Google Finance Technicals -- Bias Ratio (BIAS)

[zip]

Does anybody know what the Bias Ratio (BIAS) indicator is? How it is
defined? How to use it? Its a technicals option on a google finance
- company stock chart. I've been searching without result. When I
look at the chart, nothing really jumps out at me... except the bias
ratio number seems to indicate the difference between the current
stock price and an exponential moving average (although the magnitudes
don't always line up... directionally it correct... zero seems to
occur at crossovers, + is plus and - is minus.. just not the right
magnitude)

What ratios are we talking about? anybody know what this indicator
is, and how its defined?

Many thanks,
zip.

[Liturgist]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=Bias+Ratio+%28BIAS%29&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images

[zip]

Huh? I'm really not that stupid, please don't assume so. Obviously
you didn't read a single google result on that search link. None of
them, zero, zip, nada remotely describe the Bias indicator displayed
on google finance pages described in my first post. Please look for
yourself. I'm not talking about the bias ratio used for analysis of
hedge fund manager's performance. That description is very well
documented.

I'm talking about the technical indicator on a single stock's
performance.

Try it for yourself.
--Go to finance.google.com
--type in the stock symbol for your favorite investment. If you don't
have a favorite use AAPL (apple) or SPY or GOOG (Google).
--Click the "GET QUOTES" button, just to the right of the box where
you entered the stock symbol.
--You should get a stock market chart. At the bottom of the chart,
there is a selection "Technicals"
Click that.
--Go to the little boxes below.. select a pull down that says "Bias
Ratio (BIAS)" Click.
--Now look at the BIAS line on the stock market chart. Really look at
that line.
--Select different time frames to review. Look at a daily stock, look
at 12 months of the stock. See that BIAS line.

Now look at the search results on the link you sent me. Obviously
none of those results work to describe that line.

So lets start over... does anybody know what the BIAS ratio is?
(etc...)

thanks for your assistance,
zip.

On Jan 19, 4:13 pm, Liturgist <paul.hermeneu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=Bias+Ratio+%28BIAS%29&as_epq=...
>

[zip]

Paul, Er, Nope. Been there, tried that more than numerous times.
There is nothing in that google search result that remotely answers my
question. When you read the results of the google search, you
discover an analysis tool that describes mathematical smoothing of
regression curves used to analyse the integrity of hedge funds. That
is not what I'm talking about.

I'm referring to a technical trend line on the bottom of a stock
chart.
1) Go to finance.google.com
2) Enter your favorite stock ticker symbol in the box, between the
words "google finance" and the button "Get Quotes" If you have no
favorite, use SPY or GOOG or AAPL (my favorites!)
3) You will get a convenient stock market chart.
4) At the bottom of the chart there is a link "Technicals" Select
this link.
5) You now get a pull down menu. Select "Bias Ratio (BIAS)" You
know get an additional indicator box added to you chart.
6) Play with your charts time frame. Look at a one year, one month,
five day chart. Look at the BIAS ratio on the bottom.

That's what I'm talking about. What is that indicator? How is it
created? (Its obviously a delta from some type of moving average..)
What's it good for? etc.. Somebody on the Google staff thought in
important enough to add to their stock charts, but it doesn't appear
to be defined anywhere that I can find. Hmm.. in playing with this
again, it looks like a divergence from 10 period moving average and
current price. (You can duplicate the BIAS ratio chart by grabbing a
MACD chart, changing periods to 1 / 10 / 1 ) So okay, now we have
to add the question, why waste time / engineering / energy adding a
worthless and largely unknown indicator to google charts when
something much more useful, say "On Balance Volume" is missing.

Google finance folks.. Who thinks up this stuff? Do you guys ever
research your products with customers to ensure that things make
sense?

thanks for reading while I rant,
zip

[Nitesh Lohia]

The BIAS ratio looks more like a Percentage Price Oscillator (PPO).It is a variation of MACD with MACD expressed as % of larger EMA.

BIAS(10)=PPO(1,10,1)

[Nitesh Lohia]

I think BIAS ratio is calculated as :

(Current price/10 EMA of price)x100

So a Bias ratio of +1.00 will mean that current price is 1% above last
10 day's price EMA.

It can be used to compare stocks of low and high value.For example a
$10 stock can be compared with a $500 stock.If bias ratio on $10 stock
is +2 whereas it is +1 on the $500 stock,the low value stock shows
better momentum.