This example will show you some of the power and the flexibility of the Grid tool.
Download, install this item then display it using "Tools -> Grid -> Open Grid".
This item doesn't use real time data. I have created it to show you how you can access, manipulate and display QuantShare...
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A REIT is a company that invests in real estate and distributes at least 90% of its income to its investors/shareholders. REITs are involved into financing real estate or income-producing real estate such as shopping centers, offices, hotels and apartments. As with other companies, REITs are listed on stock exchanges...
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If you add a stock's volume to a cumulative value when the stock's price goes up, subtract volume from the same cumulative value if the stock's price goes down and repeat this step for every trading bar then you will end up with the first and most popular technical analysis...
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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 buy indicator tells you whether to buy the current security or not based on an indicator previous performance.
For each bar, this indicator will calculate the performance of another indicator for the past bars. It will simulate a buy and sell after n-bars when the provided indicator gives a signal.
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This item downloads historical EOD (end of day) quotes for companies listed in the ASX or the Australian securities exchange.
The data is downloaded from the following website: float.com.au. A small pre-script is applied to remove lines where the prices are set to zero. This happen sometimes with some tickers and...
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This function calculates the number of days until a contract expires. It works with all symbols that have a date in the 'Expiration Date' field. I am using it with these US options symbols (306, 307).
The function takes no arguments and it just uses the date it finds in the...
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The Fractal Adaptive Moving Average (FRAMA) indicator was introduced by John Ehlers. Based on the assumption that market prices are fractal, this indicator presents a new method of adaptive smoothing. The purpose of this indicator is to eliminate bad whipsaw trades.
A moving average is generally used for trend identification. Attention...
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Use this screen on any set of stock quotes. The idea is to find low priced stocks (price between 1 and 5) that experience a growth of volume and the volume is higher than the average volume for the last 50 days. The last criteria is that the close must...
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The item retrieves historical end-of-day data, including close, high, low and open prices, for 31 currency pairs. A list of available forex pairs can be found here 423.
Steps to follow:
- Go to 423 and install this list of symbols. This will add 31 currency pairs to your symbols database. This...
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The average maximum drawdown is a rules analyzer metric described in the following post: The average maximum drawdown metric . It calculates the maximum drawdown (the maximum an output can lose) of each symbol or security output and then averages the result.
If you are analyzing for example a list...
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This is a list of trading rules to be used for example in a stock picking system. The list contains 64 trading rules and use price, volume and some indicators like roc, rsi, sharpe and drawdown.
Example of trading rules include:
Close > open
Roc(30) > 5 ...
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This screen tries to find low priced stocks that have experienced substantial run up in one day with a volume substantially higher than average for the last periods. you'd be looking to go long on the open of the next day. the screen also shows the magnitude of the move...
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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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Many swing traders believe that the best entry point is when the close pice is between sma(close,10) and sma(close,20).It is here that short term correction end and current trend resume its current up movement.The filter that sma(10) >sma(20) ensure that current trend is up.
A filter of weekly time frame is...
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The RTS Index or RTSI is an index that tracks the performance of the 50 largest stocks that are listed on the Russian Trading System, a stock exchange located in Moscow.
The RTS Index is calculated in US Dollars; it is a capitalization-weighted index and it has restrictive rules that prevent...
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The Volume Accumulation Oscillator (VAO) is a trading indicator developed by Marc Chaikin, who has also developed the 162 and 175 technical indicators.
The Volume Accumulation Oscillator, which is also called Chaikin Volume Accumulation and sometimes Accumulation/Distribution Indicator, is used in technical analysis to identify strengths and weaknesses in a market....
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Bolsa de Valores, Mercadorias & Futuros de São Paulo or the BM&F BOVESPA is the main exchange in Brazil and the fourth largest exchange in America in terms of market capitalization.
It was formed after the merger of the Bovespa (Sao Paulo Stock Exchange) and the BM&F (Brazilian Mercantile and Futures...
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Using the composite tool and an historical database of dividend payments, I have created an index that gets the total number of dividend distributions by U.S. companies for every trading day. The composite or indice name is "_DIVIDENDS_TOTAL". On February 18, 2011 for example, there were 21 dividend distributions, while...
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A Wedge is a technical chart pattern that is composited of two converging lines that connect peaks and troughs.
Wedges and triangles are both formed by two trendlines, the difference between these two chart patterns is that a triangle, whether it is an ascending or descending triangle, contains an horizontal...
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The Job Creation Index is a measure created by Gallup, a global research-based consultancy. It is calculated using two measures based on results gathered from telephone interviews with more than 3000 workers. The first measure is the percentage of workers who claim that their employer is reducing the size of...
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Implements traditional fixed fraction position sizing (fixed percentage risk per trade). In this case, risk = (entry price - stop) * nbshares. If you have an account of $100,000, @ 1.5% risk, the first trade risk will be $1500. $1500 is not the same as margin used...
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This item downloads historical data for the IMF (International Monetary Fund) commodity prices. The IMF commodity prices are prepared by the Energy and Commodities surveillance unit of the research department. The data is available on the IMF website (www.imf.org) and it is updated once a month.
The commodity prices are constructed...
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Some companies distribute dividends and some do not. Some companies distribute dividends quarterly, while others distribute it biannually, annually or sporadically. The distribution schedule is usually tied to the company fiscal year.
Dividend frequency refers to how often a dividend is paid. The current function calculates the dividend frequency or the...
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The DSE or Dhaka Stock Exchange is a stock exchange in Bangladesh. It is the main stock exchange and is located in Dhaka city.
The main market indices of the DSE are the DSI Index and the General Index.
The trading item gets historical EOD for stocks listed on the Dhaka Stock...
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Download realtime tweets for the US stock market.
This downloader downloads tweets for each symbol and insert the parsed data into a custom database 'stocktwits'.
This database can be used for screening or backtesting purpose.
Example: A trading system that buys a stock if it has at least two tweets, in the same...
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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 S&P 500 volatility ratio indicator compares the volatility of a stock with the volatility of the S&P 500 index. The ratio is calculated by taking the N-bar volatility of the analyzed stock and dividing it by the N-bar volatility of the S&P 500 index.
Here, the standard deviation is...
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If you have a trading system that is not fully invested 100% of the time and you want to invest that cash into a security like a bond fund or a money market fund then you can use this money management script to do that for you.
Steps:
- Download this money...
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This is a simple hammer screen. It searches for a body equals to 1/3 of the daily (high low) range, It also searches for an upper shadow which is equal or smaller than 1/11 of the daily range (high low). The screener filters out stocks with average volume smaller...
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High Moving Average and 2 low ROC strategy....
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This function uses the percent rank and moving average indicators in addition to the close, high, and low series to generate an oscillator that is bounded between 0 and 100.
Here is how the calculation of this technical indicator is performed:
First, it calculates the close relatively to the high/low range
Then it...
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The "Close price above cursor" drawing tool is the first of a series of drawing tools that I am going to share to explain you how to create your own custom drawing tools.
This object simply displays the security close price above the mouse cursor when you move your mouse over...
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There are two ways to download EOD quotes. Downloading data by symbol (one request for each symbol) or downloading data by date (one request for each trading day).
If you are downloading data for few stocks, the first solution should be more appropriate for you. However, if like me you are...
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Few weeks ago, I have uploaded two trading items that download data from Google trends to create sentiment indicators.
The 726 is constructed by adding Google trends volume of four pessimistic and popular traders (Roubini, Nassim Taleb, Peter Schiff and Marc Faber). The 724 represents Google trends volume of Nouriel...
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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:
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This screen looks for stocks that have the highest increase in price and volume over a period of 10 bars. It uses the composite function to calculate the percentile value of the close price increase (using the rate of change trading indicator) and the percentile value of the volume increase...
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This money management script loads dividend data and reinvests these dividends in your trading system using the "AddCash" function available in the "Functions" class of the "OnEndPeriod" event.
Dividend data can be collected using the following downloader:
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After a backtest, this trading system generated an average annual gain of 22.79%. The strategy Sharpe ratio for all period (2001-2011) is 0.77 and only 24.02% of trades were winners. Among the 11 years tested, only four showed a small negative return.
Here are the trading system settings:
- Number of...
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If you want to compare a certain value of a time-series for a particular security to the value of other securities for the same date, then you should use the z-score. You will need to standardize data in order to use the z-score or the standard score.
The standard score, which...
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