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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By default, users are unable to take advantage of global variables inside of charts and other features. This function reads the specified global variable and returns its value as a string (not a number). If the global variable does not exist, this function will return a blank string.
By itself, GetVariable...
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This downloader gets historical data from Alphavantage website. The data is available for free and the last daily bar is constantly updated with real time data.
The data is adjusted for splits and dividends and it is available for the last 20 years.
In order to be able to download data, you...
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The Gold-Silver Ratio measures the number of ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold. The Gold-Silver Ratio current value is near 62; it used to be 51 in 2007 and 12.5 in 323 BC.
The Gold Silver ratio is not well known for the average trader; however...
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Financial ratios for liquidity and coverage allow investors to analyze and see whether a firm or a company is able to meet its short-term financial obligations and its liabilities.
Liquidy ratios include Current Ratio, Quick Ratio and Cash Ratio. Coverage ratios include Debt/Total Capital and Debt/Equity Ratio.
These five ratios, for...
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If you have two trading strategies and would like to measure the performance and profit of a trading system that combine these two strategies then this money management script can help you achieve this.
Each strategy, whether it is applied to stocks, FOREX, futures or options, is given an initial equity...
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After the NASDAQ, Boston stock exchange and the New York stock, here is an item that gets National stock exchange short selling data. The data is available at the exchange website (http://www.nsx.com).
The National Stock Exchange is an exchange based in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1885 in Cincinnati (Ohio)...
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This is a modifie version of NSE Derivative downloader.It download option quotes in the form like NIFTY16OCT8900CE which is used by many trding platorms in India
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This is a bullish trading system using momentum and trend. The Rate of Change indicator is used for momentum. Exponential and Simple moving averages are used for trend. This system is still in development. However, for AAPL it works well....
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This Bankruptcy Fillings downloader gets data from the Bankruptcy Data Project at Harvard. It downloads bankruptcy filed in the United States by individuals and entities (companies).
I have already created a downloader that gets data for the Chapter 7 bankruptcy filings (187). The current item downloads data for all types of...
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A well known bullish formation and continuation pattern called the ascending triangle occurs during an uptrend and is constituted of two trend lines where the first one is a resistance line (horizontal line) and the second one connects two or more troughs.
In technical analysis, the ascending triangle formation is visually...
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The following pivot table would allow you to easily display the year-to-date performance of your assets or ETFs and track their excess return with a benchmark or index.
By default, the following ETFs are compared to the SPY (S&P 500 ETF)
DIA: SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF
IEF: iShares Barclays 7-10 Year...
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The Relative Strength Index or RSI is a normalized momentum oscillator created by J. Welles Wilder. The Relative Strength Index oscillates between 0 and 100. When the RSI is above the 70 area, it is considered overbought and when it is below the 30 area, it is considered oversold. Besides...
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The screen returns the correlation of each stock with its industry for the last 250 and 30 trading days.
It displays five columns:
- Symbol: The stock symbol name
- Close: The close price at the screen date
- Return: The one-bar return of the stock ...
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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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The Sortino ratio is a popular measure of the risk of an asset, investment, portfolio or strategy. Its formula resembles the one that describes the Sharpe ratio with a small variation that consists of penalizing only negative returns.
Sortino ratio uses the downside standard deviation instead of the classic standard deviation....
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If you are a momentum trader then volatility is your friend.The current script analyzes and calculates the volatility of the security you are about to buy/short and update the number of shares according to this volatility. The 60 day standard deviation is used to calculate the volatility.
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You have three instuments...
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I have searched the internet and can't find any single source of analyst upgrades and downgrades data that can be downloaded.
Either the data is in html or you have to subscribe to a paid service in order to download the data.
Hopefully I found a website, streetinsider.com, who offers the data...
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This function calculates the maximum number of consecutive bars that a condition was true in the past N-bars. The function name is "MaxConsecutiveBars" and it has two parameters: Condition and period.
As an example, if we use this function with "close > sma(30)" condition and 100 as a lookback period, the...
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This is a single mask that applies a simple moving average and then a rate of change transformation on any indicator or time-series. This mask first smooth the indicator you provide by applying a moving average with a 30 period bar (this can be changed later) and then calculate the...
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The list of symbols in the "Bourse de Toronto" and "TSX Venture Exchange".
This list contains 1581 symbols. Stock description is also included.
The fiscal year ends in the month specified in the Expiration Date field....
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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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The head and shoulders pattern is a reversal pattern that generally occurs in uptrends. The pattern contains three peaks - the left shoulder, the head and the right shoulder. It is called Head and Shoulders because the pattern visually looks similar to that of a head with two shoulders. The...
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This function utilizes the historical analyst buy/sell recommendations, downloadable from yahoo by 641, to provide the current numeric rating for a stock. Ratings provided by various firms to a standard numeric score between 5 and 1, where 5 is a strong buy and 1 is a strong sell. ...
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Swiss Army Knife Indicator - SWAK
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swak((high + low) / 2, "BS", 14, 0.01);...
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The maximum drawdown is a popular measure of the maximum amount an investor can expect to lose. It is used as a measure of riskiness of a trading strategy.
Another measure of a trading strategy's riskiness is the Time under Water.
The Time under water is derived from the calculation of...
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There are several ways to measure and compare the strength of different industries. A unique way to do this is to calculate the number All-Star Trader picks for each one of these industries and compare the different values.
All-Star Trader Picks refers to the number of picks an U.S. Stock is...
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The Fed Watch RSS feed contains news about the Federal Reserve. Some traders, particularly bond and stock traders follow Federal Reserve Activity and try to quickly detect any sign of a potential increase or decrease in the Fed target rate.
Here are some examples of Fed news that appeared on July...
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This function returns the current stock's industry position within the QuantShare industry list.
Industry list is automatically added to your database once you get ticker symbols using the "Symbol -> Auto Manage Symbols" feature.
Example:
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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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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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Even in periods where a stock market index such as the S&P 500 rises, many stocks fall sharply. Several reasons could explain this decline: bad news, earnings release below the analysts consensus, big sell orders from institutional traders (micro and small cap stocks are likely to react more to these...
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The "AvgBidAskSpread" is a parameterless function that calculates the average ask price for the current bar minus the average bid price for that same bar.
The indicator uses the newly introduced CSharp-based "cFunctions.GetBidAskData" function to capture last bid/ask updates and performing the necessary calculations.
You can plot this indicator to a chart...
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This indicator measures the volatility by subtracting the highest high over a specific period by the lowest low over the same period. In other words, the volatility here represents the distance between the highest and lowest value over a specific lookback period. You can of course modify the function and...
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The Relative Vigor Index or RVI has two lines, the RVI line and RVI Signal line.
This function takes the cycle period as argument and returns the indicator Signal line. The RVI line can be downloaded here: 251.
The function name is "relative_vigor_index_signal"....
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Based on the number of stocks making new 52-week highs and the number of stocks making new 52-week lows, the High Low Index is a popular market breadth indicator that shows the number of new highs relative to the sum of new highs and lows.
The High Low Index is also...
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The fails-to-deliver item I have uploaded yesterday (253) downloads data by symbol from the failstodeliver.com website. Because the item needs to get data for each symbol separately, it takes time to fill the database with all +8000 US symbols. For this very reason, I looked at where the failstodeliver.com website...
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The FAO or the Food and agriculture organization of the United Nations is an agency that works toward defeating hunger.
The FAO releases a report called the Monthly Food Price Index. The monthly report contains the following indices: Food Price Index, Meat Index, Dairy Index, Cereals Index, Oils & Fats Index...
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The "IndustryEquity" indicator returns the industry price series of the active stock. It does so by building the ticker symbol of the stock's industry using the "IndustryIndex" function. More info on this function can be found here: 1215.
After that, it requests industry close series and return that price series.
Example of...
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The "RandomMonths" function picks months depending on a percentage value passed to this function. If you specify 100% then the function returns TRUE for all months, if you specify 50% then the function returns TRUE for half of the months and if you specify 0% then the function returns FALSE...
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