value %changetoday

and so on... can someone please point me in the right direction?

Example

def S = close("SPX", AggregationPeriod.DAY);
AddLabel(1, "SPX: " + S + "  " + (S[1] - S) / S[1] * 100 + "%");

 

[stormy77]

Example

Thanks! That was very helpful. It allowed me to add others as well

 

[tradephoric]

That is pretty awesome! Is there a way to define the previous day's close regardless of what time frame your chart is on? Also it is showing a "-" before the percentage so it looks like the SPY is actually down 1.5% today as opposed to up 1.5%.

 

[stormy77]

That is pretty awesome! Is there a way to define the previous day's close regardless of what time frame your chart is on? Also it is showing a "-" before the percentage so it looks like the SPY is actually down 1.5% today as opposed to up 1.5%.

yeah, good catch. I think we just need to reverse S - S[1] values

so instead of (S[1] - S) / S[1] * 100
use: (S - S[1]) / S[1] * 100

 

[tradephoric]

It's actually showing the "-" when the market is green today because the code needs to be changed to this (EDIT we must have posted at the same time!):

def S = close("SPX", AggregationPeriod.DAY);
AddLabel(1, "SPX: " + S + "  " + (S - S[1]) / S[1] * 100 + "%");

But how can you format the label so it shows up green when the SPY is green and red when the SPY is red? I thought something like this would work but i'm getting errors (i'm really not good at thinkscript, please don't laugh if this is way off):

def S = close("SPX", AggregationPeriod.DAY);
AddLabel(1, "SPX " +  S + " " + (S - S[1]) / S[1] * 100 + "%"), if (S - S[1]) / S[1] * 100 >0 then Color.Green else Color.Red);

 

[stormy77]

It's actually showing the "-" when the market is green today because the code needs to be changed to this (EDIT we must have posted at the same time!):

def S = close("SPX", AggregationPeriod.DAY);
AddLabel(1, "SPX: " + S + "  " + (S - S[1]) / S[1] * 100 + "%");

But how can you format the label so it shows up green when the SPY is green and red when the SPY is red? I thought something like this would work but i'm getting errors (i'm really not good at thinkscript, please don't laugh if this is way off):

def S = close("SPX", AggregationPeriod.DAY);
AddLabel(1, "SPX " +  S + " " + (S - S[1]) / S[1] * 100 + "%"), if (S - S[1]) / S[1] * 100 >0 then Color.Green else Color.Red);

Try removing the ) after the %

SO i defined the percentage as :
def SS = (S - S[1]) / S[1] * 100 ;
and in my label ccode:
AddLabel(1, "S&P: " + S + " " + " " + SS + "%" , IF SS > 0 then Color.GREEN else Color.RED);

Makes it a bit cleaner

 

[tradephoric]

Thanks Stormy!

Now is there a way to show the % change when not on the Daily time frame? I want to add this label to a 5-minute chart.

 

[stormy77]

I think it should work because we are specifying "AggregationPeriod.DAY" in the code itself, so it should not matter what time period you have on the chart. I work on the 3m and daily charts and it seemed to show up fine in both... I may have to double check to be sure, but someone more experienced can respond

 

[tradephoric]

Here is the full code that will label the SPX percentage change (even on a non-daily chart). The only issue i see is it doesn't seem to work during premarket or on stocks that have had zero volume traded during the day (a stock like BNOX or ELSE). It was mentioned on thinkscript chat that #Prefetch Kludge may be needed for it to display correctly on stocks with very minimal volume. I need to research "Prefetch Kludge" now...

def S = close("SPX",period = AggregationPeriod.DAY);
def percentchange = round((close("SPX",period = AggregationPeriod.DAY) - close("SPX",period = AggregationPeriod.DAY)[1]) / close("SPX",period = AggregationPeriod.DAY)[1] * 100,2);

AddLabel(1, "SPX " +  S + " " + percentchange + "%", if percentchange >0 then Color.Green else Color.Red);