RE: [CANSLIM] Off-topic: Tech signal alerts

From: "John Solarno" <workvirt@workvirtual.com>
Subject: RE: [CANSLIM] Off-topic: Tech signal alerts
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 00:00:08 -0400

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Thanks, James.  I'm aware of stockcharts.com and several other services
which allow you to run screens for various technical indicators (my
favorite is Stock Watch Pro from Cron Technologies) - but all of these
require the user to sign on and run the screens.  What I'm looking for
is the ability to actually get an email alert when a technical indicator
has been triggered.  

For example, Yahoo lets you set up a list of stocks, with high limits
and low limits, and then sends you an email when those price limits have
been exceeded. However, what I'm hoping to find is one that will send
out an email when an MACD histogram, for example, has just turned
positive.  Or perhaps I might like to receive an email when the 13-day
moving average has crossed above the 50-day.  That type of alert seems
more valuable to me than a raw price alert.

I found one the other day called "tbots" (http://www.tbots.com) but
frankly, it doesn't seem to actually function.  It looks like an
experimental service that's not quite ready for prime time.
Clearstation also sort of shows you when various technical and
fundamental events have occurred on your watchlist, but you have to log
on to the site to see it - and with the amount of traveling I do, it's
not always easy to get full browser Internet access during the day. 

So what I was hoping was that other members of this board might have run
across websites that send out actual pager or email alerts based on
technical indicators.  

John



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Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] Off-topic: Tech signal alerts

The website I use to screen for chart patterns is
stockcharts.com. It won't send you alerts but a daily
scan is good for me. The free version can only scan
for a number of predefined chart patterns. The
subscription version allows you to scan for any
pattern defined by user based on a number of technical
indicators. However, I found it to be a challenge to
write a search algorithm for CwH charts using the
indicators they provide - the one I wrote was close
enough for me, but it often also came up with a few
nonsensical charts.

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