That is so weird. I tried emptying my garbage, restarting, deleting another column, changing and resaving and nothing worked. I deleted the offending column and re-added and viola it works now. SMH. Thanks again!
@a1cturner I have extended your idea to a scan in a very simple easy to follow steps. Can you take a look and make sure I haven't screwed it up
I was able to make a scan out of this strategy to scan for the "Get Ready" yellow/golden candles. You can follow steps below to create one. Use at your own risk/discretion.
1. Copy the code of the Strategy and save as a Study.
2. Replace the following
#GET READY
def GetReadyBull = TradingDay and BothEMASBullish and PreMarketBull;
def GetReadyBear = TradingDay and BothEMASBearish and PreMarketBear;
WITH
#GET READY
plot GetReadyBull = TradingDay and BothEMASBullish and PreMarketBull;
GetReadyBull.Hide();
plot GetReadyBear = TradingDay and BothEMASBearish and PreMarketBear;
GetReadyBear.Hide();
plot GetReady = GetReadyBull or GetreadyBear;
GetReady.Hide();
3. Delete everything starting from the following and below.
Doing this to keep the code small otherwise TOS starts complaining about complex scripts.....
##################################################################
# ADDED FAST EMA PCT HERE BASED OFF BUY SIGNAL #
##################################################################
4. Save the study.
5. Create a scan using this updated study. You will be able to scan for Get Ready for Bullish action or Bearish action or general get ready and you can then look at the strategy chart to figure out if it is a bullish action or bearish....
Be forewarned, I am not a programmer and this study may not be usable by itself. I have set it up in the above manner so I can scan for the "Get Ready" signal. So, once again, this is what I did, use at your own discretion,
Hope this helps someone out there
Here you go with how I have set it up .....
Perfect world only, please. 
I updated the scan with "BuySomething" that will list tickers with either a buy call or buy put signal. You can figure out the direction from the chart. The call buy and put buy selections were already there.....@Babaji Ka Thullu Scanner is killing it. Made it into a watchlist scanner.
With all these results does anyone have thoughts on whittling it down? Get the scanner down to only those currently showing a buy/sell signals!
Thank you, @Babaji Ka Thullu! I will play around with the options filters too and see what that gets me.
| TradingStrat | Buy to Open | 100 | $109.00 | 8/3/21, 8:55 AM |
| TradingStrat | Sell to Close | -100 | $109.04 | 8/3/21, 9:15 AM |
The original strategy would only give you a dark green candle if the low was <= 5EMA or for short a dark blue candle if the high was >= 5EMA. I took that part out of the code to allow for more signals. You are right though, this does throw off the backtesting. Not real sure how to fix that since you aren’t supposed to buy anyway until the price comes back to the 5EMA. I will play with it this weekend. Thanks for noticing!
TradingStrat Buy to Open 8/3/21, 8:55 AM TradingStrat Sell to Close 8/3/21, 9:15 AM
I have noticed an error in the backtesting. There are a lot of times the green buy indicator is priced way below the actual candle, which results in inaccurate backtesting. It seems as if all the sell signals are correct and match the sell candle, but not for the buy signal and buy candles.
As you can see in the picture, the green arrow is point to a candle that is priced at 109.64 - whereas the buy indicator is priced at 109.00.
I understand that strategy is just a tool - but it would be cool if the backtesting indicators are accurate. Is there maybe something coded wrong?
Correct. The 5EMA is your entry
It was built to get in on or just after a dark green candle or dark blue candle only once the price touches the 5EMA and sell at the close of a red candle and then repeat only on another dark green or dark blue candle.
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