What is Rights Issue? And Why you should never miss a rights issue? Rights issue is one of the way to raise funds for publically listed companies. Through this mode, the company makes an offer to existing shareholders to buy additional shares in the company at a discounted price (rights offer price) within a prescribed…
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How to identify whether we are in Consolidation? In previous lessons we have seen different types of trends and “How to identify whether we are in an uptrend and downtrend”. Now we are moving to next type of trend, which is consolidation. CONSOLIDATION There are 2 types of consolidations — Bullish and bearish consolidation. · There are…
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In the previous episodes, we have learnt the basics. Now it’s time to take it up a little further technically. How to get and plot the SMA? In the previous episodes,w e learnt how to plot the price chart in trading view. Now, we can use that as a base to plot the SMA. The…
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There is a famous saying in trading “Trend is always friend”. So when you identify a major trend, than you will get huge profit. In that sense, creating an AFL for identifying trend in the charts is extremely critical. Amibroker AFL for trend identification play a vital role in any algo trading system. If you…
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Do you know you are already holding Bitcoin and other crypto currencies? Are you someone who invests in global or US based mutual funds from India, then you might already be holding some bitcoin and other crypto currencies. Does it sound confusing, well, actually not. Let’s discuss about this in detail. As an indian investor,…
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Are you investing in US or Other Global Market Funds from India? Then, you might be betting against Rupee. Let’s try to understand how and why this happens. There are lot of mutual funds available in India, which can be used to invest in global markets, including US, Euro & other developed and developing markets. In…
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How to define the trend? How to identify whether we are in a downtrend? In previous lessons we have seen different types of trends and “How to identify whether we are in an uptrend (or) whether uptrend has officially started”. In total, we have 4 stages: 1. An uptrend 2. A downtrend 3. A broken…
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Most indicators you make will not be suited to permanently hard-coded variables. Often you will want to change certain settings on the fly such as the time period, the timeframe, overbought/oversold thresholds, etc. Having it in the code will make things complicated unnecessarily while customizing it, so an option to change the variables or inputs…
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What are the different BackTesting Options available in Amibroker? And How to Read BackTest Report? This window (accessible from Report button in Automatic analysis window) provides very useful information about the performance of a trading system under the test. The information included here can be customized using system test settings dialog. Explanation of values: Total…
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What is Tax Loss Harvesting: Another way to save tax In the last episode, we discussed about LTCG tax harvesting, which is a way to reduce the tax burden created by profits from equities. Likewise, we can use any losses we have and use it to reduce taxes as well. In tax-loss harvesting, you book…
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