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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Short sale data reported by NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) Arca to a consolidated tape with the market identifier 'P' is available at the NYSE website (http://www.nyxdata.com/page/875).
This data includes the aggregate share volume of short sale transactions (short selling trading volume) that occurred during regular trading hours (between 9:30 am...
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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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Adaptive trading strategies usually rely on one or several specific metrics to dynamically update some settings such as the percentage of capital invested. This money management script can transform any simple or complex trading system to an adaptive or auto-adjusted strategy.
When applying this money management script to a trading system,...
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This function is an enhancement to the chande_trendscore function added by "The Trader". You can read more about the origin, purpose and behaviour of the function here: 317
This version adds 3 enhancements to the original function.
1) It accepts a symbol as a parameter. This is desirable in conditions...
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Here is how to download historical EOD data for delisted or bankrupt stocks.
- Download this item
- Open it and start downloading
- The item will start downloading and adding EOD data to your database ...
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Example: a=AvgCorrelation("SPY,TLT,EEM",100) ;
This function computes the average cross- correlations of the assets in the list. It sums up the correlations of all possible pairs and divides by the number of pairs.
It can help to visualize how correlated more than 2 assets are. Or it can be used in a system...
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The Russian Trading System (RTS) website (www.rts.ru) allows investor to download EOD quotes for all listed securities (Stocks, Bonds, and Inv. Funds). This data is automatically retrieved by this downloader, parsed and then added to your quotes database.
This RTS RU data item requires that you select a start and end...
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Each quarter, companies are required to report a financial statement, called Income statement. This report shows the company's revenue, expenses, costs and income for a specific period.
Income statement is also referred to as earnings statement, operating statements or profit and loss statement - P&L.
Unlike balance sheet (418) which represents a...
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This rules analyzer metric calculates the average output of each analyzed rule and on a per-symbol basis. The standard average output adds up the outputs generated by all the positions for all securities then divides this value by the number of positions.
The current metric adds up the outputs separately for...
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Probably the most popular trading indicator is the moving average. It is widely used in technical analysis and several other indicators use it in their calculation. For each bar, the moving average indicator calculates the average price of a time-series over the preceding N-bars.
The function name is 'rbsma', which stands...
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Let us say you have a trading system that contains three trading rules, imagine if you have a indicator that acts like a backtester or simulator; it analyzes each trading rule before it is applied to a stock or a security and tells you whether this rule was profitable for...
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This item downloads historical tick data for all U.S. equities and for the last 20 trading days.
If you are not using the Auto-Manage feature of QuantShare, you must first update your symbols list:
- Select "Symbol -> Auto-Manage Symbols"
- Check "New York Stock Exchange", "American...
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Here is a new EOD data downloader for the Kuwait Stock Market. It downloads end-of-day data for +200 companies including Kuwait International Bank , Al-Safwa Group Holding Co. , Manazel Holding Co., Alafco Aviation Lease And Finance Co. , Abyaar Real Estate Development Co. , The National Industries Group ...
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The National Stock Exchange of India website reports Short Selling volume for NSE-listed companies. The data spans from 2008 to present. The current item downloads this short selling data and stores it into a custom database. The database (nse_shortselling) is automatically created the first time you download the data. It...
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The following indicator calculates the percentage change between the actual and forecasted economic event.
As an example, let us say you want to calculate the percentage change of the actual vs estimate numbers for the USD consumer Credit and then see its impact on the underlying currency pair.
You can do so...
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The Detrended Price Oscillator is an indicator used as a long or short signal. In fact, the DPO eliminates cycles that are longer than the moving average period. It leaves thus short-term trends, and it allows both overbought and oversold levels to be detected more accurately. These levels are used...
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The opening range breakout is a trading indicator that returns true when a stock, an ETF or any other asset breaks the high or low of the first hours or minutes of a trading session (opening range).
You define a number of minutes and the indicator plots the high and low...
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This downloader gets splits announcements for U.S. stocks. It creates a custom database (splitsannounced) with the following fields:
Date: Ex-date or the date that the stock price is scheduled to adjust on the exchange
Ratio: The split ratio. Example: 5-4 or 1-2
Payable: The date the stock split will be paid. Example: Sep02
Announced:...
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Stocks that outperform the market are more likely to increase in the future that stocks that are lagging and performing worse than the market.
Outperforming stocks carry also higher risk and we should be particularly careful when entering positions in one of these stocks. Many reasons could explain why...
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Volume * Price Momentum oscillator is an indicator used to determine the trend tendency using both price and volume. In fact, it acts upon the principle that the trend tendency, which is characterized here by the price variation, is stronger when the exchanged volume is higher. The indicator is based...
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Money Management script, that reduces invested capital depending of value of selected symbol:
- if close price is above long SMA and above short SMA - script invests 100% capital
- if close price is below long SMA and below short SMA - script invests 0% capital
- if close price is between...
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Downloads Market yields on Treasury inflation protected securities, or TIPS, adjusted to constant maturities. The data comes from the U.S Federal Reserve website and is updated on a daily-basis.
The item adds and fills 4 symbols: TIPS yields at 5-year constant maturity, TIPS yields at 7-year constant maturity, TIPS yields at...
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Unlike the majority of stock market risk and volatility measures (such as the Standard deviation), the Ulcer Index was designed, by Peter Martin in 1987, to calculate the volatility in the downward direction only. This technical analysis indicator (Ulcer Index) was first introduced in a 1989's book called "The Investors...
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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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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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This example will show you some of the power and the flexibility of the Grid tool.
Download, install this item then display it using "Tools -> Grid -> Open Grid".
This item doesn't use real time data. I have created it to show you how you can access, manipulate and display QuantShare...
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This watchlist scans for securities that have parallel support and resistance lines.
This is accomplished using the powerful "autosr" function (Automatic Support/Resistance).
You can read more about how this dynamic watchlist was built by reading the following blog post:
How to Scan for Parallel Resistance and Support Lines ...
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It is well known fact that a stock that is strong relatively to other stock continue to be stronger. Here is a watch list that filter for strong stocks and list those stocks that breakout from 4 weeks high. Many consider four week cycle as an important cycle in stock...
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The long to short position ratio is a measure that tells us whether Forex trader are bullish or bearish a particular currency pair. It is the ratio of the number of long positions to the number of short positions for a given currency pair.
Some brokers release the long vs. short...
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The Aruoba-Diebold-Scotti (ADS) business conditions index is a market indicator that uses several economic indicators to track business conditions. The indicator is updated each time one of these economic indicators is released.
The indictors used to construct the ADS Index are:
Personal income less transfer payments
Industrial Production ...
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This item retrieves a list of options, for the US markets, from a Covered Call Screener. The Screener displays each day, the potential candidates for a covered call strategy, with several measures, like the percentage of Return on Exercise, or the Probability of Max Return.
The first time you start the...
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Here is a download item that will allow you to retrieve daily historical continuous contract data for CME Eurodollar futures. It gets non-adjusted price based on spot-month continuous contract calculations.
Eurodollar futures are interest-rate derivatives based on the LIBRO. These 3-Month Eurodollar futures are traded on the CME or Chicago Mercantile...
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This download item gets historical intraday data for free for U.S. Stocks. The trading object downloads 1 minute bars for several days and it gets the close, open, high, low and volume fields. Once the data is downloaded you can display intraday charts using any timeframe equal or higher...
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Major World Indices include the main stock index of several countries, including the United States, China, India, Japan, Canada, UK, Germany, and France.
Although it is not mandatory, you can find a list of ticker symbols for the major world indices here: 635. This list contains the index full name in...
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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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Shortable stocks refer to stocks that can be shorted, that is, traders are able to sell these stocks even if they don't own them. Usually, stock shares are borrowed from a broker and sold to another buyer. When the trader want to buy back stock shares (cover its position), these...
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In the rating system of the Motley Fool, each member predicts if a stock is going to outperform or underperform the S&P 500 Index in a given timeframe and based on these predictions a score or CAPS rating is given to each stock. The higher the CAPS rating is the...
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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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Insiders are individuals that have access to non-public information about a company; they are usually directors, key employees, large shareholders... Their activity (Buy and sell transactions), which is made available to the SEC within few days, is watched and followed by individuals and institutional investors.
A high selling volume made...
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