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Raschke Trade Sheet (scanner)

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Recreates Linda Raschke's nightly "trade sheet" as a live scanner: one table showing momentum bias, volatility compression, range expansion, extended-run exhaustion, momentum thrusts, and 20-day channel tests for ten futures markets at once.


OVERVIEW

Linda Bradford Raschke has said for decades that her edge starts with homework: every evening she hand-writes indicator readings and closing prices for the two dozen futures markets she tracks, because writing them down keeps her in tune with the tape in a way a screen full of charts cannot. Her firm still publishes these nightly trade sheets.

This script rebuilds that routine as a live scanner. It runs her checklist across a configurable ten-symbol futures watchlist (or just the current chart) and displays the results in one table, so the evening-homework snapshot she compiles by hand is on your chart continuously. It is a preparation tool: it tells you which markets deserve attention tomorrow and in which direction, not when to click buy.


WHY THIS IS DIFFERENT

Every column of this table exists somewhere on TradingView as a standalone script - there are NR7/WR bar markers, 2-period ROC plots, and Donchian channels. What does not exist is the sheet: the specific combination Raschke actually checks nightly, computed per symbol across a watchlist and read as one row per market. That combination is the point. Her workflow is not "watch one indicator"; it is "scan many markets for a short checklist of conditions, then trade the two or three markets where conditions line up." A row where bias, compression, and a channel test agree is a candidate; a lone flag is just information. This is a mashup with a documented reason to exist - it reproduces a professional's published daily process, and to my knowledge no other script on TradingView does it.


THE COLUMNS

Bias - three momentum readings sloping the same way: the 3/10 oscillator fast line (SMA 3 minus SMA 10), its 16-period slow line, and the 2-period rate of change. All three rising = up bias (green), all three falling = down bias (red), mixed = neutral. The 2-period ROC is a Raschke staple: it highlights the two-to-three-day swing cycle she traces back to George Douglass Taylor's buy day / sell day rhythm, and the 3/10 pair is her signature momentum gauge. When all three agree, the swing, the momentum trend, and the short cycle point the same way.

3bar - a three-bar triangle: the latest bar's high is below the prior two highs AND its low is above the prior two lows. Compression inside compression - the market is winding up, and the subsequent break of the little triangle often starts the next directional move.

WR7 - wide-range-7: the current bar's range is the widest of the last seven. This is Toby Crabel's range-expansion concept, which Raschke absorbed into her own work: volatility cycles from contraction to expansion, and a WR7 bar tells you expansion has arrived. Early in a move it marks initiation; after an extended run it can mark climax. Read it together with the Bias column.

Coil - three consecutive bars still share overlapping price territory (the lowest high of the three sits above the highest low). A market trading in balance with a short travel path - the flip side of WR7. Crabel's and Raschke's shared premise: low-volatility balance precedes the tradeable breakout, so coiled markets go on tomorrow's watch list.

ExtSig - extended-run exhaustion around the 5-period SMA. After at least seven consecutive closes on one side of the 5-SMA - an unusually persistent run - the FIRST close back on the other side prints B (buy) or S (sell). This is a classic Raschke tell: short-term runs stretch only so far from the mean, and the first close across the short average after a long one-sided streak flags the run's end for a mean-reversion trade or an exit signal for trend riders.

2ROC - the 2-period ROC has just made a new 30-bar momentum high or low. Momentum precedes price: a fresh momentum extreme typically gets a pullback and then a retest of the price extreme, so this column flags markets where a thrust just happened and the swing playbook (buy the first pullback) applies.

20D - price is making a new 20-day high (20H) or 20-day low (20L). The 20-day channel is the classic intermediate breakout reference; Raschke watches tests of these levels because they are where trend players, breakout systems, and stops all congregate. Combined with Bias, this separates a confirmed breakout from a suspect poke.


HOW TO USE IT

The nightly routine. After the close (or before the open), read the table row by row on the daily lock:

- Rows where Bias, 2ROC, and 20D agree are trending candidates - the playbook is buying pullbacks in the bias direction, not fading.
- Rows showing 3bar or Coil with a flat bias are tomorrow's breakout watch - set alerts on the compression range and let the break pick the direction.
- An ExtSig flag warns that an extended run may be done: tighten stops if you are with the run, or stalk the reversion if that is your style.
- WR7 plus a fresh 20D break in the bias direction is initiation; WR7 after many one-sided closes alongside an ExtSig flag reads as climax.

The goal, in Raschke's spirit, is selection: out of ten markets, two or three rows will line up. Those get your attention tomorrow; the rest get ignored.

Toggles. Scan mode switches between the ten-symbol watchlist and the current chart only. Timeframe mode either locks the sheet to daily data - so you can monitor the daily homework while sitting on a 5-minute execution chart - or follows the chart's timeframe, which turns the same checklist into an intraday sheet.

Watchlist. Defaults cover the major futures groups - stock indices, metals, energies, rates, currencies, grains - and every slot is a symbol input, so the sheet works for any markets you trade.


LIMITATIONS

- This is a preparation scanner, not a signal generator. No column is an entry by itself, and the columns are deliberately simple binary flags - the judgment of combining them is yours, as it is on Raschke's own sheets.
- The table shows current conditions only; it does not keep history. Bar-by-bar flags repaint intrabar until the bar closes, so read the sheet after the session (its intended use) or treat live flags as provisional.
- Watchlist size is fixed at ten symbols to stay within Pine's data-request limits.
- Raschke's full sheets include readings this script does not compute. It covers the price-based checklist; it is not a substitute for her published materials.


THANKS

Credit to Linda Bradford Raschke (LBRGroup, Street Smarts) for the trade-sheet workflow, the 3/10 oscillator, and the 2-period ROC swing framework; to Toby Crabel for the range contraction/expansion concepts behind the WR7 and Coil columns; and to George Douglass Taylor, whose buy day / sell day cycle underlies the 2-period ROC's usefulness. Educational tool, not financial advice.

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