Corporate Actions regarding companies listed on the National Stock Exchange are released every day on the NSE website and are downloaded by the current item.
A Corporate action is an event that occurs to a company. This event could affect the company's stock as well as the company's shareholders, employees, customers...
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An earnings surprise is when a company reports an earnings number that is not expected by analysts. In other words, an earnings surprise occurs when the earnings per share (EPS) is not in-line with the consensus estimates. The earnings may exceed, be in-line or below the consensus estimates. Usually, an...
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Hong Kong ETFs or exchange-traded funds are open-ended and passively managed funds that are traded on the securities market of the HKEx (Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited).
ETFs are assets created to track the performance of an index, commodity or a basket of other assets. The advantages of trading ETFs...
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In the 1980s, John Bollinger created a technical analysis indicator called the Bollinger Bands. It consists of three bands: the middle band, the upper band and the lower band.
The middle band is an N-Period SMA (Simple moving average). The lower band is the middle band minus X times an N-period...
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SGX, Singapore Exchange is a stock exchange in Singapore, formed on December 1, 1999, after the merger of two financial institutions in the country, the Stock Exchange of Singapore -SES- and the Singapore International Monetary Exchange -SIMEX-. The Singapore Exchange normal session starts at 09:00am and ends at 05:00pm, while...
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A stock is said to be overbought if it moved up too far and oversold if it moved down too far.
When the stock or market is overbought, the technical analyst and trader will likely sell its position(s) and if the stock or market is oversold, he/she will likely buy...
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This composite is calculated based on a trading rule involving the popular technical indicator: the simple moving average.
Here is how this composite is calculated: (This item requires an indicator that can be downloaded here 120)
- Create a simple trading rule that returns a signal if the stock close price crosses...
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The Better Volume indicator uses a combination of bid/ask volume and range to identify
Volume Climax, High Volume Churn and Low Volume bars.
? Market tops are characterized by Volume Climax Up bars, High Volume Churn and Low ...
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The built-in "random" QuantShare function returns a random value given a min and max interval. The random number is the same for all bars. It will be no lower than "min" and no higher than "max".
The current "RandomValues" function is almost the same but instead of assigning the same...
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This function is a system filter. It calculates the SQN of the market of choice. Whenever the SQN of that market drops below the input value of nSQN, the function returns false. It returns true when there have been 2 consecutive periods of increase in SQN. ...
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This function uses short selling data to create a short indicator that determines whether short traders are stronger or weaker. This is done by calculating for each trading bar, the difference between short sell volume that occurred above and below a specific stock price.
Here is how the calculation process occurs....
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The volatility channels indicator is used as a confirmation rule to enter long or short trades. When long rules are triggered, enter long when the price breaks up the upper volatility band and when short rules are triggered, enter short when the price breaks down the lower volatility band. The...
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Based on the Chaos Theory, the Fractal Market Hypothesis is an alternative to the Efficient Market Hypothesis. It assumes that each trader may interpret trading information in different ways and at different times (The Efficient Market Hypothesis assumes that all information is reflected in prices), that investors are not rational...
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This simple indicator converts a number of seconds (Intraday) to the equivalent number of bars given the analyzed data.
For example, let us say you want to calculate the return of a stock in the last hour.
If you are working on a one-minute chart, you can type:
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In QuantShare, you can simulate a strategy that buys on Margin by editing the trading system, selecting the "Settings" tab, clicking on "Capital" then updating the "Margin Factor" field.
When trading U.S. stocks, you can for example set this value to 2 or you can set it to a higher number...
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Here is another date function named 'BarsToMonthEnd'. It returns the number of trading bars from the current bar up to the last trading bar of the actual month in the calendar. For example, for 30th December 2009, BarsToMonthEnd could return 1, and for 1st December 2009, it could return 22.
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The Traders Dynamic Index uses trend direction, momentum and market volatility to determine market conditions. This indicator uses relative strength index, simple moving average, double exponential moving average and standard deviation to generate five time-series.
The function displays those time-series and returns the TDI or traders dynamic index.
The parameters of...
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This item downloads futures only reports of commitments of traders (COT) for several futures contracts.
The data is retrieved from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission website (cftc.gov); it is then parsed and inserted into a custom database 'commitments_traders'. The data is the aggregate values that are reported by all the...
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Behind the LSS Pivotal buy and sell numbers there is a simple formula based on the mean of three prices, which are the high, low and close prices. The formula is similar to the one that calculates pivot levels. Today buy and sell numbers are calculated based on yesterday's high,...
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This trading system tries to reproduce the Global Market Rotation Strategy (GMR) developed by Frank Grossmann (http://www.logical-invest.com/)
The strategy switches, on a monthly basis, between 6 different ETFs:
EEM (iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Indx (ETF))
EPP (iShares MSCI Pacific ex-Japan Idx (ETF))
IEV (iShares S+P Europe 350 Index (ETF)) ...
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This screen displays stocks that had an exceptional volume increase and that are more likely to move in one way or another during the next sessions.
Using the composite function (comp), this screen returns the top 20 stocks that had the highest increase in today's volume compared to the volume 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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The put minus call options volume is the daily difference between the total put volume generated by optionable stocks and the total call volume.
For each trading day, the composite calculates the difference between put and call volume of each optionable U.S. stock, and then sums these differences. The market indicator...
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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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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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The Coppock indicator, developed by Edwin Coppock, is used as a technical analysis tool to detect the beginning of bullish periods. Initially confined to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, it is also appropriate for use with other indices.
The Coppock indicator, also called Coppock curve, is generally used by long-term...
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This function returns the number of calendar days between two dates.
For example, if you want to know the number of calendar days (not trading days) between the current bar and the previous bar, just type:
a = daysBetweendates(date(), RefString(date(), 1));
plot(a, "");
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Percent Above Average Yield:
This function calculates the percent difference of a stocks current dividend yield and its average yield (over the period you set). To work, this indicator needs data from 93. That is just for stocks in the US market. Other markets may require other objects....
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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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The Barclays Bank PLC issues debt securities called iPath Exchange Traded Notes or ETNs. They allow investors or traders to invest in financial products that track the performance of different market benchmarks or strategies. ETNs are like stocks, they are listed on exchanges and they can be shorted.
These are four...
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This system is a very frequent trading system. The basic is as follows:
1. The system purchases stocks at the limit price based on the previous day.
2. If the trade is executed, the stock will be sold at the limit price of high the following day. If...
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This new "Outperform" indicator calculates the percentage of trading periods where a stock or an ETF outperforms a benchmark.
The indicator first gets the benchmark symbol. It then takes "period" and "count" as parameters. The "period" is the number of trading bars used to compare the currently analyzed security with the...
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These masks uses some formulas to determine how far is the time-series current value from its high and low of the x preceding bars.
The first mask calculates the distance in percentage between the time-series and its high, while the second use the same calculation but for the low.
The last one...
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Get measures of the foreign exchange value of the dollar from the Federal Reserve website. The dollar index is a measure of the performance of the US Dollar against a basket of currencies. The weights used to calculate the US dollar index change over time and are revised at least...
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This item will allow you to download any U.S economic series from the FRED (Federal reserve bank of St. Louis) website.
The downloader is quite easy to use. Once it is downloaded and installed in QuantShare, open it then select the "Ids" tab on the right. There you need to enter...
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This downloader gets one-minute intraday data for several futures contracts. It get continuous data for the past three trading days.
It downloads intraday data for the following 58 futures:
Australian Dollar (AD)
Soybean oil (BO) ...
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This asset allocation strategy is implemented using a money management script that rebalances your portfolio monthly and adjusts the open positions by making sure they are equally weighted.
At the beginning of a new month (Monday), this asset allocation strategy loops through open positions, calculates the ideal size (total equity divided...
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Even in periods where a stock market index such as the S&P 500 rises, many stocks fall sharply. Several reasons could explain this decline: bad news, earnings release below the analysts consensus, big sell orders from institutional traders (micro and small cap stocks are likely to react more to these...
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Screens stocks using Ketlner's Channel and MACD histogram slope.
I screen for a NEGATIVE MACD Histogram slope below the 0 reference line to prevent being too late for the pullback.
Filters stock that either have it's close lower than the -2 ATR or has a price rejection candle with the low greater...
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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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