This simple function can be used in Forex trading; it returns for a given symbol whether the specified currency is the base currency or the counter/quote currency.
The function is named "isbase", it accepts the currency name and it returns one if the specified currency is the base currency, minus one...
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A list of 31 currency pairs is contained in this item. The list contain the major currencies (US Dollar (USD), British Pound (GBP), Euro (EUR), Japanese Yen (JPY) and Swiss Franc (CHF)) as well as several other currencies, like the South African Rand, Norwegian Krone or the Saudi Arabian Riyals.
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The item retrieves historical end-of-day data, including close, high, low and open prices, for 31 currency pairs. A list of available forex pairs can be found here 423.
Steps to follow:
- Go to 423 and install this list of symbols. This will add 31 currency pairs to your symbols database. This...
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A stock is considered to be a threshold security when it has an aggregate fail to deliver position for five consecutive settlement days at a registered clearing agency that total 10 000 shares or more and when this volume is at least equal to 0.5% of the stock total shares...
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The ascending and descending triangles are two chart patterns that can be used to confirm a continuation or to detect a reversal; the former is a bullish chart pattern, whereas the latter is a bearish chart pattern.
As we previously said, the Ascending Triangle is a bullish pattern; it is...
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A Wedge is a technical chart pattern that is composited of two converging lines that connect peaks and troughs.
Wedges and triangles are both formed by two trendlines, the difference between these two chart patterns is that a triangle, whether it is an ascending or descending triangle, contains an horizontal...
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The Weighted Linear Regression Is an extension of the standard Linear Regression, where a weight is added to each of the points.
It can be used to calculate the linear regression of the closing prices by considering the volume traded on each day, This indicator compared to the standard Linear Regression...
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This function calculates the slope of the Weighted Linear Regression.
The Weighted Linear Regression Is an extension of the standard Linear Regression, where a weight is added to each of the points.
It can be used to calculate the linear regression of the closing prices by considering the volume traded on each...
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A bull call spread strategy involves buying a call option of an underlying stock and at the same time selling or writing a call option on the same underlying stock and with the same expiration date. The unique difference between these two call options is that the sold call option...
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The Bear Put Spread and the 431 are called debit spread option strategies. In a debit spread strategy, a trader purchases an option with a higher premium and sells another option for the same underlying security with a lower premium. The strategy results in a net debit (Premium of the...
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This item creates a market breadth indicator called Percentage of new highs to total market. The composite uses the number of stocks making new 52-week highs that are downloaded by the following object 134.
The Percentage of new highs to total market is calculated by dividing the number of stocks with...
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The CRBQX, CRBIX and CRBAX are three market indices created by Thomson Reuters/Jefferies. The indices include most of the industry global market capitalization.
The CRBQX or the TR/J CRB Global Commodity Equity Index (Symbol name: ^CRBQX) is an equity index designed to track 150 stocks, which are essentially engaged in the...
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The index calculates the number of currencies that are declining compared to a given currency.
For example, if we apply the composite index to the US Dollar and we have for a particular date the following one-day rate of returns (Assuming we have only four forex pairs involving the US Dollar...
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This object downloads real-time forex tweets from the StockTwits website.
Tweets are downloaded for several currency pairs, including: AUDCAD, AUDJPY, AUDUSD, EURAUD, EURCAD, EURCHF, EURGBP, EURJPY, EURUSD, GBPJPY, GBPUSD, USDCAD, USDCHF and USDJPY.
The data is saved in the "stocktwits" database and it includes the tweet's date and the message.
For example, the...
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Each quarter, companies release their earning numbers in the income statement. The release occurs after or before the market opens.
Earnings are used to calculate several fundamental ratios, including the earnings per share or EPS, which is calculated by dividing the total company's earnings by the number of shares outstanding, and...
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The object gets a list of companies that are either upgraded or downgraded by analysts for the current trading day. Analysts working for brokerage firms track the performance of thousands of U.S. companies. An analyst upgrades a company if he/she thinks that the company stock price is underpriced, and downgrades...
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This object downloads Forex news from the XE website. XE is a provider of Internet foreign exchange tools and services; the company provides news for the following currencies U.S. Dollar (USD), Euro (EUR), Pound Sterling (GBP), Japanese Yen (JPY), Canadian Dollar (CAD), Australian Dollar (AUD) and Swiss Franc (CHF). Historical...
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The Date filter is a simple function that returns one if a specific bar's date is comprised between a given start and end dates; otherwise, it returns zero.
The date filter accepts six parameters.
Param1: The day of the start date
Param2: The month of the start date
Param3: The year of the start...
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The RTS Index or RTSI is an index that tracks the performance of the 50 largest stocks that are listed on the Russian Trading System, a stock exchange located in Moscow.
The RTS Index is calculated in US Dollars; it is a capitalization-weighted index and it has restrictive rules that prevent...
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This RTS indices item downloads historical EOD quotes for ten indices maintained by the Russian Trading System Exchange.
Indices ticker symbols can be found here 441.
The data is downloaded from the RTS RU (Russian Trading System) website.
List of indices: ...
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The Institute for Supply Management is well known for its ISM Manufacturing Survey. Economic indicators that result from this survey (ISM Manufacturing PMI Index, Manufacturing inventories index, Manufacturing production index...) are available here 189.
The ISM Non-manufacturing report is another report released by the Institute for Supply Management. It is based...
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Inventory to Sales Ratio or I/S ratio is the ratio of companies' inventory to companies' sales. It measures the percentage of inventory companies, operating in the United States, have on hand to support their current amount of sales. This economic indicator is released in the Monthly Wholesale Trade Report, which...
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The Accumulation Swing index, introduced in the New Concepts In "Technical Trading Systems" book by Welles Wilder, is an oscillator based on the SI or swing index, which is a technical indicator that compares the current asset prices (close, open, high and low) to the previous bar prices. The swing...
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The Barclays Bank PLC issues debt securities called iPath Exchange Traded Notes or ETNs. They allow investors or traders to invest in financial products that track the performance of different market benchmarks or strategies. ETNs are like stocks, they are listed on exchanges and they can be shorted.
These are four...
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The SuperStockScreener.com website has created a ranking system that gives a score of one to five to stocks listed on U.S. exchanges, including the NYSE and NASDAQ.
The ranking system assigns a value of one to stocks that are likely to beat the market with less volatility (Strong buy recommendation). A...
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The S&P 500 Earnings is calculated by taking the 12-month earnings per share for all stocks that constitute the S&P 500. The S&P 500 is one of the most popular indexes; it tracks the performance of 500 American large-cap companies.
An increase in the S&P 500 earnings means that the biggest...
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The "Close price above cursor" drawing tool is the first of a series of drawing tools that I am going to share to explain you how to create your own custom drawing tools.
This object simply displays the security close price above the mouse cursor when you move your mouse over...
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This function converts a string to a number. It generates a number from a string or combinations of letters and numbers.
The function is called "Num" and it uses the "GetHashCode" method of an object to generate a number.
The "Num" function can be helpful in many situations.
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This item downloads historical EOD data of U.S. industry indexes. It downloads the last two years daily history for 92 industries.
Ticker symbol for these industries are created and inserted in your database during the downloading process. Ticker format is as follows: ^Industry_[Industry name]. The data contains the closing prices and...
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NYSE advances and declines object downloads historical end-of-day data of the number of advancing, declining and unchanged stocks that trade in the New York Stock Exchange.
The number of advancing and declining issues is used to calculate several market breadth indicators, for example: Advance/decline line, Absolute breadth index, Advance decline ratio...
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The KST indicator or the Know Sure Thing indicator is a technical analysis tool developed in the early 1990's by Martin Pring. It weights several smoothed rate of change time-series with different periods.
The KST indicator was developed in order to signal and to detect market trends while removing shorter-term movements.
To...
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Standard & Poor's, S&P, is well known for several stock market indexes. It releases the S&P 500 for the US market (391), the S&P/MIB for the Italian market, the S&P CNX Nifty for the Indian market (386), the S&P/ASX 200 for the Australian market and the S&P/TSX for the Canadian...
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The TSX Advance Decline item retrieves the number of advancing and declining stocks that trade in the Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX. TSX is a subsidiary of the TMX Group Inc, it is based in Toronto, the largest city of Canada and it is the largest stock exchange in that country.
This...
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The CFNAI or the Chicago Fed National Activity Index is a monthly index released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. It is a weighted average of several economic indicators that belong to four main categories: Production and income, employment, unemployment and hours, personal consumption and housing and finally sales,...
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The Chart Pattern Indicator is a market tool developed by Thomas Bulkowski and updated on its website thepatternsite.com.
The Chart Pattern Indicator calculates the ratio of the total number of bullish patterns to the total number of bullish and bearish patterns for approximately 500 U.S. stocks. The result is expressed as...
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Here is a description of the Margins and Turnover ratios and numbers (fundamental data) downloaded by this object:
Net Margin: Expressed as a percentage, the Net Margin is calculated by dividing the net income for the previous 12 months by the sales for the previous 12 months. This ratio measures how...
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Some companies invest all their earnings in the business, this is known as retained earnings, while other prefer to distribute these earnings or usually part of it to their shareholders. These payments are called dividends; each shareholder receives an amount that is proportional to the number of shares that he...
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Bolsa de Valores, Mercadorias & Futuros de São Paulo or the BM&F BOVESPA is the main exchange in Brazil and the fourth largest exchange in America in terms of market capitalization.
It was formed after the merger of the Bovespa (Sao Paulo Stock Exchange) and the BM&F (Brazilian Mercantile and Futures...
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Trade-Ideas allows you to perform intraday scans using several criteria; these criteria include volatility, Average True Range, 15 minute range, 30 minute range, gap up, gap down, 15 minute RSI, range contraction, up from the close, up previous day, standard deviation, below high, above low, position in range, consolidation,...
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