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Package: How Markets Really Work

Insprired by the book 'How Markets Really Work', by Larry Connors and Connor Sen*, this strategy is a comprehensive laboratory, designed to test Buying Weakness & Selling Strength (BWSS), or Buying Strength & Selling Weakness (BSSW).

What It Is

A pre-written strategy (full source code), offering 8 different built-in ways to define weakness and strength.  This strategy will enable you to do research to answer the question: 

"Historically speaking, would I have been better off  to buy on market strength, or buy on market weakness?". 

Of course, you can ask and answer the question on the sell-side as well.

This strategy may be applied to stocks, futures, bonds, or any other instrument.   You may apply it to any timeframe. 

Weakness and Strength

8 Definitions of Weakness are offered, along with 8 complementary definitions of Strength.

d1("--- 1 N-Day Highs & Lows ---"),
d2("--- 2 Higher Highs, Lower Lows ---"),
d3("--- 3 Up/Down Days in a Row ---"),
d4("--- 4 Adv/Decl Days in a Row ---"),
d5("--- 5 Mkt Breadth Ratio (MBR) ---"),
d6("--- 6 N-Day High/Low Volume ---"),
d7("--- 7 Large Move % ---"),
d8("--- 8 Put/Call Extreme ---"),

Also, the structure of the code makes it very straightforward to add your own definitions to those provided.

What You Get

The package is designed to provide visual feedback so you can see on a chart any of the built-in notions of weakness or strength.  Custom indicators are provided to assist.   Here's what's included:

bullet Strategy:   #P_HMRW_01 - the strategy itself
bullet Indicator:  ADU Breadth Plot
bullet Indicator:  ADU Breadth Consec(utive)
bullet Indicator:  ADU Breadth Ratio
bullet Indicator:  ADU %-tile 2-Lines
bullet Indicator:  ADU Plot Sym OHLCV
bullet Indicator:  Strat Equity Color
bullet Indicator:  #P_PctMoveClose
bulletIndicator:  #P_NBarHiLoChan
bullet Paintbar:   #P_UpDownBars
bullet Workspace:  HMRW_ADE_SaveInfo  -  contains charts set up to save OHLCV data for the advance/decline and put/call
bullet Workspace:  HMRW_01 - 2 charts with the strategy and multiple indicators applied, showing comparison between buying 5-day Lows and buying 5-day Highs
bullet Workspace:  HMRW_02 - 2 charts with the 'ADU %-tile 2-Lines' indicator applied, showing comparison between buying low Put/Call Ratio and buying High Put/Call ratio.
bullet Workspace:  #P_GV_GlobalSetup_01 - allows you to reset global variables used to control report header output in strategy reports.
bullet Desktop:  HMRW_01 - Pre-made to open all of the above workspaces.

Strategy Features

bullet Time of Day, Day of Week, Day of Month trade filters
bullet ShaveTicks parameter for limit trades
bullet Test Serial Number generation in report output
bullet Tester ID parameter (for cooperative testing efforts)
bullet Pre-wired for (optional) Money Management function
bullet Section separators for input list
bullet Time-of-day exit  (separate from trade time filters)

This strategy is also designed for and ready to interact with the Macro Express symbol list driver macro .

And, of course, you get  Customer Support as needed to get it all running.

What It Looks Like

Here's a picture of the workspace HMRW_01:

and here's a picture of the workspace HMRW_02:

What It Costs

This package is for the advanced user. The analysis paradigm represented, as well as the many specific techniques implemented in code, constitute an extensive tutorial in both a powerful technique of market analysis and beyond-the-basics EasyLanguage coding. You are getting the result of dozens of hours of coding time for the cost of just 4 custom hours.  For the amount of code included, and the very flexible research framework it provides, this package is a bargain at $500.

How You Get It

This package will be emailed to you after your PayPal payment is processed. Please be aware of the caveats before you order. 

Copyright 2003 - 2008  Steve Johns,  all rights reserved.