This function returns the Garman-Klass estimation of volatility. It was developed by Graman and Klass and it uses the high, low and close prices to estimate volatility.
The Garman-Klass estimator is up to eight times more efficient that the close-to-close estimator and unlike the Standard deviation and the Parkinson estimator, it...
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A stock is outperforming an index over a specific period if its rate of return for this period is higher than the rate of return of the index.
A high percentage of stocks outperforming the S&P 500 index could be considered as a bullish indicator for the market. The higher the...
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This Simulator strategy is based on a system described by Larry Connors and Cezar Alvarez in their book "High Probability ETF Trading: 7 Professional Strategies To Improve Your ETF Trading ". The strategy's name is "Multiple Days Up/Multiple Days Down" or MDU/MDD.
This strategy was originally run on these ETFs:
DIA,EEM,EFA,EWH,EWJ,EWT,EWZ,FXI,GLD,ILF,IWM,IYR,QQQQ,SPY,XHB,XLB,XLE,XLF,XLI,XLV
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The Borsa Italiana S.p.A is the main stock exchange in the Italian stock market. It is based in Milan and was acquired by the London Stock Exchange. Besides stocks, Borsa Italiana also manages Italy's derivatives markets and its fixed income market.
This current list contains 301 ticker symbols, mainly stocks listed...
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Introduced by John Andersen in a September 1996 article appearing in the 'Stock and Commodities' magazine, Standard Error Bands is an envelope whose bands are obtained by the calculation of the beta and alpha coefficients of linear regression. Standard Error Bands are used to measure the strength of a trend,...
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A list of trading rules using the DeMark's DeMarker indicator. This list consists of 6 QuantShare trading rules and each one of them has 20 variations which bring the total to 120 trading rules.
I have backtested this list again a small portion of US Stock Symbols, and come up with...
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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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The best performing versus worst performing stocks is a composite I have created while trying to find whether the number of stocks with very high increase is higher or not that the number of stocks with very high decrease.
This market indicator calculates the number of stocks whose daily return was...
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A list of all commodities trading on the NCDEX can be downloaded here 526. This list contains agricultural commodities (Potato, Chana, Crude Palm Oil, Soy Bean, Cotton...), metals (Steel, Copper, Zinc...), precious metals (Gold, Silver, Platinum...), energy (Brent Crude Oil, Gasoline, Heating Oil, Natural Gas...).
The list is not mandatory because...
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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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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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Here is a nice function that displays potential stock splits on a chart.
By simply adding the "DetectSplits" function to your chart, you will be able to quickly see whether the stock data has potential non-adjusted splits or not.
The function can detect many types of splits and reverse splits, including 3:1,...
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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 screener attempts to find good "buy" candidates. A good buy candidate is defined as a stock that is oversold in the short term but trending up in the longer term. The RSI is used to find those stocks that are considered to be oversold where as...
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This function calculates the average volume during a period of time in the previous days. Given a start and end time, it counts the number of bars and the cumulative volume that occurred within this period and then divide the cumulative volume by the number of bars. Another parameter allows...
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Here is a super simple indicator with dozens of applications. Similar to AggM, the AggZ is a composite trend and mean-reversion indicator rolled into one. The concept of both is to anchor a long term trending measure to a short-term mean-reverting measure so that you can have an indicator that...
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This item will allow you to download any U.S economic series from the FRED (Federal reserve bank of St. Louis) website.
The downloader is quite easy to use. Once it is downloaded and installed in QuantShare, open it then select the "Ids" tab on the right. There you need to enter...
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The dividend yield watchlist displays all U.S. stocks that have recently distributed dividends to their shareholders.
The watchlist displays three columns:
q div: Recent quarterly dividend amount per share paid
a div: Sum of the last four quarterly dividend amount per share paid ...
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The Consolidation Breakout technical indicator identifies breakout in a congestion pattern. It does so by checking several conditions and then returning a value of one if a bullish congestion breakout is detected and a value of minus one if a bearish congestion breakout is detected. In case there is no...
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By adding a stop loss to your trading system, you instruct the simulator or portfolio tool to exit a position if it drops more than N% (from the buy price).
You can add a stop loss by clicking "Stop Loss" (bottom panel in "Update a trading system" form). Once it is...
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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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This JSE Historical Data item retrieves EOD quotes for all companies that are listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The list of ticker symbols can be downloaded here: 856.
You can choose to download data for the last 5 days (week) or 5 years. In the "TimePeriod" tab of the JSE...
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The 'insideperiod' function is a custom function that deals with dates.
It returns a value of '1' on bars where the bar's date is superior or equal to the start date and inferior the end date.
It returns a value of '0' on bars where the bar's date is inferior...
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The Colombian stock market is composed of three stock exchanges: Bogota Stock Exchange, Medellin Stock Exchange and Occidente Stock Exchange.
Colombia is a free market economy, its main language is Spanish and its currency is the Peso. It has a good supply of minerals and energy resources and has the largest...
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Unlike the 683, which gets daily picks only from all-Star Motley fool users, the number of outperform and underperform picks for U.S. Stocks downloaded by this item are obtained from all Motley fool users.
The number of daily picks is saved in a historical database called "ascaps".
The number of bullish...
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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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Using this money management script, you can simulate the effect of withdrawing a fixed amount of money, every month, from your portfolio.
The script allows you to enter the fixed amount to withdraw and to determine whether to withdraw money on each month or only on months that show positive returns...
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The Ratio of open-close to high-low range is a simple technical analysis indicator that uses the four basic elements of a bar candle (Close, open, high and low).
The open-close range is computed by taking the absolute value of the difference between the open price and close price, while the...
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The following screen calculates the average one-month return for each stock and compares that value with the one-month return of their corresponding industry. The average industry return is calculated using the "comp" function. More info can be found on our blog posts about this composite function.
In order for this screen...
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Swedish STIBOR - Historical Data, 1987-01-02 - today.
STIBOR stands for Stockholm Interbank Offered Rate, the interest rate banks pay when borrowing money from one another. STIBOR Fixing is the average (with the exception of the highest and lowest quotes) of the interest rates listed at 11:05 a.m. The 3M STIBOR...
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Almost one month ago, I have created and uploaded a trading object that downloads industry names for stocks listed on US exchanges and updates the industry field of each stock in your database.
The same trading item gets also sector data but do not use it. This is why I...
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This is a trend following trading strategy that trades S&P 500 stocks.
The S&P 500 trend following system uses the following rules:
- Daily data for S&P 500 stocks
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The "SymbolIndex" function reads a list of ticker symbols stored under a file and gets the index of a specified symbol (entered by you) from the list. It then returns "1" if the index is the same as the index you entered manually.
Example of usage:
List of ticker symbols: (One symbol...
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It took me more than 2 hours to complete this short selling downloader. This item is more complex than the previous ones (319, 321, 310, 322) because it calculates the sum of all short selling data for four different facilities.
Because the data is retrieved from four different URLs, I have...
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Usually stocks respond positively to an earnings surprise. Sometimes they are up more than 10 or 20 percent and sometimes just a few percent; it all depends on the stock and more importantly on the earnings surprise number.
This screen searches for stocks that have two consecutive and positive earnings surprises....
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The Vertical Horizontal Filter, introduced by Adam White, is an indicator used to identify trending and ranging markets. In fact, similarly to the popular ADX indicator, the VHF estimates the raise / fall price acceleration, and thus attempts to predict whether we are going to deal with a trending or...
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This Generic Trading System Template can be used as a starting point for your own trading system developments. It includes all the simulator settings that can be parameterized as well as examples for ranking, optimization, stop-setting, entry/exit rules and limits.
The template is grouped into settings that are likely to get...
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Calculates the SQN100 (see work of Dr. Van Tharp) as if the per position "Output" is the trade result. This is different from the other rules analyszer metric named SQN in that the sample standard deviation calculation is used vs. the built-in Standard deviation. The result of...
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An earnings surprise is when a company reports an earnings number that is not expected by analysts. In other words, an earnings surprise occurs when the earnings per share (EPS) is not in-line with the consensus estimates. The earnings may exceed, be in-line or below the consensus estimates. Usually, an...
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The trading system is composed of two trading rules. The first one is triggered when a stock share price closes below its 20-Bar Bollinger Lower Band. The second one is a market-timing rule that prevents the trading system from entering new orders when the market is declining. A market decline...
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