The U.S. Consumer Sentiment, also called the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index, is a market indicator published monthly by Thomson Reuters and the University of Michigan.
The indicator is build by conducting not less than 500 telephone interviews each month and its purpose is to assess consumer attitudes on business,...
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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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A trading rule has always two states. It could be TRUE, when its value is higher than 0 and FALSE otherwise.
An example of a simple trading rule is: stock close price is higher than its 30-Bar simple moving average. On one day, the close price is higher than its 30-Bar...
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This downloader uses IYW - Dow Jones U.S. Technology Sector Index Fund to create survivorship bias-free database for more reliable bactesting. This ETF fund is 0,99 correlated to QQQ.
Downloader is based on this blog post: Getting Accurate Backtesting Results: Survivorship bias-free S&P 500
Original/Idea autor is Quant Share team....
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This is a list of volatility-related indexes. The indexes are calculated by the Chicago board options exchange and are measures of the market expectation of the near-term volatility of the underlying securities.
These indexes track implicit volatility and their prices are calculated using the implicit volatility of the underlying security options...
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The Bloomberg U.S. Financial Conditions Index is a measure of the number of standard deviations (z-score) the current financial conditions are above or below the average index value for the period of June-1994 to 2008. The index is calculated using yield spreads and indices from the Equity, Bond and Money...
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This item downloads share volume opening and closing crosses from the NASDAQ crossing network. These are the share volume on the open and close auctions for each security listed on the NASDAQ exchange. The auction will determine the stock official open and close prices.
The data is available starting from 2008...
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This is a followup of the trading system "Buy Low Sell High". In addition to using the trading system for back testing, I am also interesting in creating a set of information that I can use to make the trades for the following day.
The information that is important for me...
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Few weeks ago, I have uploaded two trading items that download data from Google trends to create sentiment indicators.
The 726 is constructed by adding Google trends volume of four pessimistic and popular traders (Roubini, Nassim Taleb, Peter Schiff and Marc Faber). The 724 represents Google trends volume of Nouriel...
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This isn't really a list of trading rules; instead it is a list of technical indicators time-series. It can be used with the 'Mass rules' feature of QuantShare to create easily several trading rules.
Example: Adding a mass rules mask, for example: mask > sma(mask, 50) will result in the creation...
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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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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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The DSE or Dhaka Stock Exchange is a stock exchange in Bangladesh. It is the main stock exchange and is located in Dhaka city.
The main market indices of the DSE are the DSI Index and the General Index.
The trading item gets historical EOD for stocks listed on the Dhaka Stock...
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This dynamic watchlist lists all shares that are on the current symbol list, that have crossed the simple moving average during the last 200 days. For long-term trend followers this could be a signal for buying stocks from this particular list....
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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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If you have two trading strategies and would like to measure the performance and profit of a trading system that combine these two strategies then this money management script can help you achieve this.
Each strategy, whether it is applied to stocks, FOREX, futures or options, is given an initial equity...
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This is a function that could be used with a database that contains text data (for example a news database). The function accepts as arguments, the database name, the field name, a positive list of words and a negative list of words.
These lists of words are simply words separated by...
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This strategy is based on earnings surprise data and it consists of the following trading rules:
Buy Rules:
- Today's Earnings surprise is higher than 5%, which means the actual EPS is 5% higher than EPS consensus (expected earnings per share by analysts).
- Previous earnings-per-share is positive (previous quarter EPS) ...
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The turn of the month effect on stock indexes states that stock prices performs better on the first three days and the last four days of each month. The idea is based on several academic papers such as the Equity Returns at the Turn of the Month, Further Evidence on...
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The fails-to-deliver item I have uploaded yesterday (253) downloads data by symbol from the failstodeliver.com website. Because the item needs to get data for each symbol separately, it takes time to fill the database with all +8000 US symbols. For this very reason, I looked at where the failstodeliver.com website...
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The Donchian channel is an indicator that was introduced by Robert Donchian; it consists of a set of 3 lines used as an envelope in order to calculate the price volatility. The first one is the price highest high over a chosen period; the second one is the lowest low...
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One of the major problems of moving averages such as the simple moving average is its lack of quick response to price. The higher the lookback period of the moving average, the slower the response to price movements. Other moving averages, such as the exponential moving average (more weight is...
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The Forex long-short positions ratio is a measure of the number of long positions to the number of short positions taken by currency traders. It is a quantitative measure of the bullishness or bearishness of Forex investors and it can be used as a trading rule or in a trading...
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This item gets daily FII derivatives statistics from the National Stock Exchange website. You can run it daily to get the number of contracts and the amount in Crores in buy and sell positions as well as open interest at the end of the day for index futures, index options,...
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Fixed Bucket Calculation
In financial modeling, "normalizing" data is critical to evaluating a time series in a smooth and consistent manner. What constitutes a high versus what is a low value? Properly characterizing values is important to determine valid "signals". It rarely a good idea to...
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This function calculates the average volume during a period of time in the previous days. Given a start and end time, it counts the number of bars and the cumulative volume that occurred within this period and then divide the cumulative volume by the number of bars. Another parameter allows...
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EMA Exponential Moving Average
SYNTAX Ema( ARRAY close, ARRAY timeperiod)
In a Simple Moving Average, each value in the time period carries equal weight, and values outside of the time period are not included in the average. However, the Exponential Moving Average is a cumulative calculation, including all data. Past values...
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This downloader creates a symbol (^BANKHOLIDAY) as well as a custom database (bank_holidays). It then downloads a file that contains a list of bank holidays dates until 2020.
In fact, the data contains more than the bank holiday dates, it contains the date of each holiday, the holiday name, the holiday...
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The federal funds rate is the interest rate at which banks in the United States lend their balances at the Federal Reserve to other institutions. Banks give each other loans based on this interest rate. The federal funds target rate is one of the tools of the Federal Reserve to...
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SocialPicks is a community for stock traders and investors to share investment ideas, rate stocks and track other users' investment decisions and performance. Each investor can express his opinion regarding a particular stock; he can then decide whether his is bullish (initiate a buy) or bearish (initiate a sell) on...
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By measuring and averaging intercorrelation between different assets, you can create a market sentiment indicator and add it in your trading arsenal.
The sentiment indicator you are about to download calculates the average intercorrelation between two or more securities. In mathematical terms, it takes a security, calculates the 10-bar correlation with...
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Insider trading data are data reported by company insiders to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It could be a director who sold some shares in the company stock, or a CEO who bought 1000 shares of the company he works for.
Insider trading data could be downloaded from the SEC...
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The ISEE Index is an index that tries to measure the market sentiment by comparing the number of calls bought to open on the International Securities Exchange against the number of puts bought to open. The calculation excludes market makes and firm trades because these are not considered to be...
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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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The Average Output per Month is a script metric for the rules analyzer plug-in. It loops through all the generated positions and calculates the average output value for each month. It then averages these values to produce a unique metric, which is the average output per month.
The advantage of using...
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I have already uploaded a trading object to get optionable information for US Stocks. The item is located here 487. It gets also exchange, market, sector and the indices the stock belongs to.
This trading object gets data from another website; it marks stocks that are optionable by settings their corresponding...
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This function allows you to store a variable value globally so that it can be referenced later by any QuantShare tool.
Since variables between a trading system and money management script cannot be shared (The former uses QS language and the latter uses CSharp/C#), you can for example store a trading...
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A well known bullish formation and continuation pattern called the ascending triangle occurs during an uptrend and is constituted of two trend lines where the first one is a resistance line (horizontal line) and the second one connects two or more troughs.
In technical analysis, the ascending triangle formation is visually...
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The damping index, created by Curtis McKallip Jr., is a technical analysis indicator that indentifies bars where the highs and lows are getting close and closer.
In order to do so, it calculates a simple moving average of the difference between the high and low prices using a period of 5...
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NYSE Euronext website (www.euronext.com) provides investors with historical end-of-day data of stocks listed on the Euronext Amsterdam exchange. Euronext Amsterdam, previously known as the Amsterdam Stock Exchange - AEX, is said to be the oldest stock exchange in the world. The exchange is part of Euronext group which contains also...
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