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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This indicator measures the volatility by subtracting the highest high over a specific period by the lowest low over the same period. In other words, the volatility here represents the distance between the highest and lowest value over a specific lookback period. You can of course modify the function and...
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In Forex trading, a PIP is the smallest price increment that can be made by a currency. PIP refers to "percentage in point" and it is very important in Forex as it is the basis for calculating profit and loss and measuring spreads (bid/ask differences).
Usually the value of a PIP...
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Based on the position of the security close price compared to its moving average (MA), this technical analysis indicator returns a value comprised between one and three.
A value of one indicates that the current close price is trading 5% lower than its simple moving average.
A value of three indicates that...
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To determine the volatility of a financial time-series, such as stock close prices, the Chaikin Volatility trading indicator measures the range between high and low values. Unlike the ATR or Average True Range, this indicator does not consider gaps. Gaps are accounted by ATR because its formula calculates volatility based...
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The "RandomMonths" function picks months depending on a percentage value passed to this function. If you specify 100% then the function returns TRUE for all months, if you specify 50% then the function returns TRUE for half of the months and if you specify 0% then the function returns FALSE...
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The correlation filter money management strategy analyzes each incoming order and measures its correlation with each opened position in your portfolio. If the correlation between the new order symbol and a portfolio symbol is higher than a specific threshold (definable and optimizable in money management inputs) then the order is...
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Stochastic Index (normalized smoothed q-period Stochastic) by William Blau, described in the book Momentum, Direction, and Divergence: Applying the Latest Momentum Indicators for Technical Analysis.
The values of q-period smoothed Stochastic is normalized and mapped into the [0,+100] interval. It allows to determine the overbought/oversold of the market.
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Sentiment indicator from Dennis McNicholl's 2002 Book "Taming Complexity in Trading; Beating the Dow 3 to 1"
It uses statistical techniques to make the stock series stationary and then works on looking at the confidence intervals of the moving standard deviation of the smoothed transformed series.
It is best as a very...
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The current downloader gets one-minute intraday data for Brent Oil and Crude Oil rolling futures contracts.
The data retrieved by this item covers approximately the last nine trading days. You will get one-minute bar data; you can then convert it to any time frame (5 minutes, 10 minutes, one-hour...) when displaying...
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To calculate the average 14-bar relative strength index of each U.S. industry, I have used the composite function and grouped stocks by the value returned by the "industry()" function. This function returns the industry name of a stock. By passing it to the composite function, the average calculation will not...
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Relative Performance indicator compares the rate of price change (return) of two or several assets and plots the performance of each asset on the chart.
Relative Performance/Strength chart displays percentage changes and compares the return or price changes of different assets or securities. You can use it, for example, to quickly...
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Murrey Math Lines indicator creates eight different lines (pivot lines) on a chart to locate potential support and resistance areas. This trading indicator helps you find the best points to buy, short, sell and cover positions.
The function, whose name is "MurreyMath", requires a lookback period that will be used...
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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 trading indicator returns the ratio of S&P 500 index to equity put-call volume. It gets the S&P 500 index (Symbol: ^GSPC using the following downloader 463) and divide it by the put/call ratio, which can be downloaded from 146.
The Equity put-call ratio is a sentiment indicator that measures the...
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Pivot System price levels act as potential support and resistance zones throughout the day. They serve as focal points for floor professionals as they adjust their bids and offers, especially when trading activity is slow. The use of these values, along with tape reading skills and candlestick pattern recognition can...
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This simply downloads all the data from finviz that cannot be calculated from the price data in one quick download. (Fundamental data)...
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TSPTalk.com publishes a weekly survey that asks investors whether they think the S&P 500 is bullish or bearish. The percentage of bullish and bearish traders as well as the TSP trading strategy mode are downloaded from TSP website. The Excel file is parsed then three symbols are created and added...
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Based on the different iShares ETFs Dow Jones industries, this trading system buys the ETF that is ranked number one based on the ratio between the small-term and long-term moving averages (trending up).
On each rebalance day, the strategy ranks all ETFs based on their moving averages ratio. It then...
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This trading system ranks the 10-bar rate of return of iShares ETFs that represent the top US industries then buys the ETF that have the lowest return. When the ranking system returns another ETF then the strategy sells the previously purchased exchanged traded fund and buys the first ranked one.
The...
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This drawing tool creates a simple trend line with two additional properties:
- The line is colored Green when it is trending up and red when it is trending down
- The trend line displays its length (number of trading bars) and the sum of volume (accumulation) of the bars that occurred...
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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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Formula Name:VROC
Formula Full Name:Rate of Change (Volume)
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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 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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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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This drawing object helps you to plan a trade. It is useful for long-term traders who want to plan a trade with entries (max 2), target and stop. This drawing shows you the planned entries, target and stop. It shows you if and when the trades are triggered and how...
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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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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 item downloads historical end-of-day data for shares and other securities listed on the Deutsche Börse XETRA....
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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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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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The Hull Moving Average is based on several weighted moving averages. In an attempt to create a more responsive MA and reduce the lag problem that is inherent to most moving averages, the HULL indicator returns a much faster and smoother moving average.
The Hull Moving Average was first introduced by...
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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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