The Sharpe ratio is certainly the most popular measure of the performance of investment strategies or trading systems. It is a measure of the risk premium or excess return per unit of risk. It is calculated by subtracting the risk free from the portfolio's return and then dividing the result...
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Here is a nice function that displays potential stock splits on a chart.
By simply adding the "DetectSplits" function to your chart, you will be able to quickly see whether the stock data has potential non-adjusted splits or not.
The function can detect many types of splits and reverse splits, including 3:1,...
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The Price at a specific Intraday Time item is a function that works with intraday data and that returns the price, open, high, low, volume or any technical indicator value of a security/stock at a specific time during a trading day. The indicator gets a time-series, an hour and a...
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As with the default horizontal line, this drawing item plots a horizontal line at the mouse Y position when you click on a chart. Beside that line, another line that corresponds to the distance between the horizontal line and the last close price is also drawn at the first bar...
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Interest Data downloaded by this item is available in the Federal Reserve website. Use the following link to get this data in a text file or use this download item to get the data automatically added into your QuantShare database.
The following market yields on U.S. treasury securities (bill,...
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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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Standard deviation is a well-known measure of volatility of an investment or an asset. The volatility measures the dispersion of a set of data from its mean, it does not tell us about the direction of the market or the asset.
The volatility of a stock is calculated by taking...
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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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In addition to the AAII Sentiment Survey, the American Association of Individual Investors releases another very interesting report called AAII Individual Investor Asset Allocation Survey. The report is released after a survey conducted every month; in this survey individual investors are asked about their current holdings. The report shows the...
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Investopedia defines oversold as
1. A condition in which the price of an underlying asset has fallen sharply, and to a level below which its true value resides. This condition is usually a result of market overreaction or panic selling.
2. A situation in technical analysis where the price of an asset...
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Based on the position of the security close price compared to its moving average (MA), this technical analysis indicator returns a value comprised between one and three.
A value of one indicates that the current close price is trading 5% lower than its simple moving average.
A value of three indicates that...
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In statistics, kurtosis measures the relative peakedness of a probability distribution compared with the normal distribution. This is why we also call it "excess kurtosis".
The higher the kurtosis value is, the sharper the distribution peak and the longer & fatter the tails are.
The lower the kurtosis value is, the rounder...
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This item creates three metrics when analyzing a list of trading rules.
The object classify trading rules output or return into three categories.
The categories are:
Position whose holding period is below 10 bars
Position whose holding period is below 40 bars ...
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Currently, there are about 500 Exchange Traded Funds listed on NYSE Euronext (Paris, Lisbon, Amsterdam, and Brussels Exchanges). These ETFs are issued by Banks and Financial companies such as Amundi Investment Solutions, HSBC ETFs, iShares P.L.C, JP Morgan Struct FD Management and UBS ETF. They are investment products that offer...
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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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Market indicators such as the percentage of stocks that are trading above or below a specific moving average are well known and often used to determine whether the market is bullish or bearish.
There are many other composites or market indicators that use the close price and the moving average of...
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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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Dr. Van Tharp's System Quality Number (SQN) metric.
SQN measures the relationship between the mean (expectancy) and the standard deviation of the R-multiple distribution generated by a trading system. It also makes an adjustment for the number of trades involved. Dr. Tharp has determined that the better the SQN, the easier...
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This market indicator returns the number of stocks upgraded by analysts minus the number of stocks downgraded. A stock upgrade occurs when an analyst increases the investment rating of a company. An upgrade often happens when the company financials and fundamentals show improvements.
Analyst downgrades or upgrades data is retrieved using...
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This is a trend following trading strategy that trades S&P 500 stocks.
The S&P 500 trend following system uses the following rules:
- Daily data for S&P 500 stocks
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This is the Zweig Indicator. You can change the percentage values or optimize them based on the market you are looking at. For US stock markets, 4% seem to work.
After a buy signal, generate the next sell signal upon a 4% or greater decline from...
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This Reverse Engineer RSI (RSI PREDICTOR) helps you to know what stock price must be reached in order to trigger a particular RSI value. For example, if I want to buy a stock or ETF on the close today if the RSI(2) is below 50. How do I know...
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The price display indicator shows the price level of the selected bar or the last bar if no bar is selected.
This indicator displays also the one-bar return of the active security. The price and return are displayed in green when the price increases and in red when the price decreases.
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The Economic Cycle Research Institute, ECRI, is an independent institute specialized in economic cycle research. It maintains over 100 proprietary indexes for several economies including the Country Long Leading Index, the Country Coincident Index, the Long Leading Index, European Coincident Index, Austrian Long Leading Index, French Short Leading Index and...
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The Reward/Risk drawing tool would allow you to click somewhere on a chart to define a trade entry price, stop price and a target price. It then displays the stop and distance from the entry price as well as the Reward/Risk ratio.
A value of 1 means that the based...
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The Mexican Stock Exchange, Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV), is the only stock exchange in the Mexican Stock Market. It is located in Mexico City and is a public company owned by its members. The exchange trades stocks, warrants, mutual funds and debt instruments (Federal Treasury certificates - CETES, Federal...
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Sometimes one wants to review/evaluate a certain stop loss by assessing its distances from the last bar in ATR multiples (Average true range). That is what this drawing tool was created for.
When using it, it draws lines for each ATR multiple. So one can see, how much is the distance...
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This item downloads one year of historical EOD data for Australian stocks (Stocks listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, ASX). It requires a list of symbols of ASX stocks, which can be downloaded here 108.
The website that provides the quotes downloaded by 127 is no longer updated. The last update...
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The 52-week low indicator calculates the total number of stocks making new 52-week lows (Stocks at their lowest level in one-year period) per day. The market indicator that measures the number of stocks making 52-week highs is available here: 939.
The 52-week high and 52-week low indicators can be used together...
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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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The Dubai Financial Market is a stock exchange based in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). This stock exchange was founded on March 26, 2000 and is owned now by Borse Dubai. It currently lists about 65 companies for nine different sectors:
Banks, Investment & financial services, Insurance, Real estate and construction,...
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This indicator returns the percent of time a security spent trading above a certain moving average. You just have to specify the lookback period and the moving average period and the indicator will calculate the number of bars where the security traded above its N-bar moving average and divide that...
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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.
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psychological line , this deals with, people resist paying more for a stock than others unless the stock continues to move up. People resist selling a stock for less than the price others have been getting for it unless the price continues...
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The ratio of equal-weighted S&P 500 Index to its S&P 500 market capitalization-weighted Index can be constructed using two Exchange traded funds: the SPY (S&P 500 SPDR) and the RSP (Rydex S&P 500 Equal Weight). The S&P 500 equal-weighted indice has the same constituents as the capitalization weighted S&P500, however...
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This function allows you to get the industry name of an external symbol.
As you may know, you can get the industry name of the currently analyzed symbol using the "Industry()" function.
To access the industry of another symbol, download and install this function then type something like:
a = SymbolIndustry("GOOG");
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Floor Pivots for Intraday Trading
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http://www.quantshare.com/item-995-floor-traders-pivots&kbaseid=item-995-2755-1542
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Swiss Army Knife Indicator - SWAK
Example:
swak((high + low) / 2, "BS", 14, 0.01);...
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Here is a simple Long-Short Forex strategy based on the moving average and the relative strength index indicators. The strategy buys a currency pair if its 5-Period RSI value is greater than 50 and if the price crosses over its 5-Bar SMA and makes at least 20 pips (Difference between...
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