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TradingView STC vs any python STC

I am trying to use in a trading strategy the STC indicator, but I can not find out why its not working properly. The chart that I am using is BTC/USDT on UTC as a timeframe. Chart time: 01 Feb 22 - 16:...
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How to use Ta-Lib to calculate the ewmstd?

I am trying speed up below code for faster speed, df = df.ewm(span=lookback).std() I wrote a numba version but it is very slow in large dataset ...
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What is the official name for this indicator?

I distinctly remember that this type of indicator was named after a person. With reference to a particular period e.g. a week or month, it is computed as: $$Ratio1(t) = \frac{Close(t) - Low(t)}{ High(...
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Library of basic indicators

I am looking to start developing a trend following strategy and have been looking to do something in either C# or Java and wondered if there was a library or framework out there that would make ...
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Black's formula derivation: expectation of a indicator times a random variable

In this derivation of Black's formula for puts, we have that $\mathbb{E}[e^X 1_{e^X \leq K/S_0}]$ somehow equals $S_0 e^{\mu + 0.5 \sigma^2} N$ (as above in the formula). I tried breaking apart the ...
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Duncan Leading Indicator definition & source of origin

What is the official definition of the Duncan Leading Indicator? I've looked at all links page after page on google but can't seem to find any official source of origin and therefore official ...
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The VIX Flip Indicator

I came across this article discussing how the VIX Flip Indicator tracks the fear of investors. It seems to be an interesting tool, which I would like to investigate. The calculation of this indicator ...
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Python: detecting measured moves of candlestick data

Goal: I'm looking to see if it's possible to programatically detect "measured moves" on candlestick data. The price data I am using is successfully retrieved from the TD Ameritrade platform ...
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How does truncating data deal with long right tails of data? Why is a long right tail bad?

For reference, my coworker graphed the unemployment rate with an HP Filter on. He told me he truncated the data to 95% to deal with this issue but I'm not 100% sure what this means and why its ...
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Open Interest on Stocks

According to the first bullet point in this explanation, "In the stock market, open interest is the number of buy orders submitted before the market opens. When the open interest is high, people ...
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Variation of the trading range

Example: The trading range (in points) for each of the last 5 trading days for asset A is: 5,21,2,15,32 and for asset B is: 5,6,5,5,5. Is there an indicator that ranks assets based on variation of ...
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Why do I randomly see a significant difference in my RSI and that of Trading View

Now I realise my own RSI values will never be exactly the same as those from Trading View (TV), as I don’t have the same data for the first 14 periods. However I would expect the two to converge, and ...
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Programmatically detect RSI divergence

How can I programmatically detect bullish and bearish RSI divergences? A bullish divergence occurs when the underlying security makes a lower low and RSI forms a higher low. RSI does not confirm the ...
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Indicators parameters for weekly chart/data: to scale or not to scale, that is the question

Beginner here, so apologies for the rather naïve question, I try to find answers elsewhere but mostly I found opinions (often contradicting and rarely with an explanantion). Maybe I'm using the wrong ...
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indicators that move asset prices

Wondering which economic indicators move tradable asset (like equities or bonds) prices substantially (more then 0.5%) when they are published. For example the weekly unemployment rate update usually ...
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Where can I find a current tail risk indicator?

The definition of tail risk (risk of 3-standard deviations movement) seems to imply there would be a current market indicator for this. Is there such an indicator available somewhere?
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The quality of an trading algorithm

Good day. I am currently writing a term paper on the creation of trading algorithms in the foreign exchange market (by an algorithm I mean the one that follows the alpha model, for example, signals ...
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How to calculate technical indicator using tick data cross the night?

The tick data shortly before the close in yesterday have different statistics and charasterices compared to the tick data shortly after the open in today. Then, how I calculate the indicators using ...
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VIX lagging or leading indicator

Could somebody help me understand if the VIX is a leading or lagging indicator. From the CBOE whitePaper ( https://www.cboe.com/micro/vix/vixwhite.pdf). I've understood that the VIX tries to ...
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What variables are used for the Institutional Activity Index (IAI)?

I've been looking for various ways to get more information about institutional trade action. Although weekly COT report is available, it's already outdated by 1 week at the time the report come out ...
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Hourly RSI calculation to match Daily RSI

I implemented the RSI calculation based on the ta4j implementation that you can find here: https://github.com/ta4j/ta4j/blob/master/ta4j-core/src/main/java/org/ta4j/core/indicators/RSIIndicator.java. ...
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Definition of „getting picked off“ [closed]

Is there a precise definition of what getting picked off means. In particular I want to check whether I have been picked off. How can I measure this quantitatively?
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Parameters used by brokers when executing large institutional orders?

When an institutional trader wants to enter or exit a large position, the broker has to process the trade in smaller chunks to keep market impact at a minimum. So the broker would say that they can ...
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How do I calculate the zigzag indicator? [closed]

Zigzag indicator as defined here: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/z/zig_zag_indicator.asp
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Can I make the simple moving average less lagging by this method?

I have (T+3) predicted prices for a stock. Let us assume that the predicted prices are going to be very close to the actual prices. can I alter the formula of simple moving average for 20 days like ...
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Stateful Technical Analysis Indicator Libray For Python

I an looking for a TA indicator library in python, that offers indicators you can update with ticks, in contrast to indicators that perform calculations on an entire data set. For example, an RSI ...
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How to calculate RSI while considering market close and holidays?

I was trying to calculate RSI over hourly OHLC bars for a symbol (AAPL as an example) and got stock, first how should I handle closing hours? (does it make sense to ignore them all together and assume ...
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Comparing values of indicator between different stocks

I would like to ask whether there is a good way of analysing stock indicators that have no value limitations. For indicators like RSI we have a closed range ( 0 - 100 ) but in case of indicators like ...
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Why there is a Deviation on my RSI indicator in comparison from one of the other Trading Markets

Hello all, and sorry for this stupid question. I am using my custom RSI indicator to which I created programmatically. I follow the equation type from here. My problem is when I compare it with the ...
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Why does MACD not use log normalization

Today I wondered why the MACD oscillator uses the differences of two averages instead of the log of their quotient just like it's done for volatility estimation. With this kind of log normalization ...
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Equivalent of Force Indicator Within Ta-lib

Is there any equivalent of the Force indicator (http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:technical_indicators:force_index) within the talib library? (...
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Name of an indicator based on price change and volume

If a(t) is the price of an asset and v(t) is the transaction volume of that asset against say USD, one can look at the integral over a time period of v(t) a'(t). In words, this is the cumulative ...
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R RSI Calculation (TTR package)

I'm using the default RSI calculation in the TTR package as follows: result = RSI(data,14). The function also allows the user to specify the averaging method: result = RSI(data,14,"SMA"), result =...
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Possible correlations to institutional allocations versus market capitalization

I seem to remember someone telling me a while back that a good indicator of future equity performance was how "institutionally under-owned" a given equity is versus its weight in a given broad market ...
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How do you calculate the initial prior SAR value in a Parabolic SAR over FX market data

So I am attempting to calculate the Parabolic SAR over FX market data. I understand that the SAR equation is: SARt = SARt-1 + * [EPt-1 - SARt-1] with EPt-1 ...
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Indicator for sudden movement of price

I tried to find a method to recognize a sudden movement, e.g. climb, of a stock price. The method should realize that the price suddenly changes in value very fast, after having a long calm period. ...
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Boeing's Debt-to-Equity Ratio

Background I was quickly investigating Boeing's (BA) Debt-to-Equity ratio and received a very high number. I looked around online and have confirmed that BA has recently taken on a lot of debt, but ...
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How to normalize various indicators into one column?

I've seen this video which talks about how to compress different indicators into a sin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDu6CudKa0Q I tried to do the same by this way: ...
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Indicators and research for stress-based investment strategies

In reference to this paper: Can risk aversion indicators anticipate financial crises? and the investable UBS Risk Adjusted Dynamic Alpha Strategy: http://www.ibb.ubs.com/mc/strategyindices/ubsrada/...
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Computing multiple indicators in tidyquant

I am trying to get multiple indicator values such as RSI and EMA for equities using the package tidyquant in R. I tried the example from the vignette which is: ...
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OBV indicator calculation in R

Here is a few references about OBV calculations: http://ta.mql4.com/indicators/volumes/on_balance_volume http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:technical_indicators:...
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Replacement for Moodys BAA and AAA series

Along with many other people, I have been using Moody's seasoned BAA and AAA corporate bond yield series for my research for some time. I use them primarily to compute and analyze the quality spread. ...
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What kind of indicators would you look in the market preceding a recession/crisis?

What kind of indicators may have predicted the upcoming financial crisis in the 2000 or 2008?
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What is the definition of a 10-day low? [closed]

Or for that matter a [n]-day low? (As it relates to market data/trading). When does a [n]-day low get disrupted and you have to begin tallying again?
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How to identify technical analysis chart patterns algorithmically?

I'm working on a small application that will provide some charts and graphs to be used for technical analysis. I'm new to TA but I'm wondering if there is a way to algorithmically identify the ...
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Testing out ADX calculator [closed]

I'm trying to program an ADX calculator in python, however I don't know if it is correct since I'm still a bit shaky on the financial side of things. I haven't found an ADX calculator online (...
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How to fully replicate ADX + DI Indicators in Excel? [closed]

For black box testing, I was hoping that I could replicate the ADX + DI+ and DI- indicators that are provided in trading platforms such as ThinkOrSwim, ScottradeElite etc. However, I noticed that ...
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Can you tell me what this RBloomberg formula means?

I've been asked to re-create a spreadsheet that used RBloomberg using a different data source. But I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what one of the spreadsheet's formulas does. Can anyone tell ...
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List of momentum indicators

Is there a definite list of momentum indicators? A quick search on Google did not yield much, so I thought to ask this here.
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Technical analysis - Calculating Aroon Indicator Serie

I'm trying to build a class to create Aroon series. But it seems I don't understand the steps well. I'm not sure about what purpose I have to use the period parameter. Here is my first attempt: <...