Trend ExplorerAre we in a bull or a bear market?
From the technical analysis point of view, the answer is "It depends". It depends from the parameters of your indicator, the timeframe of the pair you are looking and the volatility of that specific market you are looking to.
After I experimented with various trending indicators I decided to develop a framework that potentially could "embed" already existing logic from well known indicators (e.g. Supertrend OTT etc.).
The most important part is that I managed to abstract that logic away and experiment even further to produce some more robust, market and timeframe resolution agnostic results. While at the same time I was able to switch between market and timeframe resolution specific configuration to take some decision.
Finally, I decided to share this code with you folks! Developed this indicator "Trend Explorer" in an effort to make the aforementioned abstraction of all those trending indicators.
The goal is to enable the user to explore and combine different approaches in order to create a more robust and market general/specific, timeframe resolution invariant/fluctuating and volatility auto/manual adjusted indicator according to his needs.
The logic behind the abstraction is fairly simple. The trending indicator consists of two boundary lines the "bull trend low boundary" (green) and the "bear trend high boundary" (red). The indicator also has a control line (orange). Every time the control line crosses a boundary there is a trend reversal! The boundary lines are defined by the thresholds. To be more precise, boundaries are pulled upwards by thresholds (blue) during a bull market and downwards during a bear market. I challenge the user to experiment with the different ways of calculating the thresholds and the control. I am open to suggestions that might improve and extend the possibilities of this indicator. Any feedback, comments, general thoughts or bug reports are welcome.
Why did I chose those defaults?
For threshold calculation I chose MINMAX which calculates the local minimum and maximum using a sliding window. As far as I know it is not used in any existing trending indicator, but it seems reasonable for a trader to search for local min and max to make a decision. The width of the sliding window a.k.a the "period to remember" the local min and max is 30 days by default, just because I believe that for regular people it is a reasonable period of time to forget too.
Also, compared to the SUBADD method MINMAX does not seem to lag behind, especially when using averages in the SUBADD mode. Moreover, I consider MINMAX to be more general than the margins used by the SUBADD since margins should be configured based on the underlying market volatility.
For a source of min and max I chose the low and high values just because they are timeframe resolution invariant, meaning that they have the same (not exactly due to number precision and rounding, but very close) results for a single pair whether you use "4 hour" or "1 day" time interval! Another popular choice might be (close, close) since many traders wait for the daily candle to close in order to discard outliers. However, this approach is not resolution invariant and it depends from the time interval the user has selected.
Do you have any interesting trending indicator you would like to see how it performs in this framework logic? Let me know!
Do you have in mind any variation of Control or Thresholds calculation you would like to test? Please describe it in the comments below so I can add it in my implementation for you!
Did you find any other bug or you experienced any strange behavior? PM me with a description of the bug, the trading pair the timeframe resolution the exact time (candle) and all the necessary configurations for this indicator so I can reproduce it on my machine!
Please enjoy with caution,
Jason
Bullbeartrend
[blackcat] L2 Bull Bear Convergence Divergence (BBCD)Level: 2
Background
A bull market is gaining ground and is economically sound, while a bear market is declining and most stocks are depreciating. The actual origins of these terms are unclear, but one reason could be that bulls attack by pulling their horns up while bears attack by brushing their paws down.
Function
L2 Bull Bear Convergence Divergence (BBCD) disclose the convergence divergence of the bull bear as a market opinion indicator. It tells you the opinion of those who are directly involved with the markets. As a trader, understanding how the convergence divergence of the bull bear works can be of great help. I inherited the traditional MACD expression method, and added golden cross (yellow cross) and dead cross (fuchsia cross) prompts, as well as bottom divergence (lime cross) and top divergence (red cross) prompts.
Key Signal
bbd --> bull bear fast line
bbdsupport --> bull bear slow line and support level
bbdgx --> bull bear gold cross in yellow
bbddx --> bull bear dead cross in fuchsia
bbotdiverg --> bull bear bottom divergence alert in lime cross
btopdiverg --> bull bear top divergence alert in red cross
Pros and Cons
Pros:
1. it can help to see the strength change of a trend in time
2. visual bottom and top divergence alerts are provided
Cons:
1. it disclose the strength change better than price change
Remarks
Bull Bear Convergence Divergence (BBCD) is new.
Readme
In real life, I am a prolific inventor. I have successfully applied for more than 60 international and regional patents in the past 12 years. But in the past two years or so, I have tried to transfer my creativity to the development of trading strategies. Tradingview is the ideal platform for me. I am selecting and contributing some of the hundreds of scripts to publish in Tradingview community. Welcome everyone to interact with me to discuss these interesting pine scripts.
The scripts posted are categorized into 5 levels according to my efforts or manhours put into these works.
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Level 2 : composite indicator/strategy. By selecting or combining several independent or dependent functions or sub indicators in proper way, the composite script exhibits a resonance phenomenon which can filter out noise or fake trading signal to enhance trading confidence level.
Level 3 : comprehensive indicator/strategy. They are simple trading systems based on my strategies. They are commonly containing several or all of entry signal, close signal, stop loss, take profit, re-entry, risk management, and position sizing techniques. Even some interesting fundamental and mass psychological aspects are incorporated.
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Level 5 : indicator/strategy that do not disclose source code. private version of Level 3 script with my accumulated script processing skills or a large number of custom functions. I had a private function library built in past two years. Level 5 scripts use many of them to achieve private trading strategy.
