I stumbled upon creating this and thought it was cool and worth sharing. If anyone has ever dabbled with the Aroon or Vortex Indicators, there is some similarity to how it can be used visually.
The indicator basically takes two slopes from the trailing time period you indicate- one from the highest point in that time period, and one from the lowest point. It then...
Understanding Vortex Indicator (VI)
The vortex indicator was first developed by Etienne Botes and Douglas Siepman who introduced the concept in the January 2010 edition of “Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities.” The vortex indicator is based on two trendlines: VI+ and VI-.
What is the Vortex Indicator (VI)?
A vortex indicator (VI) is an indicator...
A modification of the original Random Walk Index (RWI) script by everget, this one updates to version 4 and adds a threshold value and colouring.
If both high and low are below the default threshold of 1.0 the line chart will be coloured in grey.
Adjusting the length and threshold should allow you to see flat and choppy periods.
Here's an updated version of our Vortex Trend Tracker indicator.
Here's the link to the original if anyone wants to read more about the Vortex or see the first version:
We've added in 4 rsi's of varying lengths for this second version(2 fast and 2 slow) that create the background color effect.
Though it may sound complex, the Vortex Indicator is essentially an uptrend line and a downtrend line. The vortex indicator can be used for a variety of purposes, including tracking the strength of trends, identifying/anticipating reversals, and generating entry/exit signals. It’s calculation is shown in the open-source code below.
To reduce the number of...
I was tired of not having something to compare the real economic strength of a country (US only for now...) to it's companies valuations.
So I made my own! Trading view does not have the wilshire indice, but it has the Rus 3000, good enough, & the US GDP since 1946 so this is what I am using.
Warren Buffet is famous for liking this so now the idea has its name....
Vortex Indicator showing Positive and Negative buying pressure. Included is a MACD Histogram that has been adjusted to the 1.00 plot line as base line instead of 0.00
A problem I noticed with the built in Vortex indicator was that it didn't include any defined thresholds that are important to understanding how to read the vortex indicator. So I modified the vortex indicator in order to have the thresholds built in so you don't have to draw horizontal lines on your chart.
