This is a trend following trading strategy that trades S&P 500 stocks.
The S&P 500 trend following system uses the following rules:
- Daily data for S&P 500 stocks
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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 simple script allows you to control the Percentage of Invested Capital that your strategy uses. It is done via the position a defined Instrument with its Moving Average. If the Instrument is above its Moving Average, Percentage of Invested Capital is scaled in to 100%.
If the instrument is below...
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The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is the stock exchange of Hong Kong. It is owned by the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and it lists more than one thousand companies. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange or HKEX, is the Asia's third largest stock exchange (based on market capitalization) just...
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From a tool that allows me to measure the trend strength of a stock, I wanted to measure the trend strength of the global stock market by creating a composite that averages the trend strength values of all stocks that are included in the U.S. Stock Market. Note that this...
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A trading rule has always two states. It could be TRUE, when its value is higher than 0 and FALSE otherwise.
An example of a simple trading rule is: stock close price is higher than its 30-Bar simple moving average. On one day, the close price is higher than its 30-Bar...
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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 list of all commodities trading on the NCDEX can be downloaded here 526. This list contains agricultural commodities (Potato, Chana, Crude Palm Oil, Soy Bean, Cotton...), metals (Steel, Copper, Zinc...), precious metals (Gold, Silver, Platinum...), energy (Brent Crude Oil, Gasoline, Heating Oil, Natural Gas...).
The list is not mandatory because...
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The NORMDIST function is similar to the one available in Excel. Given a set of parameters, this statistical function calculates the normal probability density function or the cumulative normal distribution function.
Here are the different parameters of the NORMDIST function:
X: The function will return the probability of the value "x" occurring.
Mean:...
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This composite calculates the ratio of stocks trading above their upper Bollinger band to stocks trading below their lower Bollinger band.
The number of stocks trading above/below their upper/lower Bollinger band is computed by comparing the close price to the 20-bar "BbandsUpper"/"BbandsLower" function.
A value of 60 tells us that among stocks...
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If you want to compare a certain value of a time-series for a particular security to the value of other securities for the same date, then you should use the z-score. You will need to standardize data in order to use the z-score or the standard score.
The standard score, which...
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If you have a trading system that is not fully invested 100% of the time and you want to invest that cash into a security like a bond fund or a money market fund then you can use this money management script to do that for you.
Steps:
- Download this money...
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Using the "GapUp" and "GapDown" functions, it is easy to spot up and down gaps and tells on which bars these gaps have occurred. It is also very interesting to know the size of the gap.
First and for those who don't know what a Gap is; it is the price...
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Hanging Man is used for short term trading when applied to daily charts. Trader can take position accordingly on the particular trading days depending upon the formation of pattern. This will help you screen out stocks having Hanging Man formation.
Usually it is said that if the Hanging Man pattern is...
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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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With the 'composite' plugin in QS, we can easily create our own indices. The simplest construction gives a price-weighted index. One drawback of a price weighted index is that when a high priced stock ceases to be a member of the index, it results in a downward gap for that...
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This downloader imports EODData.com (end of day only) formatted text files from your hard drive. EODData.com allows free end of day data downloads for a number of exchanges as long as you register (see: http://www.eoddata.com/download.aspx). If you pay for a premium membership, they also provide you with a proprietary downloader...
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For each Forex currency pair, you can use the 212 trading item to download historical calendar events in a custom intraday database. This database will contain calendar events for several currency pairs as well as the actual, the forecast and the previous value for each event.
This indicator requires this data...
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For those who want or need access to both adjusted and unadjusted historical stock prices, this item downloads both data from the Yahoo server.
This item has almost the same settings as the 73, which is a download object that retrieves historical EOD data from Yahoo servers, adjusts the quotes using...
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The Toronto Stock Exchange is the main stock exchange in Canada. This item lets you download historical end-of-day data for companies listed in this exchange. Data for 1444 symbols are downloaded, parsed and inserted into your quote database. The data is grouped by month and thus can be downloaded very...
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Created by Dr. Rene Koch, the variance ratio indicator measures the degree of mean reversion or trendiness in a time series. It is an easy and fast way to detect whether a security or price series is trending, mean reverting or following a random walk.
The variance ratio interpretation is as...
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Based on the position of the security close price compared to its moving average (MA), this technical analysis indicator returns a value comprised between one and three.
A value of one indicates that the current close price is trading 5% lower than its simple moving average.
A value of three indicates that...
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This was inspired by an article on tweaking Harry Browne's Permanent Portfolio (I cannot find that article... )
This is v.01 so it's not 100% checked and verified.Please report any errors or mistakes.
The basic PP portfolio is equal weight in 4 assets:
25% Equity ...
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I bet most or all of your trading systems use the same order types to buy and short securities. My strategies also use single order type logic to enter all positions.
Here is a money management script that updates the default order type depending on a trading rule. The script transforms...
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The Rogers-Satchell function is a volatility estimator that outperforms other estimators when the underlying follows a geometric Brownian motion (GBM) with a drift (historical data mean returns different from zero).
As a result, it provides a better volatility estimation when the underlying is trending.
However, this Rogers-Satchell estimator does not account for...
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The turn of the month effect on stock indexes states that stock prices performs better on the first three days and the last four days of each month. The idea is based on several academic papers such as the Equity Returns at the Turn of the Month, Further Evidence on...
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What is the ConnorsRSI?
It consists of three components:
a. Short term Relative Strength, i.e., RSI(3).
b. Counting consecutive up and down days (streaks) and "normalizing" the data using RSI(streak,2). The result is a bounded, 0-100 indicator. ...
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Choppiness index is an indicator used to measure the degree in trendiness and in choppiness in a market.
It uses a 0-100 scale and includes an upper and a lower bands respectively corresponding to Fibonacci 61.80 and 38.20 numbers. While CI values below 31.80 mean a trending market, those above 61.80...
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With this simple script you can control your trading via Moving Average. If is instrument above its Moving Average trading is enabled , if is instrument below its Moving Average trading is disabled.
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MA Period: Moving Average period ...
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This function is an example that shows you how to use the "plotprofile" function of QuantShare.
Each month, it splits the stock's high/low range into ten buckets then counts the number of times the analyzed stock has closed within that bucket. The higher the bucket value, the more the stock closed...
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Investopedia defines oversold as
1. A condition in which the price of an underlying asset has fallen sharply, and to a level below which its true value resides. This condition is usually a result of market overreaction or panic selling.
2. A situation in technical analysis where the price of an asset...
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The StocRSI indicator is a hybrid indicator that employs a 21 day fast stochastic indicator , 14 day RSI, adds half the value of each and takes a 13 day EMA of the summed value to arrive at the final calculation. It was developed and employed by Don Beasley who...
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An exchange-traded fund or ETF is a financial instrument that trades like a stock. An ETF represents a basket of assets like stocks, future, currencies...
This item contains the list of ETFs listed on the US stock exchanges.
The list contains 1383 symbols and contains the full name of the exchange-traded...
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Based off of a buy/sell signals mostly using the signals report.
When updating please date your update and make it person specific so we don't destroy the original.
Absolute goal is CAGR >20% with drawdown
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This is another economic calendar downloader item for Forex traders. The benefit of using this one over (202) is that the current item is much faster in downloading the data. The data is stored into a custom database 'economic_cal ' with the following fields: the event date, the event or...
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This money management script allows you to add a trailing stop to your trading strategy AFTER a condition is met. For example, the script will allow you to set a 2% trailing stop after RSI(2) > 70.
The script accepts two inputs from the user: the condition to evaluate, and...
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Definition:
VIX futures are often priced differently depending on the expiration date. VIX term structure is a plot of the futures values for different expiration dates.
When the near-term VIX futures contract is priced lower than later VIX futures, we say that the VIX futures curve is in contango. The opposite, backwardation,...
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The Safezone indicator, introduced by Alexander Elder in 2002, is used as a stop order against signal reversal in trending markets.
The Safezone stop intends to create a better trailing stop by eliminating the noise component of a trend and by creating a safer stop. It calculates two lines depending...
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This indicator measures the volatility by subtracting the highest high over a specific period by the lowest low over the same period. In other words, the volatility here represents the distance between the highest and lowest value over a specific lookback period. You can of course modify the function and...
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The value at risk is a risk measure based on the probability distribution of security's prices or portfolio's market value. Unlike other measures such as the volatility, the value at risk measure cares about the direction of the portfolio or security.
The current value at risk function calculates a percentage that...
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