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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The Hull Moving Average (HMA/HullMovingAvg) is a Moving Average/Study created by Allan Hull and described in his book Active Investing.
When adding the indicator to a chart, buy and sell signals are generated (represented by line color changes and buy/sell arrows) base upon a change in line slope (Positive Slope...
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This is an item that contains the details of 2069 ticker symbols. All the stock symbols reference companies trading on India stock exchanges.
The India stock market has two main stock exchanges:
- The Bombay/Mumbai Stock Exchange Limited (BSE) is the oldest stock exchange in Asia and lists more companies...
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Investopedia defines oversold as
1. A condition in which the price of an underlying asset has fallen sharply, and to a level below which its true value resides. This condition is usually a result of market overreaction or panic selling.
2. A situation in technical analysis where the price of an asset...
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The DFM or Dubai Financial Market is a stock exchange based in Dubai and located in the Trade Center Building. The market capitalization of companies listed on the DFM is about the same as the market capitalization of companies that trade in the Abu Dhabi Securities Market (2007).
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Hong Kong EOD data item allows you to get free historical end-of-day data for all stocks and Etfs listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchanges.
Hong Kong Stock Market:
- The list of ticker symbols for HK stocks is available here: 259
- The list of ticker symbols for HK Etfs is available here:...
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There is a special candle that has no real body to speak of and is called the doji. The close of this candle is at exactly the same price as the close. Doji formations help confirm reversals. There are different names and nuances associated with certain dojis, such as the...
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The federal funds rate is the interest rate at which banks in the United States lend their balances at the Federal Reserve to other institutions. Banks give each other loans based on this interest rate. The federal funds target rate is one of the tools of the Federal Reserve to...
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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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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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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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This metric is calculated in two steps:
- For each symbol, position returns are transformed then multiplied. The resulting value is the growth rate of the strategy equity for a particular symbol.
- The growth rates (for each symbol) are averaged.
The first step calculates the trading rule real performance for each...
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This is a modified version of the "GetDataString" function which gets a string/text from a custom database field.
The modified version allows you to get the last (non empty) string on any given trading bar.
As an example, let us say that you have a database whose name is "db" and a...
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Here is a screen that displays buy and sell trading signals using a system that works with the Average Directional Index (ADX), the Positive Directional Indicator (PDI) and the Negative Directional Indicator (MDI).
The screen creates buy and sell columns. A value of one in a cell under the buy column...
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This dynamic watchlist lists all shares that are on the current symbol list, that have crossed the simple moving average during the last 200 days. For long-term trend followers this could be a signal for buying stocks from this particular list)...
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The Economic Cycle Research Institute, ECRI, is an independent institute specialized in economic cycle research. It maintains over 100 proprietary indexes for several economies including the Country Long Leading Index, the Country Coincident Index, the Long Leading Index, European Coincident Index, Austrian Long Leading Index, French Short Leading Index and...
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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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The Ulcer Performance Index is a measure of investment or trading strategy performance and is constructed by dividing the excess return by the Ulcer Index. The calculation is almost the same as in the Sharpe Ratio, which is computed by dividing the excess return (Total strategy return minus the risk...
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One of the major problems of moving averages such as the simple moving average is its lack of quick response to price. The higher the lookback period of the moving average, the slower the response to price movements. Other moving averages, such as the exponential moving average (more weight is...
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The DeMark's DeMarker is a technical indicator that attempts to measure the demand of an asset by comparing the high and low prices with the previous high/low prices.
It is composed of two others indicators which are DeMax and DeMin. The first compares the current bar high with the previous bar...
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The SIX Swiss Exchange offers the access to historical quotes data for Swiss companies on their website. The data are grouped by date and by type. It is available in CSV or ZIP format.
This item downloads the data that are stored under the Swiss Blue Chip Shares, Mid & Small...
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Alma is a moving average developed by Arnaud Legoux & Dimitris Kouzis-Loukas. It uses curve of the normal distribution (Gauss) which can be updated using the offset parameter.
This technical indicator has four paramters:
Series: Timeseries to use for the moving average
Window: Lookback period
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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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With this simple script you can control your trading via Moving Average. If is instrument above its Moving Average trading is enabled , if is instrument below its Moving Average trading is disabled.
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MA Period: Moving Average period ...
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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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The majority of technical trading indicators use the rate of change of security prices in their calculation. The Relative Volatility Indicator or RVI, uses a different time-series, it uses the volatility trend, which is calculated using the standard deviation of the security close price, to measure and evaluate market strength.
The...
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The plurality index is a market breadth indicator based on the number of advancing and declining issues. These numbers must be downloaded first before using this indicator: 159. Note that the plurality index uses two ticker symbols created by the previous downloader: ^ADVANCE-ISSUES-NYSE and ^DECLINE-ISSUES-NYSE.
The plurality index is always positive...
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After backtesting a trading system, you can create a ticker symbol from the strategy's equity by right clicking on the equity chart (in the simulation report) then selecting "Equity to Symbol" option.
This money management script allows you to automate this process by creating a ticker symbol for your strategy's equity...
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The Wilder's Smoothing is a technical analysis indicator created by J. Welles Wilder, Jr. and is part of the Wilder's RSI indicator implementation. Like any other moving average, this indicator smoothes price movements to help you identify and spot bullish and bearish trends.
The Wilder's smoothing formula is very similar to...
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The number of stocks hitting their 20-day high compared to the total number of stocks is what this market indicator returns.
This market breadth indicator can applied to all markets. Currently, the composite gets the number of stocks that are making new 20-day highs from all symbols available in your database...
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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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The "Money Flows - Selling on Strength" item downloads a list of advancing/up U.S. stocks with the largest outflow of money. Outflow of money happens when the number of shares traded on downticks exceeds those that were traded on upticks. Usually an outflow of money would cause the share price...
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This item contains the ticker symbols list of companies that trade in the Spain Stock Market. The list has 148 symbols and most of the companies are listed in the 'Bolsa de Madrid'.
The Madrid Stock Exchange or (Bolsa de Madrid) was officially founded in 1831.
Spain has four regional stock...
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The turn of the month effect on stock indexes states that stock prices performs better on the first three days and the last four days of each month. The idea is based on several academic papers such as the Equity Returns at the Turn of the Month, Further Evidence on...
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This watchlist shows you whether a stock is outperforming or underperforming the S&P 500 Index on a daily basis over the previous days. It calculates the number of trading bars where the one-bar rate of change of a stock (today close price compared to yesterday's close) is higher than one-bar...
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The Chile stock market is relatively small compared to others American stock exchanges.
The Santiago Stock Exchange is the Chile's main stock exchange. This exchange lists stocks, bonds, stock options, futures as well as gold and silver coins.
This list contains the details of companies listed on the Santiago stock exchange; the...
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This fundamental item downloads the number of shares outstanding, market capitalization and average volume over the past 20 days for all stocks trading on US markets, NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, OTCBB and Pink Sheets.
The data is downloaded from zacks.com screener.
Database name: size_volume.
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A triangle is a chart pattern formed when two trendlines are converging. When the resistance line is increasing and the support line is horizontal, we call this chart pattern an ascending triangle. When the support line is decreasing and the resistance line is horizontal, we call it a descending triangle....
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The following money management script calculates the weight of the industry given the current open positions and orders and rejects any new order if the new weight would be higher than a specific threshold.
If you specify an industry weight of 50% then your portfolio will always have an industry concentration...
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A short sale, in trading, is the sale of a stock that you do not own. Here is how it works, when you short sell a stock, your broker will borrow that stock and sell it for you. To close your short position, you will need to buy back that...
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