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New: Free Code section – and improved Vortex
February 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Backtest, Blog, Code, Strategies
Tags: avx·Trading Blox·vortex
Vortex indicator
February 15th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Backtest, Code, Software
I recently came across the Vortex Indicator, which aims to leverage the chaotic science of fluid mechanics (vortices) into a new indicator. I decided to code up this interesting concept in Trading Blox.
The indicator logic is described in the January issue of TASC (Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities) and sounds intriguing (link to PDF [...]
Tags: ADX·DMI·IPV·Trading Blox·vortex·Welles Wilder
Amibroker e-ratio code
November 9th, 2009 · 16 Comments · Code, Development, Software
I recently posted about the e-ratio as a tool to measure parts of a trading system (the code files to compute the e-ratio in TradersStudio and Excel are also available). The e-ratio is supposed to be a quick tool to check how signals might add some edge to a trading system. However computing the e-ratio [...]
e-ratio calculation in TradersStudio and Excel
November 2nd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Backtest, Code, Development, Software
Here is one method to implement an e-ratio calculation.
As we say in developerspeak, the following is a quick and dirty approach to calculating the e-ratio. But as far as I am concerned, it does the job! It can probably be programmed more elegantly in TradersStudio but I still have to climb some of that software [...]
Tags: e-ratio·edge·excel·tradersstudio
Are you reading the essential books?
October 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Backtest, Blog, Books, Code, Data, Development, Money Management, Software, Strategies, Trend Following
I am bit of a geek and this is especially true when it comes to books. I firmly believe in self-development and I think books are a great medium to learn many things. Ok, the internet is so great to learn about new things; but nothing beats a good in-depth book(s) to really learn a [...]
Tags: library
Unfair Advantage API Code (C#): Extract Futures Continuous data
October 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Backtest, Code, Data, Futures, Software
As mentioned in the previous post on retrieving Back-Adjusted Contracts using the RetrieveBackAdjustedContract2 function of the Unfair Advantage API, I have coded up this very simple project to read a list of Futures underlying instruments, retrieve a proportionally back-adjusted contract for each of the instruments and oputput it to a file.
Getting started with the API
Fire [...]
Tags: API·C#·CSI·Futures·rollover·screenshots·Unfair Advantage
