In the rating system of the Motley Fool, each member predicts if a stock is going to outperform or underperform the S&P 500 Index in a given timeframe and based on these predictions a score or CAPS rating is given to each stock. The higher the CAPS rating is the...
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The Survey of Professional Forecasters began in 1968. It was conducted by the both the American Statistical Association and the National Bureau of Economic Research before the second quarter of 1990; now it is released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The Survey of Professional Forecasters is considered the...
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The MSR is a support and resistance indicator developed by David Varadi and introduced in his website cssanalytics.wordpress.com.
This technical indicator tries to measure the support and resistance levels by calculating the middle price over a short/intermediate time frame. Data is normalized using the Percent rank indicator, which can be downloaded...
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The CNX 100 index consists of 100 diversified stocks. The index represents more than 70% of the free float market capitalization and it covers 35 sectors of the economy.
The index base date is Jan 1, 2003; the base value is 1000 points.
CNX 100 used to be calculated using a market...
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This function utilizes the historical analyst buy/sell recommendations, downloadable from yahoo by 641, to determine how long it has been since an analyst rating has been provided for a stock. This function can be useful in trading algorithms in determining a confidence value for the rating (the longer its...
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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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The wedge pattern is a technical analysis pattern that can be found in the price charts of a financial asset (Stocks, futures, ETFs and bonds).
There are two types of wedge pattern: Rising wedge and Falling wedge. The former is a bearish pattern that is characterized by a contracting range and...
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The Keltner Channel Breakout is a trading strategy that creates short signals when the close price breaks above the high band/line of the Keltner channel.
This trading system is short only. It enters short orders when the close price of a security crosses above the high band of the 40-Bar...
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Some companies distribute dividends and some do not. Some companies distribute dividends quarterly, while others distribute it biannually, annually or sporadically. The distribution schedule is usually tied to the company fiscal year.
Dividend frequency refers to how often a dividend is paid. The current function calculates the dividend frequency or the...
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A pair strategy consists of taking one long position in a stock or security against a short position in another stock or security. The goal of such as strategy is to make profits on diverging performance and at the same time reducing risk and exposure to the global market because...
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The NSE Nifty, S&P CNX Nifty or Nifty 50, is the main index of the National Stock Exchange of India. It contains the 50 largest companies that are listed on the NSE. These companies account for 22 sectors of the Indian economy.
This item downloads the S&P CNX Nifty Index, as...
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Unlike the 683, which gets daily picks only from all-Star Motley fool users, the number of outperform and underperform picks for U.S. Stocks downloaded by this item are obtained from all Motley fool users.
The number of daily picks is saved in a historical database called "ascaps".
The number of bullish...
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The distress index is an indicator created by the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and it is derived from a handful of statistics. Based on statistics such as unemployment, Customer Price Index (CPI), Gross Domestic Products (GDP), Total Capacity Utilization (TCU) and Household Financial Obligations as a percent of Disposable...
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A stock is outperforming an index over a specific period if its rate of return for this period is higher than the rate of return of the index.
A high percentage of stocks outperforming the S&P 500 index could be considered as a bullish indicator for the market. The higher the...
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The Weighted Linear Regression Is an extension of the standard Linear Regression, where a weight is added to each of the points.
It can be used to calculate the linear regression of the closing prices by considering the volume traded on each day, This indicator compared to the standard Linear Regression...
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The New-High/New-Low Spread, sometimes called New-High minus New-Low Oscillator, is a market breadth indicator constructed by taking the difference between the number of stocks listed on the NYSE that are making new 52-week highs minus the number of stocks listed on NYSE that are making 52-week new lows. You can...
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The Adaptive Price Channel is a technical analysis indicator composed of two lines: the upper and lower lines. These lines are created by calculating the highest high value and lowest low value over a non-fixed lookback period. The lookback period value changes after each bar according to the change of...
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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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This function would allow you to highlight certain periods on your chart. You can for example use it to highlight recession periods or any other important events.
The function accepts a list of dates separated by commas. The list should define the start and end of each period to highlight.
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This list of rules was created by applying a mask or a time-series transformation to some popular indicators. The mask can be found here: 153
Here is how it works: First of all, an indicator is selected, then a simple moving average is applied to this indicator (smoothing process), finally we...
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Formula Name:VROC
Formula Full Name:Rate of Change (Volume)
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Rate of Change Volume (ROCV) is an oscillator applied to volume rather than price and is calculated in the same manner as the Rate of Change (Price) indicator.
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The "AutoSR" function is a very useful trading indicator that automatically calculates support and resistance lines for any security. It can be used to calculate the last support or resistance lines (Detect chart patterns using the auto support/resistance indicator) or it can be used to calculate the support and...
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This function returns the current stock's industry position within the QuantShare industry list.
Industry list is automatically added to your database once you get ticker symbols using the "Symbol -> Auto Manage Symbols" feature.
Example:
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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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Relative momentum index is an oscillator introduced by Roger Altman in a February 1993 'Stocks & Commodities' magazine article. Inspired from the relative strength index, it attempts to improve it by eliminating the oscillations between defined overbought and oversold levels through the introduction of a momentum. The relative momentum index...
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The VIX Fix is a technical indicator developed by Larry Williams, a trader and author of several books. Larry Williams also wrote for the Active Trader Magazine where he introduced the VIX Fix, a synthetic VIX calculation that can be applied to a single stock, ETF, futures or any security.
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This download item get EOD Data for stocks listed on the Muscat Securities Market.
To get stock symbols from the Muscat Securities Market,
- Select "Symbol -> Auto Manage Symbols"
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The maximum drawdown of a stock is calculated using the "Drawdown" function. This function returns the maximum drawdown of a price series since the first bar.
The maximum drawdown composite indicator averages the max drawdown of all stocks in the universe by calculating the max drawdown of each stock and then...
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Active Picks refers to the number of picks/trades, entered by motley fool members, that are currently active.
A pick is a trade or a prediction made by a motley fool member. Traders predict whether a stock will outperform or underperform the S&P 500 in a specific time frame.
For each stock, the...
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The Q-Ratio, developed by the economist James Tobin, is a market valuation method used to estimate the fair value of the stock market. It is calculated by taking the total price of the market and dividing it by the replacement cost of all companies in that market.
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This function calculates the high or low of a trading session within a specific period/interval. You can define a start and end time, whether to get the high and low and the function returns the last high or low that occurred during that time frame.
Example of usage:
// Calculates the high...
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The current pivot table returns the average 10-Bar stock performance for each U.S. Exchange (NYSE, NASD, NYSE and OTC). It also returns, in another column, the number of stocks in each one of the previous exchanges. The 10-Bar return calculation is performed using the "perf" trading indicator and it is...
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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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This download item gets historical intraday data for free for U.S. Stocks. The trading object downloads 1 minute bars for several days and it gets the close, open, high, low and volume fields. Once the data is downloaded you can display intraday charts using any timeframe equal or higher...
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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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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 function calculates the number of bars, value, sum, average and rate of return of a specified vector and using reference points. For example, if you use the rate of return indicator (ROC), the function accepts as input a vector and a lookback period (number of bars). If we choose...
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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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iPath Exchange Traded Notes, ETNs, are unsecured debt securities, delivered by Barclays Bank PLC, that offers investors a way to track and earn from the return of strategies or market indices.
ETNs follow the performance of a benchmark or market index; the iPath EUR/USD Exchange Rate ETN for example, tracks the...
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Here is an option chains and LEAPS downloader that can get data for options traded on U.S. exchanges.
You just need to enter the underlying securities in the "Symbols" tab, click on "Start Downloading" to get options data for all strikes and expiration dates.
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