Pre market and After Hours News Alerts


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Hello Pete.

What I am looking to do is create a scan that alerts me of recent news on companies I have in my watchlists. Much like the Earnings scan, this would operate the same way. I tried to change the code for the Earnings scanner, but I can’t get past the errors. Can you offer some guidance? Thank you.

rec preEarningsClose = if HasEarnings(EarningTime.BEFORE_MARKET) then close[1] else if HasEarnings(EarningTime.AFTER_MARKET) then close else preEarningsClose[1];
rec postEarningsOpen = if HasEarnings(EarningTime.BEFORE_MARKET)[1] then open[1] else if HasEarnings(EarningTime.AFTER_MARKET)[1] then open else postEarningsOpen[1];
rec percentEarningsMove = if HasEarnings(EarningTime.AFTER_MARKET)[1] then 100 * (preEarningsClose[1] / postEarningsOpen – 1) else if HasEarnings(EarningTime.BEFORE_MARKET) then 100 * (preEarningsClose / postEarningsOpen – 1) else percentEarningsMove[1];
plot scan = percentEarningsMove > 9.0;

 

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Asked on July 12, 2018 12:57 pm
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At this time there is nothing in the platform that permits us to write code that can reference news events.

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Answered on July 12, 2018 1:15 pm
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Thank you, Pete. I saw some of the keywords that had Events, and Get events to offset. Wasn’t sure how to put that together without working around the errors.

( at July 12, 2018 1:23 pm)
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“…keywords that had events…” “…get events to offset…” I am completely lost there. What are these “keywords” and where did you see them? Are you talking about the method named GetEventsOffset() which uses the list of “constants” found here: http://tlc.thinkorswim.com/center/reference/thinkScript/Constants/Events.html

( at July 12, 2018 1:48 pm)
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Hello Pete,
These are in the think script references and when you’re typing in the codes, it auto-suggests them. I figured those could be substituted for what you used in your earnings scan.

( at July 13, 2018 6:17 pm)