The Information ratio also called Appraisal ratio is a ratio of a portfolio (or asset) returns above the returns of an index (or benchmark) to the volatility of the returns.
The IR (Information Ratio) is similar to the Sharpe ratio since it is used to measure risk-adjusted returns. The difference is...
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Ichimoku Kinko Hyo, which means "one glance equilibrium chart", is a charting technique developed in late 1930s by Japanese journalist, Goichi Hosoda. The Ichimoku technical analysis technique was made available to the general public in 1960.
Ichimoku is used to detect trends by creating five lines calculated using the midpoint of...
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Floor Pivots for Intraday Trading
Based on:
http://www.quantshare.com/item-995-floor-traders-pivots&kbaseid=item-995-2755-1542
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CompRule(rules, category, weightFormula, aggregateFormula)
is a function for use in e.g. trading systems, that attempts to implement
(somewhat) similar functionality as Comp(...) but across rules, not symbols.
The "composite rule" is returned.
Note: "rule" here means any numeric vector, whether it consists solely...
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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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Do you want to know how an asset performed in the past following a specific pattern or event?
Now, you can with the new trading indicator (PatternPerf) I am presenting here. It is the perfect indicator for creating adaptive strategy. Why? Because on each trading bar, this indicator tells you how...
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This MM scrip adds many system statistics and per trade metrics to help compare trading systems. Most of the calculations are done in terms of R (defiend as initial risk).
Trade Statistics:
Total R - P/L in terms of R
Expectancy (R)
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This component gets historical OHLCV data for all stocks and ETFs listed on the LSE (London Stock Exchange).
The downloader accepts ticker symbols with and without a suffix. If a suffix is found (SLVR.L for example) then it will remove it and pass the new ticker symbol (SLVR) to the next...
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Body Momentum is a trading indicator described in Perry Kaufman's book. It is an oscillator that moves between 0 and 100 and calculates the percentage of bars that closed above the open price (white/green candle) during a specific period.
A period of 10 and a value of 100 for the body...
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An increase in volume can be detected in several ways. For example, you can calculate the ratio of the total volume in the last five bars to the volume of the last 50 days. The higher the ratio is the higher the increase of the volume during the last days.
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Instead of downloading data like any other downloader, this item allows you to export any indicator data for any securities and for a specific period.
All you have to do is install this item, open it in the downloader manager (Download -> Download Manager) then:
- Select "Start & End Dates" tab...
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Demonstrates basic function of translating into binary buy/sell
parameter 1 - Threshold for buy signal
parameter 2 - # of Days lookback
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This is another historical end-of-day data downloader for the US Stock Market. It works with all companies listed in one of the following exchanges: NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, OTCBB, and Pink Sheets.
The item gets the data from the NASDAQ website. You must select a period and a list of ticker symbols...
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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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52-Week New Highs and 52-Week New Lows are numbers released by several stock exchanges. The New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange and NASDAQ released numbers are downloaded by 134. From the same data provider, 159 gets the number of advancing and declining issues on these exchanges and the 151...
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The CBOE Options Issues Traded data contains the number of options issues traded on the Chicago Board of Exchange. This includes put and call options for all US equities. From January 2009 to present, the CBOE Options Issues Traded time series had a maximum value of 47,464, which occurred May...
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The Bloomberg U.S. Financial Conditions Index is a measure of the number of standard deviations (z-score) the current financial conditions are above or below the average index value for the period of June-1994 to 2008. The index is calculated using yield spreads and indices from the Equity, Bond and Money...
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Download news data for companies listed in US Stock market.
The data is downloaded from a RSS news feed provided by Google, it is then parsed then inserted into a QuantShare custom database.
This RSS news feed item create a database whose name is 'google_news'.
This database contains 3 columns. ...
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As with the 463 item, this downloader gets historical end-of-day data for several markets from Yahoo finance website.
In addition to that, it will also create a custom database "adjust" and store in that database, the adjustment ratio as well as the unadjusted close.
The adjustment ratio will be stored under the...
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Symbol names for the Israeli Stock Exchage (TASE). All symbols have suffix .TA to be compatible with the Yahoo finance EOD downloaders...
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The Advance/Decline Ratio is a Market Breadth indicator. The reason it is called Market Breadth indicator is that it uses the number of Advancing and Declining stocks in its formula. The number of advancing stocks is the number of stocks that advanced or increased in price in a trading day....
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The Price at a specific Intraday Time item is a function that works with intraday data and that returns the price, open, high, low, volume or any technical indicator value of a security/stock at a specific time during a trading day. The indicator gets a time-series, an hour and a...
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This object is used to get up-to-date information for US stocks. It will create a database and download information such as the exchange, the industry, the sector and the month in which the fiscal year ends of each US stock. It will also tell you whether a stock is optionable...
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Coefficient of Variation (CV) is a measure of the dispersion of points/prices around the mean (Dispersion of a probability distribution).
In statistics, the coefficient of variation is also called variation coefficient, unitized risk or relative standard deviation (%RSD). Because its value is normalized and it is a dimensionless number, it is...
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This item downloads last implied volatility data for U.S. stocks. The implied volatility is calculated from the options data for each stock.
Historical or statistical volatility is the past volatility of the underlying security and is measured using the annualized standard deviation. The implied volatility on the other hand is the...
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QS language model of 2012 Keller "Flexible asset allocation" paper:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2193735
The model ranks the following assets by momentum, correlation and volatility, rotates monthly, equal weight:
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Currently there are more than 1480 Foreign Institutional Investors registered to the Securities & Exchange Board of India, SEBI, an organization whose role is to regulate the stock market in India. The SEBI is the Indian equivalent of the SEC or Securities Exchange Commission in the United States of America.
An...
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The list of symbols in the "Bourse de Vienne".
This list contains 98 symbols. Stock description is also included.
The fiscal year ends in the month specified in the Expiration Date field.
Name1 contains the yahoo compatible symbol....
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Like the MACD, Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Stochastic, the ADX, Average Directional Movement, is a very popular trading indicator used by stock, FOREX and commodity traders in technical analysis. The ADX is considered to be the best technical indicator by many traders and investors.
It is a momentum indicator, such...
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Returns True on the 1st trading day of the month....
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NYSE Up/Down Volume Ratio is often used as a barometer for stocks trading on all U.S. Exchanges even though it is calculated based on stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Up/Down ratio represents the volume of NYSE stocks that are advancing divided by the volume of...
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This is a small list of trading rules that uses trend indicators to detect trending securities (bullish). The list contains several rules that use the following indicators: Moving average, Directional movement index, Average directional index (ADX), Aroon indicator and Percentage price oscillator (PPO).
Example:
cross(close, sma(25))
Interpretation: Generates a signal when the...
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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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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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Percent Above Average Yield:
This function calculates the percent difference of a stocks current dividend yield and its average yield (over the period you set). To work, this indicator needs data from 93. That is just for stocks in the US market. Other markets may require other objects....
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This system is a very frequent trading system. The basic is as follows:
1. The system purchases stocks at the limit price based on the previous day.
2. If the trade is executed, the stock will be sold at the limit price of high the following day. If...
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This indicator tells you whether a security is trending up or down based on ten moving averages (instead of just one). This is accomplished by calculating ten moving averages with different periods (20, 40, 60 ..., and 200) and then comparing them with the close price. For each trading bar,...
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Here is another item that lets you download historical quotes data for Indices, Forex and Futures securities. I have uploaded a list of symbols that contains Indices, Forex and Futures symbols at the following location: 225.
The item downloads an archive (zip) file for each security, extracts the content, parses the...
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