The Information ratio also called Appraisal ratio is a ratio of a portfolio (or asset) returns above the returns of an index (or benchmark) to the volatility of the returns.
The IR (Information Ratio) is similar to the Sharpe ratio since it is used to measure risk-adjusted returns. The difference is...
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By adding this money management to your trading system, you can prevent the backtester from purchasing any security that was previously bought in the past N days if its most recent return is lower than the specified threshold.
As an example, let us say that your trading system bought GOOG and...
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the data includes from jan 2005 to nov 2016. it includes close, open, high, low prices of CNX Nifty index...
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This money management script allows you to use an asset as a signal in your trading system then trade a different asset.
It works by creating a trading system with one single asset, defines your buy and short rules (no sell or cover) then specify in the money management script inputs...
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Watchlist detects historical data that have potential splits, issues in prices, and missing volume.
You may modify/add/remove condition of rules and symbol select criteria per your needs.
After you have result dataset, refresh data of symbols with potential issue by right clicking and selecting "Download Data for Selected Symbol"....
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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 function would allow you to highlight certain periods on your chart. You can for example use it to highlight recession periods or any other important events.
The function accepts a list of dates separated by commas. The list should define the start and end of each period to highlight.
As an...
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This is a modifie version of NSE Derivative downloader.It download option quotes in the form like NIFTY16OCT8900CE which is used by many trding platorms in India
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This Average Year over Year indicator will calculate the average close price (or any other time series) movement over the preceding N-years.
For any particular date, it will take the preceding N-year values and calculate the average one-bar return of these values.
Note that this indicator can work with daily, weekly and...
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This year-over-year chart indicator will allow you to compare stock's movement over the same period of time one or several years ago.
All you have to do is download this trading indicator, create a new chart then create two or more panes.
As an example, create two panes (right click on the...
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This is a list of 300 stocks that have most heavily traded options volume for the month of May 2016, as compiled by CBOE. Being the most heavily traded also makes them the most liquid, ie: tight bid/ask spreads. This list can be downloaded every month...
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Ehler's supersmooter filter - another moving average - but very good.
Example: plot (SupSmoot(50), "Ehler's SuperSmooter",colorpink);...
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ATR trailing indicator shows trailing support/ressistent levels.
Very nice in tranding environment.
You can change Sma in loss calculation to Ema/Wma...
if it better fullfill your requirements - I didn't know how to
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The Ehlers Decycler Oscillator is a trading indicator developed by John F. Ehlers.
The goal of this oscillator is to eliminate very low-frequency components from the Ehlers 1660 by using the half-period Ehlers Highpass filter and transforming the output into the oscillator.
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The Simple Decycler is a study created by John Ehlers and presented in the
The idea behind this virtually zero-lagged trading indicator is that the market data can be considered as a continuum of cycle periods each one with a different cycle amplitude. Trending periods could be considered as segments of...
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The Google Investing Index is a measure that tracks google search engine queries related to the market-related keywords such as stock, gold, stock market, etf, exchange traded funds, oil...
This item downloads the Google Investing Index from Google servers and associates the data with the following ticker: ^GOOGLEINDEX
You can of course...
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The Reward/Risk drawing tool would allow you to click somewhere on a chart to define a trade entry price, stop price and a target price. It then displays the stop and distance from the entry price as well as the Reward/Risk ratio.
A value of 1 means that the based...
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As with the 463 item, this downloader gets historical end-of-day data for several markets from Yahoo finance website.
In addition to that, it will also create a custom database "adjust" and store in that database, the adjustment ratio as well as the unadjusted close.
The adjustment ratio will be stored under the...
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To Sharpe ratio was created by William Sharpe in 1966. It is a very popular measures used to calculate the risk/return of an investment.
You can calculate the Sharpe ratio of any security in QuantShare using the "Sharpe" function. However, calculating the Sharpe ratio of a portfolio consisting of two assets...
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This pivot table displays the number of stocks for each industry.
Each industry is displayed in a row and a second column "Count" would display the number of stocks that belong to each industry.
You would need to update the industry field of each stock first. You can let QuantShare do that...
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The Cyber Cycle function originated from John Ehler's book "Cybernetic Analysis for Stocks and Futures". It is basically a high pass filter....
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This money management script calculates the 1-bar return for the strategy's equity curve and the benchmark you provide in the money management inputs. It then compares the values and adds the percentage of bars the equity curve is performing better than the benchmark in the trading system report table.
The percentage...
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In QuantShare, you can simulate a strategy that buys on Margin by editing the trading system, selecting the "Settings" tab, clicking on "Capital" then updating the "Margin Factor" field.
When trading U.S. stocks, you can for example set this value to 2 or you can set it to a higher number...
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The following indicator doesn't create a time-series but instead displays some statistics on your chart.
The data will be displayed on the left-bottom corner and will contain the following values:
Drawdown: Maximum drawdown corresponding to the selected bar
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The following indicator calculates the percentage change between the actual and forecasted economic event.
As an example, let us say you want to calculate the percentage change of the actual vs estimate numbers for the USD consumer Credit and then see its impact on the underlying currency pair.
You can do so...
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This item downloads economic calendar data for several currencies. It creates the following ticker symbols (EUR, USD, JPY, GBP, CHF, AUD, CAD, CNY and NZD) and associate economic events to each one of them.
It also creates a custom database (economic_cal) with the following fields:
Date: The economic event's date and...
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The following screen calculates the average one-month return for each stock and compares that value with the one-month return of their corresponding industry. The average industry return is calculated using the "comp" function. More info can be found on our blog posts about this composite function.
In order for this screen...
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The drawdown line is a drawing tool that plots a horizontal line and displays the drawdown at that price. The drawdown is calculated based on the line level and the highest high visible on the chart.
As an example, say you are displaying the chart of the IWM exchange traded...
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This is a small but IMHO helpful modification to the built in BarsSince indicator. The enhancement is the addition of a parameter, N, which allows you to choose which prior occurrence of a nonzero value in the Series that you are interested in. You may also provide a...
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Unlike the original horizontal line drawing tool which displays the line price location, this drawing tool creates an horizontal line that displays the price change and rate of change from the line price location to the last visible close price on the chart.
First, download and install this item.
In the "Bookmark...
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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 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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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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If you have a stop rule and you want to disable it under certain circumstances then this script may help you achieve this.
By adding this money management script to your trading system, you are going to change the stop default behavior.
In order for your original stop rule to be...
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This pivot table will show you how a stock or an asset would have performed intraday depending on two factors, which are the day of the week and the previous intraday return. By intraday, I mean here the open-to-close return and not the yesterday's close to today's close return.
The pivot...
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The following pivot table would allow you to easily display the year-to-date performance of your assets or ETFs and track their excess return with a benchmark or index.
By default, the following ETFs are compared to the SPY (S&P 500 ETF)
DIA: SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF
IEF: iShares Barclays 7-10 Year...
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This modified version of the 1616 item creates a new database field (Industry) and updates it with the stock industry name at the time the data was downloaded.
The industry fundamental data item gets several industry fundamental ratios and store them separately for each stock in a custom database called "industryfund".
To...
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This item calculates the number of days since the inception of the security (first available bar date) and then accepts or rejects a new order depending on whether that value is higher or lower than a specified threshold.
If for example your want to ignore stocks that are less than 365...
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Aggregate fundamental data for industries could be very useful in a top-down analysis style. It can be of course be used in several ways and would allow you for example to create industry-specific rules in your trading or ranking system.
By running this item daily, you would be able to gather...
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The Gann trend indicator tries to address the need for investors and traders to define mechanically the trend of a financial instrument.
The Gann trend indicator is implemented by tracking trend changes as defined by two up or two down closes. The indicator returns 1 when it detects an uptrend and...
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