Absolute Strength Index [ASI] (Zeiierman)█ Overview
The Absolute Strength Index (ASI) is a next-generation oscillator designed to measure the strength and direction of price movements by leveraging percentile-based normalization of historical returns. Developed by Zeiierman, this indicator offers a highly visual and intuitive approach to identifying market conditions, trend strength, and divergence opportunities.
By dynamically scaling price returns into a bounded oscillator (-10 to +10), the ASI helps traders spot overbought/oversold conditions, trend reversals, and momentum changes with enhanced precision. It also incorporates advanced features like divergence detection and adaptive signal smoothing for versatile trading applications.
█ How It Works
The ASI's core calculation methodology revolves around analyzing historical price returns, classifying them into top and bottom percentiles, and normalizing the current price movement within this framework. Here's a breakdown of its key components:
⚪ Returns Lookback
The ASI evaluates historical price returns over a user-defined period (Returns Lookback) to measure recent price behavior. This lookback window determines the sensitivity of the oscillator:
Shorter Lookback: Higher responsiveness to recent price movements, suitable for scalping or high-volatility assets.
Longer Lookback: Smoother oscillator behavior is ideal for identifying larger trends and avoiding false signals.
⚪ Percentile-Based Thresholds
The ASI categorizes returns into two groups:
Top Percentile (Winners): The upper X% of returns, representing the strongest upward price moves.
Bottom Percentile (Losers): The lower X% of returns, capturing the sharpest downward movements.
This percentile-based normalization ensures the ASI adapts to market conditions, filtering noise and emphasizing significant price changes.
⚪ Oscillator Normalization
The ASI normalizes current returns relative to the top and bottom thresholds:
Values range from -10 to +10, where:
+10 represents extreme bullish strength (above the top percentile threshold).
-10 indicates extreme bearish weakness (below the bottom percentile threshold).
⚪ Signal Line Smoothing
A signal line is optionally applied to the ASI using a variety of moving averages:
Options: SMA, EMA, WMA, RMA, or HMA.
Effect: Smooths the ASI to filter out noise, with shorter lengths offering higher responsiveness and longer lengths providing stability.
⚪ Divergence Detection
One of ASI's standout features is its ability to detect and highlight bullish and bearish divergences:
Bullish Divergence: The ASI forms higher lows while the price forms lower lows, signaling potential upward reversals.
Bearish Divergence: The ASI forms lower highs while the price forms higher highs, indicating potential downward reversals.
█ Key Differences from RSI
Dynamic Adaptability: ASI adjusts to market conditions through percentile-based scaling, while RSI uses static thresholds.
█ How to Use ASI
⚪ Trend Identification
Bullish Strength: ASI above zero suggests upward momentum, suitable for trend-following trades.
Bearish Weakness: ASI below zero signals downward momentum, ideal for short trades or exits from long positions.
⚪ Overbought/Oversold Levels
Overbought Zone: ASI in the +8 to +10 range indicates potential exhaustion of bullish momentum.
Oversold Zone: ASI in the -8 to -10 range points to potential reversal opportunities.
⚪ Divergence Signals
Look for bullish or bearish divergence labels to anticipate trend reversals before they occur.
⚪ Signal Line Crossovers
A crossover between the ASI and its signal line (e.g., EMA or SMA) can indicate a shift in momentum:
Bullish Crossover: ASI crosses above the signal line, signaling potential upside.
Bearish Crossover: ASI crosses below the signal line, suggesting downside momentum.
█ Settings Explained
⚪ Absolute Strength Index
Returns Lookback: Sets the sensitivity of the oscillator. Shorter periods detect short-term changes, while longer periods focus on broader trends.
Top/Bottom Percentiles: Adjust thresholds for defining winners and losers. Narrower percentiles increase sensitivity to outliers.
Signal Line Type: Choose from SMA, EMA, WMA, RMA, or HMA for smoothing.
Signal Line Length: Fine-tune the responsiveness of the signal line.
⚪ Divergence
Divergence Lookback: Adjusts the period for detecting divergence. Use longer lookbacks to reduce noise.
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Absolutestrength
Coral Trend Pullback Strategy (TradeIQ)Description:
Strategy is taken from the TradeIQ YouTube video called "I Finally Found 80% Win Rate Trading Strategy For Crypto".
Check out the full video for further details/clarification on strategy entry/exit conditions.
The default settings are exactly as TradeIQ described in his video.
However I found some better results by some tweaking settings, increasing R:R ratio and by turning off confirmation indicators.
This would suggest that perhaps the current confirmation indicators are not the best options. I'm happy to try add some other optional confirmation indicators if they look to be more effective.
Recommended timeframe: 1H
Strategy incorporates the following features:
Risk management:
Configurable X% loss per stop loss
Configurable R:R ratio
Trade entry:
Based on strategy conditions below
Trade exit:
Based on strategy conditions below
Backtesting:
Configurable backtesting range by date
Trade drawings:
Each entry condition indicator can be turned on and off
TP/SL boxes drawn for all trades. Can be turned on and off
Trade exit information labels. Can be turned on and off
NOTE: Trade drawings will only be applicable when using overlay strategies
Alerting:
Alerts on LONG and SHORT trade entries
Debugging:
Includes section with useful debugging techniques
Strategy conditions
Trade entry:
LONG
C1: Coral Trend is bullish
C2: At least 1 candle where low is above Coral Trend since last cross above Coral Trend
C3: Pullback happens and price closes below Coral Trend
C4: Coral Trend colour remains bullish for duration of pullback
C5: After valid pullback, price then closes above Coral Trend
C6: Optional confirmation indicators (choose either C6.1 or C6.2 or NONE):
C6.1: ADX and DI (Single indicator)
C6.1.1: Green line is above red line
C6.1.2: Blue line > 20
C6.1.3: Blue trending up over last 1 candle
C6.2: Absolute Strengeh Histogram + HawkEye Volume Indicator (Two indicators combined)
C6.2.1: Absolute Strengeh Histogram colour is blue
C6.2.2: HawkEye Volume Indicator colour is green
SHORT
C1: Coral Trend is bearish
C2: At least 1 candle where high is below Coral Trend since last cross below Coral Trend
C3: Pullback happens and price closes above Coral Trend
C4: Coral Trend colour remains bearish for duration of pullback
C5: After valid pullback, price then closes below Coral Trend
C6: Optional confirmation indicators (choose either C6.1 or C6.2 or NONE):
C6.1: ADX and DI (Single indicator)
C6.1.1: Red line is above green line
C6.1.2: Blue line > 20
C6.1.3: Blue trending up over last 1 candle
C6.2: Absolute Strengeh Histogram + HawkEye Volume Indicator (Two indicators combined)
C6.2.1: Absolute Strengeh Histogram colour is red
C6.2.2: HawkEye Volume Indicator colour is red
NOTE: All the optional confirmation indicators cannot be overlayed with Coral Trend so feel free to add each separately to the chart for visual purposes
Trade exit:
Stop Loss: Calculated by recent swing low over previous X candles (configurable with "Local High/Low Lookback")
Take Profit: Calculated from R:R multiplier * Stop Loss size
Credits
Strategy origin: TradeIQ's YouTube video called "I Finally Found 80% Win Rate Trading Strategy For Crypto"
It combines the following indicators for trade entry conditions:
Coral Trend Indicator by @LazyBear (Main indicator)
Absolute Strength Histogram | jh by @jiehonglim (Optional confirmation indicator)
Indicator: HawkEye Volume Indicator by @LazyBear (Optional confirmation indicator)
ADX and DI by @BeikabuOyaji (Optional confirmation indicator)
Absolute Strength MTF IndicatorIntroduction
The non-signal version of the absolute strength indicator from fxcodebase.com requested by ernie76 . This indicator originally from mt4 aim to estimate the bullish/bearish force of the market by using various methods.
The Indicator
Two lines are plotted, a bull line (blue) representing the bullish/buying force and a bear one (red) representing the bearish/selling force, when the bull line is greater than the bear line the market is considered to be strongly bullish, else strongly bearish.
The indicator use various method, Rsi, stochastic, adx. The Rsi method is the one by default.
The stochastic method is less reactive but smoother
The Adx method is way different, while the other two methods make the bull and bear lines somewhat uncorrelated, the adx method focus more on the overall market strength than individual buyer/seller strength.
The smoothing method use 3 different filters, SMA, EMA and LSMA, LSMA is more reactive than the two previous one while EMA is just more computer efficient.
It is possible to use price data of different time frames for the calculation of the indicator.
Stochastic method with 4 hour price close as source.
Conclusion
A classic indicator who can be derived into a lot of ways using a more adaptive architecture or recursion. Hope you find it a use :)
A big thanks to ernie76 for the request and the support/testing of the indicator
Feel free to pm me for any request.
