Plot in it's own window above the price chart.

*Subject: Moving Averages, Profitunity, "New Trading Dimensions"* bq. *Raminder Singh:* bq. Bill William's in his 3rd chapter mentions the "Alligator", which he describes as, the Blue Line - ...

Body Momentum is a trading indicator described in Perry Kaufman's book. It is an oscillator type indicator that moves between 0 and 100 and computes the percentage of bars that closed above the ope...

This formula marks a spot on the chart N bars back from the last bar.

The following formula is based on "Profit Locking And The Relative Price channel", an article by Leon Wilson in the January 2008 issue of Stocks and Commodities magazine.

This formula calculates Beta which is a measure of volatility of one security against another. This is typically used to measure the volatility of a stock against an index like the S&P 500. A value...

In an article in Futures Magazine, October 1998, Dennis McNicholl describes the use of Bollinger Bands (BB) and provides a means of making them tighter when markets are trending. He calls them Bet...

DEMA and TEMA are unique smoothing indicators developed by Patrick Mulloy. TEMA was originally introduced in the January 1994 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine. The inher...

bq. Average true range (ATR) is a technical analysis volatility indicator originally developed by J. Welles Wilder, Jr. for commodities. The indicator does not provide an indication of price trend,...

bq. Hello RTs, bq. If any of you could find time, could you just test the efficacy of this Upper and Lower Band based on ATR. The MetaStock formulas are given at the end. bq. Using the defaul...

Welles Wilder described these calculations to determine the trading range for a stock or commodity. True Range is defined as the largest of the following: * High for the period less the Low for ...

If you are using Metastock the following formula is for an ATR exit. The defaults are high - 3*ATR but you can change these values to suit.

The formula to implement the average true range (ATR) trailing stop loss method for MetaStock, as described by author Sylvain Vervoort In "Average True Range Trailing Stops" article, is provided be...

Pivots can for instance be used to look for price patterns or used in pattern exploration indicators.

bq. Here's what I think a DEVSTOP is in Metastock language, described in Kase's "Trading with the Odds", and better described in Kaufman's "Trading Systems and Methods". It uses a 2-day range, calc...

Average True Range (ATR) is usually used to set trailing stops to close positions based on average true range. Not commonly used to open positions. The following indicator plots the ATR stop lo...

The Aroon Indicator is a range bound, technical indicator that is made up of two separate indicators (Aroon-Up and Aroon-Down) designed to measure how many periods have passed since the price has r...

The Aroon Oscillator is simply the difference between the Aroon-Up and Aroon-Down indicators. The Aroon-Up and Aroon-Down indicator are usually plotted together for easy comparison, alternatively y...

This indicator plots the rate of change of a linear regression slope. This indicator should be interpreted like any other momentum oscillator.

The Ease of Movement (EOM) indicator is a volume based oscillator. It is designed to measure the relationship between price and volume and display that relationship as an oscillator that fluctuates...

Anchored Momentum, by Rudy Stefenel, is a modified momentum indicator to capture the relative momentum. Anchored momentum uses simple moving averages as the reference for deriving the momentum, the...

An anchored moving average (AMA) is when you select a point on the chart and starting calculating the moving average from there. Importantly the moving average's denominator is not fixed but cumula...

Bill Williams' Fractals are formed when a group of five consecutive bars of which the first two are successively reaching higher (or diving deeper) and the last two are descending lower (or growing...

The Awesome Oscillator is an indicator used to measure market momentum. AO is calculated as the difference of a 34 Period and 5 Period Simple Moving Averages. The Simple Moving Averages that are us...

Kaufman AMA Binary Wave

The Average Directional Index (ADX), Minus Directional Indicator (-DI) and Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) represent a group of directional movement indicators that form a trading system developed...

In a nutshell, the premise is based on the following recommendation: When you find a good channel on a price chart, don't forget about it, because the market remembers such channels for a long time...

It consists of three lines, overlaid on a pricing chart, that represent the jaw, the teeth and the lips of the beast, and was created to help the trader confirm the presence of a trend and its dire...

The adaptive price zone (APZ) is a technical indicator developed by Lee Leibfarth that was first described in the Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities (September, 2006 "Identify the Turning P...

This oscillator plots the percentage difference between the close price and and the time series forecast. Values over 0 indicate that the price is moving away from the forecasted price and into the...

Price Headley's Acceleration Bands serve as a trading envelope that factor in a stock's typical volatility over standard settings of 20 or 80 bars. They can be used across any time period, though H...

Accumulation Distribution Indicator or ADL (Accumulation Distribution Line) is a volume based indicator which was essentially designed to measure underlying supply and demand. It accomplishes this ...

Developed by Perry Kaufman, Kaufman's Adaptive Moving Average (KAMA) is a moving average designed to account for market noise or volatility. KAMA will closely follow prices when the price swings ar...

The Sine Wave (also called MESA) indicator is based on the assumption that markets move in cyclical patterns. He tries to quantify such cycles and then predict them (by making his indicator leading...

The following custom formula will return the slope of a Linear Regression Line.

The following custom formula returns the slope of a line. For example, this formula returns the slope of a 14 day run of the security's closing prices.

For interpretation refer to the article "Standard Error Bands", in the September 96 issue of TASC, written by Jon Anderson.

The following formula is a three day moving average of a 14 day Stochastic. In MetaStock this would be the indicator line that is plotted with the built in Stochastic indicator.

In his book The New Technical Trader, Tushar Chande defines the Stochastic RSI as: StochRSI = (RSI - RSIL)/(RSIH -RSIL) where RSIL and RSIH are the lowest and highest values of the RSI over a g...

Restricts any indicator plot to selected date period. *Created By Jose Silva of MetastockTools.com*