Profitable Vortex Indicator Scanner

2019年1月30日

Introduction
The Vortex Indicator is a technical indicator invented by Etienne Botes and Douglas Siepman (Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities, V.28:1 (January, 2010): "The Vortex Indicator") to identify the start of a new trend or the continuation of an existing trend within financial markets.

It is composed of two lines, +VI and -VI. +VI represents up trending momentum and -VI represents down trending momentum.

The most basic strategy is to use the crossovers as trade signals:

• when +VI crosses above -VI, go Long
  
• when -VI crosses above +VI, go Short
  
• Exit when a crossover occurs in the opposite direction
  

What is this tool?
This tool is a performance scanner that uses a decision tree-based algorithm under the hood to find the most profitable period's setting for the indicator. It analyzes the range of periods between 2 to 100 and backtests the Vortex Indicator for each period using the strategy mentioned above across the entire history of an instrument.

Settings
Net Profit line is optional and can be hidden through settings.

Alerts
It has an alert that notifies when a more profitable period was detected.

NOTE: It does not change what has already been plotted.

Good luck!

2019年2月14日

發行說明

• Now it uses "Early Switch" version of the algorithm
  
• Removed Net Profit line from script because it can be shown in the strategy backtester
  
• Made minor optimizations
  

2019年3月10日

發行說明

• Made optimization fixes
  

2019年9月7日

發行說明

• Update
  

2019年10月19日

發行說明

• Security update
  

2021年3月22日

發行說明

• Updated the main algorithm
  
• Updated the alert
  
• Optimized inputs