Traders have developed several position sizing techniques and systems. Here are for example the fixed bet size (493) and the fixed percentage of equity (499) scripts.
Another popular position sizing system, often using in trading, is the one that uses volatility to adjust the number of shares to buy or short...
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DV Bounded (DVB) - The DV Bounded is also known otherwise as the "DV2" and was created by David Varadi to capture the normalized relative close. The "DV2" version of the DV Bounded represents the 2-period average of the relative close to the high-to-low range. The "bounded" portion represents the...
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Hong Kong EOD data item allows you to get free historical end-of-day data for all stocks and Etfs listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchanges.
Hong Kong Stock Market:
- The list of ticker symbols for HK stocks is available here: 259
- The list of ticker symbols for HK Etfs is available here:...
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The majority of technical trading indicators use the rate of change of security prices in their calculation. The Relative Volatility Indicator or RVI, uses a different time-series, it uses the volatility trend, which is calculated using the standard deviation of the security close price, to measure and evaluate market strength.
The...
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This item downloads seasonally adjusted historical data of the PMI Index from the Institute of Supply Management (ISM). The PMI (Manufacturing Purchasing managers' index) number is compiled from a survey of managers' purchasing. The idea is that the more managers buy raw materials to fulfill their needs, the better the...
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This item downloads equity put and call data from the CBOE website. Three symbols are created and filled with historical data. These symbols are automatically added to your symbols list. Once symbols are created, you may want to fill their full names with the following information:
^PUT: Equity put options volume...
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The maximum drawdown of a stock is calculated using the "Drawdown" function. This function returns the maximum drawdown of a price series since the first bar.
The maximum drawdown composite indicator averages the max drawdown of all stocks in the universe by calculating the max drawdown of each stock and then...
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The TD Range Projections or the Tom Demark Range Projections is an indicator used in technical analysis and developed by Tom Demark. This indicator tries to project and predict the next bar's high and low values (range).
The calculation of the range or the high and low values of the next...
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The True Strength Index (TSI) is a momentum indicator developed by William
Blau, published in "Momentum, Direction and Divergence" (Wiley 1995). It is designed to determine both the trend and overbought-oversold conditions. The TSI is applicable to intraday time frames as well as longer-term horizons.
The TSI uses a one...
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An earnings surprise is when a company reports an earnings number that is not expected by analysts. In other words, an earnings surprise occurs when the earnings per share (EPS) is not in-line with the consensus estimates. The earnings may exceed, be in-line or below the consensus estimates. Usually, an...
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The 2 percent rule is a simple risk management strategy that controls the maximum amount you can lose for each invested asset.
The rule here is very simple: Never risk more than two percent of your total capital on any single stock. If you end up having 10 consecutive losses, that...
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The Short Cover Simulation Indicator is a technical analysis tool that allows you to transform any short and cover rules into a measure of the performance of a trading strategy that shorts a stock given the short rules you have specified and covers it given your cover rules.
The short cover...
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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 trading indicator has the same parameters as the 829 item I have shared yesterday. However, instead of getting a time-series value at a specific bar, this indicator calculates, for the specified price series/indicator, the sum of all bars that occurred before a given time.
For example, the following formula (YTimeSum(volume,...
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Insider trading data are data reported by company insiders to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It could be a director who sold some shares in the company stock, or a CEO who bought 1000 shares of the company he works for.
Insider trading data could be downloaded from the SEC...
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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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If - while swing-trading - you want to buy e.g. when a higher swing high occurs after a higher swing low then you could set up your trading system as follows:
buy = sp(10, -1) > 0 && sp(10, 0) > sp(10, 2) && sp(10,1) > sp(10,3);
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This strategy enters a position in the S&P 500 Index (SPY or ^GSPC) when previous week return is negative (Return is calculated based on Monday open price and Friday close price), the trade is closed at the end of the week on Friday. No stop rules are defined.
The trading system...
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V1.4:
-Added 5 day smoother to ROC calculation to avoid date picking
-Cleaned up and simplified coding a bit
-Top2/3 approach does not add value, decreases performance drastically
-Changed everything to daily period, basically same performance as monthly period ...
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Every day, several stocks are impacted by major news. These news can substantially move higher or lower the stock price of the company it is about.
Every day, a list of stocks that are hit by major news is available on the Finviz website. This list of ticker symbols is downloaded...
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The Economic Confidence Index is a combination of the Economic Outlook and Economic Conditions measures created by Gallup. The U.S. Economic conditions results from a rate given by Americans regarding today's economic conditions in the country, while the U.S. Economic outlook results from Americans opinion on whether economic conditions in...
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Rules that capture the following patterns:
Stock falls from a high to a low within x bars, the high and low of the last y bars
Stock rises from a low to a high within x bars, the high and low of the last y bars
Plotting these rules on a chart help...
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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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The Job Creation Index is a measure created by Gallup, a global research-based consultancy. It is calculated using two measures based on results gathered from telephone interviews with more than 3000 workers. The first measure is the percentage of workers who claim that their employer is reducing the size of...
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The S&P Euro Index (ticker symbol: ^SPU) is a stock market index created by the Standard & Poor's company. The S&P Euro represents the Europe and tracks the return of stocks from the euro zone countries. Stocks are chosen across several countries and industry sectors. Economic sectors represented by the...
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The current downloader downloads Market Capitalization data for the US Stock market companies that trade in the New York stock exchange (NYSE), NASDAQ and OTC.
A stock market capitalization could be considered as the company's net worth.
It is calculated by multiplying the company stock price by the number of shares outstanding.
If...
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The put minus call options volume is the daily difference between the total put volume generated by optionable stocks and the total call volume.
For each trading day, the composite calculates the difference between put and call volume of each optionable U.S. stock, and then sums these differences. The market indicator...
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This is a trading system based on level breakout. The system detects the levels of the last peaks and troughs and decides to enter or exit a position when the price breaks these levels. A buy signal is generated when the close price crosses above the last peak and a...
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The current rule detects support line patterns. It uses the advanced rules syntax to detect bars where a support line with specific characteristics occurs.
The support line here is defined as a line (which is most of the time non-horizontal) that connects two bars and where the close prices between these...
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The Advance Decline Volume Ratio, which is also called the Up/Down Volume Ratio, is a market breadth indicator that calculates the ratio of advancing volume to declining volume. The advance-decline volume data can be downloaded using the following item: 151. You can also get the advance decline issues from here:...
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A financial time series often moves in what can be thought of as a channel. Determining where a price or indicator is relative to that channel can be a powerful signal or indicator.
This function takes two inputs: The first, the data array (time series) which could be...
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This MM script uses three variables to control the amount to invest per trade and the portfolio risk:
1. Stop loss %: the stop loss in % for a single trade
2. Risk per trade: how many % of your trading capital you want to risk in a single trade.
3. Max. risk:...
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Donald Dorsey is known for developing technical analysis indicators such as the 231 and the 415. He has also created and introduced the Inertia trading indicator in the Stocks & Commodities magazine issue of September 1995.
In Physics, Inertia is the tendency of an object to resist to acceleration. Dorsey has...
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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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Financial ratios for liquidity and coverage allow investors to analyze and see whether a firm or a company is able to meet its short-term financial obligations and its liabilities.
Liquidy ratios include Current Ratio, Quick Ratio and Cash Ratio. Coverage ratios include Debt/Total Capital and Debt/Equity Ratio.
These five ratios, for...
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This is a modified version of the "GetDataString" function which gets a string/text from a custom database field.
The modified version allows you to get the last (non empty) string on any given trading bar.
As an example, let us say that you have a database whose name is "db" and a...
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The Copenhagen Stock Exchange is the Denmark's official market for securities.
Shares, bonds, treasury bills and notes, future and options are traded in the CSE (Copenhagen Stock Exchange).
The CSE main index, C20 Index lists 20 Danish blue chips.
This symbol list contains information about 189 companies from Denmark. ...
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The MARSI Indicator (Also called Moving Average RSI) returns the RSI or relative strength index of a moving average and thus generates a nice smooth RSI line. This line can be used to identify trends as well as to detect good entries.
The interpretation of the MARSI indicator is the same...
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The NYSE Index Closes item retrieves historical index closing values from the New York Stock Exchange website.
Eight indices data are downloaded by this item: (Symbols are added automatically to the Quote Database)
^NYSE_COMPOSITE: The NYSE Composite Index measures the performance of all stocks listed on the NYSE, including REITS, ADRs...
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The "HhvLlv" function returns the highest or the lowest value of a time series over a preceding period. Unlike the built-in "hhv" and "llv" functions, this function accepts dynamic lookback periods. This means that you can get, for example, the highest high of a stock over a non-constant period.
Here...
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