Close price as up or down bar

[emulimu]

I am looking for a way to see the stock chart which shows each day’s close price as an up or down bar and also how much up or down. I prefer thinkorswim as that is my broker. Anyone has any idea on how to do this? Thanks very much.

 

[Sekiyo]

You can use the rate of change (ROC) with length = 1 and maybe you can set the plot style as bar instead of line.

 

[GuerrillaTrading]

Candle stick and bar charts will show you opening and closing prices

 

[emulimu]

You can use the rate of change (ROC) with length = 1 and maybe you can set the plot style as bar instead of line.

I got the up and down bars alright but the numbers are not accurate. If the difference between yesterday’s close and today’s close is 10 in SPY, it’s showing 1/4th of that. Any idea how to see the actual difference? Thanks

 

[emulimu]

Candle stick and bar charts will show you opening and closing prices

Yes I know but I need the difference between yesterday’s close and today’s close as a number. This tells me how much a stock is moving each day.

 

[Sekiyo]

I got the up and down bars alright but the numbers are not accurate. If the difference between yesterday’s close and today’s close is 10 in SPY, it’s showing 1/4th of that. Any idea how to see the actual difference? Thanks

Maybe because ROC is based on Open but if you can't chose Close as the source then I don't know ...
I don't have ToS but I see you can use thinkScript to modify / create studies.

You can script something like:

(Pct wise)
plot myvar = ( (close - close[1]) / close[1] * 100);
SetChartType(ChartType.BAR);

Or

(Pts wise)
plot myvar = (close - close[1]);
SetChartType(ChartType.BAR);

More about thinkScript

 

[emulimu]

Maybe because ROC is based on Open but if you can't chose Close as the source then I don't know ...
I don't have ToS but I see you can use thinkScript to modify / create studies.

You can script something like:

(pct wise)
plot myvar = ( (close - close[1]) / close[1] * 100)

Or

(Pts wise)
plot myvar = (close - close[1])

More about thinkScript

Thanks I will try this thinkscript.

No, it is taking the close as the source. I think it’s a scale issue.

 

[GuerrillaTrading]

Yes I know but I need the difference between yesterday’s close and today’s close as a number. This tells me how much a stock is moving each day.

That would be Bar Net Change which would give you the dollar amount and there is Bar Percent Change which gives you change in percentage

 

[emulimu]

That would be Bar Net Change which would give you the dollar amount and there is Bar Percent Change which gives you change in percentage

Thanks I will try this too.

 

[murray t turtle]

Yes I know but I need the difference between yesterday’s close and today’s close as a number. This tells me how much a stock is moving each day.

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MOST any daily candlechart shows that, dollar amount+ some do that + %.
Same way with a 2 day intraday chart\except intraday usually contains many more errors