Investing in ETFs incurs some costs for the investors who besides commissions, spreads and other market related costs must also pay for the fund expenses which include portfolio management, administration and other various costs.
Depending on the exchange traded funds you are investing in, funds costs can greatly vary. Note that...
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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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You won't believe how easy it is to hedge a portfolio strategy.
A hedge consists of reducing a portfolio risk by taking an offsetting position in a security. If you hold long positions on US stocks, you can hedge your portfolio by taking a short position on an S&P 500 futures...
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The current list of rules contains 44 series/indicators based on the sum function. This list can be used when implementing the technique described in the following blog post: How to turn any ordinary trading strategy into a very profitable one
The indicators are transformed by the PercentRank function, then...
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After merging with the Paris Stock Exchange and the Brussels Stock Exchange to form the Euronext in 22 September 2000 (Euronext merged with NYSE in 2007 to form the NYSE Euronext), The Amsterdam Stock Exchange name changed to become the Euronext Amsterdam.
The Amsterdam Stock Exchange is considered to be the...
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The Ulcer Performance Index is a measure of investment or trading strategy performance and is constructed by dividing the excess return by the Ulcer Index. The calculation is almost the same as in the Sharpe Ratio, which is computed by dividing the excess return (Total strategy return minus the risk...
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This RTS indices item downloads historical EOD quotes for ten indices maintained by the Russian Trading System Exchange.
Indices ticker symbols can be found here 441.
The data is downloaded from the RTS RU (Russian Trading System) website.
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Implicit volatility is a measure of the expected volatility of a security.
Unlike the historical volatility that is directly calculated from previous bars (the standard deviation measure is generally used); the implicit volatility doesn't look into past bars and is calculated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model.
The VIX index is...
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Those who have downloaded and are using one of the historical calendar events downloader for forex pairs (202 or 211 or 212) may find this function very useful.
The function accepts two inputs: A symbol name (the one that contains the historical calendar events) and an event name.
It reads the...
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This money management script allows you to specify a minimum number of positions in your trading system.
The script uses the "OnClosePosition" event to reject any exit order if the current number of positions (both longs and shorts) in the portfolio is equal or below the specified threshold.
Formula rules as well...
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A list of 31 currency pairs is contained in this item. The list contain the major currencies (US Dollar (USD), British Pound (GBP), Euro (EUR), Japanese Yen (JPY) and Swiss Franc (CHF)) as well as several other currencies, like the South African Rand, Norwegian Krone or the Saudi Arabian Riyals.
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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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This trading system implements the ConnorsRSI pullback system as described in the ConnorsRSI Pullbacks Guidebook.
A description of ConnorsRSI and the system description are available here:
http://info.tradingmarkets.com/ConnorsRSI_ConnorsRSI.html
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This rules analyzer metric calculates the average output of each analyzed rule and on a per-symbol basis. The standard average output adds up the outputs generated by all the positions for all securities then divides this value by the number of positions.
The current metric adds up the outputs separately for...
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This money management script calculates the 1-bar return for the strategy's equity curve and the benchmark you provide in the money management inputs. It then compares the values and adds the percentage of bars the equity curve is performing better than the benchmark in the trading system report table.
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This script periodically rebalance your portfolio in three states:
1 == Weekly
2 == Monthly
3 == Yearly
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The Laggard money management script is designed to sell a stock or a security that lags behind a specified index.
The script has two parameters which are "Benchmark Symbol" and "Bars". Any of your stock in the simulation will be sold if after the specified number of bars (Bars), the stock's...
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A list of trading rules using the DeMark's DeMarker indicator. This list consists of 6 QuantShare trading rules and each one of them has 20 variations which bring the total to 120 trading rules.
I have backtested this list again a small portion of US Stock Symbols, and come up with...
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Convert a text/string to a numeric value.
For example, if you have a numeric data stored in a text field such as Name1, Name2... and you want to use this in a QuantShare formula, you can use this function to do so:
a = ToNumeric(Name1());
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Here is an interesting screen that scans your stocks universe looking for the ones that are bouncing off their previous resistance line (Breakout followed by a bounce). The resistance line is calculated based on the "AutoSR" function and it uses 150 bars as period and 10 bars as lag value....
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This is a replacement for the RandomValues() function.
This function uses the MersenneTwister random number generator in lieu of the .NET system pseudo random number generator to generate random numbers that change every bar. There are many well documented problems with the native .NET implementation but the biggests is too many...
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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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Currently there are more than 1480 Foreign Institutional Investors registered to the Securities & Exchange Board of India, SEBI, an organization whose role is to regulate the stock market in India. The SEBI is the Indian equivalent of the SEC or Securities Exchange Commission in the United States of America.
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EPS actual refers to the last quarter EPS or earnings per share, 12 month trailing EPS, last year EPS..., while EPS surprise refers to last EPS surprise, Previous EPS surprise, average EPS surprise...
An earnings surprise occurs when the quarterly or yearly earnings reported by the company are below or above...
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This indicator gets a time-series, a day, a month and a year and returns the value of this time-series at the specific date (Date calculated from the provided day, month and year). The indicator name is "ValueOn" and it uses the "ValueWhen" function to return that value.
To specify an unknown...
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The maximum drawdown is equal to the highest drawdown value over a given period of time. In a trading system, it refers to the largest drop (could be expressed as a percentage) of your portfolio.
This technical analysis indicator can be applied to any price series or indicator. It performs the...
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Definition:
VIX futures are often priced differently depending on the expiration date. VIX term structure is a plot of the futures values for different expiration dates.
When the near-term VIX futures contract is priced lower than later VIX futures, we say that the VIX futures curve is in contango. The opposite, backwardation,...
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Instead of downloading data like any other downloader, this item allows you to export any indicator data for any securities and for a specific period.
All you have to do is install this item, open it in the downloader manager (Download -> Download Manager) then:
- Select "Start & End Dates" tab...
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The current downloader downloads Market Capitalization data for the US Stock market companies that trade in the New York stock exchange (NYSE), NASDAQ and OTC.
A stock market capitalization could be considered as the company's net worth.
It is calculated by multiplying the company stock price by the number of shares outstanding.
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The current pivot table displays the number of increases (today's close higher than yesterday's close) for each month and for each year for the SPY.
You can update the pivot table to display data for any indicator you want, you can also select the "Values" field, click on the "Symbols" tab...
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Cumulative sum or running total of a technical indicator refers to the algebraic sum of all previous values of this technical indicator.
The Cumulative sum formula is as follows:
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Margin could be defined as the percentage of initial capital that you can invest. A default margin factor of 1 indicates that you can invest 100% of your capital. A margin factor of 1.5 indicates that you can invest 150% of your initial capital. In this case, 50% of the...
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The KST indicator or the Know Sure Thing indicator is a technical analysis tool developed in the early 1990's by Martin Pring. It weights several smoothed rate of change time-series with different periods.
The KST indicator was developed in order to signal and to detect market trends while removing shorter-term movements.
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This ticker list contains 3615 symbols of companies listed in the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The data contains the symbol name as well as the company title, and it can be used with the following end-of-day downloader: 220.
The Bombay stock exchange is the largest exchange of the 23 stock exchanges...
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The opening range breakout is a trading indicator that returns true when a stock, an ETF or any other asset breaks the high or low of the first hours or minutes of a trading session (opening range).
You define a number of minutes and the indicator plots the high and low...
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PERCENTRANK of High, Low and Close values translated from Amibroker.
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function PercentRankHLC(Data1, Data2, Data3, Periods)
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Use this item to download historical quotes data for the Ocean Tomo Patent Indexes. The data spans from 2007 to present.
The Ocean Tomo Patent Index was developed by Ocean Tomo, LLC. It provides a market benchmark for the U.S. economy. This economy has seen an increase in intangible assets relatively...
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Swedish STIBOR - Historical Data, 1987-01-02 - today.
STIBOR stands for Stockholm Interbank Offered Rate, the interest rate banks pay when borrowing money from one another. STIBOR Fixing is the average (with the exception of the highest and lowest quotes) of the interest rates listed at 11:05 a.m. The 3M STIBOR...
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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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TSPTalk.com publishes a weekly survey that asks investors whether they think the S&P 500 is bullish or bearish. The percentage of bullish and bearish traders as well as the TSP trading strategy mode are downloaded from TSP website. The Excel file is parsed then three symbols are created and added...
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