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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This Fractal dimension indicator is based on fractal analysis and Chaos theory and it was developed by John Ehlers and Ric Way. This trading indicator was introduced in the article "Fractal Dimension As A Market Mode Sensor" in the Stocks & Commodities magazine and it is a modified version of...
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Get stocks that belong to the top 20 stocks with the highest rate of change (return) over the last 10 days and top 20 stocks with the highest rate of change over the same period, 10 bars ago.
Symbols Filter: All symbols
Filter: Stock closing above 10$
Rule1: Stock must belong to the...
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The crossover/convergence trading indicator allows you to generate signals when two, three or four indicators are almost equal. Given a sensitivity parameter the crossover/convergence indicator calculates the different differences between each provided technical indicator and then generates a signal if the lowest difference is lower than the specified sensitivity threshold.
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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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For those who want or need access to both adjusted and unadjusted historical stock prices, this item downloads both data from the Yahoo server.
This item has almost the same settings as the 73, which is a download object that retrieves historical EOD data from Yahoo servers, adjusts the quotes using...
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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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This item downloads historical quotes data for stocks listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (Bursa Efek Indonesia). It gets quotes from the exchange website (idx.co.id) by date and for all listed companies.
The 158 list of symbols contains ticker information about the companies.
The current downloader automatically adds new symbols in your...
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Here is an intraday data downloader that retrieves one-minute bars snapshot for ETFs and Stocks of several major exchanges. Intraday data can be downloaded for stocks listed on the majority of exchanges supported by Yahoo. This includes: The New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, OTC Exchanges, National Stock Exchange, Sao Paulo...
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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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Standard deviation is often used as a measure to estimate future moves of an asset such as a stock (volatility). Although, price changes do not have a normal distribution, some technical analysts assume that it is the case and use this assumption to predict future price move. If the price...
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52-Week New Highs and 52-Week New Lows are numbers released by several stock exchanges. The New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange and NASDAQ released numbers are downloaded by 134. From the same data provider, 159 gets the number of advancing and declining issues on these exchanges and the 151...
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The CBOE DJIA BuyWrite Index and the CBOE NASDAQ-100 BuyWrite Index are benchmark indices that track the performance of an hypothetical buy-write strategy that buys stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (CBOE DJIA BuyWrite Index) or in the NASDAQ 100 (CBOE NASDAQ-100 BuyWrite Index) and sells or writes DJX...
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The Buy Sell Simulation Indicator is a technical analysis tool that allows you to transform any buy and sell rules into a measure of the performance of a trading strategy that buys a stock given the buy rules you have specified and sells it given your sell rules.
The buy sell...
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Body Momentum is a trading indicator described in Perry Kaufman's book. It is an oscillator that moves between 0 and 100 and calculates the percentage of bars that closed above the open price (white/green candle) during a specific period.
A period of 10 and a value of 100 for the body...
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This Consumer Credit trading object downloads total consumer credit historical data (for the United States) as well as the amount, in millions of dollars, of two types of credit: Revolving and Nonrevolving credits.
Consumer Credit refers to loans or line of credits that are borrowed by US consumers to buy...
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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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A stock is outperforming an index over a specific period if its rate of return for this period is higher than the rate of return of the index.
A high percentage of stocks outperforming the S&P 500 index could be considered as a bullish indicator for the market. The higher the...
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This function loops through each trading bar and update any zero value with Nan
The function could be useful in many situation. Here is how it is used in this how-to lesson:
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This item downloads U.S. Crude Oil and Liquid Fuels Supply, Consumption, and Inventories historical statistics data. The data is retrieved as an Excel file from the Energy Information Administration website (Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government), it is then parsed and updated so it can be inserted into the...
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This is a list of trading rules or metrics to be used in a stock/ETF rotational system. The list contains 15 metrics or measures.
Example of metrics:
Sharpe(close, 30) // Sharpe measure of the individual stock or ETF
Hhv(high, 30) / high // Ratio of 30-day highest high to current high ...
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The Economic Confidence Index is a combination of the Economic Outlook and Economic Conditions measures created by Gallup. The U.S. Economic conditions results from a rate given by Americans regarding today's economic conditions in the country, while the U.S. Economic outlook results from Americans opinion on whether economic conditions in...
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The Forex long/short historical position ratios downloader gets the percentage of long positions for a specific currency pairs on the Oanda platform.
The data is stored in a custom database "fx_lp_ratio" and can be accessed by any QuantShare plug-in using the following formula:
a = GetData("fx_lp_ratio", "ratio");
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This market index calculates the average Sharpe ratio of all stocks in a specific market. The Sharpe ratio is obtained using the "sharpe" function and it is computed for a period 90 trading days.
The higher the market index value the better it is; this indicates that more stocks have higher...
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Inspired by Butler (2012) Adaptive Asset Allocation: A Primer (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2328254)
"The paper addresses flaws in the traditional application of Modern Portfolio Theory related to Strategic Asset Allocation. Estimates of parameters for portfolio optimization based on long-term observed average values are shown to be inferior to alternative estimates based on observations over...
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This is for Gap up openings and gives th gap up opening and the high of the previous day ...
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The McClellan Oscillator is a very popular market breadth indicator often used by traders to gauge the general market sentiment. This indicator is derived from the Advance-Decline Line, which is simply the difference between the number of stocks that closed higher minus the number of stocks that closed lower.
The McClellan...
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A list of 31 currency pairs is contained in this item. The list contain the major currencies (US Dollar (USD), British Pound (GBP), Euro (EUR), Japanese Yen (JPY) and Swiss Franc (CHF)) as well as several other currencies, like the South African Rand, Norwegian Krone or the Saudi Arabian Riyals.
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The Indonesian stock exchange was created after the Jakarta Stock Exchange merged with the Surabaya Stock Exchange in 2007. Before that, the Jakarta stock exchange which was based in Jakarta was the main stock exchange in Indonesia.
This list of ticker symbols lists 312 securities and contains several details about the...
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The Vortex Oscillator is a technical analysis indicator inspired from J. Welles Wilders directional movement indicator. The oscillator can be used to determine if a security is trending, it can be incorporated into a trend following system or can be used directly to generate buy and sell signals.
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Unlike the original horizontal line drawing tool which displays the line price location, this drawing tool creates an horizontal line that displays the price change and rate of change from the line price location to the last visible close price on the chart.
First, download and install this item.
In the "Bookmark...
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The Ease of Movement Indicator or the Arms Index was developed by Richard Arms, Jr. The indicator shows the link between volume and price change, it determines the ease at which prices are moving. Its formula uses the current and previous high and low prices as well as the...
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Convert a text/string to a numeric value.
For example, if you have a numeric data stored in a text field such as Name1, Name2... and you want to use this in a QuantShare formula, you can use this function to do so:
a = ToNumeric(Name1());
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This EOD strategy uses Fractal Adaptive Moving Average - FRAMA, Buy Sell Simulation Indicator and Percentile - Percent Rank of a Trading Indicator.
Trend is defined as: Frama(50)>Frama(100).
Buy Signal is genereted as: Percent Rank Oscillator of FRAMA(10) ==0.
Sell Signal is generated as: Percent Rank Oscillator of FRAMA(10) == 100. ...
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Hammer is used for short term trading when applied to daily charts. Trader can take position accordingly on the particular trading days depending upon the formation of pattern. This will help you screen out stocks having Hammer formation.
Usually it is said that if the Hammer pattern is in downtrend than...
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Option contracts can be traded on several exchanges; In the United States, major options trading markets include the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, the Philadelphia Exchange, and the Pacific Exchange.
The Options Clearing Corporation collects data for the options market and report the daily volume of options contracts, put and call...
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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 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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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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The majority of technical trading indicators use the rate of change of security prices in their calculation. The Relative Volatility Indicator or RVI, uses a different time-series, it uses the volatility trend, which is calculated using the standard deviation of the security close price, to measure and evaluate market strength.
The...
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