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The best way to do this is to create chart lists for each time period you want to see, and then to open them all in separate browser windows. Here's how.

First, make the chart list:

1. Make a chart list with all your symbols using daily settings.
2. Then make 3 more lists: Weekly, Monthly and 60-Min.
3. Now, copy the symbols from the Daily list over to the others. (For information on copying charts from one list to another, please go here.

Go into each list, and change the period settings of the charts to match the name of the list—daily for your daily list, weekly for your weekly list, monthly for your monthly list, and 60-minute for your 60-minute list. (You can do it by selecting a chart in the list, changing its period setting, and clicking the Apply Style to All button at the bottom of the page.)

Finally, open each list in a new browser window—not tab—modify the size of the window, and arrange the windows side by side. You can also use the Print view rather than 10 per Page to get rid of all the editing buttons, as I did.

All you have to do now is scroll through the windows to see the charts you want.

And the above took about 10 minutes to put together.

–Gord

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The short answer is “No.” The default scan page isn't customizable.

However, there is a workaround. You just have to change how you access the scan engine. Normally, I use the links on the Members page. You can use the right-hand link to “Create a New Scan,” which takes you to the Standard Scan Workbench. Then you hit the Advanced Scan button to get to the Advanced Scan Workbench page with the standard default starting point.

There is another link on the left, though, that you can use to pull up one of your saved scans and run it or edit it. This is the method I use, as I am either running a saved scan, editing a saved scan, or creating a new scan from scratch. Why not have the scan engine open directly in the scan where you want it to be, rather than open the default and then pull up your saved scan?

For a new scan with “MY Standard Default” intro settings, I just pull up one of my standard intro templates. These are scans I've created with different default settings that I use as a starting points. Their names start with “0” so they are always at the top of the drop-down menu list.

One more thing, its always good to put the primary database criteria first — Symbol, Open, High, Low, Close and Volume — and put the secondary calculated criteria second. Your scans will run faster if the heavy calculations are done after the universe of stocks has already been reduced.

In other words, don't ask the scan engine to calculate EMAs, Stochastics, and Bollinger data on the entire 30,000 stocks in the database, and then ask it to scan the results for stocks between $5 and $10. Make the pool of stocks to be scanned as small as possible first. Then, run the heavy calculations. Your scans will run much, much faster.

Cheers Gord

–Gord

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Before choosing chart settings, if you are an Elder follower, you will need your “Triple Screen.” I would suggest starting with hourly, daily and weekly. Personally, I just work from a feel for each chart. For my own trades, technically, I rely more on patterns, drawn lines, and fib level responses to price action (than the signals on the Elder Impulse). I saw a comment once from Elder that he uses 13, 65 and 200 EMA's, so I have been using that as a default chart for myself. Here is an example:

If there is a clear trend, then I favor ADX. If there is not, then I favor an oscillator like RSI. When I place indicators on the chart, I usually shift the setting towards fibonacci numbers (3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, etc). For example, on the chart I posted above, the ADX trend is down and the RSI reading is still bearish. However, what is more impressive to me is that second Head and Shoulders pattern developing within the bearish flag and the confirmation of the bearish flag this last week. The next level to watch is the 2011 low near 10604 (kind of like an upside down break out) and then an A = C measured extension on a weekly chart. Here is the A = C extension on a weekly.

Notice that the daily (your primary trading time frame) and weekly (your big picture) charts work together using the Elder-suggested Triple Screen. All you would need to do is form an hourly chart (e.g., your entry) for your trade. Most all of this is discussed in Elder's book, Come Into My Trading Room. However, he does not discuss patterns very much in that book.

–Anonymous

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Developed by Jake Berstein, modified by David Steckler and tweaked at StockCharts, here is a scan that uses the Stochastic Oscillator to idenfity price pops and price drops. The bullish Stochastic Pop looks for stocks with a long-term Stochastic Oscillator above 50, an ADX value below 20 and a short-term Stochastic Oscillator surge above 80.

Bullish Stochastic Pop:

  [type = stock]
  and [today's sma(20,volume) > 40000]
  and [today's sma(60,close) > 20]
  and [Slow Stoch %K (70,3) > 50]
  and [ADX Line (14) < 20]
  and [today's Slow Stoch %K (14,3) x 80]

The bearish Stochastic Pop looks for stocks with a long-term Stochastic Oscillator below 50, an ADX value below 20 and a short-term Stochastic Oscillator plunge below 20.

Bearish Stochastic Drop:

  [type = stock]
  and [today's sma(20,volume) > 40000]
  and [today's sma(60,close) > 20]
  and [Slow Stoch %K (70,3) < 50]
  and [ADX Line (14) < 20]
  and [20 x today's Slow Stoch %K (14,3)]

Extra! users can copy this scan code and paste it in the Advance Scan Workbench. There is also a ChartSchool article with detailed examples.