Think Or Swim GW Chart Settings

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Below is a link to my basic WSB workspace. It includes only the indicators that are included with Thinkorswim. Each has been setup with the appropriate settings. If you would like to add the yellow auto-wave line, that is available for purchase from my website. It is a separate purchase because I had to program that one myself.

In the top, right corner of TOS click on "Setup" --> "Open shared item...", then copy and paste the following link into the pop-up dialog that opens.

[tos.mx]



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Robert,
This was just what I needed. Thanks a ton!!!

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rebwayne
Robert,
This was just what I needed. Thanks a ton!!!

Good luck with your trading.



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Setting Custom Time Periods

For 233 chart, use Style > Intraday > 180 Days > Custom...
For 55, 34, 21, 13, and 8 charts, use Style > Intraday > 20 Days > Custom...



When entering times in the custom field, you may use the slider; but it's much easier to just type the desired time in the Time Aggregation Period block.

Tip: type 0353 (3 hours 53 minutes) for a 233 chart.





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Once again, great info! Thanks!!!

What does this indicator look for please , am new to it . Thanks in adavnce

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Ethan14
What does this indicator look for please , am new to it . Thanks in adavnce

This particular thread was started in order to aid indifiduals who have attended Gary Williams' classes setup his indicators on the thinkorswim platform.

Is he still using QCharts - or has he migrated to another platform?
Is he changing over to TorS?
thx,
FrankieD

GW still using Qcharts but will be migrating to Alchemcharts when available. You can search Alchemcharts in this forum for details or Google their website. This thread intended to help those that use TOS and do not want to pay for QC.

OK - thanks for the info.

If anyone wants a comparison QCHARTS chart vs TOS please let me know. I am running both. E



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/29/2014 03:12PM by NMR.

Robert you're a lifesaver. Thank you for posting this. Such a big help. Saved me a couple days of time...sincere thanks!

Hello,

Anyone know of a way to go back and recreate trading days on tos? Like a simulation of a past day, such as April 14, 2016?

I'm a gw wsb 1-5 student and am taking the Survivor Weekend 1 in June.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks.

rsxcited Wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> Anyone know of a way to go back and recreate
> trading days on tos? Like a simulation of a past
> day, such as April 14, 2016?
>
> I'm a gw wsb 1-5 student and am taking the
> Survivor Weekend 1 in June.
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks.

Hi rsxcited,

Welcome to the forums.

TOS can be setup to be exactly like Qcharts. The only indicator (or tool) that doesn't seem to be working exactly as it does in Qcharts is the "Autowave", but that isn't really a big deal at all. It's a sorta "nice to know" thing.

To answer your question, YES! TOS has an "OnDemand" feature that allows you to play back charts. It's sorta like going back in time and watching a trade as it unfolds. The same way you would have seen it, if you were looking at it at the time it happened.

It really is a cool feature, and one that new students should use ALOT!!!....

Download it and play around with it. It's free, so what can it hurt.

R

Trying to move to TOS from Alchem/Qcharts and im having some trouble with the StochRSI. Any advice on what setting I have wrong? I tried following Roberts list above but apparently something is off.


Any help would be appreciated



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Redwolf,

It looks like you have accidentally moved the StochRSI indicator to the Volume section when you were dragging to reposition things.

First, turn off volume. Press [ CTRL ]+[ S ] to access the chart settings panel. Then, click on the "Equities" tab and uncheck "Show volume subgraph."

Once you've done that, you will probably find StochRSI overlayed onto MACD, so it will need to be repositioned again. At that point, it may be easier to just remove that indicator then add it back in.



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That did the trick, thanks Robert

Robert or anyone willing to help....

First, thank you very much for the informative post above.
I just started with TOS this week and find it to be a very capable system.
I used qcharts for several years back in 01-05, don't miss paying $200 each month
I used your settings above (thanks) but there are a LOT of settings on each study that I am not sure how to setup.
Is there anyway you could please give me a little more guidance on each study setting?
I would really appreciate it.

Thanks
Scottie

It's funny you posted here concerning TOS and chart settings.

I was looking at something today and noticed something messed up.

RSI

Look at symbol UDOW on Qcharts, then look at it in TOS.

Look from March 29, 2017 through June 25 2017. When you compare it to the StochRSI in TOS they don't match up. VERY VERY strange.

Can anyone explain why, or better yet tell me how to correct it so TOS mirrors Qcharts???

this might be a dumb question but i am new to tos and in your pic i only see the # signs ? Do you have the setting for everything especially the christmas cross, rsi, and macd ? Thank you .

That is by design.

Gary Williams students know the settings and they've been sworn to secrecy under an Non-Disclosure agreement. Although many on here may be long past any NDA they still feel somewhat committed to not sharing that info if you're not a GW student.

will he be doing more classes in the near future ? im hearing he stopped ??

i have the chart parameters from class 2 do they hold true to the think or swim platform??

No he is still going. Not sure what you mean by "do they hold true"?

the same settings i received in class 2 are the same settings in think or swim ? Or do they have to be modified?

Oh I see.

No they are the same settings. For the offset though you will need to us a negative number though, because a positive number will move it backwards instead of forward. That's pertaining to the CC lines though.

It would appear that I like to say "though" a lot for some reason. lol.....

I am having a difficult time setting up some of the parameters on the charts, think or swim is a little different . Can someone PM me for a little guidance . Thanks

I wonder if you could help me with what seems to me to be a simple problem. I am trying to have the implied volatility from one candle back (not the current reading).

I can get the the current number by simply typing in the custom codes: reference ImpVolatility().

Any suggestions to grab the number from the previous candlestick?

Thanks so much for your expertise.

robert Wrote:
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> This should help some of you who are coming from
> QCharts.
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> [i.imgur.com]

Hello,

Is this topic still open for discussion? I'm trying to set up TOS in place of Alchem and I'm having a difficult time replicating Alchem on TOS. Does anyone have a workspace they can share or the correct values to enter into TOS? GW says that Alchem is the only way, but I don't want to have to pay $200 a month for Alchem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

- Ben