TASC 2008-09 | The Midas Touch (Cole)

Modified on 2010/09/12 11:24 by Eugene — Categorized as: TASC Traders Tips

Traders' Tip text

We’ve added Midas to our collection of drag-and-drop indicators from TASC magazine (Fig. 1, inset). By including the starting bar number as a parameter, the indicator is fully programmable, and, our script demonstrates how a number of Midas curves can be effortlessly added to a chart for quick viewing. The script plots five Midas indicators for the most-recent 7% peaks and troughs.

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Figure 1. The indicators were plotted automatically by programming a simple peak/trough search and using the bar number results to obtain a new Midas indicator.

Strategy Code

Note! Requires TASCIndicators 1.0.2 or greater.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Drawing;
using WealthLab;
using WealthLab.Indicators;
using TASCIndicators;

namespace WealthLab.Strategies { public class MidasTouch : WealthScript { protected override void Execute() { const int c = 6; const double pct = 7d; Color[] color = new Color[c]; color[0] = Color.Blue; color[1] = Color.Red; color[2] = Color.BlueViolet; color[3] = Color.Fuchsia; color[4] = Color.Green; DataSeries ap = AveragePrice.Series(Bars); DataSeries pbSer = PeakBar.Series(ap, pct, PeakTroughMode.Percent); DataSeries tbSer = TroughBar.Series(ap, pct, PeakTroughMode.Percent); int bar = Bars.Count - 1; int n = 0; while (bar > 1 && n < c) { int pb = (int)pbSer[bar]; int tb = (int)tbSer[bar]; bar = Math.Max( pb, tb ); DataSeries midas = Midas.Series(Bars, bar); PlotSeries(PricePane, midas, color[n], LineStyle.Solid, 2); n += 1; bar -= 1; } } } }