This lesson will show you how to plot the number of tweets per day for a particular stock. Tweets data is downloaded from twitter by using the following item: StockTwits. To get currency pairs tweets use Forex Tweets. Steps: - Download the above downloader from QuantShare Sharing Server - In the main menu of QS Trading Software, select "Download" then "Download Manager" - Select "StockTwits" item then click on "Open Selected Downloader" - Specify one or several stocks then click on "Start Downloading" (Click 'Yes' when the application prompts you to create a new custom intraday database) - When the downloading process is completed, close the "Download Manager" control - Open a new chart and select a stock you have previously used in the downloader - Create a new pane by right clicking on the chart then selecting "Create new pane" - In the new pane, click on the first icon to add a new indicator - Select "Databases / Fields" tab - Select "stocktwits" database, "title" field then click on "OK"  Notes: - Make sure that your quotes database is up-to-date. - The values on the chart above the stock tweets line were plotted by adding the following function: (Right click on the chart then "Edit Formula") PlotSymbol(a, a, 0, 0, AboveHigh, colorRed, colorRed, PlotSymbolNone); // a = GetDataCount("stocktwits", "title"); Here is how to increase or decrease the number of tweets to download per stock: - Select the download item (Download Manager) - Click on "Update" - Click on "2 Field(s)" button - Update the value of "rpp". Set it to a higher value to download more stock tweets.
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