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Frederic Palmliden, CFA, CMT Senior Quantitative Analyst PRODUCTION DOWNLOAD FILES Kristina Hunt Media Content Coordinator EDITOR’S MESSAGE Welcome to the December 2015 issue of TradeStation Labs’ Strategy Concepts Club. TradeStation Labs 8050 SW 10th Street, Suite 2000 This issue marks the end of our first year of publication. Your engagement Plantation, FL 33324 with the content and with us has been very gratifying – including challenging us [email protected] to be creative in our content and responsive to your needs as readers. All support, education and training services and materials on the This month, Frederic Palmliden, CFA, CMT, and Senior Quantitative Analyst, TradeStation website are for informational purposes and to help cus- provides a strategy for stock indexes that employs a market breadth index tomers learn more about how to use the power of TradeStation soft- calculated by TradeStation. The Market Breadth Gauge strategy uses a value- ware and services. No type of trading or investment advice is being made, given or in any manner provided by any TradeStation affiliate. based measure of the advance-decline line. This material may also discuss in detail how TradeStation is For my contribution, I looked at a bar pattern widely used in TradeStation designed to help you develop, test and implement trading strate- and a topic of inquiry from many clients: pivot highs and pivot lows. The Pivot gies. However, TradeStation does not provide or suggest trading Breakout strategy uses the pattern for a set-up, requires price confirmation for strategies. We offer you unique tools to help you design your own strategies and look at how they could have performed in the past. entry and includes two exit techniques. 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Please note that even though TradeStation the cover and from the download button at the lower left of the flipbook viewer.) has been designed to automate your trading strategies and deliver Allow me to take a moment to acknowledge our colleague Kristina Hunt. timely order placement, routing and execution, these things, as well Her name is in the masthead as Media Content Coordinator, but that understates as access to the system itself, may at times be delayed or even fail due to market volatility, quote delays, system and software errors, her importance to our team. Kristina turns our submissions into the Strategy Internet traffic, outages and other factors. Concepts Club you see each month. Her contributions are invaluable. TradeStation Group, Inc. Affiliates: All proprietary technology in Our best wishes to all for health and prosperity in 2016 and, as always, TradeStation is owned by TradeStation Technologies, Inc. Equities, equities options, and commodity futures products and services are thanks for being a subscriber! offered by TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member NYSE, FINRA, NFA and SIPC). TradeStation Securities, Inc.’s SIPC coverage is available only for equities and equities options accounts. Forex products and services are offered by TradeStation Forex, a division of IBFX, Inc. Stanley Dash, CMT (Member NFA). Copyright © 2001-2015 TradeStation Group, Inc. STRATEGY CONCEPTS CLUB | 1 Market Breadth Gauge Strategy Frederic Palmliden, CFA, CMT Senior Quantitative Analyst BACKGROUND STRATEGY TRADING USUALLY EMPLOYS Features technical tools based on price and volume data. u Strategy Style: Trend-following While these traditional tools are applied to indi- u Markets: Stock index futures and vidual securities and indices, there is another ETFs dimension to strategy trading and market u Trading Horizon: Swing trading analysis designed to determine the overall health of the stock market. This type of anal- ysis – known as market breadth – utilizes such Studies/Files Included data as advancing versus declining issues and up u Strategy volume versus down volume. Although market u Indicator breadth is typically associated with longer-term u Workspace market signals – such as early warning signals after an extended stock market rally – it can also DOWNLOAD FILES be used with shorter-term time intervals, as this article will illustrate. The Market Breadth Gauge strategy utilizes STRATEGY ELEMENTS