Technical indicators for teh stock

Maxim Zharkovskiy

What it's for

Technical indicators are essential part of any trading toolkit. Nowdays market reality is a high-speed trading, so it's important to watch closely price fluctations at a real-time mode.This application gives to the user the possibility:

  • To analyze the price data
  • To align the data to various technical indicators
  • To see the trading volume

Now you can build up your own trading strategy in the most exciting market segment - tech stocks.

How it works

The user set the following parameters:

  • Stock symbol
  • Date range
  • Daily/weekle scale
  • Tecnical indicator

Once symbol, date range and scale are choosen a stock chart appears and if necessary is redrawn.

Tools to select from

In the current version of the application three indicators are given:

  • Relative Strength Index (period of averaging from 2 up to 14 days)
  • Moving Average Convergence Dicergence
  • Rate of Change

Let's have a look on an example: Microsoft, date range from '2001-01-01' until now, daily scale, indicator - MACD (see next slide)

MSFT chart

library(quantmod)
getSymbols("MSFT", src = 'yahoo', from = '2001-01-01',auto.assign = TRUE)
chartSeries(MSFT,TA="addMACD()",theme = chartTheme("white"), type = "line")

plot of chunk plot