Some Random Entries

Version 1.0 August 14, 2018

The Double Smoothed Stochastics by Walter Bressert came after William Blau presented his version of the Double Smoothed Stochastics in 1991. Both indicators are widespread in the trading community, but they use different algorithms. While William Blau applied separate smoothing to numerator and denominator, Walter Bressert simply applied the Stochastics %K line to itself. Applying the Stochastics twice leads to an acceleration of the running pattern. Furthermore the Double Stochastics is smoother when compared to the classic Stochastics and generates signals more frequently.

The Double Stochastics by Walter Bressert ships with NinjaTrader as in-built indicator. This version of the Stochastics adresses a few issues of the NinjaTrader default indicator:

- The default indicator has preset the %K line smoothing to 3, value which cannot be changed.
- The default indicator does not have a signal line.
- The default indicator can only be applied to price, but cannot be applied to other indicators.

This version allows for setting the smoothing period for the %K line, comes with a signal line and maybe applied to other indicators as input series.

Important update May 2016:

*Moved input code to State.DataLoaded due to exceptions when used in the market Analyzer.
*Slight improvement in Decimal places formatter

* Use any input such as an indicator, including delta.
* Colored overbought and oversold regions.
* Reversal and 'Poop and Pop' signals.
* Reverse colors option for DStoch.
* Decimal places enum for price markers.
* Gapless option. Only for price series, however you can use a gapless indicator instead as the input.

Code examples:

* How to tell an indicator whether 'Input' is an instrument price or another indicator value.

* Creating colored regions.
* Limiting plots to max/min values.
* Custom decimal places code for use in UI.

Remember this is for Beta so please inform me via PM if you have any bugs, problems or suggestions.

CCL is abbreviation for 'Confirmed CLose'. Years ago I rejected indicators - which I now I have a more friendly relationship with btw- and went into bars. The only trading seminar I went to was by Kent Calhoun who developed his 5 vertical bar trading pattern, essentially a 3 bar swing with some rules, but from which he designed some very effective strategies.

I modified his pattern to feature a 'confirmed close' meaning that only if the close takes out the low of the #4 bar (in a forming high swing) is the pattern verified. Very simple. But not so easy to code. Once that was done, you have the ShowMe included which plots confirmed by close (ccl) swing highs and lows color coded such that higher highs and higher lows are bullish color (for me yellow), LL and LH bearish and a swing whose high or low penetrates a previous one but whose close does not confirm is red, i.e. neither bullish nor bearish and often indicative of trend exhaustion, new trend change etc.

Then there are some Fib levels from those swings.

Also a set that project targets.

There's another one somewhere that determines long term trends by keep track of 'Active Highs' and 'Active Lows', i.e. a low whose developing swing made a higher high is Active until it is penetrated or a higher active low is formed. The trend is up until an active low is penetrated. In this way a bull market is defined as higher highs, and a bear market is defined as lower lows in that a bear market only starts if an active low is penetrated and a bull if an active high is penetrated. If/when I find it I will post it here without further explanation.

Picture shows the attached files in action. Colors are garish by TS8 and Ninja standards but some might find the swing patterns of interest. TS8 users will find they can be made to look quite elegant.

Also, they can be helpful for developing wave and other calculations because the swing points can be referenced. That said, Ninja has a very good swing high/low function, although I must say that the confirmed close business does filter out many bad swings, but doesn't always need multiples of ATR's (and 5-10 bars) to determine them.

There is a new NT7 compatible version in Elite by Zondor

This is a modified version of jtstats indicator also located here in the download area.

I like this indicator alot.

However, I felt it needed to be more visually easy to look at.

So I made my own version with a number of visual changes listed below

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Doubled the width of the vertical bar on right side.

Moved its center bar to the left side.

Increased the font size of the bigger font.

Increased the triangle size.

Moved text and triangles to new positions.

Added a toggle to turn the individual bar volume numbers on or off.

Triangle outlines stays on all the time.

Stats displayed with triangles stay on all the time instead of only displaying with market direction.

Reversed order on lower triangle stats.

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The indicator is called jtRealstats_RJay2.

I also created an indicator called jtRealStats_ChartDisplay (also in the zip file) which helps keep the chart sized properly to display the main indicator.

Also, you need to change the right side margin in chart properties from 4 to 24.

Enjoy,

RJay

COMPATIBILITY:
NinjaTrader 6.5: YES
NinjaTrader 7.0: NOT TESTED [feedback]

Exported using NT Version 7.0.1000.4

This indicator is no longer maintained. Please download the new Range Analysis indicator, which identifies inside bars, narrow range bars, outside bars, wide range bars and LBR triangles.

https://futures.io/download/ninjatrader-7/indicators/1450-download.html?view

This is my personal version of the narrow range and inside range bars, which were first presented by Toby Crabel in his book "Day Trading With Short Term Price Patterns and Opening Range Breakout".

Narrow Range 7 (NR7) Bar: A bar which has a smaller range than the preceding 6 bars. This definition does not include any bars that have a range smaller or equal to the preceding 6 bars.

Inside Range Bar: A bar with a lower or equal high, a higher or equal low and a smaller range than the preceding bar.

Inside Range 4 (IR4) Bar: An Inside Range Bar which qualifies as weak Narrow Range 4 Bar. Only for the purpose of qualifying Inside Range Bars, I use a weaker definition for Narrow Range Bar, which includes the bars that have a range smaller or equal to the preceding 3 bars, as opposed to the definition given above.

Inside Range 7 (IR7) Bar: A bar which is both a Narrow Range 7 and an Inside Bar.

The lookback periods for the Narrow Range and Inside Range Bars can be selected by the user. The default values are 7 and 4 and include the current bar.

Sound File: The sound file is user selectable. You first need to copy your sound file to the directory C:\Program Files\Ninjatrader 7 \sounds. You can then select the file via the indicator dialogue box. Make sure that your sound file is compatible with NinjaTrader. NinjaTrader 7 does not support wav\MPEG, you need to convert it to wav\PCM first with an audio recorder.

The download link was broken. I re-uploaded the installer file on March 14, 2016.


"The Donchian Channel indicator is an indicator that was created by Richard Donchian. The Donchian Channel indicator that was created by Richard Donchian is an indicator that uses the highest high and the lowest low of the price of a stock over a period of days to indicate the plot of a channel of the highest high and the lowest low of the price of a stock over a period of days."

To clarify that, "이 리차드 Donchian 만든 표시했다 Donchian 채널 표시. 이 지표가 가장 높은의 채널의 음부과 최저의 낮은 말을 일 기간 동안 가장 높고 주식의 저렴한 가격의 최저를 사용하는지 리처드 Donchian에 의해 생성 된 Donchian 채널 표시 일 기간 동안 주식의 가격".

This plots identically to the Ninjatrader version while using a fraction of the CPU resources. With COBC false, that would be more like a TINY fraction. (Even less than the fraction of truthful content in my newspapers. Or the signal to noise ratio of the indicator description, which has been rephrased as Gibberish and translated into two different languages.)

The MIN and MAX algorithms have been moved into the indicator and are called only when needed. Optimizing external classes is good, but eliminating the need for them is even better.

OnBarUpdate is not called for redundant intrabar ticks that would not affect the output.

If you want to use this to replace the Ninjatrader Donchian System Indicator you would have to rename this one and put it in a folder with the @prefix after deleting the original one. If you are not comfortable doing that, please don't.

This has a different name than the system indicator, so can be installed in the usual way using the Import Ninjascript utility.

Your satisfaction is important to me, so please report any problems.

Exported using NT Version 7.0.1000.22

The indicator allows to display the Double Smoothed Stochastics - see Stocks & Commodities, January 1991. The Double Smoothed Stochastics as introduced by William Blau should not be confused with the better known Double Smoothed Stochastics (DSS) indicator by Walter Bressert.

Blau Double Smoothed Stochastics (DSS-B): The raw Stochastics is calculated as the percentage value for the close within the range created from the highest high and the lowest low over the lookback period. The DSS-B is obtained by separately double-smoothing both numerator and denominator of the raw Stochastics. The double-smoothed value for the numerator is then divided by the double-smoothed value for the denominator.

Stochastics Smoothing: William Blau twice applied an EMA to both numerator and denominator of the raw Stochastics. This indicator allows to use 30 different moving averages for the smoothing. The same moving average type is used for the first and the second average calculation.

Parameters: The lookback period for the raw Stochastics indicates the number of bars for which the highest high and lowest low is determined. The lookback period is comparable to all other Stochastics indicators. The default value is 14 bars. The double smoothing of numerator and denominator is done with two moving averages. The first smoothing is typically done with a faster moving average, the second with a slower moving average.

Signal line: William Blau did not use a signal line for the double smoothed indicators. I have added the signal line, because the cross of the signal line can be used as a trend indication. Moving average type and period for the signal line can be selected.

Histogram: The indicator has an option to plot a histogram, which shows the difference between DSs and signal line.

Trend definition: The indicator exposes the current trend via an IntSeries. The trend can be determined based on the DSS (rising & not oversold, falling & not overbought, neutral), the signal line (rising & not oversold, falling & not overbought, neutral)) or the DSS / signal line crosses. All trend definitions are not straightforward, but require a higher close to switch to an uptrend, or a lower close to switch to a downtrend. Moreover the DSS / signal line cross will only show an uptrend, when not oversold and a downtrend when not overbought.

Paint bars: The paintbars can be used to plot the trend information. The trend states are uptrend, downtrend and neutral trend as explained above. It is possible to apply the indicator to the price panel and unselect the indicator plots. This allows to use the indicator as a "paintbar only" indicator.

Sound alerts: The indicator comes with sound alerts which are triggered when the trend changes. The sound files are included with the zip file and should be manually copied into the directory Documents -> program files (x86) -> NinajTrader 7 -> sounds.

Update March 13, 2014: Trend filter modified. Histogram added.

Plot 1, 2, 3 and 4 should be invisible and are just used for color reference.

Let me know what you think.

Thread for discussion:
https://futures.io/tradestation-easylanguage-programming/3463-easylan...ce-volume-indicator.html

Mike

Simplified Version of Vertical Drag and AutoScroll tool.
Read new features n discuss more about simplified version here,

https://futures.io/ninjatrader/24723-scrolls_lite-drag-autoscroll.html#post284465

Orginal old version of Vertical Scroll Tools here,
https://futures.io/download/vip_elite_circle/985-download.html?view


Update, Dt 10-Dec-2012 : A small bug removed.