The price display indicator shows the price level of the selected bar or the last bar if no bar is selected.
This indicator displays also the one-bar return of the active security. The price and return are displayed in green when the price increases and in red when the price decreases.
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The Laguerre RSI Indicator is a modification of the well-known relative strength indicator or RSI.
John F. Ehlers, the famous trader who created the Laguerre RSI, tried to avoid whipsaws (noise) and lag produced by smoothing technical indicators by applying a filter and some changes to the original relative strength indicator.
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The "HhvLlv" function returns the highest or the lowest value of a time series over a preceding period. Unlike the built-in "hhv" and "llv" functions, this function accepts dynamic lookback periods. This means that you can get, for example, the highest high of a stock over a non-constant period.
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The Rex Oscillator is a study that measures market behavior based on the relationship of the close to the open, high and low values of the same bar. The theory behind the Rex Oscillator is that a big difference between the high and close on a bar indicates weakness. Conversely,...
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The equity symbols function returns the relative value of a group of securities. It gets a list of securities separated by semi-colons.
This indicator (EquitySymbols) can be used for example to calculate the relative performance of a stock against a group of other stocks.
Formula: (Right click on a chart then "Edit...
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Example: a=AvgCorrelation("SPY,TLT,EEM",100) ;
This function computes the average cross- correlations of the assets in the list. It sums up the correlations of all possible pairs and divides by the number of pairs.
It can help to visualize how correlated more than 2 assets are. Or it can be used in a system...
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Total Power Indicator is a technical analysis tool based on the bull power and bear power indicators, which can be downloaded here: 1243.
The indicator measures the number of bullish and bearish trend bars for a specific lookback period. It then calculates the proportion of bears and bulls within this period....
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This function creates both the bull power and bear power indicators. Both indicators were created and described by Alexander Elder in its "Trading for a Living" book. They are both used in the popular Elder-Ray indicator.
The bull power shows the buying pressure or the capacity of bulls to push prices...
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The location of the closing price within the day's range is a surprisingly powerful predictor of next-day returns for equity indices. The closing price in relation to the day's range:Internal Bar Strength is simply calculated as such:
((close-low)/(high-low))*100
It takes values between 0 and 100 and simply indicates at which point...
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The sector rotation model or SRM is a trading indicator described by Giorgos Siligardos in an article in the traders' magazine.
The sector rotation model is based on several sectors represented by the following exchange traded funds:
XLY: Consumer Discret Select Sector SPDR
XLF: Financial Select Sector SPDR ...
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The VWAP or volume-weighted average price measures the average traded price of a stock over a trading period. It is the ratio of the asset price to total volume traded over a particular period.
This VWAP indicator should be applied to intraday data. It sums the product of the price and...
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The Awesome Oscillator is an indicator that measures the momentum of the market. It consists of calculating the midpoint (high minus low divided by two) and creating two moving averages based on this series. The first moving average uses a 534-bar period and it is subtracted to the second one,...
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This function allows you to thicken candlestick bars based on a specific rule.
Let us say for example, you want to thicken candlesticks when the price is above the 30-bar moving average. For this, you just have to type the following line in your chart formula:
a = Thicken(close > sma(30),...
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The "IndustryEquity" indicator returns the industry price series of the active stock. It does so by building the ticker symbol of the stock's industry using the "IndustryIndex" function. More info on this function can be found here: 1215.
After that, it requests industry close series and return that price series.
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The "IndustryIndex" function should be used with the following downloader (452), to return the industry index given the stock's industry.
Industry names that are used by QuantShare and by the above downloader are different and this function helps us correspond or associate the different industry names.
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The Williams' VIX Fix (WVF) is an indicator meant to roughly approximate the VIX. It can be useful in situations where there is no implied volatility index for the instrument we want to trade. The WVF is simply a measure of the distance between today's close and the 22-day highest...
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Returns a sub- string from a larger string that contains comma separated string values, at the nth comma position (starting at 0)
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tickerList="IBM,AAPL,SPY,TLT";
strCommaExtract(tickerList,3) returns "TLT"
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The "SymbolIndex" function reads a list of ticker symbols stored under a file and gets the index of a specified symbol (entered by you) from the list. It then returns "1" if the index is the same as the index you entered manually.
Example of usage:
List of ticker symbols: (One symbol...
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The least squares regression line is a line in the form of "y = a + b * x" that best fits a data set (time series).
The least squares regression is the most used modeling technique. It is mainly used to predict the future value of the analyzed time series.
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This trading indicator is based on the QuantShare "AutoSR" function, which is a function that automatically calculates support and resistance levels based on a given set of parameters.
The difference between the build-in "AutoSR" function and the current one ("SRSeries") is that the former calculates support and resistance levels based on...
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The Short Cover Simulation Indicator is a technical analysis tool that allows you to transform any short and cover rules into a measure of the performance of a trading strategy that shorts a stock given the short rules you have specified and covers it given your cover rules.
The short cover...
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This function is an alternative to the "PREV" function of Metastock.
In Metastock, the "PREV" function is a constant used to reference the previous value of the same formula.
For example, if you want to calculate this: ...
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This function tells you whether a stock is optionable or not. That is, if a stock has options trading on a market exchange.
Due to exchange requirements such as minimum outstanding shares, minimum share price and other rules, not all stocks has options listed.
This function, whose name is "IsOptionable", requires that...
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Here is a super simple indicator with dozens of applications. Similar to AggM, the AggZ is a composite trend and mean-reversion indicator rolled into one. The concept of both is to anchor a long term trending measure to a short-term mean-reverting measure so that you can have an indicator that...
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This function analyzes the first N-minutes of a trading session then counts the number of times a specific event occurred. As an example, you can use it to measure the number of times the price crossed above its short-term moving average during the first trading hour.
You can implement this example...
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This indicator tells you whether a stock is trading above or below its short-term, medium-term and long-term moving averages. It does so by printing, for example, "Below MA10" if the selected stock is trading below its 10-bar moving average (The calculation is based on the last trading bar only). It...
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This function
a) provides exact Finonacci retracement and extension levels
b) allows optimization regarding different Fibonacci levels, for instance:
Optimize("fibo_index", 0, 7, 1);
var = fibonacci(fibo_index); ...
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Textual analysis in financial markets consists of analyzing text data (news, tweets...) in order to determine the general sentiment of the market and predict its direction. The easiest technique to detect the sentiment of a news release or a tweet is by counting the number of positive words and subtracting...
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This function plots economic releases on a Forex chart. It requires the following downloader 212, which gets economic calendar date and stores it in a custom database. This function then reads the data and plots an arrow and the name of the economic release on the bar where it occurred....
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The Short term Volume and Price Oscillator is a technical analysis indicator created by Sylvain Vervoort.
The indicator is detailed here:
http://stocata.org/ta_en/proprietary.html
The short-term volume and price oscillator (SVAPO) is based on price & volume and their relationship in bullish (up trending) and bearish (down trending) markets. ...
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The Self-Adjusting RSI indicator was developed by David Sepiashvili. It describes two techniques to adjust the oversold and overbought levels of the relative strength index indicator. It will create dynamic overbought/oversold zones that aim to improve your strategies performance by reducing false signals that may be generated when using the...
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Inverse Fisher Transform was first introduced by John Ehlers in an article published in May 2004 issue of the Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine.
It is the inverse of the fisher transform which can be downloaded here 528. It is well suited to transform oscillator indicators because it is...
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The "SetNaN" function updates the first N-values of a time-series and replaces them with "NaN" (Not a number).
A "NaN" value is not drawn on a chart and it always return false when used in a trading rule.
For example, let us create a "NaN" array:
a = ref(close, 10000000000);
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The Sortino ratio is a popular measure of the risk of an asset, investment, portfolio or strategy. Its formula resembles the one that describes the Sharpe ratio with a small variation that consists of penalizing only negative returns.
Sortino ratio uses the downside standard deviation instead of the classic standard deviation....
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This custom trading indicator gets a time-series or condition and starts returning "1" on the first occurrence of "true" signal. It keeps returning "1" until there are no longer "true" signals in the future (in the provided time-series or condition). In other words, it returns "true" or "1" between the...
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If - while swing-trading - you want to buy e.g. when a higher swing high occurs after a higher swing low then you could set up your trading system as follows:
buy = sp(10, -1) > 0 && sp(10, 0) > sp(10, 2) && sp(10,1) > sp(10,3);
What does it mean?
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Cumulative sum or running total of a technical indicator refers to the algebraic sum of all previous values of this technical indicator.
The Cumulative sum formula is as follows:
A = B + C * previous value of A ...
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The Swing Trading Indicator (STI) is designed to calculate the last swing point that occurred on or before each bar.
A swingpoint is defined as a local high or low for a certain minimum number of bars. You can define this minimum number through parameter, standard is set to 5 bars.
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This is the smoothed intermediate oscillator framework designed to complement the DVO. It was also designed to be flexible for use in adaptive systems. The current DVI is a combination of two different indicators: 1) DVIM- DVI Magnitude which measures the distance price has travelled over multiple intermediate time frames...
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DV Bounded (DVB) - The DV Bounded is also known otherwise as the "DV2" and was created by David Varadi to capture the normalized relative close. The "DV2" version of the DV Bounded represents the 2-period average of the relative close to the high-to-low range. The "bounded" portion represents the...
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