If you want to compare a certain value of a time-series for a particular security to the value of other securities for the same date, then you should use the z-score. You will need to standardize data in order to use the z-score or the standard score.
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A Gap occurs when the price of a stock or any other security moves up or down with few trading in between. Gap Up is defined as a stock price with a today's low that is higher than yesterday's high and the opposite for the Gap Down; stock price with...
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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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Maximum Adverse Excursion (MAE) and Maximum Favorable Excursion (MFE) for individual trades are available under the "Trades" and "MAE/MFE" tabs of the trading system report.
The current money management script calculates the MAE and MFE for the whole trading system.
The calculation is based on the highest/lowest portfolio equity compared to...
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The CFNAI or the Chicago Fed National Activity Index is a monthly index released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. It is a weighted average of several economic indicators that belong to four main categories: Production and income, employment, unemployment and hours, personal consumption and housing and finally sales,...
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To determine the volatility of a financial time-series, such as stock close prices, the Chaikin Volatility trading indicator measures the range between high and low values. Unlike the ATR or Average True Range, this indicator does not consider gaps. Gaps are accounted by ATR because its formula calculates volatility based...
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This market composite returns the number of industries that advanced minus the number of industries that declined. It stores the composite time series in the following ticker symbol: _INDUSTRY_ADVANCEDECLINE
The composite gets all industry symbols and computes the one-day return for each one. It then adds the ones that have advanced...
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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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Australian Securities Exchange participants are required to report their daily gross short sales to the ASX exchange. This short selling activity is made available in the Australian Securities Exchange website. The AFR (afr.com) website provides also this short selling report.
Short sellers sell shares they do not own. They are expecting...
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AccuTrack Indicator: This is the QuantShare version of the AmiBroker script for the Investor's FastTrack AccuTrack indicator. Note this the AmiBroker version is not a perfect duplication of the actual Investor's FastTrack version which goes from -100 to +100. However, it is a very close approximation. This version uses a...
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The Cyber Cycle function originated from John Ehler's book "Cybernetic Analysis for Stocks and Futures". It is basically a high pass filter....
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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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The "Money Flows - Selling on Strength" item downloads a list of advancing/up U.S. stocks with the largest outflow of money. Outflow of money happens when the number of shares traded on downticks exceeds those that were traded on upticks. Usually an outflow of money would cause the share price...
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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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NYSE advances and declines object downloads historical end-of-day data of the number of advancing, declining and unchanged stocks that trade in the New York Stock Exchange.
The number of advancing and declining issues is used to calculate several market breadth indicators, for example: Advance/decline line, Absolute breadth index, Advance decline ratio...
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This dynamic watchlist lists all shares that are on the current symbol list, that have crossed south the simple moving average during the last 200 days. For long-term trend followers this could be a signal for going short on stocks from this particular list)....
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Bolsa de Valores, Mercadorias & Futuros de São Paulo or the BM&F BOVESPA is the main exchange in Brazil and the fourth largest exchange in America in terms of market capitalization.
It was formed after the merger of the Bovespa (Sao Paulo Stock Exchange) and the BM&F (Brazilian Mercantile and Futures...
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In statistics, the coefficient of determination represents the strength of the relationship or the portion of common variation in two time-series or variables. It is a statistical measure of how well the regression line approximates the real values.
The coefficient of determination or R² is mainly used to analyze how well...
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A large stock price movement after a consolidation may signal a new bullish or bearish trend.
This screen search for stocks that made large price and volume gains after a short period of consolidation.
Large price gain is signaled when the price increases more than 5% and large volume gain is signaled...
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Using put and call volume from all market participants (Customers, Firms and Market makers), this trading indicator calculates the put/call ratio of each individual U.S. Stock.
357 downloader gets U.S. options put and call volume from the Options Clearing Corporation website. You should install and execute this downloader before using the...
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One of the most important economic indices used to measure the state of macroeconomics is the Unemployment rate.
Definition: The jobless rate is the percentage of people, in the labor force and in a particular country, that are willing to work but are not currently working.
Each country's main goal is...
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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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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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Among the Germany's eight securities exchanges, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange is by far the largest one. It accounts for more than 85% of the trading volume in Germany and 35% of the stocks trading volume in Europe. It is also the third large securities exchange place in the world after...
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The Price/Earnings to Growth ratio, also known as the PEG ratio, is a measure of valuation of a company. The PEG ratio was made popular by Peter Lynch and it provides an easy to way to find whether a company is fairly valued, overvalued or undervalued. A stock with a...
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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 Lunar phase indicator calculates lunar cycles and highlights occurrences of new moon and full moon phases on a chart.
A new moon happens when the moon/lunar phase indicator returns 1 and a full moon happens when the lunar phase indicator returns -1.
Example of usage:
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The Self-Adjusting RSI indicator was developed by David Sepiashvili. It describes two techniques to adjust the oversold and overbought levels of the relative strength index indicator. It will create dynamic overbought/oversold zones that aim to improve your strategies performance by reducing false signals that may be generated when using the...
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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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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 downloader imports EODData.com (end of day only) formatted text files from your hard drive. EODData.com allows free end of day data downloads for a number of exchanges as long as you register (see: http://www.eoddata.com/download.aspx). If you pay for a premium membership, they also provide you with a proprietary downloader...
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This bull system is based upon increasing momentum occuring in the direction where the price is above the moving average. The rate of change indicator is used as the momentum indicator. Two sets of moving averages are used to indicate trend. First, the exponential moving average for...
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To measure the profitability of a company, analysts and investors use metrics such as the ROE (Return on equity), ROI (Return on investment) and ROA (Return on assets).
Profitability is very important for the growth of a company. It is also important for company's owners and managers. It is a...
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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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This money management script allows you to specify a minimum number of positions in your trading system.
The script uses the "OnClosePosition" event to reject any exit order if the current number of positions (both longs and shorts) in the portfolio is equal or below the specified threshold.
Formula rules as well...
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The Advance Decline Volume Ratio, which is also called the Up/Down Volume Ratio, is a market breadth indicator that calculates the ratio of advancing volume to declining volume. The advance-decline volume data can be downloaded using the following item: 151. You can also get the advance decline issues from here:...
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This downloader gets EOD quotes data from Yahoo for all options listed in US exchanges. Only the last quote is downloaded and so in order to create an historical quotes database, this item should be run on a daily basis. For screening purpose, you will only need the last quotes...
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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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For a complete description of how this money management script was created and the role of each function it contains, please refer to the following article: Create a trading strategy using the money management tool
The money management script, you can get here, creates a simple long strategy that is...
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