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How to use QuantShare screener to trade penny stocks
Scanning penny stocks should not be different that scanning other stocks. A penny stock is a stock trading at or below $5 (low priced security). There are however few things that you should know before...
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German Stock Exchanges: 5 free ways to download historical EOD/Intraday data
Traders looking for EOD, intraday and tick data for German stocks will highly appreciate this post, as they will find many places where to download this data free. In this post, I will show you 5...
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Backtesting chart patterns using the auto support and resistance indicator
In a previous post, I have introduced the support/resistance indicator and gave some examples of how to use it to detect trading patterns such as the rising wedge, ascending triangle and symmetrical...
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How to build and backtest a robust stock trading system
If not correctly built and backtested, mechanical trading systems could make a lot of damages to your capital. Each trading system you develop must pass through a series of tests to ensure that it is...
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Download historical EOD data for the stock, futures, ETF and Forex markets
Here is a list of download items you can use to get end-of-day data for U.S. stocks, international stocks, Forex, ETFs and Forex markets. Make sure you read the description of each downloader, as some...
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How to create a trading system, screen and composite using earnings surprise...
Earnings data such as quarterly earnings per share (EPS), earnings surprise and previous earnings numbers can be collected and used in QuantShare to create screens, trading systems and even composites....
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How to measure market strength with the composite tool
A big part of stock movements could be explained by the movement of the entire stock market. If the Dow Jones declines by 1%, it is likely that your medium or small cap stock will decline too simply...
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Money Management: Scale-in Trading Strategy
To get full control of the backtester or simulator tool, you must implement your own the money management script in C#. This post aims to help you create your own money management script in...
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Money Management: Optimize the scale-in strategy
If you have read my previous blog post then you certainly know how to create a basic money management script. If this is not the case then you must first read that post, because this is the second...
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Running QuantShare on Amazon's EC2 Cloud & Automate Strategies Signals
A big thanks to Touini, who send us this case study on how to run QuantShare on the cloud (Amazon's EC2 Instance) and use that instance to generate signals for your trading strategies.Part1: Setting...
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Sentiment Analysis: How to measure the sentiment score of your stock tweets
This post is for advanced traders. Today, I will show you how to measure the sentiment of stock tweets (or any other asset's tweets) and to give them a score depending on how positive or negative they...
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QuantShare Programming Language Tutorial
The QS programming language allows you to do different things in QuantShare. It can be used to: - Plot candlesticks and indicators on a chart - Define a trading system buy, sell, short and cover rules...
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How to Backtest Each Stock or Asset Individually
QuantShare simulator is a true portfolio backtester. This means that the backtesting or simulation generates trading orders by taking into account things such as the available cash, pending orders,...
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Industry Analysis - How to Compare Stocks with their Industries
If you want to use a stock and its industry data on the same chart, strategy or composite, then keep reading. The technique I am presenting here will show you how to associate a stock with an industry...
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4 Market Composite Indicators Based on Industry Data
In the previous blog post, we talked about how to download industry data and associate industries with stocks. We then created a chart displaying stock quotes with its corresponding industry data and...
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How to Select the Best Market Indicator for your Trading System
The following technique consists of adding market indicators to a trading system to prevent it from entering new positions when the market is bearish or is likely to start a bearish trend.How to create...
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How to make sure your Historical Price Data is Split Adjusted
In order to update your historical EOD database, you must download new quotes every day. You can use the default downloader (463) or any item that gets data by symbol (one request per ticker symbol)....
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How to Send Commands to QuantShare from Excel or Other Applications
There are probably tons of reasons, why someone would want to manipulate QuantShare from another application. Here are some examples: - You have an excel sheet with ticker symbols and some custom data....
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3 Market Indicators based on Fundamental Data
There are tons of market indicators based on prices and technical indicators. We have already created several blog posts about how to create some these market indicators:4 original breadth indicators...
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Create Profitable Trading Strategies with Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
ETFs Selection (Correlation matrix) One way to select exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to include in your trading systems is by using a correlation matrix. The idea is to pick two or three ETFs then select...
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