Stock Screening | Traffic Lights Highlighting System (Naked Trader) | 0ctag0n

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15th Feb '19 by 0ctag0n

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I like the traffic light system that Robbie Burns mentions in his Naked Trader book but there doesn't seem to be an option for it on Stockopedia. I seem to remember there was a feature request for it a while back but in the meantime I have set up a script to perform this function.
It needs to be set up manually but you can use it to highlight certain words or phrases in the news reports here. (or any site)

If anyone is interested I will detail the process.

First you will need to install a browser addon.

Tampermonkey for chrome: Tampermonkey

or

Greasemonkey for Firefox: Greasemonkey

After installing the addon you will need the highlight script.

Text Highlight and Seek

Click "Install this script" and it will be added to Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey.

My screenshots are done on chrome but the steps on firefox should be the similar.

After installing tampermonkey you should see a black square with two white dots at the top right of your browser window. Click this and select dashboard.

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Once in the dashboard click the "Edit" icon for the Text Highlight and Seek script. It`s the square with the pencil on the right hand side.

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Click on the "Settings" tab

Go to the box "User Includes" and click "Add"

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Enter the new rule : https://www.stockopedia.com/*

Click "OK"

Scroll down and click "Save"

Now we are ready to edit the keywords. There is one problem, the options list does not open on Stockopedia so we have to go to : https://greasyfork.org/

At the top right of the page (in the red banner) you should see a small "H"

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Click the "H" then "Click here to manage keyword/highlight sets"

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The set list will open and you can customise to your preference.

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Make sure you separate words using | (pipe) and don`t forget to click save changes when you are done.

I use the following colour combinations:

White text - R:255 G:255 B:255 with Red background - R:255 G:0 B:0

Black text - R:0 G:0 B:0 with Yellow background - R:255 G:255 B:0

Black text - R:0 G:0…

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23 comments

brballs

15th Feb '19

Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for this Octogon. I’d always hoped Stockopedia would bring this in!

skinner66

15th Feb '19

that traffic light system robbie burns uses is as he says on AVDFN. it brings up company reports. you type in keywords, ie profit warning, profits etc, i think upto 20 words.. then it highlights them words on company report by colour, so saves about 2 hours reading the boring stuff, its in his book on how to use very easy and worth buying the book just for that.

gus 1065

16th Feb '19

Thanks for this 0ctag0n.

I’ll see if my medieval IT skills can get this to work for me. I set up a (free) account on ADVFN a couple of years ago to make use of this feature as per the Naked Teader book reference referred to by Skinner66. I’ve hardly ever used it but benefited (not!) from the tsunami of junk e-mail that comes from signing up to ADVFN. Didn’t realise there was so much dross out there in the world of private investment. Would great if Stocko could build in something similar that could toggled on or off on demand.

Gus.

0ctag0n

16th Feb '19

If you have any trouble setting up let me know and I will try to help.
This can be turned off by clicking on the little "H" and selecting "Options >> No Highlighting"
For some reason the only place the "H" appears on stockopedia is the charts screens.

mmarkkj777

16th Feb '19

Great thread and great idea 0ctag0n,

I'm going to have a bash at setting this up over the weekend! Many thanks.

Cheers

jared007

16th Feb '19

Looks very useful!

StrollingMolby

16th Feb '19

That looks useful, though it is possible the same result can be achieved on ADVFN where adding this functionality is simpler and which I have made use of for many years. Simply select the 'News' tab and add the words you wish to monitor through the 'Highlight Phrases' tab:

0ctag0n

17th Feb '19

Yes it is detailed in the Naked Trader book for setting up on ADVFN. This was for people who don`t use ADVFN.

ian beresford

27th Dec '19

This looks great. Doesn't seem to be working for me though. Maybe it's because I'm using the new site format. Tried adding https://www.stockopedia.com/* to the users included but no luck. Guess I'll keep using ADVFN unless anyone has any ideas? Thanks

Bids

8th Jan '20

I have got it to work using https://www.stockopedia.com/* instead of https://www.stockopedia.com/*. I assume the former is the new site.

Note also that after you change the words that you want to search (i.e. from within Greasy Fork) you will only see the results highlighted on Stockopedia pages that are subsequently opened or refreshed. In other words, any currently open Stockopedia page will not be automatically updated. Hope this helps.

PhilHofGrowYourDough

8th Jan '20

If you use

"https://www.stockopedia.com/share-prices/*"

it should reduce the degree to which the site is highlighted.

OK the website is doing something weird with the URL as I enter it.

It should be "https:// a p p . stockopedia.com/share-prices/*" but it is being rewritten when I save the comment to www

MichaelFBS

9th Jan '20

I have entered

https://www.stockopedia.com/*

AND

https://www.stockopedia.com/*

The user includes box.

I think that way it will work under both sites.

MichaelFBS

9th Jan '20

Works a treat in Chrome but I am struggling in Firefox, which is where I mostly view Stockopedia. Will keep trying.

Thank you for this. So useful. Would be great if Stockopedia would implement this at the server level so that it worked on all platforms (PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone)

What words do people associate with each colour combination?

White text - R:255 G:255 B:255 with Red background - R:255 G:0 B:0

Black text - R:0 G:0 B:0 with Yellow background - R:255 G:255 B:0

Black text - R:0 G:0 B:0 with Green background - R:124 G:252 B:0

Yellow text - R:255 G:255 B:0 with Blue background - R:0 G:0 B:255

wildshot

9th Jan '20

I've used the Robbie version on ADVFN for years and that is where I read the RNS every morning (don't subscribe to investigate). As an alternative to what is suggested above, I downloaded "Highlight This" for chrome a few months ago and use it on the Stockopedia site. (Like above you can specify which websites you want it to work on and it is really easy to use).

stu76

9th Jan '20

Hi Purpleski

See below:

Bids

10th Jan '20

On the first line of my reply (8 Jan 20) the site changed the URL from "app.stockopedia.com" to be "www.stockopedia.com" ! Hope this clarifies the nonsense that appeared in the post.

MichaelFBS

13th Jan '20

Thank you. This is so useful.

PS Not adding the B word though. Though might make it white on white!

MichaelFBS

13th Jan '20

Managed to get it to work in FireFox now. I had not done the last step "Click the "H" then "Click here to manage keyword/highlight sets"

All good now.

MichaelFBS

13th Jan '20

Wildshot Thank you for this. Highlight This for chrome is fabulously easy to implement.

And available in Firefox as well.

adabo

6th Jun '20

Hi, "Highlight This" is really good, however, I cant get it to work with PDF's (even if I open the PDF in Chrome). Have you been able to suss this out?

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