There are many indices and ETFs you can find and follow if you want to track the Gold and Silver industry. You can also create your own composite and get more control over how to benchmark the Gold and Silver industry.
The current composite will create a new symbol "_Gold_Silver" by...
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Using put and call volume from all market participants (Customers, Firms and Market makers), this trading indicator calculates the put/call ratio of each individual U.S. Stock.
357 downloader gets U.S. options put and call volume from the Options Clearing Corporation website. You should install and execute this downloader before using the...
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Some companies distribute dividends and some do not. Some companies distribute dividends quarterly, while others distribute it biannually, annually or sporadically. The distribution schedule is usually tied to the company fiscal year.
Dividend frequency refers to how often a dividend is paid. The current function calculates the dividend frequency or the...
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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 item downloads stock news data for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. It gets data by symbol, for all Hong Kong listed stocks, from Yahoo news RSS feed and saves it in "yahoo_news" database.
News data can be plotted on charts and used to create trading rules and strategies.
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An increase in volume can be detected in several ways. For example, you can calculate the ratio of the total volume in the last five bars to the volume of the last 50 days. The higher the ratio is the higher the increase of the volume during the last days.
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This fundamental screen looks for stocks with high earnings per share (EPS) value.
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- Industry average EPS for the stock is positive
- Industry average EPS only includes stocks with a price higher than 2 ...
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This item creates a 52-week high symbol from all stocks available in your database. The market indicator is created using the composite plug-in and it can be applied to any stock market. It uses the "hhv" (highest value over a period) indicator to count the number of stocks that are...
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The 52-week low indicator calculates the total number of stocks making new 52-week lows (Stocks at their lowest level in one-year period) per day. The market indicator that measures the number of stocks making 52-week highs is available here: 939.
The 52-week high and 52-week low indicators can be used together...
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Vertical Horizontal Filter (VHF) was created by Adam White to identify trending and ranging markets. VHF measures the level of trend activity, similar to ADX in the Directional Movement System. Trend indicators can then be employed in trending markets and momentum indicators in ranging markets.
Vary the number of periods in...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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This item downloads historical end-of-day data for shares and other securities listed on the Deutsche Börse XETRA....
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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