The strategy consists of buying additional shares of a stock at a lower price than the first entry price.
It is similar to the "Averaging Down" MM Script but it is specifically built to work with the Connors_Alvarez MDD/MDU strategy.
The script goes through your open positions and if any current price...
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This function is a system filter. It calculates the SQN of the market of choice. Whenever the SQN of that market drops below the input value of nSQN, the function returns false. It returns true when there have been 2 consecutive periods of increase in SQN. ...
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The Dynamic Momentum Index or DMI is a technical analysis indicator used to determine overbought and oversold conditions of a particular security. Unlike other overbought/oversold indicators like the Relative Strength Index (RSI), the Dynamic Momentum Index does not use a fixed time period. Instead, the time period, used by this...
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This item downloads daily Short Sale Volume data from nasdaqtrader.com website and for the NASDAQ and Boston stock exchanges.
The data is reported daily, one day after the market closes, and it contains trade date, ticker symbol, the sum of share volume of all short sale trades executed during regular trading...
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The Center of Gravity function originated from a John Ehler's article published in May 2002 in the Stock and Commodities magazine. It was derivated from the Finite Impulse Response Filter formula, which constituted one of Ehler's researches undoubtedly inspired from digital signal processing.
The main goal for COG is not to...
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Volume near price is a technical indicator that returns the total volume near the current price level that occurred in previous periods. For each period, the indicator calculates the total volume of the previous N period where the close price was between the current price and a threshold value (+-)....
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Calculates the covariance of two numeric arrays. Similar to the covariance function in excel. The following description is taken from ehow:
Covariance is a measurement of how related the variances between two variables are. If the two variables both tend to increase together, it is a positive covariance,...
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This item gets main BSE indices as well as sectoral indices from the Bombay Stock Exchange. It downloads EOD data for 23 indices including the SENSEX (The Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitivity Index is a value-weighted index that includes 30 stocks), MidCap, SmlCap (A stock index that tracks the performance of...
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Use this item to download historical quotes data for the Ocean Tomo Patent Indexes. The data spans from 2007 to present.
The Ocean Tomo Patent Index was developed by Ocean Tomo, LLC. It provides a market benchmark for the U.S. economy. This economy has seen an increase in intangible assets relatively...
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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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A basic task in statistical analysis of a probability distribution consists of measuring its peakedness and asymmetry. Kurtosis measures peakedness of a distribution, while Skew measures asymmetry.
Kurtosis function is available here: 1045.
A normal distribution is symmetric, that is it looks the same to the right and the left of the...
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This downloader loads an RSS feed from the Abu Dhabi securities exchange website (www.adx.ae) and then executes a pre-script to populate a custom database. The database, whose name is 'adx_news', has 3 columns:
Date: The date the news was published.
Title: The company news title.
Link: A PDF or DOC link to...
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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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This item downloads the Industrial Production Index historical data from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The Industrial Production Index or IPI is an economic indicator. It is available in the G.17 Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Release. It measures the production output in the U.S. industrial...
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The Qualitative Quantitative Estimation indicator is calculated based on a combination of the smoothed relative strength index (Moving average of RSI) and the average true range (ATR is used as a volatility based trailing stop) indicators. The QQE or Qualitative Quantitative Estimation indicator is particularly useful for volatile assets (stocks,...
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Yesterday, I have shared an indicator called 1080. Today, I am sharing a trading system based on it.
Although, the different backtest reports of this trading system show great results, with an annualized return often higher than 40% and a Sharpe ratio above 0.8, the drawdown is still high and...
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The advance indicator counts the number of advancing stocks in a specific market, while the decline indicator counts the number of stocks that are declining.
This item downloads the number of advancing and declining issues of the following markets: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), American Stock Exchange (Amex) and National Association...
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The Yahoo fundamental downloader gets four fundamental items for more than 4000 U.S. Stocks. It retrieves stock's market capitalization, return on equity, return on assets and finally the forward PE.
The market capitalization as you probably already know is the market price of the company and it results from the multiplication...
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Here is the second custom drawing tool. The first one can be downloaded here 449, it displays the selected security's price above the mouse cursor.
The current object draws a trendline. A trendline is composed of two or more points; it is often used in trading as a support or resistance...
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This function allows you to thicken candlestick bars based on a specific rule.
Let us say for example, you want to thicken candlesticks when the price is above the 30-bar moving average. For this, you just have to type the following line in your chart formula:
a = Thicken(close > sma(30),...
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What is the ConnorsRSI?
It consists of three components:
a. Short term Relative Strength, i.e., RSI(3).
b. Counting consecutive up and down days (streaks) and "normalizing" the data using RSI(streak,2). The result is a bounded, 0-100 indicator. ...
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The ascending and descending triangles are two chart patterns that can be used to confirm a continuation or to detect a reversal; the former is a bullish chart pattern, whereas the latter is a bearish chart pattern.
As we previously said, the Ascending Triangle is a bullish pattern; it is...
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With this trading system template, you will be able to test your strategy with different position sizing techniques quickly and effectively. By using this template to build your trading system then by clicking on the optimize button, QuantShare will backtest your strategy five times, each time using a different position...
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The 'BarsUpVolume' function calculates the number of successive increases in the volume (bars).
For example, if the bar n: 100, has a value of 2, this means that the volume were increasing for the last 2 bars. Volume of yesterday is higher than the Volume of the day before yesterday, and...
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The turn of the month effect on stock indexes states that stock prices performs better on the first three days and the last four days of each month. The idea is based on several academic papers such as the Equity Returns at the Turn of the Month, Further Evidence on...
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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 item downloads historical data for the IMF (International Monetary Fund) commodity prices. The IMF commodity prices are prepared by the Energy and Commodities surveillance unit of the research department. The data is available on the IMF website (www.imf.org) and it is updated once a month.
The commodity prices are constructed...
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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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The current fundamental data downloader gets several valuation metrics or ratios for stocks listed on US exchanges from the finviz website. Valuations ratios are measures of how expensive or cheap a stock or company is; they are used by analysts, traders and investors to assess the attractiveness of the company.
The...
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Inventory to Sales Ratio or I/S ratio is the ratio of companies' inventory to companies' sales. It measures the percentage of inventory companies, operating in the United States, have on hand to support their current amount of sales. This economic indicator is released in the Monthly Wholesale Trade Report, which...
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Based on the different iShares ETFs Dow Jones industries, this trading system buys the ETF that is ranked number one based on the ratio between the small-term and long-term moving averages (trending up).
On each rebalance day, the strategy ranks all ETFs based on their moving averages ratio. It then...
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The TFS volume oscillator is the second component of Bryan Strain's Trending Following System. This indicator is used, together with the TFS Tether line and the TFS MBO, to generate buy signals.
TFS VO uses the open, close and volume time-series, as well as a time frame. Generally, a period of...
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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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There is a special candle that has no real body to speak of and is called the doji. The close of this candle is at exactly the same price as the close. Doji formations help confirm reversals. There are different names and nuances associated with certain dojis, such as the...
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The staggered entry and exit strategy allows you to enter a percentage of the total number of shares to buy when the first condition is met. The remaining number of positions is entered only when the second condition is met.
For exits, it will close only a percentage of the total...
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The Google Investing Index is a measure that tracks google search engine queries related to the market-related keywords such as stock, gold, stock market, etf, exchange traded funds, oil...
This item downloads the Google Investing Index from Google servers and associates the data with the following ticker: ^GOOGLEINDEX
You can of course...
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Welles Wilder Jr introduced in his book 'New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems' several trading indicators including the Relative Strength Index (RSI), parabolic stops and the Average Directional Index (ADX).
He also introduced an indicator, based on the True Range (TR), which estimates the volatility of an asset or market volatility....
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This composite index calculates the number of stocks that are trading above the Keltner Channel upper band and the number of stocks that are trading below the Keltner Channel lower band and then divide the first value (Up stocks) by the second one (Down stocks).
Created by Chester W. Keltner,...
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The Martin Pring's KST trading system is based on the KST (Know Sure Things) oscillator developed by Martin Pring. The idea of this oscillator is to make rate of change readings easier for traders to analyze.
In this trading system, the crossover of the KST oscillator with its smoothed version...
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This Currency trading news item retrieves an RSS feed from the financial yahoo website, parses the feed and adds the data in a database whose name is "yahoo_news". The intraday database contains the following fields:
Title: The Forex news title
Category: The Forex news provider
Once the data is stored you can...
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