Pivot System price levels act as potential support and resistance zones throughout the day. They serve as focal points for floor professionals as they adjust their bids and offers, especially when trading activity is slow. The use of these values, along with tape reading skills and candlestick pattern recognition can...
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This simply downloads all the data from finviz that cannot be calculated from the price data in one quick download. (Fundamental data)...
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TSPTalk.com publishes a weekly survey that asks investors whether they think the S&P 500 is bullish or bearish. The percentage of bullish and bearish traders as well as the TSP trading strategy mode are downloaded from TSP website. The Excel file is parsed then three symbols are created and added...
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Based on the different iShares ETFs Dow Jones industries, this trading system buys the ETF that is ranked number one based on the ratio between the small-term and long-term moving averages (trending up).
On each rebalance day, the strategy ranks all ETFs based on their moving averages ratio. It then...
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This trading system ranks the 10-bar rate of return of iShares ETFs that represent the top US industries then buys the ETF that have the lowest return. When the ranking system returns another ETF then the strategy sells the previously purchased exchanged traded fund and buys the first ranked one.
The...
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This drawing tool creates a simple trend line with two additional properties:
- The line is colored Green when it is trending up and red when it is trending down
- The trend line displays its length (number of trading bars) and the sum of volume (accumulation) of the bars that occurred...
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Stocks that outperform the market are more likely to increase in the future that stocks that are lagging and performing worse than the market.
Outperforming stocks carry also higher risk and we should be particularly careful when entering positions in one of these stocks. Many reasons could explain why...
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Applying the linear regression to the 2-Bar Relative strength index series creates an oscillator whose values vary between 0 and 100. The oscillator reaches low values after a decline in the underlying stock and reaches high values after a fast increase.
Linear regression analysis is used to analyze the relationship between...
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The Relative Strength Index or RSI is a normalized momentum oscillator created by J. Welles Wilder. The Relative Strength Index oscillates between 0 and 100. When the RSI is above the 70 area, it is considered overbought and when it is below the 30 area, it is considered oversold. Besides...
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In order to reduce your investment risk you have to diversify. The problem is that many traders do not know how to put the diversification concept into practice. How do we know the number of stocks to invest in and the percentage of equity to put in each one of...
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"GetField" is a function that gets a word among a list of words given an index provided as parameter to the function.
The function is mainly used in quantitative trading to optimize News driven trading systems and it works as follows:
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A company that is concerned about fluctuations in interest rates can reduce or limit its exposure to these interest rates by using a financial instrument (derivative) called Interest Rate Swap. It consists of an agreement between two parties where two streams of future interest payments are exchanged.
Interest rate swaps...
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There are several ways to measure and compare the strength of different industries. A unique way to do this is to calculate the number All-Star Trader picks for each one of these industries and compare the different values.
All-Star Trader Picks refers to the number of picks an U.S. Stock is...
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The current algorithm calculates the mathematical combination element given the lexicographical index. The function gets several string values separated by a semi-colon, a value to test, the number of values per combination and the combination index (or what is called lexicographical index).
To understand the usefulness of this function, here is...
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Formula Name:VROC
Formula Full Name:Rate of Change (Volume)
Formula Description:
Rate of Change Volume (ROCV) is an oscillator applied to volume rather than price and is calculated in the same manner as the Rate of Change (Price) indicator.
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The current list of rules contains 44 series/indicators based on the sum function. This list can be used when implementing the technique described in the following blog post: How to turn any ordinary trading strategy into a very profitable one
The indicators are transformed by the PercentRank function, then...
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The volatility channels indicator is used as a confirmation rule to enter long or short trades. When long rules are triggered, enter long when the price breaks up the upper volatility band and when short rules are triggered, enter short when the price breaks down the lower volatility band. The...
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This drawing object helps you to plan a trade. It is useful for long-term traders who want to plan a trade with entries (max 2), target and stop. This drawing shows you the planned entries, target and stop. It shows you if and when the trades are triggered and how...
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Here is a simple Long-Short Forex strategy based on the moving average and the relative strength index indicators. The strategy buys a currency pair if its 5-Period RSI value is greater than 50 and if the price crosses over its 5-Bar SMA and makes at least 20 pips (Difference between...
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Even in periods where a stock market index such as the S&P 500 rises, many stocks fall sharply. Several reasons could explain this decline: bad news, earnings release below the analysts consensus, big sell orders from institutional traders (micro and small cap stocks are likely to react more to these...
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This item downloads historical end-of-day data for shares and other securities listed on the Deutsche Börse XETRA....
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Using the Hull moving average, a market rule, two time frames and an N-Bar stop, this strategy generates an annual return of 30.91%, a high Sharpe ratio of 2.13 and a very low drawdown (-16.21%). The strategy beta is equal to 0.29 and the correlation between daily returns and S&P...
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The current pivot table returns the average 10-Bar stock performance for each U.S. Exchange (NYSE, NASD, NYSE and OTC). It also returns, in another column, the number of stocks in each one of the previous exchanges. The 10-Bar return calculation is performed using the "perf" trading indicator and it is...
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The Hull Moving Average is based on several weighted moving averages. In an attempt to create a more responsive MA and reduce the lag problem that is inherent to most moving averages, the HULL indicator returns a much faster and smoother moving average.
The Hull Moving Average was first introduced by...
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The Bloomberg U.S. Financial Conditions Index is a measure of the number of standard deviations (z-score) the current financial conditions are above or below the average index value for the period of June-1994 to 2008. The index is calculated using yield spreads and indices from the Equity, Bond and Money...
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The trading system is composed of two trading rules. The first one is triggered when a stock share price closes below its 20-Bar Bollinger Lower Band. The second one is a market-timing rule that prevents the trading system from entering new orders when the market is declining. A market decline...
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During a non-trending period, the price of an asset usually crosses above and below its moving average several times in a short period. The power of the bulls is almost equal to that of the bears. The more crossovers occurring between the price and the moving average the more the...
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Here is a strategy I created to show you how to use multiple time frames in a trading system. The system is based on price crossover with its 10-Bar simple moving average. Although, no optimizations at all were done, the trading system has generated an annual return of 26.14%. It...
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The Bull Bear Ratio is a market sentiment indicator that measures the strength of the bulls versus the bears. It measures the bulls by calculating the number of stocks whose percent rank value is higher than 70 and the bears by calculating the number of stocks whose percent rank value...
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Volume near price is a technical indicator that returns the total volume near the current price level that occurred in previous periods. For each period, the indicator calculates the total volume of the previous N period where the close price was between the current price and a threshold value (+-)....
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This downloader gets last quote prices (realtime shares data) for stocks listed on the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange (Bourse de Paris).
It downloads a list that contains the date, open, share price, today's high and today's low for more than 700 stock symbols (including CAC 40 stocks). The data...
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The screen returns the correlation of each stock with its industry for the last 250 and 30 trading days.
It displays five columns:
- Symbol: The stock symbol name
- Close: The close price at the screen date
- Return: The one-bar return of the stock ...
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Unlike the 683, which gets daily picks only from all-Star Motley fool users, the number of outperform and underperform picks for U.S. Stocks downloaded by this item are obtained from all Motley fool users.
The number of daily picks is saved in a historical database called "ascaps".
The number of bullish...
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After a backtest, this trading system generated an average annual gain of 22.79%. The strategy Sharpe ratio for all period (2001-2011) is 0.77 and only 24.02% of trades were winners. Among the 11 years tested, only four showed a small negative return.
Here are the trading system settings:
- Number of...
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Imagine you have a trading rule that turns itself off if the average return of the last trade (or the last few trades) that were generated by this rule are negative or below a specific threshold.
This is exactly what this technical indicator will allow you to do.
You tell him...
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The Elliott Wave Oscillator is a very simple indicator that consists of taking the difference of a 5-period simple moving average and a 34-period simple moving average. The result oscillates above and below the zero line and it is displayed as a histogram whose bar colors changes depending on whether...
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As with the default horizontal line, this drawing item plots a horizontal line at the mouse Y position when you click on a chart. Beside that line, another line that corresponds to the distance between the horizontal line and the last close price is also drawn at the first bar...
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This component gets historical OHLCV data for all stocks and ETFs listed on the LSE (London Stock Exchange).
The downloader accepts ticker symbols with and without a suffix. If a suffix is found (SLVR.L for example) then it will remove it and pass the new ticker symbol (SLVR) to the next...
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The number of stocks hitting their 20-day high compared to the total number of stocks is what this market indicator returns.
This market breadth indicator can applied to all markets. Currently, the composite gets the number of stocks that are making new 20-day highs from all symbols available in your database...
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Small cap refers to publicly traded companies whose market capitalization value is under $1 billion dollar. Small cap stocks have on average outperformed large cap and medium cap stocks over the past decades. The main reason for this is that they are usually companies that have lots of room to...
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