Many traders recognize the unpredictable behavior of Chinese stocks and look to exclude them from their strategies.
Or specifically include them in a strategy.
Before I left Trade-Ideas, I implemented a feature I knew would be valuable: dynamic lists based on country.
In Trade-Ideas, you can use a symbol list to define the universe to your strategy.
You can create your own and manually add symbols to it and then include them in your strategy by pointing to it in the Symbol Lists tab in the configuration.
You can choose to restrict the strategy to the symbol list or you can exclude the symbols in the chosen lists.
There’s a steady stream of Chinese IPOs, so if you try to manually maintain a list of symbols, it becomes outdated quickly.
This is where the new feature comes in.
If you go to the symbol lists tab in the Configuration window, you’ll see a Countries item that you can expand.
These lists are dynamically generated and maintained on a daily basis, so they’re always up to date.
You can add lists from any country and exclude/include multiple symbol lists in your strategy, even mixing dynamically generated lists and your own custom lists.
If you find this useful, hit reply and let me know – I suspect there are a lot of users unaware of this feature.
-Dave
