This function analyzes the first N-minutes of a trading session then counts the number of times a specific event occurred. As an example, you can use it to measure the number of times the price crossed above its short-term moving average during the first trading hour.
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Symbol names for the Israeli Stock Exchage (TASE). All symbols have suffix .TA to be compatible with the Yahoo finance EOD downloaders...
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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.
The...
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The "IndustryIndex" function should be used with the following downloader (452), to return the industry index given the stock's industry.
Industry names that are used by QuantShare and by the above downloader are different and this function helps us correspond or associate the different industry names.
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This screener script makes it relatively quick and painless to apply splits to securities.
The script uses the QuantShare custom Splits database to display
the splits that have occurred (or are expected to occur) over a user-defined number of bars.
Enter the number of bars to use to identify splits in the...
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The "MinDaysEvents" calculates the number of minimum days between two events/data entries in a custom database.
Example:
Say you have a custom database that stores fundamental data. The field "EPS" stores the earnings per share field.
If for any reason you want to know the minimum number of days between two EPS entries...
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This is a list of diffusion index symbols. These indexes are available in the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia website and represents manufacturers' survey data. The time-series data can be downloaded using the following object: 313
Here are the 21 indexes:
BO_GAF - Future Activity Index
BO_NOF - Future New Orders ...
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The Insider Data History downloads several years' worth of insider data for U.S. stocks.
The following fields are downloaded and stored in a custom database called "insiderdata":
Date: The announcement date of the insider transaction
Insider: The name of the insider
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This item downloads daily open interest statistics from the Options Clearing Corporation website. The data is available for the last 5 years and it contains the open interest numbers of puts and calls for equity, index and futures.
Open interest or open contracts, is the number of derivative contracts, such as...
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This mask transforms one rule into 5 rules. It adds to your rules a volatility constraint.
Let's for example say that your rule is: close > sma(close, 20).
The mask will generate 5 rules from the above rule:
Rule 1: Original rule + security volatility must be lower than 10%. ...
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This trading system implements the ConnorsRSI pullback system as described in the ConnorsRSI Pullbacks Guidebook.
A description of ConnorsRSI and the system description are available here:
http://info.tradingmarkets.com/ConnorsRSI_ConnorsRSI.html
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This is an Implementation of the Congestion Index Indicator presented in the book "Intermarket Trading Strategies" by Markos Katsanos.
It can be used to identify trading ranges and the direction and normalized strength of an trend. Values above 30 indicate an uptrend and values below -30 can be considered as downtrend.
Markos...
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The Demand Index is a technical indicator that tries to lead price changes using price and volume data. The indicator was developed by Hames Sibbet.
The demand index formula requires several parameters:
Price: A time series that is usually set to the close price, midpoint or high plus low divided by two.
Constant:...
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I have just uploaded a rules analyzer metric script, which can be found here: 284. This script produces several metrics, one for each trading year.
The current script creates only one metric, which is the average 'output per bar' for all years. The metric is not the same as the default...
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Coefficient of Variation (CV) is a measure of the dispersion of points/prices around the mean (Dispersion of a probability distribution).
In statistics, the coefficient of variation is also called variation coefficient, unitized risk or relative standard deviation (%RSD). Because its value is normalized and it is a dimensionless number, it is...
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DiDi Index is based on simple (arithmetic) moving averages. In order to calculate simple (arithmetic) moving average, we add the closing price of the currency pair for a number of time periods and then divide this sum by the number of time periods. Thus, short term moving averages respond instantly...
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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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Historical EDO quotes for stocks listed on Euronext Lisbon, formerly known as the Lisbon Stock Exchange, are provided by Euronext. The data is available for download in the NYSE Euronext website. The download item requires a list of ticker symbols for Lisbon Stocks that contains the Euronext Code in the...
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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 system seeks to exploit a pattern where if the previous two days didn't have a gap up open from the previous close exceeding 0.2%, then there's an higher chance that the next overnight session will gap up.
The system buys the close and sells at the next open. It works...
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CompRule(rules, category, weightFormula, aggregateFormula)
is a function for use in e.g. trading systems, that attempts to implement
(somewhat) similar functionality as Comp(...) but across rules, not symbols.
The "composite rule" is returned.
Note: "rule" here means any numeric vector, whether it consists solely...
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This item downloads economic calendar events for different currencies. It downloads the event name, the event's date, the event's description, the currency involved in the event, the importance of the event, the actual release number, the forecasted release number, and the previous release number.
It is pretty the same downloader as...
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This item downloads historical quotes data for the index option symbols listed in the international securities exchange (LSE). The symbol filter is ready and you just need to press the download button to get the lasted quotes data. But before that, you have to download the list of option indexes...
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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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RSI3 Box is a long-only mean reversion system that trades large, liquid ETFs. This version has an average hold time of 2 days. I haven't explored the system in detail -- some optimization, but haven't tested a ton for robustness -- but I think it has promise and a ton...
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An IPO or initial public offering is when a company wants to raise capital and enter a public stock exchange for the first time. These companies usually want to grow and raise more money by issuing common or preferred stocks to public investors.
In this IPO pricings trading object, you will...
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This item downloads seasonally adjusted historical data of the PMI Index from the Institute of Supply Management (ISM). The PMI (Manufacturing Purchasing managers' index) number is compiled from a survey of managers' purchasing. The idea is that the more managers buy raw materials to fulfill their needs, the better the...
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The OCC, which stands for Options Clearing Corporation, is the world largest equity derivatives clearing organization. The OCC was founded in 1973 and it is under the jurisdiction of the CFTC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission.
One of the OCC role is to clear transactions...
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This Stock News item gets articles that are about US stocks from the Stockblotter website. It downloads and parses an RSS feed for each ticker symbol and then updates and inserts the data in a new database whose name is "stockblotter_news". The database contains the following fields:
Title: The article title....
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You won't believe how easy it is to hedge a portfolio strategy.
A hedge consists of reducing a portfolio risk by taking an offsetting position in a security. If you hold long positions on US stocks, you can hedge your portfolio by taking a short position on an S&P 500 futures...
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The trading system is composed of two trading rules. The first one is triggered when a stock share price closes below its 20-Bar Bollinger Lower Band. The second one is a market-timing rule that prevents the trading system from entering new orders when the market is declining. A market decline...
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The TFS MBO indicator is the last component of Bryan Strain's Tend Following System. Similarly to the MACD oscillator, it calculates the difference between two averages - fast and slow. TFS MBO is consequently an oscillator based on the close price whose variation is used to confirm the market tendency.
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The Barclays Bank PLC issues debt securities called iPath Exchange Traded Notes or ETNs. They allow investors or traders to invest in financial products that track the performance of different market benchmarks or strategies. ETNs are like stocks, they are listed on exchanges and they can be shorted.
These are four...
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This trading indicator returns the ratio of S&P 500 index to equity put-call volume. It gets the S&P 500 index (Symbol: ^GSPC using the following downloader 463) and divide it by the put/call ratio, which can be downloaded from 146.
The Equity put-call ratio is a sentiment indicator that measures the...
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I have developed this script to upload the data in the custom database "fundamental". This is a very easy script that downloads the data that I am interested in. This has only the field cash on hand. Typically, I expect companies that have cash on hand to...
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This object allows you to highlight an area in your trading chart. After you download it and add it to the bookmark panel, double click on "HighlightArea" button and click twice on a chart. Before the first click, select the beginning of the area of the chart you would like...
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The Guppy Multiple Moving Average is a technical analysis trading indicator developed by Daryl Guppy and explained in his Trend Trading book. The Guppy MMA uses multiple exponential moving averages to determine whether outlook of short-term traders agrees with the outlook of longer-term traders or investors and thus identifies change...
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The StocRSI indicator is a hybrid indicator that employs a 21 day fast stochastic indicator , 14 day RSI, adds half the value of each and takes a 13 day EMA of the summed value to arrive at the final calculation. It was developed and employed by Don Beasley who...
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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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Using historical data for the Long to Short position ratios, this composite item creates an index that calculates the average of the ratio of long positions to short positions of the Majors (Pairs of currencies that involve the U.S. Dollar).
The index is based on data downloaded by the following item:...
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