I want to use a specific date in my screener. My understanding is, I need to create a “date” indicator myself in probuilder to work as a variable in a screener?
so i went into probuilder and my syntax is:
date indicator
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idate=Date
RETURNDate/100000
date indicator
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Its divided by 100000 as it doesn’t seem to display correctly on the chart. I have attached screenshot of the chart.
I have produced simple screener below to illustrate date issue as i’m clearly not doing something correct here as the screener is blank.
Do you know why the indicator shows the date with several decimals instead of the format its suppose to (YYYYMMDD)? I found a thread where someone else also said the date is not showing how it should? https://www.prorealcode.com/topic/date-in-proscreener-is-displayed-as-20-2m/ Is this a glitch with the software?
You shouldn’t use division, because it may be displayed by the indicator as, say, 20M, but it’s kept internally as a complete number, so it won’t affect expressions.
It’s not a real glitch, simply date & time data type are not supported.
I think you should try removing the division and compare the returned value with a complete date such as 20210104.
This is what I get without the division (see screenshot), it reverts to two decimals. So when i enter a date in screener as YYYMMDD it doesn’t recognise it.
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