Trading Systems Builder | Backtester

This post is about the slideshows related to ‘writing’ and creating your own Trading Systems and backtesting them in ChartAlert

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Custom Trading Systems – based on your own custom algorithms – can be written and backtested to study the current technical status and/or overall trading performance of a symbol.

The custom trading systems can be run on any time-frame . . . daily or weekly, short- or medium-term, etc. , and the custom trading system mask can also display automated Buy and Sell signals on the chart.

Backtesting these custom trading systems will also generate a lot of performance stats that can be used to help tweak your custom trading systems.

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Advanced Scanner

This post is about the slideshows and demo videos related to the Advanced Scanner in ChartAlert that lets you write your own text-based scanning/screening algorithms to scan for bullish and bearish signals

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In the image above, the ‘User Scans’ node holds all the custom scans written by the end-user. Multiple scans can be combined into a single Screener. The ‘Run Multiple Scans’ node holds all the screeners created by the end-user.


The Advanced Scanner in ChartAlert is an advanced scanning engine that is powered by CASL, a text-based powerful scripting language that provides straightforward methods to write scanning algorithms to scan stocks or futures or commodities for bullish and bearish signals.

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Basic Scanner

This post is about the slideshows and demo videos related to the Basic Scanner in ChartAlert that offers customizable but menu-driven scanning/screening algorithms to scan for bullish and bearish signals

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The Basic Scanner in ChartAlert is a menu-driven scanning engine that ships with several Factory Scans across diverse schools of technical analysis such as . . .

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Other Features

This post is about the slideshows related to (i) working with multiple instances of a chart, (ii) creating custom charts (a.k.a. MyCharts), and (iii) sync’ing X-axis of multiple charts for analysis in ChartAlert

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Open multiple instances of the same chart for a variety of ways of analyzing that same chart.

The following is possible . . .

  • Create and view (simultaneously) the same symbol – say, ACC – with different templates — say, Moving Averages, Technical Analysis Studies, etc — plotted on multiple instances of the same symbol
  • Tile multiple charts of the same symbol vertically or horizontally for analysis
  • Synchronize x-axis of multiple charts for left-and-right scrolling
  • Save multiple charts to a single Workspace
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Invert Chart/Scale

This post is about the slideshow related to inverting a chart — or the Y-axis or price scale — in ChartAlert

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To stimulate a contra view, the following features are available in ChartAlert . . .

  • Invert the y-axis – price-scale – of a chart
  • Invert the Price Plot, Indicators, their colors and styles
  • Invert scale without inverting the color of the Price Plot
  • Keyboard short-cut available: Shift + I
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Templates or Chart Layouts

This post is about the slideshows and demo videos related to creating an unlimited no. of Templates and using them over and over again across charts in ChartAlert

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Templates are custom files created by end-users, and contain technical parameters of a chart.

Let us suppose you like to analyze symbols with DMI, MACD, RSI, Stochastics, Bollinger Bands, Parabolic SAR, 20-/ 50-/ 100-/ 200-day EMA.

Plot all of them on a chart and save all of this information in a Template . . . then apply the Template to any other chart with just a few clicks.

The result: 10 Technical Analysis studies plotted on any chart with less than 3 clicks . . . or 1-click with a keyboard shortcut.

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WatchLists / MyFavourites

This post is about the slideshows and demo videos related to creating an unlimited no. of MyFav / WatchLists and using them for charting and scanning in ChartAlert

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Create unlimited number of WatchLists with up to 500 symbols per WatchList.

The following features are available to use in ChartAlert . . .

  • Drag-and-drop symbols between WatchLists
  • Add to WatchLists from open charts and/or reports
  • Remove from WatchLists via open charts and/or reports
  • Rename/ Delete/ Merge WatchLists
  • Scan WatchLists for trading opportunities
  • Use WatchLists to build Custom Indices
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Drawing – Line Studies

This post is about the slideshows and demo videos related to the basic drawing tools of technical analysis — Line Studies — in ChartAlert

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The following basic Line studies are available in ChartAlert . . .

  • Linear Trendline
  • Semi-Log Trendline
  • Semi-Log Trendline with Right Ray
  • Vertical Lines
  • Horizontal Lines
  • Linear Channel
  • Semi-Log Channel
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Pattern Detection or Pattern Recognition a.k.a. Masks

This post is about the demo videos related to the pattern detection algorithms — that can scan and display patterns on a chart in a matter of seconds — in ChartAlert

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The following Masks are available in ChartAlert . . .

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