Sunday, February 20, 2011

Coppock Indicator

Coppock MetaTrader indicator — is an implementation of the famous Coppock curve indicator first created by Edward Coppock in 1962. The indicator shows long-term buy and sell opportunities (classically, it's used for only buying) by measuring the weighted moving average (with a period of 10) of the sum of two rates of change (with a period of 14 and 11). It's the classical version. In this MetaTrader version, you can modify the parameters of the basic indicators. You can use this Coppock indicator in MT4 and MT5.

Setting:
  • ROC1Period (default = 14)
  • ROC2Period (default = 11)
  • MAPeriod (default = 10)
  • MAType (only in MT4) (default = 3 (WMA))
Preview:




Coppock Curve is a formula that was introduced in Barron’s in 1962. It was devised by a San Antonio, TX -based technician named Edwin Sedgwick Coppock. Since then, the Coppock momentum oscillator has been adopted and adapted by technicians around the world
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Forex Dictionary C part1

* Cable
The term used in the foreign exchange market for U.S. Dollar / British Pound.
* CAD
ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Canada, called Dollars.
* Calendar combination
A compound option strategy that consists of CALL and PUT calendar spread calendar spread that occurred simultaneously, where the strike price for the call is higher than the strike price for the put.
* Calendar Spread
An option position comprised of purchase and sale of two option contracts with the same type with different expiration dates with the same exercise price.
* Calendar straddle
A compound option strategy that consists of purchases of long-term straddle and near-term straddle with a common strike price.
* Call
(1) An option that gives the option holder the right to buy the underlying instrument at a specified price during a certain period. (2) The trading period. (3) The right to a bond issuer to pay the debt first and ask for ransom bond.
* Call Option
Option CALL option gives the right but do not provide the obligation to buy stock / bonds, shares or futures at a specified price.
* Call ratio backspread
A compound option strategy that consists of short calls with strike prices lower and long call with a strike price higher. Profits doubled. Maximum upside profit potential is unlimited. The potential downside profit consists of the total premium received. The potential maximum loss occurs when the currency reached the highest strike price at maturity.
* Cambiste
The term of the French language for the designation of foreign exchange dealers.
* Candlestick chart
A diagram consisting of four major prices: see high, low, open and closed. Body (jittai) of the candlestick bar is formed with the opening price and closing price. To show that the opening price is lower than the closing price, body bar (bars) intentionally left blank. If the closing price of the currency below the opening price, body bar is filled. Time body bar is marked with both shadows upper shadow / shadow / line axis of the (uwakage) and the lower shadow / shadow / line below the axis (shitakage).
* Capacity utilization
An economic indicator that consists of total industrial output divided by total production capability. This term refers to the maximum level of output that can be achieved by a factory in the normal course of business.
* Cardinal Square
A Gann technique to predict the future with significant chart points count from the low value of the currency at any time. Cardinal square consists of a square that is divided by a cross into four quadrat. All-time low price included in the central cross. All these high prices included in this order clockwise. The figures are placed in the cardinal cross is the most significant chart points.
* Cash Delivery
Settlement on the same day.

Forex Dictionary B part7

*Bundesbank
Abbreviated BUBA. Central Bank of Germany
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Business firms establishment survey
Business firms survey.
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Business Inventories
Economic indicators, namely the value of inventory in the cash held by manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers. The level of inventories in relation to sales is an important indicator of short-term direction of production activity.
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Butterfly Spread
(1) Butterfly Spread the future is an area in which trade in the months to come trade will be conducted simultaneously with different prices. Trade basically consists of two large transactions that will come with three or four months of different options that will come with a differential. (2) Option butterfly spread is a combination of extensive trade bear and bull spread trade in which multiple options months and strike prices traded at once with different prices. Trade basically consists of two large transactions that will come with three or four months of different options that will come and strike with a different price.
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Buyer-Taker
The buyer of an option either CALL or PUT option. Buyers can also be referred to as the holder of the option. Option holder has the right, but has no obligation to enter the securities market positions that will come.
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Buying Rate
The rate at which the market and market maker in particular are willing to buy the currency. Sometimes buying rate is also called bid rate.
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Buying The Spread
Nearby buy contract and simultaneously sell the deferred contract. Buying The Spread, also known as a bull spread.
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BWP
ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Botswana, which is called by Pulas
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BYR
ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Belarus, called by Rubles
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BZD
ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Belize, called Dollars.

Forex Dictionary B part6

*BRL
ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Brazil, called the Brazilian Real
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Broken Dates or Period
Transactions conducted on the dates of which are not standard periods eg. 1 month. Standard period is 1 week, 2 weeks, 1, 2, 3, 6 and 12 months. Other terms to mention Broken Dates are odd dates, or cock dates, broken dates or broken period.
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Brokers
An agent who execute orders to buy and sell currencies and related instruments either by commission or spread. Brokers are agents working on commission and not principals or agents acting on their own account. In the foreign exchange market, brokers tend to act as intermediaries between banks bringing buyers and sellers together to get the commissions paid by the initiator or by both parties. There are four or five major brokers in the world that operates through its subsidiaries, affiliates and business partners in many countries.
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Brokerage
Commission paid to brokers.
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BSD
ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in the Bahamas, called Dollars.
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BTN
ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Bhutan, which is called the Ngultrum
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Bull
Investors who believe that prices are increasing
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Bull Call Spread
An option position composed of long-term options and short-term option for the same type, both call and put, which is designed to profit in a declining market conditions. An option with a lower strike price and purchase options with strike prices higher sale.
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Bull Market
The period of general price increases that lasted long.
Bull Put Spread
An option position composed of short-term options and medium term for the same type, both call and put, which is designed to profit in a declining market conditions. An option with a lower strike price and purchase options with strike prices higher sale.
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Bullion
A term for gold bars, not coin.
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Bullish doji star
A "star" which indicates a reversal and a doji indicates a failure in making decisions. Thus, this pattern usually indicates a reversal (back) after going through the uncertainty for some time. You must wait for confirmation (eg as in the "morning star) before selling a doji star. The first line can be empty or full.
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Bullish engulfing lines
Structure appears when the body is white graph completely closed, "engulfs" the body chart on the previous day. Markets have tended to be determined, not hitting the sidewalk vendors in the vicinity. Shadow / line axis prior candlestick do not need to be closed.
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Bullish Harami
A two day pattern that has a small body day completely exist within the scope of the previous body, and has a different color.
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Bullish Harami Cross
A two day pattern similar to the Harami. The difference is on the last day is a Doji.
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Bullish tasuki
A combination of bullish two-day candlestick. Bullish tasuki consists of a long black bar that has a height of about 50 percent from the previous day's long body blank, and close marginally below the low achievement on the previous trading day.
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Bullish Tsutsumi
Engulfing bar. A combination of bullish two-day candlestick. Tsutsumi bullish bullish candlestick consists of two who have a body "engulfs" the smaller the previous day's bearish body.

Forex Dictionary B part5

*BMD
ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Bermuda, which is called Dollars.
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BND
ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Brunei Darussalam, called Dollars.
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BOB
ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Bolivia, called by Bolivianos
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Bollinger bands
A quantitative method that combines movement with an average volatility of the instrument. The band is designed to measure whether the price is relatively high or low. Banks are plotted two standard deviations higher and lower than average simple movement. The band looks like an envelope that extends the model and contract. When banks shrank drastically, it indicates that the volatility expanded sharply in some time to come. Another signal is the succession of the two top formations, one outside the bank and one in the band. If this occurs above the band, this is a signal the sale, but if it occurs under the bank, he means the purchase signal.
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Book method
The original name of point and figure charts.
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Box spread
A compound option strategy that consists of four options with a maturity date of the public: see Long and short CALL PUT with the same strike price, and long and short PUT CALL with a different strike price.
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Break Even Point
The price of financial instruments in which the option buyer to recover expenditures he has done (premium), which means that he does not have either loss or profit. In the case of CALL option, the break even point is the exercise price plus the premium.
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Break Out
In the options market, do not do the conversion or a reversal to restore the option buyer at the original position.
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Breakaway gap
Price gap that occurs at the beginning of a new trend, which is often at the end of a long consolidation period. Beakway gap can also appear after the completion of major chart formations.
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Breakout of a spread triple bottom
Formation diagram bearish point and figure that estimates that the currency is likely to cut the support line three times in achieving them. The currency failed to reach the support line once.
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Breakout of a spread triple top
Formation of point and figure charts are bullish estimates that the currency is likely to cut the resistance line three times in achieving them. The currency failed to reach the resistance line once.
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Breakout of a triple bottom
Formation diagram bearish point and figure that estimates that the currency is likely to cut the support line three times in achieving them.
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Breakout of a triple top
Formation of point and figure charts are bullish estimates that the currency is likely to cut the resistance line three times in achieving them.