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 .
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Adaptive, Zero lag Schaff Trend Cycle Backtest (Simple) [Loxx]Simple backtest for "Adaptive, Zero lag Schaff Trend Cycle" found here:
What this backtest includes:
-Customization of inputs for Schaff Trend Cycle calculation
-Take profit 1 (TP1), and Stop-loss (SL), calculated using standard RMA-smoothed true range
-Activation of TP1 after entry candle closes
-Zero-cross entry signal plots
-Longs and shorts
-Continuation longs and shorts
Happy trading!
Adaptive, Zero lag Schaff Trend Cycle [Loxx]TASC's March 2008 edition Traders' Tips includes an article by John Ehlers titled "Measuring Cycle Periods," and describes the use of bandpass filters to estimate the length, in bars, of the currently dominant price cycle.
What are Dominant Cycles and Why should we use them?
Even the most casual chart reader will be able to spot times when the market is cycling and other times when longer-term trends are in play. Cycling markets are ideal for swing trading however attempting to “trade the swing” in a trending market can be a recipe for disaster. Similarly, applying trend trading techniques during a cycling market can equally wreak havoc in your account. Cycle or trend modes can readily be identified in hindsight. But it would be useful to have an objective scientific approach to guide you as to the current market mode.
There are a number of tools already available to differentiate between cycle and trend modes. For example, measuring the trend slope over the cycle period to the amplitude of the cyclic swing is one possibility.
We begin by thinking of cycle mode in terms of frequency or its inverse, periodicity. Since the markets are fractal ; daily, weekly, and intraday charts are pretty much indistinguishable when time scales are removed. Thus it is useful to think of the cycle period in terms of its bar count. For example, a 20 bar cycle using daily data corresponds to a cycle period of approximately one month.
When viewed as a waveform, slow-varying price trends constitute the waveform's low frequency components and day-to-day fluctuations (noise) constitute the high frequency components. The objective in cycle mode is to filter out the unwanted components--both low frequency trends and the high frequency noise--and retain only the range of frequencies over the desired swing period. A filter for doing this is called a bandpass filter and the range of frequencies passed is the filter's bandwidth.
Indicator Features
-Zero lag or Regular Schaff Trend Cycle calculation
- Fixed or Band-pass Dominant Cycle for Schaff Trend Cycle MA period inputs
-10 different moving average options for Zero lag calculations
-Separate Band-pass Dominant Cycle calculations for both Schaff Trend Cycle and MA calculations
- Slow-to-Fast Band-pass Dominant Cycle input to tweak the ratio of Schaff Trend Cycle MA input periods as they relate to each other
MTF Improved Schaff Trend Cycle IndicatorThis is my cutting edge "Improved Schaff Trend Cycle Indicator" that I radically modified for all assets, not just Forex. Just when you may have thought it was the end of the evolutionary line for Schaff trend cycle indicators, it's not! It's actually two different modified Schaff trend cycle tandem algorithms combined making this a very versatile multicator. Members obtaining Invite-Only access, I might suggest using two of these for increased situational awareness. The creator of "Schaff Trend Cycle", Doug Schaff, a pioneer in Forex analytic trading tools, was really on the right track decades ago when he created the original indicator. At the time of this release, my original free to use formulation shown on the very bottom above is highly popular with members on TV, and in my opinion, one of my most favored indicators I have published so far. Well, this is the NEW and IMPROVED version with reduced lag...
Modifications included are rescaling the range from 0/100 to +/-1.0, employing reversion to the mean principles Dr. John Ehlers elaborates about. The thresholds are set to +/-0.8, nothing significant about those numbers at all, be forewarned! One characteristic about these formulations is that I was able to reduce the lag in many cases. While both are more reactive than the original Schaff trend cycle indicator, often in downward trends, one has the ability to hug the -1.0 line more having an occasional propensity to anticipate false bottoms when significant divergences between the two occur. This is one capability in an indicator I have for so long tried to achieve without any success until now. Also in positive trends, these formulations are more effective when encountering detected peaks/tops without the inherent lag the original formulation had. Both are typically in agreement when an opportune selling exit point is commencing. These characteristics are displayed above on top of the original formulation shown on the bottom.
Another most notable feature I have been including recently is the multiple time frame (MTF) features in the indicator "Settings". The indicator accommodates selectable second-based time frames. This is my third PSv4.0 script to accommodate seconds in MTF adequately. Be forewarned, second-based time frames are currently for Premium subscribers only, until such time in the future when the prerogative of TV might change. I will continue adding second-based time frames to my other indicators where I feel it is beneficial to the indicator.
I.P.O.C.S.: "Initial Public Offering Clean Start" proprietary technology. I figured it's time to more accurately describe this tech starting with this novel indicator. Many of my other indicators already possess this capability. It allows suitable plotting from day one, minute one of IPO, remedying visually delayed signal analysis. It's basically accurate plotting from the very first bar (bar_index==0) on Tradingview. If you don't know what this is, most people don't, go back to the VERY beginning of any stock on the "All" chart and compare it to other similar indicators. What's so special about this? It is extremely difficult to get a healthy plot from bar_index==0 on any platform. However, I have become exceedingly talented performing this feat in most cases but not all depending on the algorithm. This indicator is a successful accomplishment implementing IPOCS. It's inherent value is predominantly for IPO traders who in the past have had to wait 20, 50, and 150 bars before they obtain a precise indicator measurement for the simplest of algorithms in order to make a properly informed decision to potentially invest in an asset. How is this achieved? It's a highly protected secret of mine... but I will say I rarely use Pine built-in functions at all. When I do, I use them scarcely due to currently existing Pine language limitations.
Anyhow, this supersedes my "Enhanced Schaff Trend Cycle Indicator" by far. For those of you who obtain this indicator, enjoy the POWER of Schaff renewed!
Features List Includes:
I.P.O.C.S.(Initial Public Offering Clean Start) Technology
Enable/disable dark background for enhanced visibility
MTF adjustments/selections
Typical Schaff adjustments
"Display Trends" selection to show both trends or each one independently
"Line Width" adjustment for increased line visibility
Ranges and thresholds are enable/disable capable
Upper threshold adjustment
Lower threshold adjustment
Adjustable centered medial zone
This is not a freely available indicator, FYI. To witness my Pine poetry in action, properly negotiated requests for unlimited access, per indicator, may ONLY be obtained by direct contact with me using TV's "Private Chats" or by "Message" hidden in my member name above. The comments section below is solely just for commenting and other remarks, ideas, compliments, etc... regarding only this indicator, not others. If you do have any questions or comments regarding this indicator, I will consider your inquiries, thoughts, and concepts presented below in the comments section, when time provides it. When my indicators achieve more prevalent use by TV members, I will implement more ideas when they present themselves as worthy additions. As always, "Like" it if you simply just like it with a proper thumbs up, and also return to my scripts list occasionally for additional postings. Have a profitable future everyone!