Ex-Dividend date?

   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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kneighbour Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Regular Joined: 12 Feb 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 57	Post Options Post Reply Quote kneighbour Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Ex-Dividend 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?

Peter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List BullCharts Staff Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 241	Post Options Post Reply Quote Peter Report Post Quote Reply 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.

kneighbour Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Regular Joined: 12 Feb 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 57	Post Options Post Reply Quote kneighbour Report Post Quote Reply 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.

Peter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List BullCharts Staff Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 241	Post Options Post Reply Quote Peter Report Post Quote Reply 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);