This indicator plots VWAP along with Standard Deviation Bands. It also plots a rolling intraday POC along with it.
Then the Skew, current size of ONE Standard Deviation, and the percentage ratio of skew to ONE Standard Deviation are all calculated. These are then displayed in the upper left hand corner.
General idea is based on Skew and trading around that. Skew is the relationship between the VWAP and the POC. A small skew implies the market is currently in a ranging environment. A larger skew implies the market is trending as the POC and VWAP are separating.
Positive Skew occurs when the VWAP is above the POC.
Negative Skew occurs when the VWAP is below the POC.
Symetrical Skew occurs when the VWAP ~= POC
The skewToStandard Deviation % is the ratio of the skew to the size of ONE standard Deviation. I put that there as a possible way to monitor how the skew may be stacking up to current volatility, i.e. the current standard Deviations....which is the distance between the bands. This should be a better measurement that a fixed number, as it is tied to volatility. The higher the %, the smaller the skew, the less likely a trend is in place.
I do not use these things and coded for a buddy. Details of how to trade them can be found at HERE.
I also have a pdf 'cliff notes' summary of the thread, but I can only seem to post one attachment with this indicator. If you want it, send a pm and I'll send it to you.
After some real time monitoring, I will update the next version with more customization for the end user such as more plotting options, color bars, trend etc.......
Notes, please read:
This indicator is an early release, I will update with new version in the near future
The newer version will have more plotting and display options
Also included will be a buffer to decide how much seperation to determine trending vs chop
Right now, the START TIME for the POC is there, but the START TIME for the VWAP is NOT. By default it starts and ends at the END of the US session, which is what most people will use I imagine. Will update in next release.
I had this up earlier but realized it didn't export from NT properly. I had someone else test it and this one should work fine.
July 25th, 2011
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This indicator plots a semi-transparent rectangle with user defined inputs for the Opacity, Border Color, Height and Width of the rectangle.
This rectangle stays centered over the CLOSING price, and moves with it, so you know how far away your limits are from the last traded price.
Useful to visualize how far away your total risk tolerance may be from current price upon entry.
Example: if you know your max risk tolerance for a particular instrument is 20 tics, set the upper and lower limits to 20. Then you can visually see how far away your stop will be from your entry on your chart.
If you wanted to do targets too, add this indicator again to your chart, and make it a different WIDTH, and you can visualize your stop and your target at your time of entry.
June 23rd, 2011
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This indicator simply plots a DOWN color if the current volume is less than the previous, and UP color if volume bar is greater than the last. So colors based on SLOPE of volume.
This is NOT the same as the "VolumeUpDown" Indicator that plots based on the UP/Down activity of the bars.
January 23rd, 2012 03:32 PM rainbowchaser Thanks Forrestang. I've looking to learn about the VWAP anf how to us it so this comes very handy. Thanks for sharing.
August 3rd, 2011 01:21 AM djkiwi Thanks for doing this, great work....