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Smartlists

Smartlists are like watchlists, but the stocks in them are determined by certain pre-set criteria, rather than being added manually. As market conditions change, stocks are automatically added or removed from the Smartlist accordingly.

Smartlists are highly configurable and can be filtered and ordered on many parameters.

Below are just a few examples of Smartlists that could be created.

  • Show stocks that are trading at their day high or low
  • Show stocks that have risen/fallen the most over the last 5 minutes
  • Show stocks with high Relative Volume and their share price is below $1.00
  • Show stocks that are going to Gap Up the most on their opening trade
  • Show stocks in the Consumer Discretionary sector that have a market cap greater than 1 billion dollars
  • Show stocks exposed to certain Commodities like Lithium, Gold, Iron Ore etc
  • Show stocks that have released company news today and traded at least $1 million turnover
  • Show stocks that are currently Halted or in Pre Notice state
  • Show stocks that are trading furthest away from their VWAP
  • Show stocks that are heavily short sold.

Access

  • press S to change the tool to Smartlists
  • select a saved Smartlist in the Smartlist section of the Toolbar
  • select a saved Smartlist in the Smartlist menu
  • select a saved Smartlist by clicking on the Smartlist name in the tool titlebar

Tips

Smartlists are limited to 500 stocks.

Ctrl 1..9 will change the Smartlist to the 1st through 9th saved Smartlist.

Ctrl Left / Right will change to previous or next saved Smartlist.

Press space twice quickly to toggle freezing of the Smartlist.

Drag a Smartlist to a Watchbar to have the stocks in the list rotate on permanent display.

To assist during the opening auction phase filter a Smartlist to only include stocks from a specific ASX opening group.

Filter a smartlist to only include stocks in a saved watchlist. Type 1 through 9 to assign a watchlist. 0 will remove the watchlist filter.

Columns

Name Short Company Name
Code Code
Bid Top Bid
Offer Top Offer
Last Last Traded Price
Change Change Today
% Chg Percent Change Today
Range Difference between Highest and Lowest Trades Today *
Volume Total Volume
Surplus Auction Surplus Volume/Value *
Turnover Total Turnover
Rel Vol Average On Market Volume *
Diff Vol Difference between On Market Volume (or Auction Volume) and Average *
Ratio Ratio of current On Market Volume (or Auction Volume) to Average *
Buy/Sell Volume Bought vs Volume Sold Today
Short % Held Short
%ShChg Change in % Held Short
DTC Days to Cover
VWAP Volume Weighted Average Price
Delta Last Traded Price at Delta Time *
Delta Chg Change since Delta Time *
Delta % Percent Change since Delta Time *
Mkt Cap Market Capitalisation
Trades Number of Trades
Time Time of Last Trade today
Description Description
Quote Bases Quote Bases
State State (if different from market)
Prev Previous Close
First First Traded Price Today
Low Lowest Traded Price Today
High Highest Traded Price Today
  • Columns only appear if the the relevant settings are made for the Smartlist

Settings

File

See here.

New New Smartlist
Load Load Smartlist
Save Save Smartlist
Save As... Save Smartlist as
> Watchlist Copy stocks to a new Watchlist
Rename Rename Smartlist
Columns Prioritise and customise column display
Reset to Defaults Reset Smartlist to its default settings

Order

% Change Order by Percent Change Today
Change Order by Change Today
Volume Order by Volume
Turnover Order by Value
Mkt Cap Order by Market Capitalisation
% Delta Order by Percent Change since Delta Time
Delta Order by Change since Delta Time
Last Trade Order by Last Trade Time
Buy/Sell Order by Volume Bought vs Volume Sold for Today
Code Order by Code
Rel Vol Ratio Order by Relative Volume Ratio
Rel Vol Order by Relative Volume
Range Pos Order by Range Position
Day Range Order by the Day Range
Manual N/A in Smartlists
Bid Gap Order by the % difference between the current bid and last price
Ask Gap Order by the % difference between the current ask and last price
VWAP Gap Order by the % difference between the VWAP and last price
Auction Surplus Order by either the Auction Surplus Volume or Value
Short % Order by the cumulative % held short
Short % Chg Order by change in the cumulative % held short. See short selling
DTC Order by Days to Cover shares held short
Reverse Order the list in reverse

Select

ASX Show/Hide ASX stocks
CXA Show/Hide CXA stocks
Watchlists... Only include stocks in the selected Watchlist(s)
Types... Only include stocks of the selected Security Type(s)
Industry... Only include stocks in the selected Industry Groups
Commodity... Only include stocks in the selected Commodity Groups
Opening... Only include stocks in the selected ASX Opening Groups

Traded

Filter the list based on how recently the stock has traded.

1 Min Only include stocks that have traded within the last minute
5 Only include stocks that have traded within the last 5 minutes
10 Only include stocks that have traded within the last 10 minutes
15 Only include stocks that have traded within the last 15 minutes
20 Only include stocks that have traded within the last 20 minutes
30 Only include stocks that have traded within the last 30 minutes
1 Hour Only include stocks that have traded within the last 1 hour
2 Only include stocks that have traded within the last 2 hours
4 Only include stocks that have traded within the last 4 hours
Today Only include stocks that have traded today
N/A Include all stocks

Note - If you want the Smartlist to include stocks based on their pre market Auction Price make sure you select N/A.

Change

Filter the list based on the price change direction.

Up Only include stocks whose Change Today is Up
Down Only include stocks whose Change Today is Down
Delta Up Only include stocks whose Delta Change for the set Delta Period is Up
Delta Down Only include stocks whose Delta Change for the set Delta Period is Down
N/A Include all stocks

Ranges

Price Only include stocks between a minimum and/or maximum price
Turnover Only include stocks that have traded between a minimum and/or maximum Turnover for the current day
Mkt Cap Only include stocks between a minimum and/or maximum Market Capitalisation
Trades Only include stocks that have traded between a minimum and/or maximum number of trades for the current day

The numbers entered in these range boxes can take the following suffixes:

k Thousands 100k = 100,000
t Thousands 1.5t = 1,500
m Millions 1m = 1,000,000
b Billions 1.85b = 1,850,000,000

Levels

Last <= VWAP Only include stocks whose Last Price is less than or equal to VWAP
Last >= VWAP Only include stocks whose Last Price is greater than or equal to VWAP
Buy <= Last Only include stocks whose Bid Price is less than or equal to the Last Price
Buy >= Last Only include stocks whose Bid Price is greater than or equal to the Last Price
Sell <= Last Only include stocks whose Offer Price is less than or equal to the Last Price
Sell >= Last Only include stocks whose Offer Price is greater than or equal to the Last Price
At Low Only include stocks whose Last Price is at the Day Low
At High Only include stocks whose Last Price is at the Day High
N/A Include all stocks

Delta

The Delta is the difference between the current share price and the price as at the set delta period.

Setting a delta period and ordering the smartlist by % Delta shows you a list of stocks that have increased or decreased the most since the set delta time. This can be useful to find stocks that are moving intraday.

Setting a delta period to longer periods, for example weekly or monthly, can be used to identify stocks that are out or under performing over longer time frames.

Delta columns only appear in the Smartlist if a delta period has been set.

1 Min Set Delta period to 1 minute
2 Set Delta period to 2 minutes
5 Set Delta period to 5 minutes
10 Set Delta period to 10 minutes
15 Set Delta period to 15 minutes
20 Set Delta period to 20 minutes
30 Set Delta period to 30 minutes
1 Hour Set Delta period to 1 hour
2 Set Delta period to 2 hours
4 Set Delta period to 4 hours
Custom Todo
Week Set Delta period to the opening price 7 days ago
Month Set Delta period to the opening price 30 days ago
Year Set Delta period to the opening price 1 year ago
YTD Set Delta period to the opening price on the 1st day of the current year
First Trade Set Delta period to the First On Market Trade of the day
Last Trade Set Delta period to the Last On Market Trade before the closing auction
N/A No Delta period set

Relative Volume

The Relative Volume figure calculates a stocks usual trading volume as at the same point in time during the day.

The Relative Volume figure can be based on

  • Yesterday - Volume traded on the previous trading day
  • Week Avg - 5 day average traded volume
  • Month Avg - 30 day average traded volume

The Difference and Ratio figures measure the current volume vs the set relative volume period. This can help you identify whether volume flows for the stock are increasing or decreasing.

In Spark, relative volume calculations only include On Market trades. This better reflects a stock's trading activity as it prevents data being distorted by one off large block trades.

During the pre market auction phase the Relative Volume figures account for shares traded in the opening auction.

Relative Volume columns only appear in the Smartlist if a delta period has been set.

Throughout Spark a stocks Relative Volume figures are displayed whenever you hover over any volume figure within Spark.

Yesterday Set Rel Vol to be based on yesterdays volume
Week Avg Set Rel Vol to be based on 5 day average traded volume
Month Avg Set Rel Vol to be based on 30 day average traded volume
N/A No Rel Vol set

Short Selling

See short selling.

Short Selling Ranges

Short % Set the minimum and maximum % held short
DTC Set the minimum and maximum Days to Cover

Change in % Held Short

The change is based on the date of the last ASIC report.

Day The date immediately before the most recent report
Week 7 days prior to the most recent report
Month 1 month prior to the most recent report
Year 1 year prior to the most recent report
N/A Hide the Change in % Short Held column and disable the Short % Chg order

States

Pre Open Only include stocks in Pre Open state
Pre Notice Only include stocks in Pre Notice state
Halted Only include stocks in Halted state
Suspended Only include stocks in Suspended state
N/A N/A

Auction

Any Include stocks with positive or negative surplus volume
Show Volume Show auction volume
Show Value Show auction value/turnover
Negative Only include stocks with negative surplus volume
Positive Only include stocks with positive surplus volume
N/A N/A

Limit

Smartlists by default are restricted to a maximum of 500 stocks.

You can set a lower limit via the limit box. This can be useful if you want to display a Smartlist in a Watchbar.

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