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How to Backtest Your Trading System for Each Industry
Some trading systems, particularly fundamental-based ones, may perform very well on stocks that belong to some particular industries and perform badly on other industries. Just like backtesting a...
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Using Average True Range to Measure Intraday Volatility
Volatility is a measure that allows you to estimate the "risk" of an asset. There are different types of volatility:Implied volatility: This is the estimated volatility of an asset's price. Historical...
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Update Chart Layout based on Active Ticker Symbol
You probably do not trade stocks like your trade futures or Forex currencies. It is also unlikely that you use the same indicators and rules for all assets. If you agree with that then you will find...
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Update Chart Layout based on Active Ticker Symbol - Part 2
In the previous post, we created a script that runs on the background. The script function was to change the chart's layout depending on the active symbol. You can show different indicators depending...
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How to Pick the Best Trend Indicators
Trend indicators are primarily used to identify the direction of a security by smoothing the volatility of the price action. These indicators are usually referred to as lagging indicators because their...
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Learn How to Create Your Own Technical Analysis Indicators
Today, we will show you how to implement custom functions in QuantShare by creating two popular trading indicators. Custom functions can be implemented using C# programming language. The result is a...
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How to Download Trading Data for Certain Securities Only
Downloaders implemented in QuantShare can retrieve any kind of data. The downloader tool is powerful and can create any sort of data retriever. You can for example, create an item to download data for...
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Quantitative Analysis: Price Channels
One of their major strength is their ability to use both price action and volatility. Price bands or channels are trading indicators composed of two lines. The upper line is a sort of resistance line...
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4 Links to Download Free Historical Stock Prices Data by Date
Several months ago, I have created a post and listed 10 websites that provide historical stock quotes data free. These websites include the popular Yahoo finance and Google finance websites. If you...
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Backtesting a Strategy Based on Bond and Stock Index ETFs
Nowadays, correlation between markets and different assets is more obvious than never before. A move in oil price for example is likely to impact several markets including the stock and bond markets....
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How to Switch On/Off Trading Rules in Your Stock Trading System
The AI optimizer tool of QuantShare is capable of building a trading system based on a list of buy, sell, short and cover rules. It will optimize your trading system based on the defined fitness...
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How to Automatically Import Local Data Into QuantShare
The downloader tool, one of the best features of QuantShare, let you retrieve data from Internet and add it to the quote or any custom database. But did you know that you can use the downloader tool to...
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Different Ticker Symbols for Each Data Source
For one reason or another, some traders may require having two different set of symbols, one for each data source. Let me explain how to implement this in QuantShare by taking an example. The user in...
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Charting, Backtesting and Trading using Fundamental Data
Want to chart and trade based on fundamental ratios and measures? Sure you can do that with QuantShare. As you may know QuantShare is a powerful analysis tool where you can do anything from displaying,...
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Presentation of QuantShare's new Real Time Version
QuantShare new real time version is finally here. In this post, we will briefly describe what's new in this version and the different real time tools available in QuantShare trading software.Created...
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Update Chart Layout based on Active Time Frame
A very interesting blog post we have written few weeks ago shows how to associate a specific layout to a security or a group of securities. The idea is very interesting particularly if you are trading...
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Backtesting Your Trading Systems: Symbol Segmentation
Say you have a trading system and you want to see how it performs for different set of symbols. Of course, you can have the trading system backtested for each different sector or industry like it is...
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Export Trading Orders from a Portfolio to a File
After generating orders from a trading system, the next step is usually to execute these orders in your broker platform. Some brokers allow you to bulk import trades and thus the ability to export...
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Custom Shortcuts - Move a Chart to Display the Last Quotes/Data
In our previous version of QuantShare, we have released a new feature that lets you create custom shortcuts. The idea is to associate a specific shortcut with a QuantShare script. Since scripts can do...
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Real Time Alerts: Support and Resistance Lines Breakout
Let us say you want have a real time chart and you want to detect support or/and resistance breakouts. You can draw resistance and support lines on a chart using the "Line" drawing tool or you can use...
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