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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NYSE Euronext website (www.euronext.com) provides investors with historical end-of-day data of stocks listed on the Euronext Amsterdam exchange. Euronext Amsterdam, previously known as the Amsterdam Stock Exchange - AEX, is said to be the oldest stock exchange in the world. The exchange is part of Euronext group which contains also...
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This is an index published monthly by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and is used to predict future movements of the economy.
This composite is based on several economic indicators. They are all leading indicators which mean that their changes are likely to precede changes in the economy. These economic...
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When there is more short selling volume than long volume, traders expect a decrease in the price of the stock and when there is more long volume than short selling volume, traders expect an increase in the price of the stock. However, things could happen differently from what traders expect.
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List of all inactive stocks, those who were delisted from US exchanges.
This list includes stocks that gone bankrupt or were delisted for any other reason.
4777 symbols are listed.
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This downloader is based on the QuantShare blog post: Getting Accurate Backtesting Results: Survivorship bias-free S&P 500
It allows you to create a survivorship bias-free database of several indices. It downloads historical composition of an ETF that tracks an index then creates a custom database by assigning the value "1"...
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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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This strategy is based on earnings surprise data and it consists of the following trading rules:
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- Today's Earnings surprise is higher than 5%, which means the actual EPS is 5% higher than EPS consensus (expected earnings per share by analysts).
- Previous earnings-per-share is positive (previous quarter EPS) ...
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The Wilshire 500 Total Market Index, also called Wilshire 5000, is a market index created by Wilshire Associates, an independent investment firm. Wilshire Associates has also created several other market indices, including the Wilshire 4500 Completion Index, Wilshire Global Real Estate Securities Index, Wilshire US LargeCap Index and Wilshire US...
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The RTS Index or RTSI is an index that tracks the performance of the 50 largest stocks that are listed on the Russian Trading System, a stock exchange located in Moscow.
The RTS Index is calculated in US Dollars; it is a capitalization-weighted index and it has restrictive rules that prevent...
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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.
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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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Recently I have created an EOD quotes downloader for NSE (National Stock Exchange) listed companies that downloads data by date. This time, I have made the same but for the BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange).
As with the NSE downloader, the data comes directly from the exchange website (in this case bseindia.com)...
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Frank Hassler introduced this measurement. It was discussed on Frank's Blog Engineering Returns http://engineering-returns.com/2010/06/28/aapl-ts/, and it was highlighted and researched by David Varadi of CSS Analytics in his blog http://cssanalytics.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/trend-strength-index-tsi/, and subsequent posts.
David uses the following summary of TSI: "The TSI is an intermediate-term absolute (versus relative ) measure...
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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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Created by Dr. Rene Koch, the variance ratio indicator measures the degree of mean reversion or trendiness in a time series. It is an easy and fast way to detect whether a security or price series is trending, mean reverting or following a random walk.
The variance ratio interpretation is as...
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When you are evaluating stock trading systems, it is helpful to see how your system performed each year in comparison to major stock indexes. So, if my trading system had a 10% return in 2006, it would be good to know if that return represents over or under performance compared...
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This trading system reproduces the Global Sector Rotation (GSRS) Investment Strategy developed by Frank Grossmann
http://www.logical-invest.com
http://www.logical-invest.com/strategy/global-sector-rotation-low-volatility
http://www.logical-invest.com/strategy/global-sector-rotation-aggressive
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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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This modified version of the 1616 item creates a new database field (Industry) and updates it with the stock industry name at the time the data was downloaded.
The industry fundamental data item gets several industry fundamental ratios and store them separately for each stock in a custom database called "industryfund".
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The DSE or Dhaka Stock Exchange is a stock exchange in Bangladesh. It is the main stock exchange and is located in Dhaka city.
The main market indices of the DSE are the DSI Index and the General Index.
The trading item gets historical EOD for stocks listed on the Dhaka Stock...
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The Brussels Stock Exchange is the main stock exchange of Belgium. It is based on Brussels and founded in 1801. After the merger that occurred between Brussels Stock Exchange (BSE), Paris Stock Exchange, Amsterdam Stock Exchange and Lisbon Stock Exchange, the BSE was renamed to Euronext Brussels.
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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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Based on the position of the security close price compared to its moving average (MA), this technical analysis indicator returns a value comprised between one and three.
A value of one indicates that the current close price is trading 5% lower than its simple moving average.
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Given the close price time series, this indicator calculates the percentage of bars, for each trading day and over a given lookback period, where the close price advanced (close price higher than yesterday's close price).
A value of 100% means that the stock or asset increased during all the previous bars...
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Get real-time alerts from Media sentiment. This service provides different kinds of alerts concerning US stocks. These alerts are issued for stocks that are likely to experience a big move in the near future. They are generated when a company management releases its earning news report. Media sentiment analyzes this...
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Formula Name:VROC
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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This is a simple tactical asset allocation strategy (TAA strategy) based just on the relative strength indicator.
The strategy invests in 10 ETFs:
EDV (Vanguard Extended Duration ETF)
EEM (iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index (ETF))
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Rules that capture the following patterns:
Stock falls from a high to a low within x bars, the high and low of the last y bars
Stock rises from a low to a high within x bars, the high and low of the last y bars
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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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This list of symbols includes Indices, Forex and Futures symbols. It can be used with the following end-of-day historical data downloader: 226. The list is composed of 13 indices, 15 forex pairs and 62 futures contracts.
The symbols' list data includes the symbol name, the security name and the security group...
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The Stock Market Momentum Indicator is a proprietary stock market indicator created by the Commodity Research Bureau (crb). It is mainly used to determine the general direction of the market. Based on S&P 500 stock prices, this indicator analyzes some stocks and calculates the ratio of the percentage of those...
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To Sharpe ratio was created by William Sharpe in 1966. It is a very popular measures used to calculate the risk/return of an investment.
You can calculate the Sharpe ratio of any security in QuantShare using the "Sharpe" function. However, calculating the Sharpe ratio of a portfolio consisting of two assets...
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For more information about CAPS Ratings, please the following URL: http://caps.fool.com/help.aspx
Historical CAPS Ratings data for the period of your choice are downloaded by this item. The data is stored in a custom database (CAPS) and can be accessed to create composites, screens, rules, simulations, neural network models...
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The MICEX or Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange is a very large stock exchange in the Russian Federation. The MICEX has more than 760 listed Russian companies; it also allows trading of FOREX, derivatives and government-backed securities.
The main index of the MICEX is called the MICEX Index. It is a capitalization-weighted...
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Dividends are portion of corporate profits that a company decides to redistribute to its shareholders.
Depending on their dividend policy, some companies will pay dividend to their shareholders while others prefer to invest in their future growth.
This downloader gets dividend data from the yahoo finance website. It downloads history of...
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The Trading Indicator Rank function calculates the rank of a given trading indicator or time series compared to its previous values. The number of previous values is determined by the lookback period parameter of the function.
Trading Indicator Rank values vary between 1 and the provided period, where a number of...
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The Rogers-Satchell function is a volatility estimator that outperforms other estimators when the underlying follows a geometric Brownian motion (GBM) with a drift (historical data mean returns different from zero).
As a result, it provides a better volatility estimation when the underlying is trending.
However, this Rogers-Satchell estimator does not account for...
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This Arms index item is my third market breadth composite index. This first item I have uploaded, 340, calculates the ratio between the number of advancing stocks and the number of declining stocks. The second one, 344, calculates the absolute value of the difference between the number of advancing stocks...
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The Bollinger strategy uses the Bollinger Bands indicator to initiate buy and sell orders. Bollinger Bands is a technical analysis indicator that was invented in the 1980s by John Bollinger. It consists of three lines:
- Upper Band: Used as a resistance line
- Lower Band: It is a moving average
- Middle Band: Uses as...
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