Need help using Awesome Oscillator as a filter

March 11th, 2011, 12:41 PM

Fat Tails

If you do those changes, you will have standard MACD with colors, LOL. You are asking me to add colors to the MACD? You can do this yourself: Edit the MACD, add the following code at the end of OnBarUpdate()

Code

if(Rising(Diff))
    PlotColors[2][0] = Color.Lime;
else
   PlotColors[2][0] = Color.Red;

and save the indicator under a new name and compile it via F5.

Not tested.

LOL, Thanks. I fixed the MACD with color bars!

October 28th, 2011, 09:12 PM

@ Zondor: I saw your version of the Awesome Oscillator.

In my opinion it is a completely different indicator and has little to do with the original Awesome Oscillator.

I have compared the indicator with the Awesome Oscillator as it was created by Bill Williams. I do not think it is a good idea to replace various parts of the code and still call it Awesome Oscillator. It shows a completely different behavior.

Chart attached below with Awesome Oscillator and new Update. Hope you do not mind my comment.

October 29th, 2011, 12:26 AM

Quoting

Chart attached below with Awesome Oscillator and new Update. Hope you do not mind my comment

I don't mind at all, but please don't report me to Bill Williams!

Now the question is whether this in-need-of-a-new-name concoction is of any practical value. With actual median values and a more responsive MA, I considered that this version might be more faithful to the original intended concept. Or might not!

October 29th, 2011, 06:24 AM

Zondor

I don't mind at all, but please don't report me to Bill Williams!

Now the question is whether this in-need-of-a-new-name concoction is of any practical value. With actual median values and a more responsive MA, I considered that this version might be more faithful to the original intended concept. Or might not!

Actually your indicator is quite different from the Awesome Oscillator.

-> The raw MACD is the difference between a fast and a slow EMA.
-> The Awesome Oscillator is the difference between a fast and a slow SMA.
-> Zondor's oscillator is the difference between a fast and a slow LLMA.

If you look at the chart below, you will find that the MACD (red) and the Awesome Oscillator (blue) are close relatives, but that Zondor's Oscillator (green) is quite different. All indicators use the same settings, that is a period of 5 for the fast and a period of 34 for the slow moving average.

October 31st, 2011, 03:20 PM

There are some changes to my recently posted mutant Awesome Oscillator. It now uses the statistical median of each bar. I believe that the calculation method is correct (midpoint member of a sorted ArrayList), but I needed to make a few small "sledge hammer" tweaks to the code to get it to plot.

Download: Update of "Awesome Oscillator" but now it's a different animal

Another find from the Ninjatrader Forums, attributed to the legendary Bill Williams but the version I found there was coded so poorly as to be useless. Changed the plot to a multi-color line. Added user selection option for MA periods. Defaults …

Zondor

How it differs from the starting point version on the Ninja Forum:

Changed the plot to a multi-color line.
Added user selection option for MA periods. Defaults are 9/12, original was 5/34.
Added the choice of using the SMA or the LLMA.
Added the choice of using the actual statistical median, computed on a bar by bar basis, or the Ninjatrader median which is just the average of the High and Low.

I don't know if I would have called it Awesome. Awful, maybe?

August 30th, 2016, 03:16 PM

Fat Tails

Have reworked the Awesome Oscillator. The new version

Fat Tails,

I'm trying to use the AO in a strategy, but any value <0 cannot be detected. Is there a way to check for the AO value below zero?

Thanks very much in advance.

August 30th, 2016, 03:30 PM

angela d

Fat Tails,

I'm trying to use the AO in a strategy, but any value <0 cannot be detected. Is there a way to check for the AO value below zero?

Thanks very much in advance.

Probably a bug in the strategy.

The value of the Awesome Oscillator can be accessed as anaAwesomeOscillator.Oscillator[0] and may take positive or negative values.

August 30th, 2016, 03:50 PM

Fat Tails

Probably a bug in the strategy.

The value of the Awesome Oscillator can be accessed as anaAwesomeOscillator.Oscillator[0] and may take positive or negative values.

Thanks so much for your response.

I just created a fresh strategy that does nothing but print to output if AO is above or below 0. In an 8 month backtest, it can detect only >0.

I just wrote it in the strategy wizard.

curious.

Thanks again.

here's the code for the test strategy:

CalculateOnBarClose = true;
}

/// <summary>
/// Called on each bar update event (incoming tick)
/// </summary>
protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
// Condition set 1
if (anaAwesomeOscillator(5, false, 34, 5).OscillatorLine[0] > 0)
{
PrintWithTimeStamp("above");
}

// Condition set 2
if (anaAwesomeOscillator(5, false, 34, 5).OscillatorLine[0] < 0)
{
PrintWithTimeStamp("below");
}
}

August 30th, 2016, 04:04 PM

angela d

Thanks so much for your response.

I just created a fresh strategy that does nothing but print to output if AO is above or below 0. In an 8 month backtest, it can detect only >0.

I just wrote it in the strategy wizard.

curious.

Thanks again.

here's the code for the test strategy:

CalculateOnBarClose = true;
}

/// <summary>
/// Called on each bar update event (incoming tick)
/// </summary>
protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
// Condition set 1
if (anaAwesomeOscillator(5, false, 34, 5).OscillatorLine[0] > 0)
{
PrintWithTimeStamp("above");
}

// Condition set 2
if (anaAwesomeOscillator(5, false, 34, 5).OscillatorLine[0] < 0)
{
PrintWithTimeStamp("below");
}
}

If you add the Awesome Oscillator to a chart, you will notice that the oscillator line is deactivated. This means that no values are written to the OscillatorLine plot. In this case NinjaTrader set the close value to the DataSeries. The close is always > 0, as there are no negative prices. But if you check for a value via "anaAwesomeOscillator.OscillatorLine.ContainsValue(0)", this should return false, as no value has been set to the plot!

You have two choices that will work

(1) activate the line via anaAwesomeOscillator(5, true, 34, 5).OscillatorLine[0]

(2) or use the plot that is not being disabled anaAwesomeOscillator(5, false, 34, 5).Oscillator[0]

Only if you disable the line plot and then try to access the disabled line, it cannot work.

August 30th, 2016, 04:11 PM

Fat Tails

If you add the Awesome Oscillator to a chart, you will notice that the oscillator line is deactivated. This means that no values are written to the OscillatorLine plot. In this case NinjaTrader set the close value to the DataSeries. The close is always > 0, as there are no negative prices. But if you check for a value via "anaAwesomeOscillator.OscillatorLine.ContainsValue(0)", this should return false, as no value has been set to the plot!

You have two choices that will work

(1) activate the line via anaAwesomeOscillator(5, true, 34, 5).OscillatorLine[0]

(2) or use the plot that is not being disabled anaAwesomeOscillator(5, false, 34, 5).Oscillator[0]

Only if you disable the line plot and then try to access the disabled line, it cannot work.

Wow, that works! Thank you so much!

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