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Trends and Snapbacks using the CCI Indicator
The CCI (Commodity Channel Index) is a versatile indicator that can be used for many different types of trading (Trends, Reversals, Continuation plays, Cycles, etc). Originally Donald Lambert invented CCI to be used as a breakout indicator: a long entry signal is...
How to find Correlated Stocks and Alpha, Beta values
What is Correlation? Correlation is a measure of how one security moves in relation to another. A correlation value of 1 means that Stock A is exactly Correlated with Stock B. Take a look at the following charts of Amazon (AMZN) and Facebook (FB) for example: You can...
Position Sizing / Watch List worksheet
What does this worksheet do? The worksheet allows you to enter the stocks that have caught your attention (perhaps after running scans and templates within EdgeRater or from any other source). You can enter the date the stock was interesting to you and some text in...
Are Cramer’s stock picks any good?
Everyone has heard of Jim Cramer, right? (former hedge fund manager and host of 'Mad Money'). Have you ever wondered what would happen if you purchased every 'recommended buy' stock the morning after Cramer recommends it on his show? One of the best picks Here's one...
Ron Black’s Clear Method
In the September and October 2010 issues of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, Ron Black presented the Clear Method as a way to determine the direction of short term price swings. It is an indicator that works "in all time frames, requires no calculation,...
Tutorial: Downloading Data
Goal: In this tutorial we will set EdgeRater up to retrieve data from the free Yahoo data provider and we will download 10 years of data for the 'Weekly Options' symbol list. We will also apply intraday updates to the data. Data Providers EdgeRater can retrieve data...
How to download new Trading Templates
As of EdgeRater PRO Unleashed release version 13.0.0.49 there is a new way to download the latest templates for use in the program. Background Prior to 13.0.0.49 the only way you could get new templates was to download and install a full program update even if there...
Seasonality Trading
What is Seasonality Trading? The idea behind seasonality trading is to find specific times of year when a stock consistently trends upwards or downwards. Seasonality doesn't attempt to identify why a stock moves at a particular time of year, just that it does and does...
New Indicator For Shorting Stocks
The new EdgeRater trading template for July 2015 is the Jeffrey Scott Shorting template. Jeffrey recently requested that I put together a template that would help find stocks to short. His current method of finding those stocks is to manually look through charts that...
The Price Predictor Template
The new template for June 2015 is the Price Predictor Template. This template analyzes historical price changes in a stock after a specified event has occurred and shows a summary of the average % change. The summary is given for multiple time periods after the event....