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TASC 2014-01 | Predictive Indicators For Effective Trading Strategies (Ehlers)

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This month, Mr. Ehlers presents new indicators: the SuperSmoother filter that is superior to moving averages for having aliasing noise removed, and MESAStochastic oscillator – a Stochastic successor with the effect of spectral dilation removed by the use of a roofing filter.

To demonstrate the effect of applying the new indicators, author introduces a simple counter-trend system that goes long when MESAStochastic crosses below the oversold value and reverses the trade by taking a short position when the oscillator exceeds the overbought threshold.

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Figure 1. A Wealth-Lab 6 chart illustrating the application of the system's rules on a Daily chart of USD/CHF (U.S Dollar to Swiss Franc exchange rate).

To execute the included trading system, Wealth-Lab users need to install (or update) the latest version of our TASCIndicators library from the Extensions section of our website if they haven't already done so, and restart Wealth-Lab.

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

namespace WealthLab.Strategies { public class Ehlers201401 : WealthScript { private StrategyParameter paramPeriod; public Ehlers201401() { paramPeriod = CreateParameter("MESAStoch.Period",20,5,100,5); } protected override void Execute() { int period = paramPeriod.ValueInt; RoofingFilter rf = RoofingFilter.Series(Close); MESAStochastic ms = MESAStochastic.Series(Close,period); for(int bar = period; bar < Bars.Count; bar++) { // Detect crossover/crossunder and store state in a variable bool maXo = CrossOver(bar, ms, 0.8); bool maXu = CrossUnder(bar, ms, 0.2); // The first trade if (Positions.Count == 0){ if ( maXu ) BuyAtMarket( bar + 1 ); else if( maXo ) ShortAtMarket( bar + 1 ); } // Subsequent trades else { Position p = LastPosition; if ( p.PositionType == PositionType.Long ) { if ( maXo ) { SellAtMarket( bar + 1, p ); ShortAtMarket( bar + 1 ); } } else if ( maXu ) { CoverAtMarket( bar + 1, p ); BuyAtMarket( bar + 1 ); } } }

HideVolume(); ChartPane pMS = CreatePane(40,false,true); ChartPane pRF = CreatePane(20,true,true); PlotSeries(PricePane,SuperSmoother.Series(Close),Color.Red,LineStyle.Solid,1); PlotSeries(pRF,rf,Color.FromArgb(255,0,0,139),LineStyle.Solid,1); PlotSeries(pMS,ms,Color.FromArgb(255,255,0,128),LineStyle.Solid,2); DrawHorzLine(pMS,0.8,Color.Red,LineStyle.Dashed,1); DrawHorzLine(pMS,0.2,Color.DarkGreen,LineStyle.Dashed,1); } } }


Eugene
Wealth-Lab team
www.wealth-lab.com

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