BullCharts : Ex-Dividend date? http://www.bullcharts.com.au/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; BullCharts : BullScript : Ex-Dividend date? Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:47:06 +0000 Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:29:52 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.69 360 www.bullcharts.com.au/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=132 BullCharts http://www.bullcharts.com.au/forum/http://www.bullcharts.com.au/images/bull_logo.gif http://www.bullcharts.com.au/forum/ Ex-Dividend date? : You might find this helpful as... http://www.bullcharts.com.au/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=132&PID=503#503 Author: Peter
Subject: 132
Posted: 17 Feb 2005 at 3:29pm

You might find this helpful as well. It'll display the date of the ExDate at the end of the chart.

[target=Price]
[linestyle=text]
[textalign=Above,Right]
"Ex:" + DayOfMonth(Security.ExDate) + "/" + Month(Security.ExDate) + "/" + Year(Security.ExDate);
if(barnumber=lastvalue(barnumber),hhv(H,5),undefined);

]]> Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:29:52 +0000 http://www.bullcharts.com.au/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=132&PID=503#503 Ex-Dividend date? : That is excellent. The verticalmarker... http://www.bullcharts.com.au/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=132&PID=482#482 Author: kneighbour
Subject: 132
Posted: 15 Feb 2005 at 6:26pm

That is excellent. The verticalmarker linestyle will be better, but that suits me just fine for now.

Thanks.

]]> Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:26:51 +0000 http://www.bullcharts.com.au/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=132&PID=482#482 Ex-Dividend date? : You can achieve this with: security.ExDate<=now... http://www.bullcharts.com.au/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=132&PID=481#481 Author: Peter
Subject: 132
Posted: 15 Feb 2005 at 9:52am

You can achieve this with:

[target=Price; name=ExDate]
[linestyle=marker; marker=type1]
security.ExDate<=now and
  not hist(security.ExDate<=now,1);

A few notes:
  1. The next version of BullCharts will have a linestyle=verticalmarker
  2. The formula you had wasn't working because you were returning a date instead of a true/false (boolean).
  3. The above formula could also have been written as justsecurity.ExDate=Now, except the above handles the situation where thereis no bar on the ExDate for some reason.
  4. Unfortunately you will only see the marker if it has alreadypassed. This is because BullScript, like most charting packages, onlycalculates on bars that have price data.
]]> Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:52:36 +0000 http://www.bullcharts.com.au/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=132&PID=481#481 Ex-Dividend date? : Iwould like to display a vertical... http://www.bullcharts.com.au/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=132&PID=480#480 Author: kneighbour
Subject: 132
Posted: 14 Feb 2005 at 7:15pm

I would like to display a vertical line on the chart for the Ex dividend date for all securiteis.

I tried this

[target=Price]
security.ExDate

While this compiles - when I try to add this as an indicator, it comes up with an error message. No doubt I am doing it wrong. I suspect that I am mixing two scales - price and time, and that this method is not possible.

Any ideas how i can do this?

 

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