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Cumulative Tick Behind Price

I’ve been asked on numerous occasions how to plot the Cumulative Tick indicator behind the price so I thought I’d post a quick note for those interested. The indicator works as either an upper or lower study. Simply click “On Upper Subgraph” to move the study to the price pane. If this causes a “compression” in your price action, simply uncheck “Fit Studies” in your Style settings.

Note how the Cumulative Tick does a very nice job of spotting trend days and keeping you on the right side of the trade.

Best of luck in your trading,
Eric

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Larry Connors’ ETF Signals as Custom Columns

Pro Member Phil H. requested an implementation of the Larry Connors’ High Probability ETF Signals study as custom columns. The below image shows the result of the signals in a watch list. Pro Members can download the definitions in the usual place in the forum.
Cheers,
Eric

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Wave Volume Update

Thanks to the suggestions of several Pro Members, I’ve made some minor tweaks to the Wave Volume study. More specifically, the logic for sorting of reversal bar volume was enhanced for greater accuracy. The download is available immediately in the forum.

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Wave Volume

Based on the work of David Weis, the Wave Volume indicator plots cumulative volume for each indicated price wave. The upper indicator shows the wave structure as defined by the user inputs while the lower indicator displays the cumulative volume for said waves. Note the daily chart of AAPL below and the lower volume on each successive wave higher indicating the current trend is potentially nearing exhaustion. (Update for Pro Members this weekend Sunday)

Wave Volume

AAPL Trend Running on Fumes?

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Cumulative Tick

I finally had some time to start reading my copy of Michael Gutmann’s The Very Latest E-Mini Trading, 2nd Edition: Using Market Anticipation to Trade Electronic Futures. I’ve enjoyed the book thus far and have created a few new indicators as a result. The first is the Cumulative Tick indicator as shown below. This study is designed to run on a 20 day, 5 minute chart of one of the primary futures contracts (/ES, /YM, /TF, /NQ). Each day, the indicator plots the cumulative sum of the NYSE $TICK values. Gutmann uses this chart to determine the type of trading day evolving. The last two days are considered “Unequivocal Trend Days.” The horizontal lines on the indicator represent average values of the cumulative tick at 10:30, 12:00, 13:30, and 15:00 EST. There are separate averages for days with a positive closing cumulative tick and a negative one. By comparing today’s value to the average lines at a given time one can get a sense of the strength of the day’s trend in relation to the historical average. Ideally, we would like to calculate the average value lines over a larger time period than 20 days and a smaller interval than 5 minutes. Gutmann uses a 100 day 1 minute chart for his calculations. Unfortunately, I found the best we could get with TOS was 20 day 5 minute. I’ve also coded up a normalized MACD as described in the book and is shown in the lower image with the Cumulative Tick indicator on the upper subgraph.

Cumulative $TICK

Cumulative $TICK Behind Price with Statistical MACD

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