Real-Time Market Scanner

Our Real-Time Market Scanner is also known as a "screener", "radar screen", or “quote board” in other trading software. It’s an Excel-like sheet that is capable of showing thousands of streaming quotes and other important information. You can also add technical analysis indicators to quotes to get additional insight into the market.

What is the Scanner?

Real-Time Scanner is used for monitoring, researching, and organizing the symbols you are interested in. While a single chart gives you details about one symbol, the scanner allows you to spot opportunities among many symbols.

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For example, you want to find all symbols that have oversold recently. The logic is that these instruments will be below their normal value and they present a potentially profitable opportunity. To do this, simply add symbols that interest you into the scanner, insert a pre-built stochastic indicator, and sort from smallest to largest indicator values. Top of the list will show you symbols that represent the best buying opportunities.

See the big picture

You can use different resolutions in different rows. For example, you could have the same symbol in tick, minute and day resolutions to monitor different trends. For even more flexibility each row can have its own session template and a unique number of bars a study will reference.

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20+ Important Data Fields
Open, High, Low, Close, Total Volume, Bid, Ask, Open Interest and other important data fields can be removed and added in seconds.

View a chart with one click

In addition to symbol linking, which allows you to change chart contents with a single click, MultiCharts has a unique feature called Market Trend Histogram. This allows you to see market dynamics without building a chart, but if you can still make a full-sized chart with one click if needed.

Scan and sort with ease

Scanner can automatically re-sort symbols either on a per-second basis or by a user-defined timer. Since you can sort according to any criteria available, this will help find trading opportunities in a timely fashion.

Apply hundreds of indicators

In addition to hundreds of studies that come with the trading platform, you can create your own, change existing ones and import from a variety of sources. Scanner’s distinctive feature is that you can change cell background and text coloring based on your personal criteria, and even have script-driven text generation in the Scanner cells.

Alerts that keep you informed

You can create custom visual, sound, and email alert for one or all symbols. Scanner alerts work the same as they do on regular charts.

Group symbols for easy viewing

You can visually group symbols according to any criteria. An important distinction of having a group is that sorting is realized within each individual group. This means you can select important sectors of the industry, or interesting stock groups, and see which one tops the others. Groups can also be minimized and restored at will.

Lots of data all in one place

Monitor up to 5,000 real-time or end-of-day symbols per each Scanner window. You can even mix instruments with different resolutions and from different data feeds.

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Modern Multi-Threading Architecture
Since our Real-Time Market Scanner was built to use modern multi-threading architecture, it can use multi-core and multi-CPU computers to their full potential. This allows you to create very CPU-intensive workspaces with several thousands of instruments and watch them in real-time without gaps or lags.

Export to Excel with one click

After finding the necessary symbols in the large list, sometimes it’s necessary to export data you find to Excel. MultiCharts can do this with one click.