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Monthly Archive for January, 2009

TICK Indicator

I had a request for an indicator that shows all the TICK data not just the extremes. Here’s my first cut at it. The green bars represent the high tick reading, red the low, the white dots the close, and the white line is an EMA of the HLC3 data. You can set your extreme [...]

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Market Breadth

This indicator will plot market breadth for the NYSE or NASDAQ in one of four ways:
1) Advancing/Declining Issues Ratio
2) Advancing-Declining Issues Total
3) Advancing/Declining Volume Ratio
4) Advancing-Declining Volume Total

# MARKETBREADTH
# (c) 2009 http://www.thinkscripter.com
# thinkscripter@gmail.com
# Last Update 21 Jan 2009
declare lower;
input display = {default ADIssuesRatio, ADIssues, ADVolumeRatio, ADVolume};
input market = {default NYSE, NASDAQ};
def advancing = if(market, close("$advn/q"), [...]

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Up/Down Volume Ratio

This indicator attempts to capture the ratio of rising price volume to falling price volume. The display is an average of up bar volume divided by down bar volume. The mid line is the 50/50 ratio. A divergence between price and the indicator can signal non-confirmation of the trend. (Note: Initial positing of the code [...]

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Day Range and Midpoint Pivot

This script plots the highest regular-hours high, lowest regular-hours low, and midpoint pivot at each bar.
# DAYRANGE
# (c) 2009 http://www.thinkscripter.com
# thinkscripter@gmail.com
# Last Update 14 Feb 2009
input showOnlyToday = YES;
input Market_Open_Time = 0930;
input Market_Close_Time = 1600;
def day = getDay();
def lastDay = getLastDay();
def isToday = if(day==lastDay,1,0);
def shouldPlot = if(showOnlyToday and isToday, 1,if(!showOnlyToday,1,0));
def pastOpen = if((secondsTillTime(Market_Open_Time) > 0), [...]

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Average True Range Stop Validation

Enter your desired working stop-loss amount. Two lines are plotted representing the current bar high/low plus the average true range of the underlying (or any multiple thereof). If your desired stop amount falls within the boundaries of the envelope, the plot is blue. When the volatility increases such that your stop is probably insufficient, the [...]

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