There are two ways to download EOD quotes. Downloading data by symbol (one request for each symbol) or downloading data by date (one request for each trading day).
If you are downloading data for few stocks, the first solution should be more appropriate for you. However, if like me you are...
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The Gap composite is a market breadth indicator that measures and compares the number of stocks that gapped up and those that gapped down. This market indicator calculates, for each trading bar, the average of the gap difference formula of all stocks in the universe. The Gap difference formula...
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Symbol names for the Israeli Stock Exchage (TASE). All symbols have suffix .TA to be compatible with the Yahoo finance EOD downloaders...
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This is a single mask that applies a simple moving average and then a rate of change transformation on any indicator or time-series. This mask first smooth the indicator you provide by applying a moving average with a 30 period bar (this can be changed later) and then calculate the...
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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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The American Association of Individual Investors, AAII, is a non-profit organization founded in 1978 and located in Chicago. AAII conducts, every week, a pool to determine the overall stock market sentiment of their members over the next six months. Members should tell what they think the market will be in...
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Here is a list of rules I am using in the trading system GA and PBIL optimizer to find profitable trading patterns and create new trading systems.
The list contains several rules that only use the close price. I usually use this list with other trading rules as trading system entries...
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The Ehlers Decycler Oscillator is a trading indicator developed by John F. Ehlers.
The goal of this oscillator is to eliminate very low-frequency components from the Ehlers 1660 by using the half-period Ehlers Highpass filter and transforming the output into the oscillator.
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Download Valuation Confidence Index data starting from October 1989, for institutional and individual investors, from the Yale School of management. The following item creates two symbols (^YALE_VCI_INSTITUTIONAL and ^YALE_VCI_INDIVIDUAL). The first one concerns the Valuation index for institutional investors, while the second concerns the valuation index for individual investors.
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This function returns the total number of ticker symbols in your database when the provided parameter is empty.
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a = nbtickers("");
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Active Picks refers to the number of picks/trades, entered by motley fool members, that are currently active.
A pick is a trade or a prediction made by a motley fool member. Traders predict whether a stock will outperform or underperform the S&P 500 in a specific time frame.
For each stock, the...
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This function transforms any technical or trading indicator into a sort of adaptive indicator. In fact, it gives you the average one day performance when the rule you provided is true, for a specific number of past bars. To do so, the function calculates the one bar rate of change...
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Unlike most EOD data downloaders for the U.S. Market, which get data by ticker symbol, this trading object gets historical data by date. It downloads end of day data for all U.S. Stocks (More than 7000 stocks from the New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange and NASDAQ) and for...
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This function would allow you to highlight certain periods on your chart. You can for example use it to highlight recession periods or any other important events.
The function accepts a list of dates separated by commas. The list should define the start and end of each period to highlight.
As an...
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The Dubai Financial Market is a stock exchange based in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). This stock exchange was founded on March 26, 2000 and is owned now by Borse Dubai. It currently lists about 65 companies for nine different sectors:
Banks, Investment & financial services, Insurance, Real estate and construction,...
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Here is another trading indicator that uses the short selling data. The function or indicator determines whether short or long volume is dominating in the last N-period. It uses the short selling ratio to calculate the excess volume (Volume below or above 50%) and then sums up the result over...
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The Fibonacci trading indicator is a technical analysis tool that calculates different Fibonacci retracement levels and then tells you whether there is a resistance or support line near the stock or security price (slightly above or slightly below the close price depending on the sensitivity parameter).
It is almost the same...
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Tweet Sentiment Analysis is a website (tweetsentiments.com) that analyses tweets for a given keyword. It uses Support Vector Machines algorithm and a natural language processing tool (NLP) to determine whether a tweet's sentiment is positive, negative or neutral. Support Vector Machines is a learning algorithm that is mainly used in...
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iPath Exchange Traded Notes, ETNs, are unsecured debt securities, delivered by Barclays Bank PLC, that offers investors a way to track and earn from the return of strategies or market indices.
ETNs follow the performance of a benchmark or market index; the iPath EUR/USD Exchange Rate ETN for example, tracks the...
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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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This item contains ticker symbols of companies that trade in the Germany stock market. The main exchanges in Germany are:
Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Berlin Stock Exchange
Bremen Stock Exchange
Düsseldorf Exchange ...
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After the NASDAQ, Boston stock exchange and the New York stock, here is an item that gets National stock exchange short selling data. The data is available at the exchange website (http://www.nsx.com).
The National Stock Exchange is an exchange based in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1885 in Cincinnati (Ohio)...
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Sentiment indicator from Dennis McNicholl's 2002 Book "Taming Complexity in Trading; Beating the Dow 3 to 1"
It uses statistical techniques to make the stock series stationary and then works on looking at the confidence intervals of the moving standard deviation of the smoothed transformed series.
It is best as a very...
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Historical EDO quotes for stocks listed on Euronext Lisbon, formerly known as the Lisbon Stock Exchange, are provided by Euronext. The data is available for download in the NYSE Euronext website. The download item requires a list of ticker symbols for Lisbon Stocks that contains the Euronext Code in the...
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The Volatility Ratio is a technical analysis indicator used to detect wide-ranging days, days with an unusual distance between the high and low prices.
The Volatility Ratio is based on the True Range (TR) indicator and it is computed by dividing the current true range value by the N-Bar exponential moving...
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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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The Monthly Retail data, which is released by the U.S. Census Bureau, contains several time series on retail economic activity in the United States. The data is obtained by the Advance Monthly and Monthly Retail Trade Surveys (MARTS and MRTS).
This object downloads two time series from the MARTS, which are...
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This EPS Growth object downloads fundamental ratios that are related to EPS or Earnings Per Share growth.
It downloads seven EPS ratios:
Five Year Historical EPS Growth: The first item is the average annualized EPS growth over the last 5 years.
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Inspired by Butler (2012) Adaptive Asset Allocation: A Primer (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2328254)
"The paper addresses flaws in the traditional application of Modern Portfolio Theory related to Strategic Asset Allocation. Estimates of parameters for portfolio optimization based on long-term observed average values are shown to be inferior to alternative estimates based on observations over...
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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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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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Based on the number of stocks making new 52-week highs and the number of stocks making new 52-week lows, the High Low Index is a popular market breadth indicator that shows the number of new highs relative to the sum of new highs and lows.
The High Low Index is also...
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The MICEX or Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange is a very large stock exchange in the Russian Federation. The MICEX has more than 760 listed Russian companies; it also allows trading of FOREX, derivatives and government-backed securities.
The main index of the MICEX is called the MICEX Index. It is a capitalization-weighted...
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Demonstrates basic function of translating into binary buy/sell
parameter 1 - Threshold for buy signal
parameter 2 - # of Days lookback
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The European Central Bank releases several economic indicators for the Euro Area; these indicators include the Inflation Rate, Monetary aggregate M3, Unit labor costs, Labor productivity, Current account balance as a percentage of the GDP, Currency in circulation, Gross outstanding debt, unemployment level and GDP at market prices.
The last economic...
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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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Here is another date function used to make correspondence between the trading bars and the actual dates in the calendar. It is named DayOfWkMonth, and it returns a value of one for the bar that corresponds to the day of week in the week number given as parameters.
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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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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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The current fundamental data downloader gets several valuation metrics or ratios for stocks listed on US exchanges from the finviz website. Valuations ratios are measures of how expensive or cheap a stock or company is; they are used by analysts, traders and investors to assess the attractiveness of the company.
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