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Ex-Dividend date?

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Topic: Ex-Dividend date?

Posted By: kneighbour
Subject: Ex-Dividend date?
Date 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?

Replies:

Posted By: Peter
Date 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:

The next version of BullCharts will have a linestyle=verticalmarker
The formula you had wasn't working because you were returning a date instead of a true/false (boolean).
The above formula could also have been written as just security.ExDate=Now, except the above handles the situation where there is no bar on the ExDate for some reason.
Unfortunately you will only see the marker if it has already passed. This is because BullScript, like most charting packages, only calculates on bars that have price data.

Posted By: kneighbour
Date 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.

Posted By: Peter
Date 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);
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