Using the Calculation Explorer
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How to use the Calculation Explorer


The Calculation Explorer is a very powerful and effective tool. You can quickly scan through the entire stock market listings to find the paper that meets the criteria selected, and rank them according to different parameters. To find interesting buy candidates for example, you can do this:
Open Calculation Explorer via the menu Calculations > Calculation Explorer:



In the drop menu, select the Calculation you want to run. For example, Money Flow Index. Click Run on xx instrument, and after a few seconds you will obtain an instrument list where all instruments are included meeting the criteria. The far right shows the three columns that are included in this particular calculation - Buy condition, Sell condition and MFI value right now. By clicking on the respective column, you can sort the instruments. To sort out the instruments that meet the calculation criteria for the Buy condition, click on the Buy condition (possibly twice so the list will be sorted correctly).



Similarly, you can see sell candidates by clicking the column Sell Condition, or sort the instruments on the value of the Money Flow Index by clicking on column MFIs.


Editing mode in Calculation Explorer


The Calculation Explorer has two modes, a simple "fast mode" to run a spreadsheet on the same list as last time calculations were run, and an Editing Mode where you can decide which listings to be included in the run, edit the calculaton itself, or create entirely new custom calculations.

In this picture the LargeCap and MidCap are selected for the calculation Money Flow Index 



To change the lists that are included just click the the quick buttons as desired. Calculating columns are the columns that are included in the estimate and the associated script.

By clicking on the various defined columns the corresponding script is shown in the editor. For example, it may be useful to use scripts as a starting material to create custom trigger scripts in order models and so on.