The idea behind the volatility quality index is to discern bad and good volatility in order to create a better volatility indicator that can identify better trade opportunities.
This trading indicator is based on the true range and it is calculated using the latter indicator plus the open, close, high and...
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The number of listed companies refers to the total number of companies that have shares listed on a given exchange at a specific period. This includes domestic (Incorporated in the same country as the exchange) and foreign (Incorporated in a different country than the exchange) companies and excludes funds and...
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A stock buybacks occurs when a company decides to repurchase its own shares. Before any buyback, the company must comply with the strict rules for stock repurchase plans under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Companies may decide to repurchase their stock for several reasons:
1 - This buybacks will...
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The Chi-Squared is a widely used statistical hypothesis test to determine whether observed results are significantly different from expected results or not.
In trading, we can use the Chi-Squared test to determine how meaningful or statistically significant the performance that follows a specific pattern is.
Let us for example say that...
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The Qualitative Quantitative Estimation indicator is calculated based on a combination of the smoothed relative strength index (Moving average of RSI) and the average true range (ATR is used as a volatility based trailing stop) indicators. The QQE or Qualitative Quantitative Estimation indicator is particularly useful for volatile assets (stocks,...
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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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This item is used to retrieve a list of all holidays in Canada. The data is stored in the following database (holidays_canada) and is associated with the following symbol: (^Holidays_CANADA).
You can for example use the data to create some holiday-related indicators (see this link for more information: 270).
Here is an...
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Intraday data for major stock markets downloads historical one-minute intraday data for the current day (real-time for some exchanges) as well as several days in the past. It can download data for more than 25 stock exchanges including the Australian Stock Exchange, Bombay Stock Exchange, Canadian Venture Exchange, Toronto...
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The "LastSplitInDays" function returns the number of days that remains for the next split ex-date for the analyzed stock.
It uses data downloaded using the following item: 1498
The function returns:
A positive value: If the next stock split is in the future. In that case it returns the number of days to...
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This downloader is based on the QuantShare blog post: Getting Accurate Backtesting Results: Survivorship bias-free S&P 500
It allows you to create a survivorship bias-free database of several indices. It downloads historical composition of an ETF that tracks an index then creates a custom database by assigning the value "1"...
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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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Using a single (although not basic) trading rule, the current trading strategy gained more than 27% per year for the last 10 years. The strategy consists of buying falling stocks or the top five stocks with the highest decrease in price compared to the last five trading days moving average.
The...
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The Darvas Box upper and lower boundaries will then form if this high is not touched or penetrated for the next 3 consecutive trading days followed by a retracement low that's not touched or penetrated for a further 3 days in a row, as shown in the picture above. Darvas...
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This is an item for UK stock traders that need historical quotes data. The end-of-day historical data is downloaded from Google for 2867 ticker symbols. The symbol list (Stocks that are listed in the London Stock Exchange) can be downloaded at the following location: 216. You can choose the start...
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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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A bull call spread strategy involves buying a call option of an underlying stock and at the same time selling or writing a call option on the same underlying stock and with the same expiration date. The unique difference between these two call options is that the sold call option...
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This Currency trading news item retrieves an RSS feed from the financial yahoo website, parses the feed and adds the data in a database whose name is "yahoo_news". The intraday database contains the following fields:
Title: The Forex news title
Category: The Forex news provider
Once the data is stored you can...
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This item downloads historical tick data for all U.S. equities and for the last 20 trading days.
If you are not using the Auto-Manage feature of QuantShare, you must first update your symbols list:
- Select "Symbol -> Auto-Manage Symbols"
- Check "New York Stock Exchange", "American...
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This composite calculates the ratio of stocks trading above their upper Bollinger band to stocks trading below their lower Bollinger band.
The number of stocks trading above/below their upper/lower Bollinger band is computed by comparing the close price to the 20-bar "BbandsUpper"/"BbandsLower" function.
A value of 60 tells us that among stocks...
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The least squares regression line is a line in the form of "y = a + b * x" that best fits a data set (time series).
The least squares regression is the most used modeling technique. It is mainly used to predict the future value of the analyzed time series.
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This list contains the ticker symbols of stocks that trade in the Brazilian stock market, more precisely in the Sao Paulo stock exchange.
Sao Paulo stock exchange is the largest stock exchange in Brazil and the fourth in the American continent in terms of market capitalization.
According to Wikipedia there...
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A collar is an options strategy that combines three positions. The options trader can establish a collar strategy by buying shares of a stock then buying a put option and selling (writing) a call option on that stock. The trader should purchase one put and write one call for every...
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The trading system is composed of two trading rules. The first one is triggered when a stock share price closes below its 20-Bar Bollinger Lower Band. The second one is a market-timing rule that prevents the trading system from entering new orders when the market is declining. A market decline...
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The "LastEarningsInDays" function returns, for the analyzed stock, the number of days that remains before the next release date.
This function is capable of returning the number of days starting from the last stock's date or starting from today.
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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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The TFS MBO indicator is the last component of Bryan Strain's Tend Following System. Similarly to the MACD oscillator, it calculates the difference between two averages - fast and slow. TFS MBO is consequently an oscillator based on the close price whose variation is used to confirm the market tendency.
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This function calculates the number of days until a contract expires. It works with all symbols that have a date in the 'Expiration Date' field. I am using it with these US options symbols (306, 307).
The function takes no arguments and it just uses the date it finds in the...
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This item downloads U.S. Crude Oil and Liquid Fuels Supply, Consumption, and Inventories historical statistics data. The data is retrieved as an Excel file from the Energy Information Administration website (Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government), it is then parsed and updated so it can be inserted into the...
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Return per bar is a metric calculated by dividing a position return by the number of bars since entry (holding period).
For each position and for each trading bar, this money management script calculates the Return par bar and then exits a position if this metric is lower than a specific...
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The supertrend indicator as known from different publications.
Variables: Period and Factor...
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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.
An...
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The Annual Return function calculates the trailing annual return of a security. This means that for each bar, the function returns the annual return based on its previous data.
The calculation starts after the first 50 bars. This is because for first bars, annual return time-series would be very volatile.
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Stockholm OMXS30 - Stock market symbols
OMXS30 comprises the 30 stocks with the highest turnover on the Stockholm Exchange. The index composition is adjusted semi-annually.
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This is the Zweig Indicator. You can change the percentage values or optimize them based on the market you are looking at. For US stock markets, 4% seem to work.
After a buy signal, generate the next sell signal upon a 4% or greater decline from...
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Get stocks that belong to the top 20 stocks with the highest rate of change (return) over the last 10 days and top 20 stocks with the highest rate of change over the same period, 10 bars ago.
Symbols Filter: All symbols
Filter: Stock closing above 10$
Rule1: Stock must belong to the...
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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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This trading indicator returns the ratio of S&P 500 index to equity put-call volume. It gets the S&P 500 index (Symbol: ^GSPC using the following downloader 463) and divide it by the put/call ratio, which can be downloaded from 146.
The Equity put-call ratio is a sentiment indicator that measures the...
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This object will do a full download of the historical analyst buy and sell recommendations available on yahoo, and store in a local database (yahoo_analyst_ratings). The rating firm, upgrade/downgrade indicator, the past rating and the current rating are all stored. In addition, the downloader contains a function that...
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Standard Deviation Ratio or SDR is a technical analysis indicator based on two standard deviations; one using a longer period that the other.
The SDR is measured by taking the ratio of the short-term standard deviation (function: SDDEV) to the long-term standard deviation. The ratio tends to stay below level 1;...
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