Stock market dealing

[Arbu]

I haven't looked into Alpaca
Presumably you don't use a screener, then?

Have you tried TradingView? I have a grudge against them because I found they really do treat susbscibers like dirt, and it has endless snags. Ipaid up and used the subscriber version but found the screens wer fuzzy, witthe text sort--of fading away. They were useless. The solution t o tat is to no use the downloaded paid-for versio. Ridicuous.
IF you typre "stock screener" into a search engine, the version of TV you get is no use for intraday, it only has 1day as the minimuntime column and sayyou have to pay..
Even in the paid version, you have to pay extra for actual date, not a proxy thing, . That's per exchange and the price mounts up, and they don't tell you.
If you search on TV + an instrument upyou get one mode, a chart from which you can get a decent(for TV) screener.
If you go to https://www.tradingview.com/screener/ you get a more usable screener.
It's a mess., but once you're there it's usable, finding active names fairy well.

I assume you didn'y know that then or you'd have said.

None of the screeeners afaik give what I want, which is an indicator (notification/display) of the slope of the trace.

I want to see if the price is turNING over a top/bottom.
I want something I can set to give the gradient in columns for say the previous 1,2,3,4,5,10,15,20 . minutes
So if I own something which is rising, I would be able to see if the gradient reduces and how long it has been doing that. And of course whether it has gone flat.
It could well be someone has produced exactly that already. I though it would be doable in Excel, but afaik that only gets daily prices.

have yo seen anything like that?

No. As I say, pay for data, and just write it.

 

[Justin Passing]

No. As I say, pay for data, and just write it.

what do yu pay for?

 

[Arbu]

what do yu pay for?

market data on all major US exchanges. Check out their website.

 

[Justin Passing]

So, what do you use Alpaca for? Are you using it for a screener?
Do you trade with it? I thought you only used IG.

 

[Arbu]

I tried it but it wasn't profitable, like all these other strategies. Just saying we could write a screener doing what you ask for with it.

 

[Justin Passing]

It looks free for non business users. Proabably haven't looked deep enough.
Still not sure what you were paying for. Was it Level 2 data? I assume IG price data is ok .....?

Watch IHUMAN. Bonkers last few days

 

[Arbu]

It looks free for non business users. Proabably haven't looked deep enough.
Still not sure what you were paying for. Was it Level 2 data? I assume IG price data is ok .....?

Watch IHUMAN. Bonkers last few days

The free version was very limited on the amount of requests you could make. But I still didn't get level 2 data, even when I paid. IG doesn't have much pre-market pricing, and uses its own language unlike alpaca which uses Python which I considered more useful to learn.