curiousjeff
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The "help on data export" (export menu in the trade tab) will display 17 custom studies available.


To use these studies in RTD:
For some strange reason, the 17 custom studies are NOT available in the study menu under the charts tab.
You will find them here:
Go to your watchlist, right click on the header of any column, and then select "customize"

Here you will see the 17 custom studies:

Click once on the study you want to modify, then click again on the paper scroll symbol:


You must create a script that will generate only one item/number.
Some Thinkscript commands will not work.
Example using the forceindex script from TOS:
declare lower;
input length = 13;
plot FI = ExpAverage(data = (close - close[1]) * volume, length);
In Excel, use this command:
=RTD("tos.rtd",,"CUSTOM1","SPY")
You can check that all is working correctly by adding the study as a column in your watchlist:

In Excel, you will first get a "loading" message and it can take some time to display, but if you have a number in your watchlist, it must give the same in Excel.
Credit: I found this procedure in a PDF from R. Kaczmarek / John Locke's site.
P.S. After further test, I could only make it work if the ticker requested in Excel was in the active watchlist and the custom study was present as a column in that same watchlist.


To use these studies in RTD:
For some strange reason, the 17 custom studies are NOT available in the study menu under the charts tab.
You will find them here:
Go to your watchlist, right click on the header of any column, and then select "customize"

Here you will see the 17 custom studies:

Click once on the study you want to modify, then click again on the paper scroll symbol:


You must create a script that will generate only one item/number.
Some Thinkscript commands will not work.
Example using the forceindex script from TOS:
declare lower;
input length = 13;
plot FI = ExpAverage(data = (close - close[1]) * volume, length);
In Excel, use this command:
=RTD("tos.rtd",,"CUSTOM1","SPY")
You can check that all is working correctly by adding the study as a column in your watchlist:

In Excel, you will first get a "loading" message and it can take some time to display, but if you have a number in your watchlist, it must give the same in Excel.
Credit: I found this procedure in a PDF from R. Kaczmarek / John Locke's site.
P.S. After further test, I could only make it work if the ticker requested in Excel was in the active watchlist and the custom study was present as a column in that same watchlist.
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