The Sharpe Ratio is the first measure I look at when analyzing and assessing a backtest results. It is a simple and quick way to measure the performance of a trading strategy.
While this ratio is often used to measure the excess return per unit of risk of an investment or...
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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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Say you have a strategy that invests in 5 ETFs and you would like to set manually the weight of each security. By default QuantShare allocates an equal amount of money to each position so if you have 5 allowed positions in your trading system, each ETF will get 20%...
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this screens the quote swhich are in fast uptrend for swing trade .This screen i did on indian quotes which has given me very good results. Soon i am sharing the chart layout of the same which is fexible just you change the parameters as per your need. I HAVE...
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The VWAP or volume-weighted average price measures the average traded price of a stock over a trading period. It is the ratio of the asset price to total volume traded over a particular period.
This VWAP indicator should be applied to intraday data. It sums the product of the price and...
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This RTS indices item downloads historical EOD quotes for ten indices maintained by the Russian Trading System Exchange.
Indices ticker symbols can be found here 441.
The data is downloaded from the RTS RU (Russian Trading System) website.
List of indices: ...
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The NASDAQ OMX Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius are three stock exchanges and are part of the Baltic Market. They are owned by the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. one of the world's largest exchange company.
The OMX Baltic Exchange - Tallinn is a stock exchange based in Estonia. It is a leading...
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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 object will Give you the best buy entry of watchlist and the same formula tweaked for chart visuals.
The indicators i used in this object are As Follows,
Macd,Macd signal,EMA And MAX,
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This item downloads unadjusted historical stock market data for several markets. The data comes from the Yahoo servers.
The open interest field stores the stock adjustment factor.
You can use the following item to get adjusted historical daily data:
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This is the Zweig Indicator. You can change the percentage values or optimize them based on the market you are looking at. For US stock markets, 4% seem to work.
After a buy signal, generate the next sell signal upon a 4% or greater decline from...
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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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The New York Stock Exchange releases Round-Lot Share Volume numbers every day. This report includes the following numbers:
Specialist Purchases (Symbol: ^Specialist_Purchases): The Specialist purchases volume. Specialists are members of the NYSE; their role is to facilitate the trading of stocks by holding an inventory of the stocks in which they...
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Another technical analysis tool that is based on the standard Bollinger Bands indicator is the Fibonacci Bollinger Bands. It is almost the same as the standard Bollinger Bands with the difference that instead of using the standard deviation to calculate the volatility of the asset, the Fibonacci Bollinger Bands uses...
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Each U.S. Company belongs to a specific industry. The Standard Industrial Classification, SIC, was created in 1937; it uses SIC codes to categorize business activities. It was replaced by the NAICS, which is the acronym for North American Industry Classification System, a new business classification created by the United States,...
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Yahoo finance website offers traders historical quotes data for more than 50 stock exchanges. This includes the main stock exchanges in the United States and several European and Asiatic stock exchanges.
This trading object lets you download historical quotes for all companies listed on these exchanges. It is almost the same...
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The majority of companies spend each year a huge amount of money in research and development or R&D. Research and development refers to a creative activity whose purpose is to improve and increase company and its workers knowledge and then to use this knowledge to improve the existing products/applications or...
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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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This trading indicator has the same parameters as the 829 item I have shared yesterday. However, instead of getting a time-series value at a specific bar, this indicator calculates, for the specified price series/indicator, the sum of all bars that occurred before a given time.
For example, the following formula (YTimeSum(volume,...
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Switch- indicators by using C# switchcase function
set in form of 1 = buy, 0 = sell or not buy
Can be customized to incorporate and # of indicators or sub-systems, and then called by a strategy & optimized.
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SocialPicks is a community for stock traders and investors to share investment ideas, rate stocks and track other users' investment decisions and performance. Each investor can express his opinion regarding a particular stock; he can then decide whether his is bullish (initiate a buy) or bearish (initiate a sell) on...
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This is a composite and market breadth indicator that calculates the ratio of stocks trading above the moving average of their close prices plus the 30-bar standard deviation to stocks trading below the moving average of their close prices minus the 30-bar standard deviation.
The Standard deviation is a measure of...
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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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Cumulative sum or running total of a technical indicator refers to the algebraic sum of all previous values of this technical indicator.
The Cumulative sum formula is as follows:
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Treasury Bills are short-term obligations, with a maturity of less than one year, issued by the U.S government. These Treasury Bills are sold at a discount from the face value, which means that instead of earning an interest rate for buying these bonds, you will get this Treasury bill at...
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This item creates a 52-week high symbol from all stocks available in your database. The market indicator is created using the composite plug-in and it can be applied to any stock market. It uses the "hhv" (highest value over a period) indicator to count the number of stocks that are...
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A trading rule has only two states, black or while, true or false. In a given period, the state of a trading rule could remain constant (true or false) or it could change one or several times from one state to another. During this period, it could be interesting to...
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Price to earnings, PEG ratio, price to cash flow, price to book and price to sales are fundamental or valuation ratios used by analysts and investors in equity valuation to determine how cheap or expensive a stock is.
Valuation ratios are generally calculated by dividing the stock price by a measure...
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AMM model following the logic of Sector Surfer (www.sumgrowth.com)
Basically rotates each month into the Top1 (only one held), and uses autocorrelation market filter on SP500
- Uses special trend function SSEma / SSEma1 which is double smoothened EMA 1456 ...
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The Date filter is a simple function that returns one if a specific bar's date is comprised between a given start and end dates; otherwise, it returns zero.
The date filter accepts six parameters.
Param1: The day of the start date
Param2: The month of the start date
Param3: The year of the start...
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Correlation matrix of 41 major ETFs. Correlations higher than 0.8 are shown in red, between 0.5 and 0.8 in yellow, and under 0.5 are in green.
Requires daily data for the following ETFs:
ACWI, DBA, DIA, DUST, DXD, EFA, EWA, EWG, EWH, EWJ, EWM, EWP, EWQ, EWS, EWT, EWU, EWW, EWY,...
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The penny stock news picks Watchlist displays penny stocks that have at least two news items in the current/last trading day.
The penny stock picks watchlist looks for stocks whose share price is less than 2 dollars (micro and small cap stocks); it then uses the "GetDataCount" function to retrieve the...
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Motley Fool has developed the CAPS Rating, which is the aggregation of every prediction for a particular stock. In the Motley Fool website, traders and investors can rate US stocks (more than 4,400 stocks) by selecting whether a stock will outperform or underperform the S&P 500 for a specific time...
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I have already uploaded a trading object to get optionable information for US Stocks. The item is located here 487. It gets also exchange, market, sector and the indices the stock belongs to.
This trading object gets data from another website; it marks stocks that are optionable by settings their corresponding...
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Each quarter, companies release their earning numbers in the income statement. The release occurs after or before the market opens.
Earnings are used to calculate several fundamental ratios, including the earnings per share or EPS, which is calculated by dividing the total company's earnings by the number of shares outstanding, and...
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This item downloads French companies news data. Data retrieved from an RSS feed is transformed and inserted in a custom intraday database. The data is provided by a French website (www.boursier.com).
This news feed (RSS) is downloaded separately for each stock. The database, which stores the news items, is called 'france_rss_news'...
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This trading object lets you download historical open interest data for several stocks listed on the National Stock Exchange, NSE.
The National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited (NSCCL), which is a clearing and settlement agency for the deals that are executed on the futures and options market , reports daily the market...
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The item retrieves historical end-of-day data, including close, high, low and open prices, for 31 currency pairs. A list of available forex pairs can be found here 423.
Steps to follow:
- Go to 423 and install this list of symbols. This will add 31 currency pairs to your symbols database. This...
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This item loads and saves a list of all US holidays. The data is retrieved from the (ice.com) website. The market closes on these US holiday dates and thus the list can be helpful if you need to conduct some analysis on the how the market behaves near these dates.
The...
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A trading rule has always two states. It could be TRUE, when its value is higher than 0 and FALSE otherwise.
An example of a simple trading rule is: stock close price is higher than its 30-Bar simple moving average. On one day, the close price is higher than its 30-Bar...
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