Add empty watchlist column for manual data entry


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I have TS Radar with 2 columns.  The 1st one is the closing price of the stock.  The 2nd column is blank for me to input a number.    And I have a script to change the background of the 2nd column to green if the 1st column value is higher than the 2nd column value.  Color to red vice versa.

However, I do not know how to convert this into TOS watchlist.  I do not know what column to add, so that I can input a value to the column.

 

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I changed the title of your question to include the most essential context of your request. The title you entered was "Convert from Tradestation Radar to TOS Watchlist" and unfortunately that would not have been useful to the rest of our viewers. The new title will help others locate this solution using the search function.

Thinkorswim has a column named <empty>, which can be added to a watchlist gadget as many times as you like. However it is not able to accept manual data entry. It's just there as a placeholder to separate groups of columns, visually.

So your request is not something we can achieve in the current version of Thinkorswim. But it would not be possible to do what you described even if we could manually input data into that column. And that is because on Thinkorswim, the scripts we write are not able to reference values in other columns. So it's not possible to write any script which can compare values between two or more columns in a watchlist gadget.

At this point, the only alternative you have is to export the watchlist to an Excel spreadsheet using the RTD() function and manually enter your data points and set conditional formatting to adjust the cell colors based on your rules. If you want to learn how to export live data from Thinkorswim to an Excel spreadsheet, the following video will show you how:

https://www.hahn-tech.com/thinkorswim-rtd-excel/

 

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