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- Moon recovery
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Moon recovery indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Volatility coefficient
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Volatility coefficient indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Rainbow averages
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Rainbow averages indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Chart operator
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Chart operator indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Six-colour dragon
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Six-colour dragon indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Divergence monitor
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Divergence monitor indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Entry and exit
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Entry and exit indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Options chart guide
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Options chart guide indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Top-bottom warning
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Top-bottom warning indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Three-line trend
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Three-line trend indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Short-term chart
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Short-term chart indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Top-bottom radar
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Top-bottom radar indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Tick-VOL-Main
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Tick-VOL-Main indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- System8
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary System8 indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Nine-turn sequence
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Nine-turn sequence indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Price gaps
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Price gaps indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Capital flow
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Capital flow indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Bull-bear pointer
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Bull-bear pointer indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Trend pulse
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Trend pulse indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Bull-bear flow
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Bull-bear flow indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Tick-VOL
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Tick-VOL indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Chip map
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Chip map indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
- Capital compass
A practical setup and observation guide for the proprietary Capital compass indicator. This guide covers its chart placement and usage workflow without reconstructing unpublished calculations.
Technical indicators
- Dynamic buy/sell momentum
Compares upward and downward movement around session opens.
- Bias ratio
Measures percentage distance from a moving average.
- 3/6 bias
Compares short and medium price averages.
- Bias ratio (classic)
Measures percentage distance from a moving average.
- Commodity channel index
Measures typical-price deviation relative to its mean deviation.
- Watershed
Combines smoothed price and activity into watershed reference lines.
- Stochastic
Smooths the close’s position in its recent range into K and D; J = 3K − 2D.
- Momentum line
Subtracts an earlier close from the current close.
- Oscillator line
Measures closing-price deviation from an average.
- Relative strength index
Measures smoothed upward movement relative to total price movement.
- Rate of change
Measures percentage closing-price change over a lookback.
- Williams %R
Locates the close within the recent high–low range.
- Gravity line
Combines price averages into a gravity reference.
- LWR Williams %R
Smooths a Williams-style range-position oscillator.
- RSI moving average
Smooths relative-strength readings into average lines.
- Price acceleration
Normalises the slope of a fitted price trend.
- Absorption factor
Relates cost distribution to turnover to describe absorption.
- Market energy
Transforms turnover into a market-activity measure.
- Average true range
Smooths the true range, including gaps from the previous close.
- Long/short line
Smooths a weighted composite of prices into a bull/bear reference.
- Weighted index turnover
Relates monetary trading value to a reference price level.
- Chaikin oscillator
Applies fast and slow smoothing to accumulation/distribution.
- Moving average difference
Plots a short/long moving-average difference and its smoothing.
- Directional movement index
Separates positive and negative directional movement and measures trend strength.
- Ease of movement
Relates midpoint movement and range to trading volume.
- Moving average convergence divergence
Compares fast and slow exponential averages to measure momentum.
- Triple exponential average
Measures the rate of change of a triple-smoothed price.
- Ultimate oscillator
Combines buying pressure across short, medium and long ranges.
- Volume MACD
Applies a fast/slow exponential comparison to volume.
- Single-line MACD
Provides a single-line moving-average convergence/divergence variant.
- Fast MACD
Uses a fast moving-average difference with signal smoothing.
- Volume price trend
Accumulates volume weighted by percentage price change.
- Williams variable accumulation/distribution
Weights volume by the open-to-close move relative to the bar range.
- Relative strength vs index
Compares instrument price strength with benchmark strength.
- Acceleration line
Measures price-change speed over configured lookbacks.
- Market trend
Measures the slope of a smoothed price trend.
- Strength index
Compares instrument and benchmark percentage movement.
- Envelope
Constructs tracks around a smoothed price reference.
- Dead-end beacon
Combines smoothed range-position conditions into a threshold marker.
- Turnover line
Measures traded volume relative to circulating shares.
- On-balance volume
Accumulates volume according to the direction of closing-price changes.
- Negative volume index
Updates a cumulative price index on declining-volume bars.
- Positive volume index
Updates a cumulative price index on increasing-volume bars.
- Volume
Displays traded volume per bar and its moving averages.
- Volume (virtual)
Displays traded volume per bar and its moving averages.
- Turnover
Displays traded monetary value and its averages.
- Turnover (virtual)
Displays traded monetary value and its averages.
- Volume RSI
Applies relative-strength smoothing to volume changes.
- Turnover bars
Displays turnover as columns.
- Relative volume strength (needs daily data)
Compares volume strength across lookbacks.
- Relative volume ratio (needs daily data)
Compares instrument activity with benchmark activity.
- Weis wave volume
Groups traded volume into price-direction waves.
- Open interest change (futures)
Highlights changes in futures open interest.
- Open interest (futures)
Displays futures open interest.
- Moving averages
Averages closing prices over each configured period.
- 4 moving averages
Averages closing prices over each configured period.
- 5 moving averages
Averages closing prices over each configured period.
- 6 moving averages
Averages closing prices over each configured period.
- 7 moving averages
Averages closing prices over each configured period.
- 8 moving averages
Averages closing prices over each configured period.
- Bull and bear average
Combines several moving-average lengths into one reference.
- Accumulation/distribution line
Accumulates movement relative to previous close and current range.
- Exponential moving average
Weights recent closing prices more heavily using exponential smoothing.
- Exponential moving average (sub pane)
Weights recent closing prices more heavily using exponential smoothing.
- High-price moving average
This implementation averages high prices. It is not a Hull Moving Average.
- Low price average
Averages low prices over configured periods.
- Variable moving average
Averages a composite of open, high, low and close.
- Cost moving average
Uses traded value and volume to estimate weighted cost lines.
- Bull/bear Bollinger bands
Places volatility bands around a BBI composite average.
- Alligator
Uses smoothed price lines with different periods and offsets.
- Guppy multiple moving average
Groups short and long exponential averages.
- Bollinger bands
Adds standard-deviation bands around a moving-average centre.
- Bollinger bands
Adds standard-deviation bands around a moving-average centre.
- Mike support/resistance
Derives support/resistance reference levels from recent prices.
- Envelope
Offsets a moving average by fixed percentages.
- Waterfall lines
Combines smoothed prices into waterfall-style tracks.
- Sies channel
Constructs Xue-style channels from smoothed prices and ranges.
- Sies channel II
Provides a second Xue-style channel construction.
- Donchian channel
Tracks rolling highest highs and lowest lows.
- Sentiment index
Compares high/low movement with the open and previous close.
- Market strength
Measures changes in a volume/value-based average cost.
- Market strength
Compares single and double smoothing of high–low ranges.
- Psychological line
Counts rising closes as a proportion of the lookback.
- Energy band
Compares upward and downward movement around a prior midpoint.
- Volume ratio
Compares volume on rising and falling bars.
- Williams accumulation/distribution
Accumulates pressure using extremes and the previous close.
- Range ratio
Measures percentage price movement per bar.
- Absolute breadth index
Measures the absolute imbalance between advancing and declining instruments.
- Advance/decline line
Accumulates advancing minus declining instrument counts.
- High/low average (custom script)
High/low average (custom script) is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- TEST_INDEX_4AE0_1
TEST_INDEX_4AE0_1 is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- TEST_INDEX_4AE0_2
TEST_INDEX_4AE0_2 is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Moving average convergence divergence
Moving average convergence divergence uses the local price and data calculations documented below.
- Volume
Volume uses the local price and data calculations documented below.
- Volume
Volume uses the local price and data calculations documented below.
- Detrended price oscillator
Compares price with a displaced average to expose shorter cycles.
- Main force control
Main force control is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Dragon long-term
Dragon long-term is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Brainwave
Brainwave is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Slow stochastic
Applies additional smoothing to a range-position oscillator.
- Stochastic K and D
Smooths the close’s position in its recent high–low range into two stochastic lines.
- Inverse candles
Inverse candles is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Long/short energy bars (intraday main chart)
Long/short energy bars (intraday main chart) is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Money flow index
Weights typical-price movements by volume to compare positive and negative money flow.
- Three-line break
Three-line break is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Center of gravity
Center of gravity is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Heartbeat (needs daily data)
Heartbeat (needs daily data) is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Lifeline (needs daily data)
Lifeline (needs daily data) is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Volume ratio (needs daily data)
Volume ratio (needs daily data) is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Strong-stock score (needs daily data)
Strong-stock score (needs daily data) is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Power radar (needs daily data)
Power radar (needs daily data) is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Dragon short-term
Dragon short-term is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Main-force inflow and outflow
Compares short and long price averages to describe relative pressure.
- Main-force buy and sell
Combines smoothed price momentum lines into a pressure comparison.
- Dragon in the sky
Dragon in the sky is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Accumulation distribution volume
Combines the close’s range position with volume and accumulates it.
- Cost moving averages
Combines volume and price to estimate cost references across horizons.
- Market profit and loss
Compares price with a cost-based reference to describe relative profit or loss.
- Cost-distribution width
Measures the separation of cost-distribution price levels.
- Chip concentration
Compares cost-distribution percentiles to describe chip concentration.
- Active chip ratio
Measures the proportion of estimated costs near the current price.
- Parabolic stop and reverse
Moves a trailing reference with the trend using an accelerating step.
- Taiji volume
Taiji volume is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Volume ratio
Compares current activity with a recent volume reference.
- Heikin-Ashi
Transforms OHLC values into smoothed candles based on neighbouring bars.
- Magic nine turns
Magic nine turns is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Box
Box is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Wealth ladder
Wealth ladder is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Support/resistance lines
Support/resistance lines is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Wave analysis
Wave analysis is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Nine-turn sequence
Counts consecutive comparison conditions to mark price sequences.
- Exponential moving averages
Weights recent prices more heavily with exponential smoothing.
- Exponential moving averages
Weights recent prices more heavily with exponential smoothing.
- Exponential moving averages
Weights recent prices more heavily with exponential smoothing.
- Exponential moving averages
Weights recent prices more heavily with exponential smoothing.
- Ichimoku cloud
Combines range midpoints with shifted leading and lagging lines.
- Contrarian trading
Contrarian trading is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Trend balance point
Trend balance point is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Average directional index
Smooths the difference between positive and negative directional movement.
- Open interest and volume
Displays futures volume with outstanding-contract information.
- Retail line
Retail line is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Bull/bear days
Bull/bear days is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Margin funds
Margin funds is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Index comparison (sub pane, needs daily data)
Index comparison (sub pane, needs daily data) is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Futures open interest
Futures open interest is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Accumulation swing index
Accumulates a swing measure derived from current and previous OHLC prices.
- Double exponential moving average
Combines single and double exponential smoothing to reduce average lag.
- Volume-weighted average price
Weights price by traded volume to form an average-price reference.
- Optimized cost Bollinger bandwidth
Optimized cost Bollinger bandwidth is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Two-year relative price level
Two-year relative price level is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Annual relative price level
Annual relative price level is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Flying Dragon Four Styles
Flying Dragon Four Styles is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Flying Dragon Four Styles
Flying Dragon Four Styles is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Fund analysis
Fund analysis is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Margin financing share
Margin financing share is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Negative news count
Negative news count is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Up/down trend
Up/down trend is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Northbound funds
Northbound funds is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Shareholder count
Shareholder count is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Margin financing and securities lending balance
Margin financing and securities lending balance is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Margin financing and securities lending balance
Margin financing and securities lending balance is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Trading BS points
Trading BS points is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Limit-up long/short line
Limit-up long/short line is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Limit-up accumulation zone
Limit-up accumulation zone is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Volume golden point
Volume golden point is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Test script
Test script is defined by the local calculation documented below.
Candlestick patterns
- Doji
Open and close are close together, showing a small body and intrabar indecision.
- Morning star
A declining candle, a small middle body and a recovering third candle form a potential bullish reversal sequence.
- Evening star
A rising candle, a small middle body and a declining third candle form a potential bearish reversal sequence.
- Long-legged doji
A small body with a wide high–low range describes substantial movement without a decisive close.
- Harami
A small real body sits inside the preceding larger real body, describing contraction.
- Three white soldiers
Three rising candles describe sustained upward pressure; inspect their opens, closes and shadows.
- Three black crows
Three declining candles describe sustained downward pressure.
- Shaven-head bullish candle
A rising candle closes at or near its high, leaving little upper shadow.
- Gravestone doji
A small body near the low with a long upper shadow describes rejection of higher prices.
- Morning doji star
A doji separates a declining candle and a recovering candle in a potential bullish reversal sequence.
- Evening doji star
A doji separates a rising candle and a declining candle in a potential bearish reversal sequence.
- Shooting star
A small body with a long upper shadow can describe rejection after an advance.
- Inverted hammer
A small body with a long upper shadow can describe a recovery attempt after a decline.
- Hammer
A small body with a long lower shadow can describe rejection of lower prices after a decline.
- Engulfing
The current real body engulfs the preceding real body; direction depends on candle colours and context.
- Lotus out of water
A rising price candle crosses the moving-average conditions defined below.
- Dark cloud cover
A declining candle closes deeply into a preceding rising candle’s body.
- Piercing line
A rising candle recovers deeply into a preceding declining candle’s body.
- Harami cross
A doji body lies within a preceding larger body, describing contraction and indecision.
- Sword candle
A sword-like candle is detected using the body/shadow proportions in the local formula.
- Tweezer top
Adjacent highs occur near the same price, forming a potential resistance reference.
- Tweezer bottom
Adjacent lows occur near the same price, forming a potential support reference.
- Long bullish candle
A large rising real body describes strong upward movement within the bar.
- Long bearish candle
A large declining real body describes strong downward movement within the bar.
- Counterattack lines
Opposite-colour candles close near the same level after an initial gap or reversal attempt.
- Price gap
The formula detects a price gap relative to the preceding trading range.
- Upside gap two crows
A rising candle followed by two declining candles describes a potential bearish reversal sequence.
- Rising three methods
Small countertrend candles sit within a larger rising sequence, followed by renewed upward movement.
- Falling three methods
Small countertrend candles sit within a larger declining sequence, followed by renewed downward movement.
- Long lower shadow
A lower shadow large relative to the body records recovery from the bar’s low.
- Long upper shadow
An upper shadow large relative to the body records retreat from the bar’s high.
- Separating lines
Opposite-colour candles with related opening levels form the separating-line conditions below.
- Shaven-bottom bearish candle
Shaven-bottom bearish candle uses the local price and data calculations documented below.
- Hanging man
Hanging man uses the local price and data calculations documented below.
Strategies
- Bias ratio expert system strategy
Measures percentage distance from a moving average.
- CCI expert system strategy
Measures typical-price deviation relative to its mean deviation.
- Directional movement expert system strategy
Separates positive and negative directional movement and measures trend strength.
- Stochastic K and D
Smooths the close’s position in its recent high–low range into two stochastic lines.
- Bollinger bands expert system strategy
Adds standard-deviation bands around a moving-average centre.
- KDJ expert system strategy
Smooths the close’s position in its recent range into K and D; J = 3K − 2D.
- MACD expert system strategy
Compares fast and slow exponential averages to measure momentum.
- Momentum expert system strategy
Subtracts an earlier close from the current close.
- PSY psychological line expert system strategy
Counts rising closes as a proportion of the lookback.
- Rate of change expert system strategy
Measures percentage closing-price change over a lookback.
- Relative strength expert system strategy
Measures smoothed upward movement relative to total price movement.
- VR volume ratio expert system strategy
Compares volume on rising and falling bars.
- Market stochastic expert system strategy
Market stochastic expert system strategy is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Moving average expert system strategy
Averages closing prices over each configured period.
Combinations
- BOLL+ENE+KDJ combination
BOLL+ENE+KDJ combination is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- MA_OSC+DPO_RSI combination
MA_OSC+DPO_RSI combination is defined by the local calculation documented below.
Data and remote indicators
- Close line (server indicator)
Close line (server indicator) is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Indicator error (server indicator)
Indicator error (server indicator) is defined by the local calculation documented below.
- Area chart (server indicator)
Area chart (server indicator) is defined by the local calculation documented below.