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[amibroker] Re: How to test IBD's idea?



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Thanks Ace, Harvey & Jason,

I will study the code...

Cheers,
Gary
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "acesheet" <acesheet@xxxx> wrote:
> Gary,
> 
> There's a couple of different ways of doing it. Some more time 
> consuming, some less. One way is to compare the returns using ROC 
to 
> a reference index (like SP500 or Value Line for US stocks). If a 
> stock's performance significantly beats out the index, then its a 
> safe bet that it has high relative strength. I've used this 
concept 
> for back testing.
> 
> Another way is to use what's called the 'Cumulative Probability' 
of 
> the market returns. See post # 55179. If you have a large enough 
> database you should be able to get these AFL scripts to work very 
> well in terms of comparison with IBD's RS ranks. Currently I only 
> have a script that uses "today's" data however, so it won't be so 
> hot for backtesting. This method of ranking works very well.
> 
> You could take the idea shown in post 55179 and adapt it to 
collect 
> the data over time and create several historical ROC indices for 
the 
> 10 point curve fit. Something like 
~xroc1,~xroc10...~xroc90,~xroc99. 
> It will probably take AB a very long time to crunch the numbers, 
> however.
> 
> Hope that gives you some ideas.
> 
> -ace
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "gary_tiger2001" 
> <gary_tiger2001@xxxx> wrote:
> > Happy new year to all of you.
> > 
> > I wish to test the idea from IBD, like the relative strenghth 
> > ranking, etc. I cannot figure out how to do it in AB. Basically, 
I 
> > have a universe of stocks. Is it possible to rank the strength 
of 
> > stocks compared to my stock universe, from 1 - 99? 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Gary



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