The Buy Sell Simulation Indicator is a technical analysis tool that allows you to transform any buy and sell rules into a measure of the performance of a trading strategy that buys a stock given the buy rules you have specified and sells it given your sell rules.
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Detect 'excessive' recent up gap. A 'true' indication is returned when the close is above the previous high by a specified amount over the specifed recent number of bars.
The detection gap and the lookback period are parameters. In addition, the code can be treated as a 'stepping-off point' for making...
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The maximum drawdown is equal to the highest drawdown value over a given period of time. In a trading system, it refers to the largest drop (could be expressed as a percentage) of your portfolio.
This technical analysis indicator can be applied to any price series or indicator. It performs the...
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Current drawdown refers to the percentage of decline (long positions) or increase (short positions) from the highest value (long positions) or lowest value (short positions) of the price series since the position was taken.
The current drawdown technical indicator can be applied to any time-series; it is not limited to the...
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Another technical analysis tool that is based on the standard Bollinger Bands indicator is the Fibonacci Bollinger Bands. It is almost the same as the standard Bollinger Bands with the difference that instead of using the standard deviation to calculate the volatility of the asset, the Fibonacci Bollinger Bands uses...
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A trading rule has always two states. It could be TRUE, when its value is higher than 0 and FALSE otherwise.
An example of a simple trading rule is: stock close price is higher than its 30-Bar simple moving average. On one day, the close price is higher than its 30-Bar...
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"GetData" is the main function that allows you to access custom databases data. It lets you retrieve an item value, from an intraday or historical database, that occurred within the current bar.
Let us say we have a custom database that contains fundamental data. One field in this database is called...
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Consecutive Up or Down Bars is a technical analysis indicator that detects up or down vector values and calculates the number of consecutive bars a specific vector closed above its previous value and the number of consecutive bars this vector closed below its previous value. The number of consecutive up...
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A trading rule has only two states, black or while, true or false. In a given period, the state of a trading rule could remain constant (true or false) or it could change one or several times from one state to another. During this period, it could be interesting to...
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The Ratio of open-close to high-low range is a simple technical analysis indicator that uses the four basic elements of a bar candle (Close, open, high and low).
The open-close range is computed by taking the absolute value of the difference between the open price and close price, while the...
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This function utilizes the historical analyst buy/sell recommendations, downloadable from yahoo by 641, to provide the current numeric rating for a stock. Ratings provided by various firms to a standard numeric score between 5 and 1, where 5 is a strong buy and 1 is a strong sell. ...
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A Gap occurs when the price of a stock or any other security moves up or down with few trading in between. Gap Up is defined as a stock price with a today's low that is higher than yesterday's high and the opposite for the Gap Down; stock price with...
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Using the "GapUp" and "GapDown" functions, it is easy to spot up and down gaps and tells on which bars these gaps have occurred. It is also very interesting to know the size of the gap.
First and for those who don't know what a Gap is; it is the price...
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This function utilizes the historical analyst buy/sell recommendations, downloadable from yahoo by 641, to determine how long it has been since an analyst rating has been provided for a stock. This function can be useful in trading algorithms in determining a confidence value for the rating (the longer its...
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The VIX Fix is a technical indicator developed by Larry Williams, a trader and author of several books. Larry Williams also wrote for the Active Trader Magazine where he introduced the VIX Fix, a synthetic VIX calculation that can be applied to a single stock, ETF, futures or any security.
This...
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This function utilizes the historical analyst buy/sell recommendations, downloadable from yahoo by 641, to provide the previous numeric rating for a stock. Ratings provided by various firms to a standard numeric score between 5 and 1, where 5 is a strong buy and 1 is a strong sell. 0 is...
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Specifically developed to trade commodities, the CSI, Commodity Selection Index, is a technical analysis/momentum indicator developed by the popular trader Welles Wilder in his 1978's book "New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems". The indicator is intended to select futures contracts that will likely have the biggest moves for each dollar...
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This function utilizes the historical analyst buy/sell recommendations, downloadable from yahoo by 641, to provide the current numeric rating for a stock. Ratings provided by various firms to a standard numeric score between 5 and 1, where 5 is a strong buy and 1 is a strong sell. ...
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The crossover/convergence trading indicator allows you to generate signals when two, three or four indicators are almost equal. Given a sensitivity parameter the crossover/convergence indicator calculates the different differences between each provided technical indicator and then generates a signal if the lowest difference is lower than the specified sensitivity threshold.
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The Trading Indicator Rank function calculates the rank of a given trading indicator or time series compared to its previous values. The number of previous values is determined by the lookback period parameter of the function.
Trading Indicator Rank values vary between 1 and the provided period, where a number of...
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This trading indicator calculates the percentage of bars, during a given period, in which the provided stock trading rule is higher than zero.
The function has two parameters: the trading rule which value will be checked and the lookback period.
If the function returns a value of 100%, this means that...
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Swiss Army Knife Indicator - SWAK
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swak((high + low) / 2, "BS", 14, 0.01);...
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The Fibonacci trading indicator is a technical analysis tool that calculates different Fibonacci retracement levels and then tells you whether there is a resistance or support line near the stock or security price (slightly above or slightly below the close price depending on the sensitivity parameter).
It is almost the same...
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The Fibonacci retracement indicator returns a value indicating whether there is a support or resistance near the current stock price. Five different retracement levels or numbers are used: 0%, 38.2%, 50%, 61.8% and 100%.
When calculating the Fibonacci retracement levels, if the highest stock value occurs before the lowest value, then...
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The Williams' Accumulation/Distribution or Williams AD is a technical analysis indicator developed by Larry Richard Williams, who also developed several other trading indicators including the famous Williams %R and the Ultimate Oscillator.
The Williams' Accumulation/Distribution trading indicator was implemented in order to define whether a market is controlled by buyers (known...
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This function is an enhancement to the chande_trendscore function added by "The Trader". You can read more about the origin, purpose and behaviour of the function here: 317
This version adds 3 enhancements to the original function.
1) It accepts a symbol as a parameter. This is desirable in conditions...
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The Demand Index is a technical indicator that tries to lead price changes using price and volume data. The indicator was developed by Hames Sibbet.
The demand index formula requires several parameters:
Price: A time series that is usually set to the close price, midpoint or high plus low divided by two.
Constant:...
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The Keltner Channel, KC, was developed by Chester W. Keltner and is a technical indicator that looks like the Simple Moving Average Envelopes or Bollinger Bands. It is constituted of two lines that adapt to changes in the security's volatility by using the ATR or average true range indicator.
There are...
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The High-Low range technical indicator returns the percentage of maximum increase in a stock or security during the previous N trading days. To measure this, it calculate the percentage increase during the previous N bars from the lowest value to the highest value, that is, the highest value over a...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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