The International Securities Exchange (ISE), which is an fully electronic options market based in the United States, releases a put/call ratio (ISEE Index) that uses a different calculation methodology (to be more precise, it doesn't use all the call and put volume) than the put/call ratios calculated by many other...
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Introduced by John Andersen in a September 1996 article appearing in the 'Stock and Commodities' magazine, Standard Error Bands is an envelope whose bands are obtained by the calculation of the beta and alpha coefficients of linear regression. Standard Error Bands are used to measure the strength of a trend,...
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Usually stocks respond positively to an earnings surprise. Sometimes they are up more than 10 or 20 percent and sometimes just a few percent; it all depends on the stock and more importantly on the earnings surprise number.
This screen searches for stocks that have two consecutive and positive earnings surprises....
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This composite calculates the ratio of stocks trading above their upper Bollinger band to stocks trading below their lower Bollinger band.
The number of stocks trading above/below their upper/lower Bollinger band is computed by comparing the close price to the 20-bar "BbandsUpper"/"BbandsLower" function.
A value of 60 tells us that among stocks...
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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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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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After adding this money management script to your trading system, you will be able to display the benchmark return in the simulation report table and the benchmark time-series in simulation graphs. This allows you to compare your strategy equity or rate of return against a benchmark such as a market...
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The "HhvLlv" function returns the highest or the lowest value of a time series over a preceding period. Unlike the built-in "hhv" and "llv" functions, this function accepts dynamic lookback periods. This means that you can get, for example, the highest high of a stock over a non-constant period.
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The advancing and declining volume or the total volume of stocks that advanced and the total volume of stocks that declined every day can be used to create several market breadth indicators. One of these indicators is called the Up/Down Volume Spread. The indicator formula is simple; it is the...
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The Geometric moving average calculates the geometric mean of the previous N bars of a time series or trading indicator. The simple moving average uses the arithmetic mean, which means that it is calculated by adding the time series' value of the N previous bars and then dividing the result...
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After the NASDAQ, Boston stock exchange and the New York stock, here is an item that gets National stock exchange short selling data. The data is available at the exchange website (http://www.nsx.com).
The National Stock Exchange is an exchange based in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1885 in Cincinnati (Ohio)...
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The Year to date change is a trading indicator that is usually used to calculate the percentage change of a stock's last closing price compared to the previous year close price. You can also use the indicator to calculate the Year to date percentage change of any other time-series or...
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This item calculates the SCTR (Stock Charts Technical Ranking). Please see the link for description. https://school.stockcharts.com/doku.php?id=technical_indicators:sctr
cFunctions.SetForwardAndBackwardBars(200, 0);
String str = "EMA200_ = ((Close - ema(200))/ema(200)) * 30;" + ...
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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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This function allows you to enter several criteria (segments) and an index. It then calculates the result of the segment referenced by the index.
Let us say that for example, you want to create two segments:
Overbought Stocks
Oversold Stocks
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After downloading the list of symbols (312) of the manufacturers' survey diffusion indexes, you can use this object to download seasonally adjusted time-series data (historical data). The data is available from May 1968 (The date the first time the survey was conducted) to present.
The data is retrieved from the Federal...
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This item downloads historical quotes data for ten currency pairs. The data is provided by Finam and it spans from 2001 to present for most pairs.
The following currency pairs are available:
Japanese Yen / Swiss Franc - CHFJPY
Euro / Swiss Franc - EURCHF ...
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An increase in volume can be detected in several ways. For example, you can calculate the ratio of the total volume in the last five bars to the volume of the last 50 days. The higher the ratio is the higher the increase of the volume during the last days.
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Hanging Man 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 Hanging Man formation.
Usually it is said that if the Hanging Man pattern is...
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For each Forex currency pair, you can use the 212 trading item to download historical calendar events in a custom intraday database. This database will contain calendar events for several currency pairs as well as the actual, the forecast and the previous value for each event.
This indicator requires this data...
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From Van K. Tharps book "Trade your way to financial freedom"(chapter 14) with an addition of "number of positions". Total equity volatility is divided by this number to allow simultaneous positions. The script assumes it's dealing with stocks and is long only. Feel free to alter to suit your needs...
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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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Screener for Short Term Bullish signal for NSE Stocks. Position can be taken on the basis of daily pivot table at support 1. Exit can be taken at 10% profit....
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Rules that capture the following patterns:
Stock falls from a high to a low within x bars, the high and low of the last y bars
Stock rises from a low to a high within x bars, the high and low of the last y bars
Plotting these rules on a chart help...
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Get measures of the foreign exchange value of the dollar from the Federal Reserve website. The dollar index is a measure of the performance of the US Dollar against a basket of currencies. The weights used to calculate the US dollar index change over time and are revised at least...
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This function calculates the number of days until a contract expires. It works with all symbols that have a date in the 'Expiration Date' field. I am using it with these US options symbols (306, 307).
The function takes no arguments and it just uses the date it finds 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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The buy indicator tells you whether to buy the current security or not based on an indicator previous performance.
For each bar, this indicator will calculate the performance of another indicator for the past bars. It will simulate a buy and sell after n-bars when the provided indicator gives a signal.
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This item downloads historical end-of-day data for stocks listed on the Euronext Brussels (Brussels Stock Exchange). The data is retrieved directly from the exchange website (www.euronext.com).
The item first gets the ISIN code of each stock or company. The ISIN code is an international code used to facilitate the identification of...
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I have attempted to translate a trading system that is available on the web for free. I was not able to get a system togather that allows me to trade both long term and short term trading systems. Any help would be helpful. I am adding my...
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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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Like the MACD, Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Stochastic, the ADX, Average Directional Movement, is a very popular trading indicator used by stock, FOREX and commodity traders in technical analysis. The ADX is considered to be the best technical indicator by many traders and investors.
It is a momentum indicator, such...
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This trading system is based on Tony Cooper's volatility trading strategy #3, which is to simply buy XIV when the VIX futures are in contango and buy VXX when the VIX futures contracts are in backwardation.
It adds to Tony Cooper's startegy by adding a couple of buy and sell rules....
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The Percentile or Percent Rank function calculates the percentage of observations or values, within a lookback period, that are below the current value of a given function. It is the percentage of values in the provided time series frequency distribution that are lower than the value of any given bar.
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This item downloads daily volatility data for several currency pairs including the majors and popular crosses.
The volatility in measured in pips and it corresponds to the daily movement of a $100.000 Forex pair contract. It is calculated by taking the average of the high and low prices of the...
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The Short Cover Simulation Indicator is a technical analysis tool that allows you to transform any short and cover rules into a measure of the performance of a trading strategy that shorts a stock given the short rules you have specified and covers it given your cover rules.
The short cover...
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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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As with the coefficient of variation, the index of dispersion is a ratio that is used to measure the dispersion of a probability distribution. It tells us whether prices or technical indicator values are dispersed or clustered compared to a standard statistical model.
Index of dispersion, also called dispersion index or...
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Based on the first N-minutes of a trading session, this technical indicator creates a support and resistance lines for each trading session.
The first line corresponds to the high of the first N-Minutes and it is plotted for the rest of the day. The second line corresponds to the resistance and...
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The High-Low range technical indicator returns the percentage of maximum increase in a stock or security during the previous N trading days. To measure this, it calculate the percentage increase during the previous N bars from the lowest value to the highest value, that is, the highest value over a...
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