The elastic volume weighted moving average is a technical indicator used, like all moving averages, to determine the nature of the market and to generate signals. It can also be used as a trigger line. EVWMA has the specificity that it is both symbol-independent and time-frame independent.
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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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This rules analyzer metric script produces several metrics, one for each year in the analysis period. Its task is simple, it calculates the 'Output per bar' value, the same way QuantShare calculates it, but instead of producing one 'Output per bar' metric for all the trading period, it produces a...
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I have just uploaded a rules analyzer metric script, which can be found here: 284. This script produces several metrics, one for each trading year.
The current script creates only one metric, which is the average 'output per bar' for all years. The metric is not the same as the default...
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This item downloads Ownership data for US stocks. The data is downloaded from the finviz website and a total of nine ownership ratios are retrieved. The fundamental ratios are stored into the following database 'fund_ownsership', which is a custom historical database.
Each time you run the downloader, a pre-script that I...
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The 'calcB' function is used by the standard error bands function to calculate the beta linear regression coefficient. It is multiplied by the sum of the close price over the calculation period multiplied by the current bar and then subtracted from the sum of the square of the close price...
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The 'calcA' function is used by the standard error bands function to calculate the alpha linear regression coefficient. It is multiplied by the sum of the close price over the calculation period and then subtracted from the sum of the square of the close price over the same period. CalcA...
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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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The money supply or stock, in economics, is the total amount of money available at a particular point in time. Money includes the currency in circulation as well as demand deposits. The variation or changes in the money supply has multiple effects on the economy, for example the price level...
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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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Day of week average is a date-related function. It does not aim at generating signals and making decisions, but is used as a statistical indicator tracing the price change dependently on the day of the week. It gives the price simple moving average over N bars back, these bars corresponding...
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Here is another date function used to make correspondence between the trading bars and the actual dates in the calendar. It is named DayOfWkMonth, and it returns a value of one for the bar that corresponds to the day of week in the week number given as parameters.
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Here is another date function that can be used to make correspondence between trading bars and actual dates in the calendar. It is named 'EndOfMonth' and it returns 1 for the trading bar that corresponds to the last day in the month. Its principle is simple; it loops through the...
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Relative momentum index is an oscillator introduced by Roger Altman in a February 1993 'Stocks & Commodities' magazine article. Inspired from the relative strength index, it attempts to improve it by eliminating the oscillations between defined overbought and oversold levels through the introduction of a momentum. The relative momentum index...
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The Donchian channel is an indicator that was introduced by Robert Donchian; it consists of a set of 3 lines used as an envelope in order to calculate the price volatility. The first one is the price highest high over a chosen period; the second one is the lowest low...
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This function calculates the number of bars, value, sum, average and rate of return of a specified vector and using reference points. For example, if you use the rate of return indicator (ROC), the function accepts as input a vector and a lookback period (number of bars). If we choose...
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The Margin Trading data for the National Stock Exchange (India) is downloaded from the NSE website (http://www.nseindia.com/archives/archives.htm). It includes the quantity and the amount financed by members/dealers of the NSE under the Margin Trading Facility for all securities listed in the exchange.
Members of the exchange report this data to the...
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Recently I have created an EOD quotes downloader for NSE (National Stock Exchange) listed companies that downloads data by date. This time, I have made the same but for the BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange).
As with the NSE downloader, the data comes directly from the exchange website (in this case bseindia.com)...
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The Dynamic Momentum Index or DMI is a technical analysis indicator used to determine overbought and oversold conditions of a particular security. Unlike other overbought/oversold indicators like the Relative Strength Index (RSI), the Dynamic Momentum Index does not use a fixed time period. Instead, the time period, used by this...
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This is a function that could be used with a database that contains text data (for example a news database). The function accepts as arguments, the database name, the field name, a positive list of words and a negative list of words.
These lists of words are simply words separated by...
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The OEX Put-Call ratio or PCR is based on the S&P 100 Index, it is a measure of the number of puts versus the number of calls traded on the S&P 100 (Total put volume divided by total call volume). It is considered as a more reliable indicator than...
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This downloader gets EOD quotes data from Yahoo for all options listed in US exchanges. Only the last quote is downloaded and so in order to create an historical quotes database, this item should be run on a daily basis. For screening purpose, you will only need the last quotes...
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A short sale, in trading, is the sale of a stock that you do not own. Here is how it works, when you short sell a stock, your broker will borrow that stock and sell it for you. To close your short position, you will need to buy back that...
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This function calculates the number of days until a contract expires. It works with all symbols that have a date in the 'Expiration Date' field. I am using it with these US options symbols (306, 307).
The function takes no arguments and it just uses the date it finds in the...
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This is a list of diffusion index symbols. These indexes are available in the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia website and represents manufacturers' survey data. The time-series data can be downloaded using the following object: 313
Here are the 21 indexes:
BO_GAF - Future Activity Index
BO_NOF - Future New Orders ...
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After downloading the list of symbols (312) of the manufacturers' survey diffusion indexes, you can use this object to download seasonally adjusted time-series data (historical data). The data is available from May 1968 (The date the first time the survey was conducted) to present.
The data is retrieved from the Federal...
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Earningswhispers.com is a website that provides earnings guidance and information. Since some time, Earningswhispers.com is making available its earning information and whisper report via RSS. The RSS content contains story headlines and descriptions, as well as the URLs that directly link to the full story on Earningswhispers.com.
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The McClellan Oscillator is a very popular market breadth indicator often used by traders to gauge the general market sentiment. This indicator is derived from the Advance-Decline Line, which is simply the difference between the number of stocks that closed higher minus the number of stocks that closed lower.
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The R-Squared or R2 is a statistical measure that shows the percentage of movements of one time-series that can be explained by movements of another time-series. The R-squared values range from 0 to 1 or 0 to 100 if expressed in percentage. A value of 100 indicates that all movements...
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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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Created in 1960 and known as the Lagos Stock Exchange, the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, is the main stock exchange of Nigeria. NSE offers a fully automatic trading system and it consists of six branches plus the Head Office, which is located in Lagos.
Foreign investors, of any nationality, are allowed...
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This item downloads daily Short Sale Volume data from nasdaqtrader.com website and for the NASDAQ and Boston stock exchanges.
The data is reported daily, one day after the market closes, and it contains trade date, ticker symbol, the sum of share volume of all short sale trades executed during regular trading...
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After the NASDAQ, Boston stock exchange and the New York stock, here is an item that gets National stock exchange short selling data. The data is available at the exchange website (http://www.nsx.com).
The National Stock Exchange is an exchange based in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1885 in Cincinnati (Ohio)...
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Probably the most popular trading indicator is the moving average. It is widely used in technical analysis and several other indicators use it in their calculation. For each bar, the moving average indicator calculates the average price of a time-series over the preceding N-bars.
The function name is 'rbsma', which stands...
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This function uses short selling data to create a short indicator that determines whether short traders are stronger or weaker. This is done by calculating for each trading bar, the difference between short sell volume that occurred above and below a specific stock price.
Here is how the calculation process occurs....
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This function accepts a list of rules and an index as parameters and returns a rule for the specified index.
The Market trading rules function can be very useful when applied in an optimization or backtesting process. Imagine you have a trading system and you would like to test different exit...
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This is a list of symbols of all IMF commodity series. The list includes 63 symbols and it was retrieved from the IMF, International Monetary Fund website (www.imf.org). The commodity indices and series belong to one of the following categories: Food, Beverages, Agricultural raw materials, Metals and Energy.
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This item downloads historical data for the IMF (International Monetary Fund) commodity prices. The IMF commodity prices are prepared by the Energy and Commodities surveillance unit of the research department. The data is available on the IMF website (www.imf.org) and it is updated once a month.
The commodity prices are constructed...
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This composite indicator calculates the total short volume of all US stocks. That is, the short selling volume of all companies listed in U.S. exchanges. The composite plug-in calculates this data for every trading bar and associates the result with the symbol '_ ShortVolume'.
The current composite uses the data provided...
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Here is another trading indicator that uses the short selling data. The function or indicator determines whether short or long volume is dominating in the last N-period. It uses the short selling ratio to calculate the excess volume (Volume below or above 50%) and then sums up the result over...
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