Darren Hawkins

Darren Hawkins

MSTA

Senior Software Specialist at Optuma

Darren is the senior Software Specialist at Optuma based in Brisbane, Australia. Darren grew up in the UK and attended college in the USA where he earned a BA in Economics from St Mary's College of Maryland. He went on to spend a few years working at the Nasdaq Stock Market in Washington DC. Darren joined Optuma in 2009 after attending an introductory technical analysis course that used the software.

Articles by Darren Hawkins (33)

How to Create a Custom Index

An easy way to create a custom index of a basket of stocks, or portfolio, is to simply add them together in what is called a price-weighted index.

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CMT Association Summit - Dubai 2024

Last week, Mathew, Darren and Jairus attended the CMT Association Summit in Dubai, the first held outside of New York.

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Scripting and Anchored VWAPs

Learn how to create scans and tools based on the Anchored Volume-Weighted Average Price (AVWAP) tool.

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Pressure is on the January Barometer

The January Barometer is an investing theory that suggests that the performance of the stock market in the month of January can be used to predict the performance of the stock market for the rest of the year. According to the theory – first posited by Yale Hirsch in 1972 - if the stock market rises in January, then it is likely to rise for the rest of the year.

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IPO Performance

A quick look at the performance of this year's IPOs on the Australian and US markets. Optuma clients can download and open the workbook and add their own analyses.

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S&P Indices - Quarterly Rebalancing

Details on the latest quarterly rebalance of the ASX200 ($XJO) and S&P500 ($SPX) indices. How do stocks perform after joining the index?

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ETF Net Fund Flows

Following on from the additional ETF data that was recently added to our database, we're pleased to announce that we are now able to provide net fund flow data for ETFs listed on a number of exchanges.

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Taking your custom technical ranking system further

Last time we looked at ways to create a custom ranking system using simple scripting formulas based on a number of technical conditions, and in this article we'll look to take it a step further by calculating breadth measures on a universe of stocks, and also adjusting the weightings.

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How to create a custom technical ranking system

In your studies you may have come across the ‘weight of evidence’ approach to investing which looks at prices and various indicators to help identify potential trading opportunities.

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Now available: US ETF Fundamental Data

We are always looking at ways to improve Optuma, and ahead of the upcoming version 2.1 release (we’ll be looking for beta testers very soon!) we’ve added more ETF data to our US Fundamental database.

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ASX and S&P500 Sector Workbooks

Optuma clients can download and open workbooks for the ASX and S&P500 sectors, which includes the current list of the companies within each sector, along with example charts and watchlists, plus a 6 month high / low scan.

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An easy way to find breakouts

As you may know, Optuma has several tools to help identify significant turning points, such as the various swing overlays, but one tool I’ve started to use more and more is the Pivot Label tool.

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Identifying Divergences

Optuma’s scripting language allows you to create any number of scans and tests on any number of tools and values. But when we were asked if we could create a scan to identify divergences between price and a momentum indicator, such as the RSI, I wasn’t sure how this could be done.

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Being overbought does not mean sell!

Since the recovery from the lows in December 2018 the market has been \"overbought\" - which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

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