This Simulator strategy is based on a system described by Larry Connors and Cezar Alvarez in their book "High Probability ETF Trading: 7 Professional Strategies To Improve Your ETF Trading ". The strategy's name is "Multiple Days Up/Multiple Days Down" or MDU/MDD.
This strategy was originally run on these ETFs:
DIA,EEM,EFA,EWH,EWJ,EWT,EWZ,FXI,GLD,ILF,IWM,IYR,QQQQ,SPY,XHB,XLB,XLE,XLF,XLI,XLV
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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 Stock News item gets articles that are about US stocks from the Stockblotter website. It downloads and parses an RSS feed for each ticker symbol and then updates and inserts the data in a new database whose name is "stockblotter_news". The database contains the following fields:
Title: The article title....
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Returns True on the 1st trading day of the month....
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The staggered entry and exit strategy allows you to enter a percentage of the total number of shares to buy when the first condition is met. The remaining number of positions is entered only when the second condition is met.
For exits, it will close only a percentage of the total...
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52-Week New Highs and 52-Week New Lows are numbers released by several stock exchanges. The New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange and NASDAQ released numbers are downloaded by 134. From the same data provider, 159 gets the number of advancing and declining issues on these exchanges and the 151...
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The High-Low range technical indicator returns the percentage of maximum increase in a stock or security during the previous N trading days. To measure this, it calculate the percentage increase during the previous N bars from the lowest value to the highest value, that is, the highest value over a...
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Using the simulator you can easily create and combine two different trading strategies, one long strategy and one short strategy.
However, if you want to create two long trading strategies, you will have to create your own money management script or use this object.
This money management script allows you to...
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The Exit Postition Based on Profitability money management script is used to exit an open position if X% profit has not been achieved after Y number of bars.
The values for the profit threshold (X) and the number of bars (Y) are configurable using the money management variable inputs screen....
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The TED spread is the difference between the interest rates on interbank loans and short-term government debt ("T-bills"). TED is an acronym formed from T-Bill and ED, the ticker symbol for the Eurodollar futures contract.
Initially, the TED spread was the difference between the interest rates for three-month U.S. Treasuries...
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The Price at a specific Intraday Time item is a function that works with intraday data and that returns the price, open, high, low, volume or any technical indicator value of a security/stock at a specific time during a trading day. The indicator gets a time-series, an hour and a...
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Put and Call volume data from options transactions are classified into three categories. This classification is based on the participant and it contains the following categories: Consumer, Firm and Market Maker.
Traditional Put/Call ratio calculation uses the volume of puts and calls from all these categories, while certain ratios uses only...
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Shortable stocks refer to stocks that can be shorted, that is, traders are able to sell these stocks even if they don't own them. Usually, stock shares are borrowed from a broker and sold to another buyer. When the trader want to buy back stock shares (cover its position), these...
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Say you have several watchlists and you would like to display on your chart the different watchlists that contain the currently shown security.
The current function allows you to do so. All you need is to add the function formula and specify the different watchlists you want to track.
Here is...
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Download seasonally adjusted Consumer Price Index (CPI) historical data from the U.S. Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data starts from 1947 to present and is updated monthly. The downloaded series is the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. It includes all items: Apparel, Education and Communication,...
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In Forex trading, a PIP is the smallest price increment that can be made by a currency. PIP refers to "percentage in point" and it is very important in Forex as it is the basis for calculating profit and loss and measuring spreads (bid/ask differences).
Usually the value of a PIP...
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This is a list of trading rules or metrics to be used in a stock/ETF rotational system. The list contains 15 metrics or measures.
Example of metrics:
Sharpe(close, 30) // Sharpe measure of the individual stock or ETF
Hhv(high, 30) / high // Ratio of 30-day highest high to current high ...
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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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This money management script adds a logic to prevent a position from being closed if it isn't active for at least a specific number of bars.
As an example, if you specify the minimum trade bars to 10 then any position that is about to be closed but was not bought...
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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 function parses a symbol custom database and returns a value of one on bars where the database field data contain a specific word.
This function accepts three parameters. The first one is the database name (Example: ' yahoo_news ' if you are using the yahoo news downloader - 88),...
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The long to short position ratio is a measure that tells us whether Forex trader are bullish or bearish a particular currency pair. It is the ratio of the number of long positions to the number of short positions for a given currency pair.
Some brokers release the long vs. short...
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Download news headlines from the smartmoney.com custom ticker-based news RSS feed.
Smartmoney website provides news for US stock companies from the following sources: PR Newswire, Business Wire, Down Jones Business News...
The news database name is 'news_smartmoney' and it consists of four columns where the first column contains the news date, the...
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The head and shoulders pattern is a reversal pattern that generally occurs in uptrends. The pattern contains three peaks - the left shoulder, the head and the right shoulder. It is called Head and Shoulders because the pattern visually looks similar to that of a head with two shoulders. The...
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One of the most important economic indices used to measure the state of macroeconomics is the Unemployment rate.
Definition: The jobless rate is the percentage of people, in the labor force and in a particular country, that are willing to work but are not currently working.
Each country's main goal is...
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Switch- indicators by using C# switchcase function
set in form of 1 = buy, 0 = sell or not buy
Can be customized to incorporate and # of indicators or sub-systems, and then called by a strategy & optimized.
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The Cyber Cycle function originated from John Ehler's book "Cybernetic Analysis for Stocks and Futures". It is basically a high pass filter....
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The "SymbolIndex" function reads a list of ticker symbols stored under a file and gets the index of a specified symbol (entered by you) from the list. It then returns "1" if the index is the same as the index you entered manually.
Example of usage:
List of ticker symbols: (One symbol...
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The item retrieves historical end-of-day data, including close, high, low and open prices, for 31 currency pairs. A list of available forex pairs can be found here 423.
Steps to follow:
- Go to 423 and install this list of symbols. This will add 31 currency pairs to your symbols database. This...
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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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This list of symbols includes Indices, Forex and Futures symbols. It can be used with the following end-of-day historical data downloader: 226. The list is composed of 13 indices, 15 forex pairs and 62 futures contracts.
The symbols' list data includes the symbol name, the security name and the security group...
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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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The Keltner Channel, KC, was developed by Chester W. Keltner and is a technical indicator that looks like the Simple Moving Average Envelopes or Bollinger Bands. It is constituted of two lines that adapt to changes in the security's volatility by using the ATR or average true range indicator.
There are...
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The Sharpe Ratio is the first measure I look at when analyzing and assessing a backtest results. It is a simple and quick way to measure the performance of a trading strategy.
While this ratio is often used to measure the excess return per unit of risk of an investment or...
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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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This function calculates the number of bars that have passed since a data within a custom database.
You can find another function that calculates the number of bars to a data within a custom database here:
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The cash rate is the interest rate at which banks lend money to each other. This overnight money market interest rate should follow the cash rate target decided by a central bank and this can be achieved using different operations in order to influence the supply of money of the...
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This watchlist will find stocks which are trending downwards on the 130 EMA. It will find only those stocks where:
- The 130 EMA is at least 5% lower than 55 days ago.
- The most recent value of turnover is above $2M
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There are several ways to measure and compare the strength of different industries. A unique way to do this is to calculate the number All-Star Trader picks for each one of these industries and compare the different values.
All-Star Trader Picks refers to the number of picks an U.S. Stock is...
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