Camarilla Pivot Points can be displayed on a chart using this drawing tool. By moving the mouse cursor over a chart, this item shows the pivot point, 4 support lines and 4 resistance lines for the selected bar.
The support and resistance pivot points created by the camarilla equation uses the...
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Yahoo finance website offers traders historical quotes data for more than 50 stock exchanges. This includes the main stock exchanges in the United States and several European and Asiatic stock exchanges.
This trading object lets you download historical quotes for all companies listed on these exchanges. It is almost the same...
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Using yesterday's open, high, low and close price, the camarilla pivot points, also known as camarilla equation, creates 9 levels; one pivot level, 4 resistance levels and 4 support levels.
The camarilla equation was discovered in 1989 by Nick Stott, a bond trader. The support and resistance levels can be used...
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The Wilder Volatility Index Trading System is a strategy introduced and developed by J. Welles Wilder in the "New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems" book.
The trading strategy is a long/short system that buys a stock or a security when a bull/long signal is generated, then exits and shorts the security...
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Welles Wilder Jr introduced in his book 'New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems' several trading indicators including the Relative Strength Index (RSI), parabolic stops and the Average Directional Index (ADX).
He also introduced an indicator, based on the True Range (TR), which estimates the volatility of an asset or market volatility....
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The Geometric moving average calculates the geometric mean of the previous N bars of a time series or trading indicator. The simple moving average uses the arithmetic mean, which means that it is calculated by adding the time series' value of the N previous bars and then dividing the result...
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This rule mask demonstrates and provides a template of how to combine the 565 and 566 functions to automatically create buckets off of any time series.
This rule mask converts a time series into bucket values. The resulting values will range between 0 and the one less than the Number...
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To help the QuantShare community make use of the 565 function and to illustrate the application of Rules Manager, we have created a Price Channel Position rule list.
The Price Channel is designed to measure where price is within the range of the channel look back period, expressed as a percentage...
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Fixed Bucket Calculation
In financial modeling, "normalizing" data is critical to evaluating a time series in a smooth and consistent manner. What constitutes a high versus what is a low value? Properly characterizing values is important to determine valid "signals". It rarely a good idea to...
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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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Frank Hassler introduced this measurement. It was discussed on Frank's Blog Engineering Returns http://engineering-returns.com/2010/06/28/aapl-ts/, and it was highlighted and researched by David Varadi of CSS Analytics in his blog http://cssanalytics.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/trend-strength-index-tsi/, and subsequent posts.
David uses the following summary of TSI: "The TSI is an intermediate-term absolute (versus relative ) measure...
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This Currency trading news item retrieves an RSS feed from the financial yahoo website, parses the feed and adds the data in a database whose name is "yahoo_news". The intraday database contains the following fields:
Title: The Forex news title
Category: The Forex news provider
Once the data is stored you can...
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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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In technical analysis, the descending triangle is a continuation pattern that occurs in a downtrend after a consolidation period. It is formed by two trend lines: A descending trend line and a horizontal line or support line. A bearish signal is generated when the close price moves below the support...
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A well known bullish formation and continuation pattern called the ascending triangle occurs during an uptrend and is constituted of two trend lines where the first one is a resistance line (horizontal line) and the second one connects two or more troughs.
In technical analysis, the ascending triangle formation is visually...
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Moody's, Fitch Ratings, Standard & Poor's, EJR and Dominion Bond Rating Service (To name just a few) are credit rating agencies that try to estimate the credit worthiness of a corporation's debt issues and give a score or credit rating to each one. Investors of debt securities (example bonds) can...
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Stockholm OMXS30 - Stock market symbols
OMXS30 comprises the 30 stocks with the highest turnover on the Stockholm Exchange. The index composition is adjusted semi-annually.
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This Forex indicator is almost the same as 554. It calculates the percentage of economic releases that are better than expected for a country. The difference is that this trading indicator doesn't take into account economic releases that have no forecast value.
Using the example provided here 554. This indicator will...
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For each Forex currency pair, you can use the 212 trading item to download historical calendar events in a custom intraday database. This database will contain calendar events for several currency pairs as well as the actual, the forecast and the previous value for each event.
This indicator requires this data...
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The CBOE DJIA BuyWrite Index and the CBOE NASDAQ-100 BuyWrite Index are benchmark indices that track the performance of an hypothetical buy-write strategy that buys stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (CBOE DJIA BuyWrite Index) or in the NASDAQ 100 (CBOE NASDAQ-100 BuyWrite Index) and sells or writes DJX...
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Given the close price time series, this indicator calculates the percentage of bars, for each trading day and over a given lookback period, where the close price advanced (close price higher than yesterday's close price).
A value of 100% means that the stock or asset increased during all the previous bars...
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Let us say you have a trading system that contains three trading rules, imagine if you have a indicator that acts like a backtester or simulator; it analyzes each trading rule before it is applied to a stock or a security and tells you whether this rule was profitable for...
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The well known advance issues market breadth indicator is created from a list of stocks (US stocks, NYSE, NASDAQ, Russell 2000, S&P 500 stocks) by calculating the number of issues that have advanced, that is, whose close prices are higher than yesterday's close prices.
The market breadth or market timing...
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The Percentile or Percent Rank function calculates the percentage of observations or values, within a lookback period, that are below the current value of a given function. It is the percentage of values in the provided time series frequency distribution that are lower than the value of any given bar.
As...
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The number of oversold stocks is a market timing indicator. It is computed by calculating the number of stocks whose Relative Strength Index value (RSI) is lower than 30. The Relative Strength Index or RSI is a very popular technical analysis indicator developed by J. Welles Wilder and used by...
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The Sharpe ratio is certainly the most popular measure of the performance of investment strategies or trading systems. It is a measure of the risk premium or excess return per unit of risk. It is calculated by subtracting the risk free from the portfolio's return and then dividing the result...
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Option contracts can be traded on several exchanges; In the United States, major options trading markets include the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, the Philadelphia Exchange, and the Pacific Exchange.
The Options Clearing Corporation collects data for the options market and report the daily volume of options contracts, put and call...
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The S&P 500 Dividend Yield is a measure of how much companies that constitute the S&P 500 Index pays out dividends per year compared to their stock share price.
The S&P 500 Dividend Yield ratio is considered to be an important indicator of the health of the stock market. Here is...
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The TED spread is the difference between the interest rates on interbank loans and short-term government debt ("T-bills"). TED is an acronym formed from T-Bill and ED, the ticker symbol for the Eurodollar futures contract.
Initially, the TED spread was the difference between the interest rates for three-month U.S. Treasuries...
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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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In technical analysis and active trading, the majority of oscillator systems follow almost the same logic. Buy when the oscillator moves above a certain threshold and sell when it moves below a certain threshold. The problem with this approach is that it doesn't take the evolution and the volatility of...
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The Monthly Retail data, which is released by the U.S. Census Bureau, contains several time series on retail economic activity in the United States. The data is obtained by the Advance Monthly and Monthly Retail Trade Surveys (MARTS and MRTS).
This object downloads two time series from the MARTS, which are...
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The Q-Ratio, developed by the economist James Tobin, is a market valuation method used to estimate the fair value of the stock market. It is calculated by taking the total price of the market and dividing it by the replacement cost of all companies in that market.
The data used to...
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The Federal Reserve Board's Z.1 flow of funds report is a quarterly survey. It shows the flow of funds between households, government, businesses and financial institutions in the United States of America.
It also shows debts, mortgages and savings levels. The flow of funds release contains a lot of data and...
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This is a bullish trading system using momentum and trend. The Rate of Change indicator is used for momentum. Exponential and Simple moving averages are used for trend. This system is still in development. However, for AAPL it works well....
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This bull system is based upon increasing momentum occuring in the direction where the price is above the moving average. The rate of change indicator is used as the momentum indicator. Two sets of moving averages are used to indicate trend. First, the exponential moving average for...
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If you have two trading strategies and would like to measure the performance and profit of a trading system that combine these two strategies then this money management script can help you achieve this.
Each strategy, whether it is applied to stocks, FOREX, futures or options, is given an initial equity...
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Like the MACD, Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Stochastic, the ADX, Average Directional Movement, is a very popular trading indicator used by stock, FOREX and commodity traders in technical analysis. The ADX is considered to be the best technical indicator by many traders and investors.
It is a momentum indicator, such...
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Using the simulator you can easily create and combine two different trading strategies, one long strategy and one short strategy.
However, if you want to create two long trading strategies, you will have to create your own money management script or use this object.
This money management script allows you to...
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In the November 2002 issue of the Stocks and Commodities magazine, John Ehlers wrote an article "Using the Fisher Transform" and introduced a technical analysis indicator called the Fisher Transform or Fish.
Fisher Transform indicator is used to identify price reversals and is based on the assumption that prices behave like...
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