This item downloads the Industrial Production Index historical data from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The Industrial Production Index or IPI is an economic indicator. It is available in the G.17 Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Release. It measures the production output in the U.S. industrial...
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When there is more short selling volume than long volume, traders expect a decrease in the price of the stock and when there is more long volume than short selling volume, traders expect an increase in the price of the stock. However, things could happen differently from what traders expect.
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This Stock News item gets articles that are about US stocks from the Stockblotter website. It downloads and parses an RSS feed for each ticker symbol and then updates and inserts the data in a new database whose name is "stockblotter_news". The database contains the following fields:
Title: The article title....
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Correspondence between bars of trading days and their actual dates is sometimes needed in trading. In fact, trading days do not include neither weekends nor some holidays. Besides, the trading period does not correspond to a particular interval of the calendar; it starts and ends dependently on the trader's...
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This item downloads futures only reports of commitments of traders (COT) for several futures contracts.
The data is retrieved from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission website (cftc.gov); it is then parsed and inserted into a custom database 'commitments_traders'. The data is the aggregate values that are reported by all the...
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This item downloads valuation fundamental data for US stocks. It downloads 13 valuation ratios and stores them into a custom historical database whose name is 'fund_valuation'. This item should be run once per week in order to add additional ratios data and build an historical fundamental database. To get more...
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One way to discover stocks that are in a trading range and may move in one way or another in the coming days is to count the number of close and moving average crossovers over the previous days. For example, a stock that had four crossover during the last 10...
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The Chi-Squared is a widely used statistical hypothesis test to determine whether observed results are significantly different from expected results or not.
In trading, we can use the Chi-Squared test to determine how meaningful or statistically significant the performance that follows a specific pattern is.
Let us for example say that...
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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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This list of symbols contains major U.S. indices. The indices fall into one of the following categories: Down Jones, New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, S&P, Other US, Treasury and Commodities. For example, the Dow Jones category contains four indexes: Down Jones Composite Average, whose symbol name is ^DJA, Down Jones...
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Calculates the covariance of two numeric arrays. Similar to the covariance function in excel. The following description is taken from ehow:
Covariance is a measurement of how related the variances between two variables are. If the two variables both tend to increase together, it is a positive covariance,...
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This asset allocation strategy is implemented using a money management script that rebalances your portfolio monthly and adjusts the open positions by making sure they are equally weighted.
At the beginning of a new month (Monday), this asset allocation strategy loops through open positions, calculates the ideal size (total equity divided...
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The crossover/convergence trading indicator allows you to generate signals when two, three or four indicators are almost equal. Given a sensitivity parameter the crossover/convergence indicator calculates the different differences between each provided technical indicator and then generates a signal if the lowest difference is lower than the specified sensitivity threshold.
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The Qualitative Quantitative Estimation indicator is calculated based on a combination of the smoothed relative strength index (Moving average of RSI) and the average true range (ATR is used as a volatility based trailing stop) indicators. The QQE or Qualitative Quantitative Estimation indicator is particularly useful for volatile assets (stocks,...
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Few months ago, we have released an item that allows you to export any kind of data from QuantShare to a csv file.
Later, the item was modified by Kyra and the ability to filter data and add columns labels were added to the script.
Today, we are modifying the script again...
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This item downloads the margin debt, the free credit cash accounts and the credit balances in margin accounts data from the New York Exchange website.
The NYSE releases these numbers every month and the data spans from 1959 to present.
The NYSE margin debt is the amount of borrowed money to...
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This is the Maximum Intraday System Drawdown money management script.
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This downloader gets 10 years of annual fundamentals from Morningstar's free fundamental ratios.
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* It now works with non-USD financial statements.
* Balance sheet items such as Cash & Equivalents are converted from % of total assets to a dollar (or other currency) figure. ...
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EPS actual refers to the last quarter EPS or earnings per share, 12 month trailing EPS, last year EPS..., while EPS surprise refers to last EPS surprise, Previous EPS surprise, average EPS surprise...
An earnings surprise occurs when the quarterly or yearly earnings reported by the company are below or above...
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Body Momentum is a trading indicator described in Perry Kaufman's book. It is an oscillator that moves between 0 and 100 and calculates the percentage of bars that closed above the open price (white/green candle) during a specific period.
A period of 10 and a value of 100 for the body...
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This is a survivorship bias-free S&P 500 database downloader. With this downloader you will be able to test your strategies with more realistic expectations.
I have created this script thanks to this blog post: Getting Accurate Backtesting Results: Survivorship bias-free S&P 500.
Original author is Quantshare Team. Thank You QS!
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Using this money management script, you can simulate the effect of withdrawing a fixed amount of money, every month, from your portfolio.
The script allows you to enter the fixed amount to withdraw and to determine whether to withdraw money on each month or only on months that show positive returns...
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A well known bullish formation and continuation pattern called the ascending triangle occurs during an uptrend and is constituted of two trend lines where the first one is a resistance line (horizontal line) and the second one connects two or more troughs.
In technical analysis, the ascending triangle formation is visually...
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Nicholas Darvas in his book "How I Made $2,000,000 In the Stock Market", published in 1986, created the Darvas Box Theory.
Nicholas Darvas explains in this book that the Darvas box theory is a momentum strategy that should be used with short-term timeframes (less than one year).
The Darvas box...
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When added to a chart, this function generates a beep each time a new bar is created.
This function could be particularly useful when streaming real time data in a chart with a custom periodicity (Tickers per Bar, Range Bar.). It allows you to be quickly notified each time a new...
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Hammer 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 Hammer formation.
Usually it is said that if the Hammer pattern is in downtrend than...
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This item gets daily FII derivatives statistics from the National Stock Exchange website. You can run it daily to get the number of contracts and the amount in Crores in buy and sell positions as well as open interest at the end of the day for index futures, index options,...
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Intrade is a market prediction website where users predict whether a specific event will occur or not. In fact, Intrade is an exchange that facilitates the matching of orders from its customers. Intrade users trade events instead of securities. Each event has a close, open, high, low and a volume...
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This Simulator strategy is based on a system described by Larry Connors and Cezar Alvarez in their book "High Probability ETF Trading: 7 Professional Strategies To Improve Your ETF Trading ". The strategy's name is "Multiple Days Up/Multiple Days Down" or MDU/MDD.
This strategy was originally run on these ETFs:
DIA,EEM,EFA,EWH,EWJ,EWT,EWZ,FXI,GLD,ILF,IWM,IYR,QQQQ,SPY,XHB,XLB,XLE,XLF,XLI,XLV
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The 'BarsUpVolume' function calculates the number of successive increases in the volume (bars).
For example, if the bar n: 100, has a value of 2, this means that the volume were increasing for the last 2 bars. Volume of yesterday is higher than the Volume of the day before yesterday, and...
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The drawdown measures the decline of a time-series from an historical peak; generally the drawdown is used to analyze portfolio equities.
The maximum drawdown will then let you know how much money a portfolio has lost (or the maximum portfolio value decline) during the investing/backtesting period and therefore the drawdown...
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Short sale data reported by NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) Arca to a consolidated tape with the market identifier 'P' is available at the NYSE website (http://www.nyxdata.com/page/875).
This data includes the aggregate share volume of short sale transactions (short selling trading volume) that occurred during regular trading hours (between 9:30 am...
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Unlike the majority of stock market risk and volatility measures (such as the Standard deviation), the Ulcer Index was designed, by Peter Martin in 1987, to calculate the volatility in the downward direction only. This technical analysis indicator (Ulcer Index) was first introduced in a 1989's book called "The Investors...
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Introduced by John Andersen in a September 1996 article appearing in the 'Stock and Commodities' magazine, Standard Error Bands is an envelope whose bands are obtained by the calculation of the beta and alpha coefficients of linear regression. Standard Error Bands are used to measure the strength of a trend,...
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This money management script adds a logic to prevent a position from being closed if it isn't active for at least a specific number of bars.
As an example, if you specify the minimum trade bars to 10 then any position that is about to be closed but was not bought...
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In technical analysis and active trading, the majority of oscillator systems follow almost the same logic. Buy when the oscillator moves above a certain threshold and sell when it moves below a certain threshold. The problem with this approach is that it doesn't take the evolution and the volatility of...
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Based on the first N-minutes of a trading session, this technical indicator creates a support and resistance lines for each trading session.
The first line corresponds to the high of the first N-Minutes and it is plotted for the rest of the day. The second line corresponds to the resistance and...
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This Downloader downloads fundamental data from Morningstar's free service. 82 different elements are captured into a "morningstar_fundaments" database. Typically 10 years of data are available. The data points provided are:
Financials
Revenue USD Mil
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