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 following download item retrieves historical EOD data for the Singapore Exchange (SGX). It gets data very quickly (by date) for the last 22 market days and for all securities (Stocks, ADRs, Company Warrants, ETFs and ETNs).
To get older data, please use the following downloader: 1171. You can also use...
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The TSI is an intermediate-term absolute (versus relative ) measure of the tendency of a stock to trend or mean revert. The premise underlying the theory is that stocks with a high degree of momentum in relation to volatility are much less likely to mean-revert than those that have...
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The Chart Pattern Indicator is a market tool developed by Thomas Bulkowski and updated on its website thepatternsite.com.
The Chart Pattern Indicator calculates the ratio of the total number of bullish patterns to the total number of bullish and bearish patterns for approximately 500 U.S. stocks. The result is expressed as...
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The AAII Bull Ratio is a sentiment indicator created using the famous AAII sentiment survey. A survey, in which, the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) asks, every week, its members about their view on the direction of the stock market in the near term. Using the percentage of members...
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This item downloads French companies news data. Data retrieved from an RSS feed is transformed and inserted in a custom intraday database. The data is provided by a French website (www.boursier.com).
This news feed (RSS) is downloaded separately for each stock. The database, which stores the news items, is called 'france_rss_news'...
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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 National Federation of Independent Business is an association that represents independent and small businesses. It is founded in 1943 and it releases a sentiment indicator/index called the Small Business Optimism index.
The small business optimism index is created from a monthly survey conducted by NFIB to measure the optimism of...
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This trading system is quite simple.
- The script is looking to see if today's close is the higher high in the last 50 days.
- When it is it compares the breakout and the lowest close of the 14 days trading channel are not more than 7% to limit...
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Created by Dr. Rene Koch, the variance ratio indicator measures the degree of mean reversion or trendiness in a time series. It is an easy and fast way to detect whether a security or price series is trending, mean reverting or following a random walk.
The variance ratio interpretation is as...
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Here is the second custom drawing tool. The first one can be downloaded here 449, it displays the selected security's price above the mouse cursor.
The current object draws a trendline. A trendline is composed of two or more points; it is often used in trading as a support or resistance...
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It took me more than 2 hours to complete this short selling downloader. This item is more complex than the previous ones (319, 321, 310, 322) because it calculates the sum of all short selling data for four different facilities.
Because the data is retrieved from four different URLs, I have...
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As with the 463 item, this downloader gets historical end-of-day data for several markets from Yahoo finance website.
In addition to that, it will also create a custom database "adjust" and store in that database, the adjustment ratio as well as the unadjusted close.
The adjustment ratio will be stored under the...
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Recently I have created an EOD quotes downloader for NSE (National Stock Exchange) listed companies that downloads data by date. This time, I have made the same but for the BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange).
As with the NSE downloader, the data comes directly from the exchange website (in this case bseindia.com)...
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This object downloads fundamental data/ratios for eleven Indian indices listed on the National Stock Exchange (NSE). The indices are: S&P CNX NIFTY, CNX NIFTY JUNIOR, CNX IT, BANK NIFTY, CNX MIDCAP, CNX 100, CNX PSU BANK, NIFTY MIDCAP 50, S&P CNX 500, S&P CNX NIFTY SHARIAH.
It saves the data in...
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This composite index calculates the number of stocks that are trading above the Keltner Channel upper band and the number of stocks that are trading below the Keltner Channel lower band and then divide the first value (Up stocks) by the second one (Down stocks).
Created by Chester W. Keltner,...
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"GetData" is the main function that allows you to access custom databases data. It lets you retrieve an item value, from an intraday or historical database, that occurred within the current bar.
Let us say we have a custom database that contains fundamental data. One field in this database is called...
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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 item downloads historical dividend data for U.S. stocks.
It creates a custom database (divcalendar) and stores data in the following fields:
dividend: The quarterly dividend percentage paid by the company
annualdiv: The annual dividend percentage paid by the company ...
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The Martin Pring's KST trading system is based on the KST (Know Sure Things) oscillator developed by Martin Pring. The idea of this oscillator is to make rate of change readings easier for traders to analyze.
In this trading system, the crossover of the KST oscillator with its smoothed version...
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This function implements Thomas DeMark's TD Sequential Indicator. There are many different versions of this indicator with different rules and many nuances. Not all are implemented here. For more detail you should add to the code.
This function accepts two arguments, a number and a string.
TDSequential(0,"") - Returns the count...
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Here is another date function that can be used to make correspondence between trading bars and actual dates in the calendar. It is named 'EndOfMonth' and it returns 1 for the trading bar that corresponds to the last day in the month. Its principle is simple; it loops through the...
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Formula Name:VROC
Formula Full Name:Rate of Change (Volume)
Formula Description:
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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Using the "GapUp" and "GapDown" functions, it is easy to spot up and down gaps and tells on which bars these gaps have occurred. It is also very interesting to know the size of the gap.
First and for those who don't know what a Gap is; it is the price...
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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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With the 'composite' plugin in QS, we can easily create our own indices. The simplest construction gives a price-weighted index. One drawback of a price weighted index is that when a high priced stock ceases to be a member of the index, it results in a downward gap for that...
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A trading rule has only two states, black or while, true or false. In a given period, the state of a trading rule could remain constant (true or false) or it could change one or several times from one state to another. During this period, it could be interesting to...
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Dave's New System or DNS is an indicator, developed by David R. Evans, which consists of the sum of eight trading rules. Each time a trading rule passes, the indicator value increases by one. The DNS indicator value varies between zero and eight, a value of zero means that no...
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The following Forex correlation trading item creates a correlation matrix between several currency pairs.
Correlation is a statistical measure of the relationship between two securities. It tells us whether two currency pairs are moving in the same, opposite or random direction.
Correlation values vary between -100% (Forex pairs move in the same...
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The NASDAQ OMX Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius are three stock exchanges and are part of the Baltic Market. They are owned by the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. one of the world's largest exchange company.
The OMX Baltic Exchange - Tallinn is a stock exchange based in Estonia. It is a leading...
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Frank Hassler introduced this measurement. It was discussed on Frank's Blog Engineering Returns http://engineering-returns.com/2010/06/28/aapl-ts/, and it was highlighted and researched by David Varadi of CSS Analytics in his blog http://cssanalytics.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/trend-strength-index-tsi/, and subsequent posts.
David uses the following summary of TSI: "The TSI is an intermediate-term absolute (versus relative ) measure...
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This trading system analyzes the crossover of two exponential moving averages (period of 5 and 12) to generate buy and sell signals.
The strategy opens a buy position (market order at open of tomorrow) when the 12-bar moving average crosses above the 5-bar moving average and only if the same crossover...
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Consecutive Up or Down Bars is a technical analysis indicator that detects up or down vector values and calculates the number of consecutive bars a specific vector closed above its previous value and the number of consecutive bars this vector closed below its previous value. The number of consecutive up...
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The list of symbols for the Tunisian Stock Market or bourse de Tunis can be downloaded here: 349.
This item let you download historical end-of-day quotes for the Tunisian market and for all companies listed in the bourse de Tunis. The data is downloaded from the exchange website (www.bvmt.com.tn). You can...
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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 Fed Watch RSS feed contains news about the Federal Reserve. Some traders, particularly bond and stock traders follow Federal Reserve Activity and try to quickly detect any sign of a potential increase or decrease in the Fed target rate.
Here are some examples of Fed news that appeared on July...
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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 crossover/convergence trading indicator allows you to generate signals when two, three or four indicators are almost equal. Given a sensitivity parameter the crossover/convergence indicator calculates the different differences between each provided technical indicator and then generates a signal if the lowest difference is lower than the specified sensitivity threshold.
In...
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This item downloads the Industrial Production Index historical data from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The Industrial Production Index or IPI is an economic indicator. It is available in the G.17 Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Release. It measures the production output in the U.S. industrial...
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This is an index published monthly by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and is used to predict future movements of the economy.
This composite is based on several economic indicators. They are all leading indicators which mean that their changes are likely to precede changes in the economy. These economic...
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