Multicolor Bollinger Bands - Market PhasesHi everyone
Hope you're all doing well 😘
Today I feel gracious and decided to give to the community. And giving not only an indicator but also a trading method
This trading method shows how a convergence based on moving averages is tremendous
Multicolour Bollinger Bands indicator that indicates market phases.
It plots on the price chart, thanks to different color zones between the bands, a breakdown of the different phases that the price operates during a trend.
The different zones are identified as follows:
- red color zone: trend is bearish, price is below the 200 periods moving average
- orange color zone: price operate a technical rebound below the 200 periods moving average
- yellow color zone: (phase 1 which indicate a new bearish cycle)
- light green zone: (phase 2 which indicate a new bullish cycle)
- dark green zone: trend is bullish, price is above the 200 periods moving average
- grey color zone: calm phase of price
- dark blue color zone: price is consolidating in either bullish or bearish trend
- light blue zones: price will revert to a new opposite trend (either long or short new trend)
By identifying clearly the different market phases with the multicolor Bollinger bands, the market entries by either a the beginning of a new trend or just after a rebound or a consolidating phase is easier to spot on.
Trade well and trade safe
Dave
Confluence
Stochastic ConfluenceShows 5 stochastic plots with moving average cross marks for different time-frames. Each plot is based on the current interval times the configurable multiplier.
E.g.: If you are viewing 1h chart, the settings 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 will get you stochs for the 1h, 2h, 3h, 4h and 6h.
Confluence Strategy Backtest This is modified version of Dale Legan's "Confluence" indicator written by Gary Fritz.
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Here is Gary`s commentary:
Since the Confluence indicator returned several "states" (bull, bear, grey, and zero),
he modified the return value a bit:
-9 to -1 = Bearish
-0.9 to 0.9 = "grey" (and zero)
1 to 9 = Bullish
The "grey" range corresponds to the "grey" values plotted by Dale's indicator, but
they're divided by 10.
You can change long to short in the Input Settings
Please, use it only for learning or paper trading. Do not for real trading.
Confluence Strategy This is modified version of Dale Legan's "Confluence" indicator written by Gary Fritz.
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Here is Gary`s commentary:
Since the Confluence indicator returned several "states" (bull, bear, grey, and zero),
he modified the return value a bit:
-9 to -1 = Bearish
-0.9 to 0.9 = "grey" (and zero)
1 to 9 = Bullish
The "grey" range corresponds to the "grey" values plotted by Dale's indicator, but
they're divided by 10.
Confluence script This is modified version of Dale Legan's "Confluence" indicator written by Gary Fritz.
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Here is Gary`s commentary:
* I moved the core Confluence computations into a Confluence function.
Since the Confluence indicator returned several "states" (bull, bear, grey, and zero),
he modified the return value a bit:
-9 to -1 = Bearish
-0.9 to 0.9 = "grey" (and zero)
1 to 9 = Bullish
The "grey" range corresponds to the "grey" values plotted by Dale's indicator, but
they're divided by 10.
So -0.4 is equivalent to "grey -4" in Dale's indicator.
* I got rid of a bit of extra computation in the function. I didn't try to do a hard-core
Pierre-style optimization :-), but I noticed several significant chunks of calculation were
being done several times each bar, and I commented them out and replaced them with an intermediate
variable. It still calls sine/cosine a dozen times on each bar, which accounts for the bulk of the
processing time, but I think it's a bit easier to understand what the code is doing this way. (It also
seems to work better -- see below.) For the most part I didn't try to use mnemonic names for these
intermediate variables, because I don't understand exactly what the values represent!!
* I'm appending a simplified Confluence indicator using the function.
* I've also appended a simple Confluence system. This system sets an entry stop above/below the current
bar if Confluence goes into bull/bear mode, and similarly sets an exit stop below/above the bar where it
exits bull/bear mode. There's also an optional "aggressive" stop mode that tightens the stops if the market
moves in your direction; for example, if the high is 1000 and your "Trigger" offset is 2, the initial stop
is set at 1002. If the next bar has a high of 997, the stop is tightened to 997+2=999.
Interestingly, when I first wrote this system, I ran into a strange MaxBarsBack problem. The Confluence
indicator worked just fine with a MaxBarsBack setting of "Auto-Detect." But systems don't have a setting
like that -- you have to specify a fixed value. But NO fixed value (up to the maximum of 999) worked for
either the system OR the indicator! And I couldn't see anywhere that it was looking back that many bars.
Then, when I did the optimization on the Confluence code, the MaxBarsBack problem mysteriously disappeared.
Sometimes TradeStation is just spooky... Any ideas what happened?
I've appended a sample system report for the system on SPX, using the default parameters. The system actually
does pretty well. It probably won't make anyone rich, but I thought some folks might enjoy playing with it.
There are some other things you could do with it -- e.g. it might be interesting to change it to look for
long opportunities when Confluence hits -9, and short when it hits 9.