The Chi-Squared is a widely used statistical hypothesis test to determine whether observed results are significantly different from expected results or not.
In trading, we can use the Chi-Squared test to determine how meaningful or statistically significant the performance that follows a specific pattern is.
Let us for example say that...
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Formula Full Name:Rate of Change (Volume)
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Rate of Change Volume (ROCV) is an oscillator applied to volume rather than price and is calculated in the same manner as the Rate of Change (Price) indicator.
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S&P 500 index constituents as of 1/21/2011 .
The list can be used for creating watchlists, calculating composites etc.
In this list the Name3 field contains "S&P 500" .
Index constituents do change from time to time, and if one wants to keep the list accurate it should be updated with index changes....
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Download Valuation Confidence Index data starting from October 1989, for institutional and individual investors, from the Yale School of management. The following item creates two symbols (^YALE_VCI_INSTITUTIONAL and ^YALE_VCI_INDIVIDUAL). The first one concerns the Valuation index for institutional investors, while the second concerns the valuation index for individual investors.
I have...
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The S&P 500 Price to Earnings Ratio is the average PER (Price to Earnings ratio) of the 500 stocks that compose the S&P 500 Index. The P/E ratios are based on trailing 12-month earnings, and they are reported quarterly with one-quarter lag due to reporting.
The Price earnings ratio is simply...
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This trading screen uses three fundamental valuation ratios to create a ranking system using the composite function.
The screen consists of calculating the percentile rank of the inverse of each valuation ratio (Based on all U.S. stocks) and then returning the percentile rank of the following measure (0.4 * Percentile Rank...
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This money management script allows you to specify a minimum number of positions in your trading system.
The script uses the "OnClosePosition" event to reject any exit order if the current number of positions (both longs and shorts) in the portfolio is equal or below the specified threshold.
Formula rules as well...
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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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Here is a list of rules I am using in the trading system GA and PBIL optimizer to find profitable trading patterns and create new trading systems.
The list contains several rules that only use the close price. I usually use this list with other trading rules as trading system entries...
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Price of a share moves as a wave contracting and expanding alternately .So,the expansion in price always follow a contraction in price and it is a great point for an entry.An easy way to find it is to use three moving average that contract very close.
When the stock break out...
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Megan ratio is a performance metric that can be used to assess and compare different trading system results. Megan ratio was introduced in an article in the Stock and Commodities magazine by Oscar G. Cagigas and it stands for maximum exponential growth annualized.
This money management script calculates the Megan ratio...
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This is a simple advanced rule that detects UP and DOWN breakaway gaps.
A Gap occurs when the security low price of the current bar is higher than the high price of the previous bar (GAP UP) or if the security high price of the current bar is lower than the...
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The Hughes Breadth Index is also known as the The Hughes Breadth-Momentum Oscillator.
It measures the ratio between the difference of advancing and declining issues in an exchange, to the total number of issues. The theory behind the index is that increases in stock prices are preceded by strengthening internals...
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This item downloads Ownership data for US stocks. The data is downloaded from the finviz website and a total of nine ownership ratios are retrieved. The fundamental ratios are stored into the following database 'fund_ownsership', which is a custom historical database.
Each time you run the downloader, a pre-script that I...
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Floor Pivots for Intraday Trading
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http://www.quantshare.com/item-995-floor-traders-pivots&kbaseid=item-995-2755-1542
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Vertical Horizontal Filter (VHF) was created by Adam White to identify trending and ranging markets. VHF measures the level of trend activity, similar to ADX in the Directional Movement System. Trend indicators can then be employed in trending markets and momentum indicators in ranging markets.
Vary the number of periods in...
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Here is a strategy I created to show you how to use multiple time frames in a trading system. The system is based on price crossover with its 10-Bar simple moving average. Although, no optimizations at all were done, the trading system has generated an annual return of 26.14%. It...
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The staggered entry and exit strategy allows you to enter a percentage of the total number of shares to buy when the first condition is met. The remaining number of positions is entered only when the second condition is met.
For exits, it will close only a percentage of the total...
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Currently, there are about 500 Exchange Traded Funds listed on NYSE Euronext (Paris, Lisbon, Amsterdam, and Brussels Exchanges). These ETFs are issued by Banks and Financial companies such as Amundi Investment Solutions, HSBC ETFs, iShares P.L.C, JP Morgan Struct FD Management and UBS ETF. They are investment products that offer...
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This market index calculates the average Sharpe ratio of all stocks in a specific market. The Sharpe ratio is obtained using the "sharpe" function and it is computed for a period 90 trading days.
The higher the market index value the better it is; this indicates that more stocks have higher...
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Trend Strength Indicator by Frank Hassler ot engineering-returns.com
I found the TrendStrengthIndicatior trading object on this site. However, I compared it to the results produced by original AmiBroker code published by Frank Hassler and found, that results are quite different. So I rewritten the AmiBroker code to C#. This one generates...
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Download historical earnings release date and approximate time for all markets supported by Yahoo, beginning with current quarter and going back several years. This should be useful when backtesting equity strategies which either focus on entering positions during earnings (buy the rumor, sell the news, etc), or those that want...
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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 Copenhagen Stock Exchange is the Denmark's official market for securities.
Shares, bonds, treasury bills and notes, future and options are traded in the CSE (Copenhagen Stock Exchange).
The CSE main index, C20 Index lists 20 Danish blue chips.
This symbol list contains information about 189 companies from Denmark. ...
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The Volatility Ratio is a technical analysis indicator used to detect wide-ranging days, days with an unusual distance between the high and low prices.
The Volatility Ratio is based on the True Range (TR) indicator and it is computed by dividing the current true range value by the N-Bar exponential moving...
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This Daily Stock Quotes trading object gets the latest stock quotes, including the close, open, high, low and volume fields, for the US Stock Market and more than 50 International Stock Markets. International Stock Markets include BOVESPA - Sao Paolo Stock Exchange, Paris Stock Exchange, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Toronto Stock...
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A stock is said to be overbought if it moved up too far and oversold if it moved down too far.
When the stock or market is overbought, the technical analyst and trader will likely sell its position(s) and if the stock or market is oversold, he/she will likely buy...
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The Elliott Wave Oscillator is a very simple indicator that consists of taking the difference of a 5-period simple moving average and a 34-period simple moving average. The result oscillates above and below the zero line and it is displayed as a histogram whose bar colors changes depending on whether...
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This downloader gets last quote prices (realtime shares data) for stocks listed on the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange (Bourse de Paris).
It downloads a list that contains the date, open, share price, today's high and today's low for more than 700 stock symbols (including CAC 40 stocks). The data...
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The Annual Return function calculates the trailing annual return of a security. This means that for each bar, the function returns the annual return based on its previous data.
The calculation starts after the first 50 bars. This is because for first bars, annual return time-series would be very volatile.
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It is the largest stock exchange in Africa and one of the top exchanges in the world, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange is an exchange located in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is owned by JSE Limited.
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has shares listed on two separate markets (Mainboard and AltX). It is...
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This item calculates the number of days since the inception of the security (first available bar date) and then accepts or rejects a new order depending on whether that value is higher or lower than a specified threshold.
If for example your want to ignore stocks that are less than 365...
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This function is an example that shows you how to use the "plotprofile" function of QuantShare.
Each month, it splits the stock's high/low range into ten buckets then counts the number of times the analyzed stock has closed within that bucket. The higher the bucket value, the more the stock closed...
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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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Definition:
VIX futures are often priced differently depending on the expiration date. VIX term structure is a plot of the futures values for different expiration dates.
When the near-term VIX futures contract is priced lower than later VIX futures, we say that the VIX futures curve is in contango. The opposite, backwardation,...
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By adding this money management to your trading system, you can prevent the backtester from purchasing any security that was previously bought in the past N days if its most recent return is lower than the specified threshold.
As an example, let us say that your trading system bought GOOG and...
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This composite is calculated based on a trading rule involving the popular technical indicator: the simple moving average.
Here is how this composite is calculated: (This item requires an indicator that can be downloaded here 120)
- Create a simple trading rule that returns a signal if the stock close price crosses...
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The InSync Index is a consensus oscillator created in 1995 by Norm North. A consensus oscillator is an indicator that generates an output using the value of many other trading indicators.
The InSync Index is calculated by summing several technical analysis indicators including the Bollinger Bands, Moving average convergence/divergence, Commodity channel...
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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 Forecast Oscillator is a technical indicator that compares a security close price to its time series forecast. The time series forecast function name is "tsf" (already implemented in QuantShare) and it calculates the projection of the price trend for the next bar.
The Forecast Oscillator and therefore the time series...
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