Market Scan Interface
Control Layout
The Market Scan is similar to the other ClearView grids in that it displays one stock per row and each colum contains useful information about that stock.
The selected column is highlighted in red (A.1m is selected below) and the data in the chart is sorted according to that column.
The columns represent the following information:
- Symbol – the market symbol
- Price – the price of the stock
- 15m – the price change in the last 15 minutes (you may change the number of minutes, see below)
- 7d – the price change in the last 7 days (you may change the number of days and whether it displays the actual change or the percent change, see below)
- A.sum – the total accumulation trades today
- D.sum – the total distribution trades today
- A.acc – the accelleration of the accumulation
- D.acc – the accelleration of the distribution
- A.1m – the number of accumulation trades in the last minute
- D.1m – the number of distribution trades in the last minute
- Chart 30m.05s – a chart of the last 30 minutes in 5 second intervals
- Vwap – the current volume-weighted average price
- Vdel – the difference between the Price and the Vwap
- Trend 1.5m.05s – 90 second display of the buy/sell trend in 5 second intervals
By default, not all of these columns are initially visible. See below for information on how to unhide or hide columns.
Much of the data is color coded. For numerical data, green highlights positive numbers and red highlights negative numbers. For the 30 minute chart, green highlights stocks that are near or at their high while red highlights stocks that are near or at their low. And for the 90 second trend, green indicates a period of more accumulation and red indicates a period of more distribution.
User Interaction
Managing Columns
You may select a column by which to sort the data by clicking on the appropriate column header. The column header text will turn red and the data will be sorted in descending order by default, but clicking the column header will toggle it to ascending order.
By default, not all columns are initially shown. To select more columns for your Market Scan, right-click on a column header as shown below:
The first option is "Hide" which will hide the column you clicked to bring up the popup menu.
Following "Hide" is a list of all columns not currently displayed. Clicking on one of these menu items will add that column and its corresponding data to the grid.
Column Data
Some columns allow you to specify the type of data they contain. The columns 15m and 7d have arrows next to them in the column header that you may click on to bring up a popup menu from which you can choose the interval for the data they represent.
With the 7d column, you may also specify if the data is the actual change or a percentage change
Pausing the Sorting
The Market Scan automatically sorts on the active column every 5 seconds. If you wish to look at a specific stock this might be a problem as it has potential to jump around each time the grid sorts. To prevent the grid from sorting, use Control-T to toggle the auto-sorting on and off. The automatic sorting will re-enable itself once it has been off for a certain amount of time (5 minutes by default, changable in the settings dialog).