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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This Stock News item gets articles that are about US stocks from the Stockblotter website. It downloads and parses an RSS feed for each ticker symbol and then updates and inserts the data in a new database whose name is "stockblotter_news". The database contains the following fields:
Title: The article title....
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Standard & Poor's, S&P, is well known for several stock market indexes. It releases the S&P 500 for the US market (391), the S&P/MIB for the Italian market, the S&P CNX Nifty for the Indian market (386), the S&P/ASX 200 for the Australian market and the S&P/TSX for the Canadian...
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This function is a system filter. It calculates the SQN of the market of choice. Whenever the SQN of that market drops below the input value of nSQN, the function returns false. It returns true when there have been 2 consecutive periods of increase in SQN. ...
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This list of trading rules contains seven rules based on price channel indicators (Bollinger Bands, Donchian Channels, Keltner Channel, Volatility Channels, Standard Error Bands, Adaptive Price Channel and Moving Average Envelopes).
Each rule contains five variations where each variation uses a different lookback period. In price channels, the lookback period is...
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This function allows you to enter several criteria (segments) and an index. It then calculates the result of the segment referenced by the index.
Let us say that for example, you want to create two segments:
Overbought Stocks
Oversold Stocks
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This item downloads French companies news data. Data retrieved from an RSS feed is transformed and inserted in a custom intraday database. The data is provided by a French website (www.boursier.com).
This news feed (RSS) is downloaded separately for each stock. The database, which stores the news items, is called 'france_rss_news'...
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This item allows you to download CUSIP data for U.S. stocks. This list contains 6993 ticker symbols of companies that are listed in the NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ and OTC exchanges. The companies' full names and the CUSIP (The Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedure) numbers are included in the list.
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This script is simulating a trailing stop limit buy/sell order with exact levels.
With the first parameter you can adjust the distance of the limit entry in percent based on the last high (long order) or low (short order) and with an second parameter you can setup the valid time of...
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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 Guppy Multiple Moving Average is a technical analysis trading indicator developed by Daryl Guppy and explained in his Trend Trading book. The Guppy MMA uses multiple exponential moving averages to determine whether outlook of short-term traders agrees with the outlook of longer-term traders or investors and thus identifies change...
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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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This screener script makes it relatively quick and painless to apply splits to securities.
The script uses the QuantShare custom Splits database to display
the splits that have occurred (or are expected to occur) over a user-defined number of bars.
Enter the number of bars to use to identify splits in the...
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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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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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This item contains ticker symbols of companies that trade in the Germany stock market. The main exchanges in Germany are:
Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Berlin Stock Exchange
Bremen Stock Exchange
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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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The McClellan Oscillator is a very popular market breadth indicator often used by traders to gauge the general market sentiment. This indicator is derived from the Advance-Decline Line, which is simply the difference between the number of stocks that closed higher minus the number of stocks that closed lower.
The McClellan...
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This item downloads share volume opening and closing crosses from the NASDAQ crossing network. These are the share volume on the open and close auctions for each security listed on the NASDAQ exchange. The auction will determine the stock official open and close prices.
The data is available starting from 2008...
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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 item has been updated on June 5 2014 to compute correlation of daily returns.
Example: a=AvgCorrelation("SPY,TLT,GLD",100) ;
b=AvgCorrelation("SPY,IWM.QQQ",100);
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The NYSE Index Closes item retrieves historical index closing values from the New York Stock Exchange website.
Eight indices data are downloaded by this item: (Symbols are added automatically to the Quote Database)
^NYSE_COMPOSITE: The NYSE Composite Index measures the performance of all stocks listed on the NYSE, including REITS, ADRs...
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Based on the first N-minutes of a trading session, this technical indicator creates a support and resistance lines for each trading session.
The first line corresponds to the high of the first N-Minutes and it is plotted for the rest of the day. The second line corresponds to the resistance and...
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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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Download the most recent financial fundamental data from finviz.com for stocks listed in US stock exchanges. 12 items for more than 6000 ticker symbols are downloaded by this item.
This downloader should be run every week in order to build an historical fundamental database. The data is stored in a...
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The MARSI Indicator (Also called Moving Average RSI) returns the RSI or relative strength index of a moving average and thus generates a nice smooth RSI line. This line can be used to identify trends as well as to detect good entries.
The interpretation of the MARSI indicator is the same...
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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 100 days. For mid-term trend followers this could be a signal for buying stocks from this particular list)...
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A simple ranking system that combines multiple relative strength index time-series with different length.
For those who don't know what the relative strength index is. The RSI first was developed by J. Welles Wilder; it compares a stock's recent gains to its recent losses and output a number between 0 and...
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Formerly known as the World Savings COSI and the Wachovia COSI, the Wells Fargo Cost of Savings Index (COSI) is an ARM index, a benchmark interest rate that makes the interest rate of the adjustable-rate mortgage floats up or down.
Here are some popular ARM Indices: National Mortgage Contract Rate...
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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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The Madrid Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Madrid) is a regional stock exchange in Spain. It is part of the Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) group and is the largest Spanish stock exchange. BME group also includes the Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid and Valencia stock exchanges, MF Mercados Financieros and Iberclear. The...
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In order to reduce the average cost per share for a security, traders sometimes apply a technique called Averaging Down (scale trading).
The strategy consists of buying additional shares of a stock at lower prices than the first entry price. For example, a trader buys 1000 shares of Google at...
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Screens stocks using Ketlner's Channel and MACD histogram slope.
I screen for a NEGATIVE MACD Histogram slope below the 0 reference line to prevent being too late for the pullback.
Filters stock that either have it's close lower than the -2 ATR or has a price rejection candle with the low greater...
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NOTE: Updated 01/25/2014. See Note 3 below. Thanks to Zoidberg, many thanks.
This EOD(end of day data, no intraday data) downloader can be used to download all data sets from the Quandl.com website. They have more than 8 million global data sets available, so get busy!
Visit http://www.quandl.com/country-index for complete listing for...
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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);
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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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The National Stock Exchange of India website reports Short Selling volume for NSE-listed companies. The data spans from 2008 to present. The current item downloads this short selling data and stores it into a custom database. The database (nse_shortselling) is automatically created the first time you download the data. It...
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This List contains the 10 Industrials Indices of the French stock market (euronext) classified according the ICB classification.
They will be added in your database.
CAC OIL & GAS
CAC BASIC MATER.
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This indicator plots candlesticks with four different colors instead of two.
The buit-in "PlotCandleStick" function plots a Red bar (or any other color defined in the settings) if the bar's close is lower than the bar's open. It plots a Green bar if the bar's close is higher than the...
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A company that is concerned about fluctuations in interest rates can reduce or limit its exposure to these interest rates by using a financial instrument (derivative) called Interest Rate Swap. It consists of an agreement between two parties where two streams of future interest payments are exchanged.
Interest rate swaps...
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