Volume-Adjusted Schaff Trend Cycle (VASTC)Volume-Adjusted Schaff Trend Cycle (VASTC)
The VASTC is a fairly fast-moving oscillator designed to identify trends early and signal when trends may be nearing their end. While it can be used for both trend-following and mean-reversion strategies , it shines in trend-following setups. It’s particularly useful for catching the start of a trend and giving early warnings that a trend might end soon, making it a valuable addition to a multi-indicator system.
How It Works:
The VASTC adapts the traditional Schaff Trend Cycle by adjusting the MACD component with volume data. This volume-adjusted MACD is run through two stochastic processes , applying exponential smoothing to enhance responsiveness. Volume sensitivity allows the VASTC to adapt dynamically to periods of high or low trading activity, providing more reliable trend signals.
Recommended Use:
Use VASTC in confluence with other indicators to confirm trend entries and exits. It’s best for identifying early trend setups rather than sustaining prolonged trend trades. When used alongside other indicators, especially those with a longer-term outlook or momentum based trend indicators, you’ll gain a clearer signal for potential exits or entries. Always backtest the VASTC on your chosen assets to determine the most effective input parameters, as the defaults may not suit all markets or assets. Different assets behave differently, and adjustments in parameters can improve its ability to analyze the assets you're looking at.
Parameters:
Length : Sets the primary smoothing length.
Fast/Slow Length : Adjust the speed of the volume-adjusted MACD component.
Factor : Controls the final smoothing applied to the STC.
Overbought/Oversold Levels : Defines overbought/oversold levels.
Experiment with these settings to customize the VASTC to your trading strategy and asset.
Disclaimer : This indicator is a tool to complement your trading analysis and should not be used in isolation. Always backtest and use other confluence signals for best results. The assets I looked at when making this indicator are almost certainly different than what you're looking at.
STC
Adaptive Schaff Trend Cycle (STC) [AlgoAlpha]Introducing the Adaptive Schaff Trend Cycle by AlgoAlpha: Elevate Your Trading Strategies 🚀
Discover precision and adaptability with the Adaptive Schaff Trend Cycle 🎯, meticulously crafted for traders seeking an edge in the markets. This advanced tool integrates sophisticated algorithms to offer clear insights and real-time analytics 📈.
Key Features:
⚙️Adaptive Signal Processing: Utilizes evolving calculations to adjust to market changes, offering highly responsive signals.
🔍Enhanced MACD Analysis: Innovates on the traditional MACD, providing new insights into market dynamics through an adaptive lens.
🎨Customizable Visual Experience: Features customizable up and down colors for tailored chart analysis.
🔔Real-Time Alerts: Stay informed with instant alerts on indicator changes.
Quick Guide to Using the Adaptive STC Indicator
1. 🔧 Adding the Indicator: Search for "Adaptive Schaff Trend Cycle (STC) " within TradingView's Indicators & Strategies and apply it to your chart. Customize the settings according to your trading style for optimum results.
2.👀 Market Analysis: Monitor the STC and Histogram values closely. The indicator's color gradients provide a visual representation of momentum shifts, helping you to identify trends more clearly.
3. 🚨 Set Alerts: Enable alerts for specific conditions like significant moves up or down, or when the histogram crosses zero. This feature ensures you never miss a potential trading opportunity.
How It Works:
The Adaptive Schaff Trend Cycle by AlgoAlpha introduces a dynamic approach to market analysis, refining traditional indicators through adaptive logic to align with fluctuating market conditions. Here's a concise overview of its operation:
🔄 Adaptive MACD Adjustment: The foundation of the indicator is an enhanced MACD calculation, which dynamically adjusts its parameters based on real-time market trends and momentum. This algorithmic adjustment aims to ensure the MACD's responsiveness to market changes, adapting its sensitivity to offer timely insights .
🌟 Integration of Schaff Trend Cycle (STC): After adjusting the MACD, the indicator calculates STC values to provide a smoothed representation of market trends. By normalizing and smoothing the MACD values on a scale from 0 to 100, the STC method helps in identifying market phases with a clear visualization. The smoothing process is designed to mitigate noise and focus on significant market movements .
📊 Visualization and Alerts: To aid in the interpretation of these insights, the Adaptive Schaff Trend Cycle employs color gradients and customizable visual settings to indicate momentum shifts. These visual cues, combined with alert functionalities, are structured to assist traders in monitoring market developments, enabling them to make informed decisions based on the presented data .
🛠️The Adaptive Schaff Trend Cycle thus merges adaptive MACD adjustments with STC methodology, supported by visual and alert features, to create a tool aimed at enhancing market analysis. By focusing on adaptability and current market conditions, it provides a nuanced view of market trends, intended to support traders in their decision-making processes without promising predictive accuracy or reliability .
Moonhub Cycle IndexMoonhub Cycle Index is a composite index derived from three popular technical analysis indicators: Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD), Schaff Trend Cycle (STC), and Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO). The indicator is designed to help identify potential trends and market sentiment by combining the unique characteristics of each indicator.
Key components of the indicator include:
Input Parameters:
COEMA Length (len_DIema): The length of the Exponential Moving Average (EMA) applied to the Custom Index. Default is set to 9.
COSMA Length (len_DIsma): The length of the Simple Moving Average (SMA) applied to the Custom Index. Default is set to 30.
Indicators:
MACD: A momentum oscillator that shows the relationship between two moving averages of a security's price. It is calculated using the difference between the 12-period and 26-period EMA, and a 9-period EMA (signal line) of the MACD.
STC: A cyclic indicator that identifies cyclical trends in the market. It is calculated using the Stochastic oscillator formula applied to the close, high, and low prices over a 10-period lookback window.
DPO: A price oscillator that eliminates the trend from price data to focus on underlying cycles. It is calculated using a custom function that shifts the price by half the length and subtracts the SMA from the shifted price.
Custom Index: The composite index is calculated by taking the average of the MACD line, STC, and DPO.
COEMA and COSMA: Exponential and Simple Moving Averages applied to the Custom Index using the lengths specified by the input parameters (len_DIema and len_DIsma).
Plots: The Custom Index, COEMA, and COSMA are plotted with different colors and line widths to visualize their interaction and provide insights into potential market trends.
This Custom Index Indicator can be useful for traders who want to analyze the market using a combination of these indicators to make more informed decisions. It can also help identify potential trends and market sentiment by combining the unique characteristics of each indicator.
MM SIGMA STC+ADXThe Schaff Trend Cycle (STC) is a charting indicator that is commonly used to identify market trends and provide buy and sell signals to traders. Developed in 1999 by noted currency trader Doug Schaff, STC is a type of oscillator and is based on the assumption that, regardless of time frame, currency trends accelerate and decelerate in cyclical patterns.12
How STC Works
Many traders are familiar with the moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) charting tool, which is an indicator that is used to forecast price action and is notorious for lagging due to its slow responsive signal line . By contrast, STC’s signal line enables it to detect trends sooner. In fact, it typically identifies up and downtrends long before MACD indicator.
While STC is computed using the same exponential moving averages as MACD, it adds a novel cycle component to improve accuracy and reliability. While MACD is simply computed using a series of moving average, the cycle aspect of STC is based on time (e.g., number of days).
It should also be noted that, although STC was developed primarily for fast currency markets, it may be effectively employed across all markets, just like MACD. It can be applied to intraday charts, such as five minutes or one-hour charts, as well as daily, weekly, or monthly time frames.
Introduction to ADX
ADX is used to quantify trend strength. ADX calculations are based on a moving average of price range expansion over a given period of time. The default setting is 14 bars, although other time periods can be used.1 ADX can be used on any trading vehicle such as stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and futures.
ADX is plotted as a single line with values ranging from a low of zero to a high of 100. ADX is non-directional; it registers trend strength whether price is trending up or down.2 The indicator is usually plotted in the same window as the two directional movement indicator (DMI) lines, from which ADX is derived (shown below).Quantifying Trend Strength
ADX values help traders identify the strongest and most profitable trends to trade. The values are also important for distinguishing between trending and non-trending conditions. Many traders will use ADX readings above 25 to suggest that the trend is strong enough for trend-trading strategies. Conversely, when ADX is below 25, many will avoid trend-trading strategies.
ADX Value Trend Strength
0-25 Absent or Weak Trend
25-50 Strong Trend
50-75 Very Strong Trend
75-100 Extremely Strong Trend
Low ADX is usually a sign of accumulation or distribution. When ADX is below 25 for more than 30 bars, price enters range conditions, and price patterns are often easier to identify. Price then moves up and down between resistance and support to find selling and buying interest, respectively. From low ADX conditions, price will eventually break out into a trend. Below, the price moves from a low ADX price channel to an uptrend with strong ADX.
Added Buy/Sell alerts
ADX filters based on the threshold you put in the settings.
great for trend and trade confirmation
[UPRIGHT Trading] Awesome STC+Hello Traders,
I hope you all are doing well.
Today I'm releasing another one of my favorites: the Schaff Trend Cycle (STC). In 2008, Doug Schaff publically released the STC as an improvement on cycle oscillators and the MACD, hence its common nickname, "The better MACD."
This oscillator is essentially a fusion of the benefits of trend and cycle indicators; the idea is to minimize their drawbacks, such as lags or false signals. The STC is mainly used to determine or confirm price direction and market reversals.
We calculate the STC as a double smoothed stochastic of the MACD, which outputs an oscillator that moves between 0 and 100.
How is it typically used?
In trending markets, we can expect the oscillator to move up if the market is in the accelerating uptrend and an accelerating downtrend are to push the oscillator down.
In sideways markets, the STC shows oversold when it reverses after falling below 25; overbought when the STC turns down from above 75.
How the Awesome STC+ is different:
This STC uses several complex equations and filters to improve accuracy and reduce lag.
My original STC wave.
Multiple extremely accurate Buy/Sell signals not found on a traditional STC indicator.
Ability to use 4 different background highlights and several buy/sell and confirmation signals.
Fully customizable (as always), ability to turn on or off any signals, change any of the colors to suit your needs.
Pre-filled Alerts.
Reversals and Continuations.
Chart should look like this:
Please see the "Author's Instructions" for access.
Cheers,
Mike
(UPRIGHT Trading)
STC w/ Zero Lag MACDSTC + Zero Lag MACD (includes regular MACD also)
What I added here was two other variables
The Schaff Trend Cycle working with Zero Lag Macd to give you double confirmation on your Higher Time Frame entries such as 4H, 6H, and Daily.
You may also turn on regular MACD instead of Zero Lag, if you'd like.
***Red Dot for Bear
***Green Dot for Bull
***Higher Confirmation is:
Red Dot + Red MACD for Bear
Green Dot + Green MACD for Bull
More confirmation to come!
CHEERS
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-RingoKid
Schaff Trend Cycle w/ MACD HistogramWhat Is Schaff Trend Cycle? (Reference from Investopedia)
The Schaff Trend Cycle (STC) is a charting indicator that is commonly used to identify market trends and provide buy and sell signals to traders. Developed in 1999 by noted currency trader Doug Schaff, STC is a type of oscillator and is based on the assumption that, regardless of time frame, currency trends accelerate and decelerate in cyclical patterns.
How STC Works
Many traders are familiar with moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) charting tool, which is an indicator that is used to forecast price action and is notorious for lagging due to its slow responsive signal line . By contrast, STC’s signal line enables it to detect trends sooner. In fact, it typically identifies up and downtrends long before MACD indicator.
While STC is computed using the same exponential moving averages as MACD, it adds a novel cycle component to improve accuracy and reliability. While MACD is simply computed using a series of moving average, the cycle aspect of STC is based on time (e.g. number of days).
It should also be noted that, although STC was developed primarily for fast currency markets, it may be effectively employed across all markets, just like MACD. It can be applied to intraday charts, such as five minutes or one hour charts, as well as daily, weekly, or monthly time frames.
What's included the indicator?
Zero MACD lag algorithm (can be enabled/disabled)
MACD Histogram (has a different calculation to show the trend clearly. Can revert to original algo but will not truly reflect the current trend.)
Histogram peaks
STC pivots
How to use this indicator?
Use the STC overbought/oversold to determine trend strength.
Use the MACD zeroline crossover to determine the trend if bull/bear
For risky trades:
Long or cover when STC shows a bullish pivot. Exit or short on STC bear pivots
For conservative trades:
Long when MACD histogram crosses above midline. Exit or short on STC bear pivots
Settings:
Default is Fast - 5, Slow - 20. You can turn it up to Fast - 10, Slow - 30.
You can enable or disable certain features if you dont like to see them.
STC Indicator - A Better MACD [SHK]The Schaff Trend Cycle indicator is the product of combining Slow Stochastics and the moving average convergence/divergence (MACD). The MACD has a reputation as a trend indicator, but it's also notorious for lagging due to its slow responsive signal line. The improved signal line gives the STC its relevance as an early warning sign to detect currency trends.
Read more on Investopedia:
Schaff Trend: A Faster And More Accurate Indicator
