This technique was described by William Blau in his book "Momentum, Direction and Divergence" (1995). His book focuses on three key aspects of trading: momentum, direction and divergence. Blau, who was an electrical engineer before becoming a trader, thoroughly examines the relationship between price and momentum in step-by-step examples....
Created By Request for lucalucious Allows for EMA Smoothing with different values for Up and Down Trend. Ability to Plot EMA to see Trend Filter
GRIB Trendline show the distance betwen the price and the SAR with the GRIB settings in percentage. It highlight the elasticity of the wave. It's designed to be used with trendlines to spot the bottoms and the tops. More explanation here : and here : note : do not use "selldot" and "buydot", i was testing something and gave up about the idea
This indicator is a composite of MACD and Z-Score (requested by @ChartAt). The general idea is that counter-trend component of the Z-score is used to adjust/improve the trend component of the MACD. The advantage is that it is a more accurate and “assumption-free” and can more accurately describe how a market or stock actually works in a given time frame. I have...
Introduced by M.H.Pee, Trend Trigger Factor is designed to keep the trader trading with the trend. System rules according to the developer: * If the 15-day TTF is above 100 (indicating an uptrend), you will want to be in long positions. * If the 15-day TTF is below -100, you will want to be short. * If it is between -100 and 100, you should remain with the...
In essence, it is simply the standard deviation of the last x bars of a y-bar moving average. Thus, the TAI is a simple trend indicator when prices trend with authority, the slope of the moving average increases, and when prices meander in a trendless range, the slope of the moving average decreases.
Looking for something other than a moving average to help determine not only a trend's strength, but also it's direction? Try PFE! PFE was developed by Hans Hannula that was invented to determine price efficiency over a user-defined time period. The Polarized Fractal Efficiency indicator is, in the essence, an exponentially smoothed ratio of the length of two...
1) Trix Ribbon =============================================================== This was built on request. Many Stock/FX traders overlay multiple Trix lines to form the ribbon, this indicator makes it easy. Also, optionally this can plot a BollingerBand on Trix_1. More info on Trix: stockcharts.com 2) High/Low/Close Trend Indicator ...
Guppy Multiple Moving Averages --------------------------------- Developed by Daryl Guppy, the basic idea of Multiple moving average(MMA) is to view the trend as two band of moving averages – short term band and long term band. Shortterm averages capture the inferred behaviour of traders and long term represents the investors. Uses fractal repetition to...
About: The Choppiness Index was created by E.W. Dreiss out of chaos theory, and attempts to gauge the current market's trendiness. I've seen a few versions of this floating around, but this was built off the true version as described in the original 1993 release, you can read more about it here: www.edwards-magee.com Usage: Values above 61.8 are considered very...