Toggle the TrendLine switch in our Advanced Chart that turns automatic TrendLine channels on and off.
EquityTrader is designed to provide investors with a quick and easy method of evaluating the past performance and potential appreciation of equities.
The indicator %b tells us where we are within the bands. Unlike stochastics, which are bounded by 0 and 100, %b can assume negative values and values above 100 when prices are outside of the bands. At 100 we are at the upper band, at 0 we are at the lower band.
Historically Normalized P/E Ratio: Where we are in relation to P/Es that have prevailed over the prior two years. 100: highest in 2 years, 0 lowest.
Risk Adjusted Historical Return: Annualized historical return divided by negative beta. This is the number the Performance rating is based on.
Walkers: Walkers are stocks that have remained in contact with either the upper or lower Bollinger Bands for more than a day.
Point and Figure Swing: + or - whether price is rising or falling using classic point & figure technique (using our own box-size algorithm).
Bollinger Bands: Trading Bands spread above and below a moving average by a measure of volatility--standard deviation. The default parameters are 20 days and +/- two standard deviations.
BandWidth, another indicator derived from Bollinger Bands, may also interest traders. It is the width of the bands expressed as a percent of the moving average. When the bands narrow drastically, a sharp expansion in volatility usually occurs in the very near future.
Recent Quotes Widget: displays the latest requested quotes and will be remembered from page to page. Any new symbol request will be added to the top of the quote list.
EquityTrader offers BBScript, a web based programming language that is integrated with the advanced chart and offers the ability to program highly customizable indicators and trading ideas.
Lists Section Top/Bottom Twenty Potential: Lists the securities with the best and worst potential rating.
Momentum indicator is best used for classic divergence analysis.
A positive PowerShift signal occurs when a security has become severely oversold and strengthens enough to potentially break the decline.
The strongest rating is two green lights; the weakest rating is two red lights.
Money Flow Index is a volume weighted version of RSI. It's a superior tool for identifying confirmations and nonconfirmations Bollinger Bands tags.
The Intraday Intensity is useful for diagnosing tags of the bands and divergence identification.
Lists Section Top/Bottom Twenty Change (%): Lists the securities with the best and worst one day percentage change.
A negative PowerShift signal occurs when a security has become severely overbought and weakens enough to potentially break the advance.
Persistency of Money Flow: The percent of days in the prior six months on which money flow was positive.
A negative Pivot occurs when a severely oversold security strengthens and then fails.
EquityTrader employs a fuzzy logic engine to evaluate 54 rules to determine a stock's Potential Rating.
Monitor the daily percentage change of the overall market and underlying market sectors.
Stocks with 52 week new highs and new lows are displayed in the New High/Low table
A positive Pivot occurs when a severely overbought security weakens and then advances.
Relative-strength line compares stock price action to that of the market. Rising line, stock is outperforming the market. Falling, stock is lagging.
All major indices quotes are displayed in the ticker crawler on top of the page. Click any index name to plot the chart for that index.
Professional ET Ratings Section: Potential, Potential Change and Performance lists for today and the past six months.
Squeeze: The Squeeze is triggered when the Bollinger Bands fall to their narrowest value in six months. Squeezes often presage large moves. The Squeeze is quantified via BandWidth.
Potential Rating is the heart of the system. It is our assessment of the current potential for selected symbol. We employ a fuzzy-logic engine to evaluate 54 rules to determine the potential. Both fundamental & technical factors are considered in arriving at our Potential Rating.
Lists Section Top/Bottom Twenty Change ($): Lists the securities with the best and worst one day dollar change.
Positive Alpha: The unique return of a stock in a positive environment.
Lists Section newly Rated 1's, 2's, 3's, 4's, and 5's: Lists the securities that have changed potential rating.
Professional Stock Screening Section: EquityTrader-style stock screening with wide variety of criteria.
Professional Alerts Signals Section: Lists of PowerShifts and Pivots and e-mail alerts of potential signals.
Normalized Market Cap: The percentile rank of this stock in relation to all stocks in our universe. 100 being the biggest, 0 the smallest.
Widely used technical analysis indicators: volume, momentum, money flow index, relative strength, intraday intensity, accumulation-distribution
Both fundamental and technical factors are considered in arriving at our Potential Rating.
Indices Snapshot Widget: Price chart with Bollinger Bands snapshots and latest quotes for Dow Jones Industrial, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite.
Lists Section Top/Bottom Twenty Performance: Lists the securities with the best and worst performance rating.
Lists Section Top/Bottom Twenty Potential Change: Lists the securities with the best and worst one day potential change.
Professional Bollinger Bands Patterns Section: Powerful screening based on Bollinger Bands and related techniques for today and the past six months.
Most actively traded stocks table displays the top stocks trading higher than their average volume. Results include the daily percentage changem daily volume and average volume
EquityTrader offers several
trading strategies for buying, selling and holding equities.
Two-Year Annualized Historical Return: Annualized rate of gain for a stock, measured over the prior two years.
The Accumulation/Distribution line is a good tool for basic trend identification and confirmation.
The fuzzy logic model is unique to EquityTrader and was developed by John Bollinger, who is also well known for his Bollinger Bands.
Positive Beta: The sensitivity of a stock to the market in a positive environment.
Professional subscribers have access to more than 30 Technical Indicators.
Professional subscribers can program their own indicators using BBScript, a web based programming language for Technical Analysis integrated with our Advanced Chart.
Popular Among ET Users widget allows you to see the top 10 most requested symbols among users on EquityTrader.
Negative Alpha: The unique return of a stock in a negative environment.
Biggest Movers table displays the stocks with the highest daily percentage gains or losses.
Performance Rating is the risk-adjusted return ranking of a symbol. We examine the past 2 years of data & calculate the annualized return. Then we measure the symbol's susceptibility to downside market action & penalize the return if it exhibits greater than normal downside volatility.
Volume is the most important of all the indicators. In conjunction with price, volume depicts the ebb and flow of money in a security.
Negative Beta: The sensitivity of a stock to the market in a negative environment.
P/E Ratio: Price divided by the past year's earnings.
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