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Detecting Divergence

This post details the development of a technical indicator to detect divergences. If you dont like reading, feel free to skip to the good part. Motivation Divergence is commonly used in trading to assess the underlying momentum in the price of an asset, and for assessing the likelihood of a price reversal [1]. It is defined by a divergence in ...

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Developing a Scanner to Automatically get Notified of Trending Markets

This post will act as a tutorial of sorts, going through the process you may use to develop a market scanner using AutoTrader’s scan mode. By the end of this post, you will have a market scanner which will notify you of trending markets. This is perfect for traders who prefer to trade manually, but would like to automate some aspect of their t...

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Interacting with Raspberry Pi over Email

If you are using a Raspberry Pi as a server for your trading, it is not always convenient to ssh in. For example, if you are not on the same network as your Pi. Regardless, it is important that you are always able to manage your trading bots. The most robust method to do this is to use a third-party service to gain remote access, as explained ...

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Viewing Price Data with AutoTrader's IndiView

When developing a strategy or your own custom indicator, you need a quick and easy way to see what is going on, whether to debug your code or just make sure everything is running as expected. This is what AutoTrader IndiView is for - viewing price data against indicators. This post will go over how to call AutoPlot to quickly and easily visual...

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