My Favorite Hidden Feature in Trade-Ideas
By Dave Mabe
I developed many features at Trade-Ideas during my tenure as CTO.
But this one stands out as my favorite.
One of the traders I'm currently coaching needed an efficient way to look at the previous day's history in an alert window, so I showed him this feature, which automates this.
It's not enabled by default - you have to turn it on in the Options window.
Once you enable it, you can turn on "Alert Logging" in any Top List or Alert window in the program.
This creates a CSV file with the contents of the window in your TradeIdeasPro directory on your computer.
It uses the date in the filename, so you get a new file each day.
This lets you automatically archive the window without lifting a finger.
There's no limit to the interesting things you can do with the data in this archive.
Here's a video I put together, explaining the feature and showing a Python script I created to produce a nice chart from the data in the CSV file.
-Dave
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