Showing posts with label Metatrader Indicators. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metatrader Indicators. Show all posts

Friday, April 12, 2013

SUPER ADX !!


Finally we have the so called Super ADX, I mean a clone. I could get the time to finalize it after a long time. It is based on the MT4 super ADX indicator. First of all I wish to clarify that it is not the Holy Grail.  Of course we should understand that if one had the Holy Grail Indicator we would never share it any body at whatever price. Since he is not able to make enough money with that system from the market he is trying to make money by selling it. The newbie trader should first understand that there are always many people with their eye on his purse. Everyone wants a few bucks from his purse. Some take it legally by selling something and some steal it.
Coming back to the Indicator, Let us see what this does.  The indicator first calculates the difference between the moving average of the average price and the moving average of the close.  This is taken as a measure of the strength of the trend. The change of directions of this strength measure is a reversal point. However the validity of the reversal point is made when the ADX (Another measure of trend strength) is either above a value of 35 (normally end of a trend) and below a value of 10 (for starting of a Trend). It also looks at reversal of the MACD. Finally   it also looks at multiple reversals within the last 15 bars. Different signals are generated for different type of reversal signals.  The different signals are as follows.
1.       A red bar would indicate that a big move is imminent.
2.       A white bar would indicate that it is the end of the big move and hence exit.
3.       A yellow bar or a violet bar would indicate a possibility of a reversal of the current trend.
4.       A magenta bar would indicate that multiple signals have occurred and possibility of a reversal is very strong.
Also it should be noted that the exit signals is not generated in all cases. Similarly the Big Move indication is also not generated every time. But whenever it happens it will be a good opportunity. Also reversal signals are not generated every time reversal is imminent.
The super ADX also uses a indicator which they call Money line. This line is used as the exit point though I did not find it correct. Normally a Linear weighted Moving average of period 40 should be good enough as a money line. 
So try out the indicator and provide your feedback. I only hope that unscrupulous elements don’t take this and commercialize this as they have down with other my other indicators.









Monday, August 13, 2012

AltrTrend Indicator


The First Indicator we are going to look at is the Altrtrend. This indicator is a simple channel breakout system which uses a part of the range subtracted from the Highs and added to the Lows to form the channel. Price above this channel is defined as an uptrend and price below the channel is defined as the downtrend.  The transition points are plotted as dots.  The funny thing is the plotting point is controlled by the ADX value.  Anyway the indicator itself is very prone to whipsaws and prone for lags. As a standalone indicator it is not very useful. This has to be used in conjunction other indicators.

Altrtred in Amibroker



Altrtrend in Metatrader



Channel Breakout Strategies



Channel breakout system is the heart of the most successful public and commercial trading systems. What is a channel breakout system? It is a simple strategy where we create a channel around the price.  Trading signals are generated whenever the price breaks out of the channel. There are number of ways we can create a channel.  It can be a simple High / Low channel.  It can be a percentage band channel like the Nick MA system or even an ATR channels.  Most of the popular commercial systems like the ASCtend or the Brain Trend are all channel breakout systems. Even the very popular Super trend is channel breakout system

In the Metatrader we find many channel breakout systems. In fact the channel systems are commonly used to define the Trend itself.  Indicators like Altrtrend, Bykov trend and Silver Trend  are a few examples. Even the StepMA which I described earlier in this blog uses a channel to decide when the MA has to remain constant or move up. I plan to present some of these metatrader channel based Trend Indicators here.

Friday, August 3, 2012

StepMA Stochastic



The next Metatrader Indicator I wish to discuss here is an offshoot of the StepMA  called the StepMA Stochastic  which is also quite popular among the forex traders. It also forms a part of the popular strategy  called CATFX50 in the forex forums.

A step channel is formed with the Maximum and minimum volatility and a stepSize.
Volatility is measured in terms of the spread.

Formula of Stochastic s used in this indicator is like below

Stochastic fast = (Min. Volatility- channel  lower  Border)/(channel  upper Border- channel  lower  Border)
Stochastic slow = (Mid. Volatility-  channel lower  Border)/( channel top Border - channel  lower  Border)













Sunday, July 22, 2012

Metatrader Indicator


Everybody is aware of the metatrader Platform for forex.  Its popularity and use is wide ranged and surpasses any software for trading,   It  has proved to be the incubator for a wide variety of indicators and systems.  The Russians have a very great contribution t development of many of these Indicators. I have always been intrigued by these Indicators and have attempted to translate many of these indicators in to Amibroker AFLS. Some of these are already available at my web site.  

Forex has its own peculiarities in terms of volatility, globalized and 24 hours trading. Many of the indicators which seem to work well in forex trading would not work for stocks and other instruments. So it is difficult to use these indicators as they are. We need to modify / fine tune these to suit for trading other instruments. 

The first Indicator we are going to look at is a very popular one called the "STEP MA". It was developed by the Igor of Trend laboratory yahoo group.  Then came variation of the same like Step MA stochastic and even Step RSI...

The Step Moving Average is an indicator which is only allowed to change in discrete steps calculated based on the Range calculation or constant step size. When price is within the constraints of the step size the moving average line remains flat. When price is trending, the moving average moves incrementally in the direction of the trend. 

Here is a Image of the MT4 Indicator


Now a Image of the same Indicator in Amibroker