ProScreener improvement suggestion.
I usually keep 4-5 screeners open at all time. I’d like to reduce this, maybe even to just ONE, but I need to tell results from, say, engulfing pattern from idnr4 or boomer. I already use position numbers to refer to TF, the leftmost position refers to the Daily TF, the next one rightwards refers to 4-hour TF and so on. For each TF I also tell LONG patterns from SHORT ones using 1 for the first and 2 for the latter.
But telling, immediately, visually, a pattern from another one would imply using, say, a letter so that I know that A refers to Engulfing, B to Boomer, C to Idnr4,….
Now a may be returned this value 199 for a Bullish Engulfing on a Daily TF, while 299 if it’s Bearish, or 919 for a Boomer on the 4-hoiur TF, but I can’t make just one bigger screener and get rid of the many that clutter my screen, I wish I could be returned A199 for a Bullish Engulfing on the Daily TF, or maybe B199 if it’s a Boomer.
So far PRT does not support strings.
Suggestion for string support has already been posted and I expect PRT to strongly implement this feature.
But I suggest a further step to tell a type of scan from another within the same Screener code by
– use of a BACKGROUND COLOUR
so any screener scan line would be immediately, visually identified
SCREENER[Result] (Result AS "xyz") backgroundcolor(r,g,b,a)
might use RED to identify an Engulfing pattern, GREEN for a BOOMER, ….