Standard Deviation Measurement ToolIf you like the script please come back and leave me a comment or find me on the interwebs. I get notified you "liked" it... but I have no idea if you actually use it. So, let me know =)
The script uses the open price as the mean and calculates the standard deviation from the open price on a per candle basis
- Goal: -
To establish a mean based on the Open Price and calculate the standard deviation.
The reason for this is if the Open is the mean, then the Standard deviation implies a standardized distance a given candle can be expected to travel
from the open price
- Edge: -
If you know that there is a 68%/95%/99.7% probability that price will NOT move more than
One Standard Deviation/Two Standard Deviations/Three Standard Deviations from the open price respectively
you can set reasonable price targets that relate to those probabilities in a given timeframe.
e.g. if you're on a 1h chart and your target is 3.5% from the open price, but 1 standard deviation of the hourly candle is equal to 0.78%.
You can make assumptions on either:
- The reasonableness of your target
or
- The holding period likely required for the trade.
Also, Standard Deviation is a function of volatility and this tool provides a unique mechanism for measuring volatility as well on a candle by candle basis
- Customization Options-
- Set 3 independent upper and lower standard deviations.
- Each set of standard deviations are on a switch so you can show 1, 2, or 3 sets of standard deviations
- You can set the distribution width
- Though it's not recommended, you can change the mean source.
- There is a switch to show the standard deviation on only the real-time bar or real-time and historical bars.
- How I Think About This Script -
This strategy is predicated the same principle as Bollinger Bands: the reality that 68% of all data points will fall within one standard deviation of the mean, 96% of all data points will fall within two standard deviations, and 98% of al data points will fall within 3 standard deviations. By understanding the standard deviation, you can possibly infer an edge by understanding the probabilistic range price will be bound to the limits of standard deviation rules according to their probabilistic outcomes for the single candle on any given timeframe. Bollinger Bands are designed to provide this information with the mean being a 20-period moving average and this indicator.
This indicator is designed to provide standard deviation information with the mean being based on the distance price travels away from the open of individual candles in the lookback period.
If you use a strategy where you enter on major candle closes, this can be useful to set targets for those entries based on the intended hold period or at least add/remove validity to other target metrics.
Example:
Your target is at the 1.618 Fibonacci level and your confirmation triggers on the 4h candle close (H4 if that's your thing lol). You set up the indicator based on the standard deviation of price movement in 4h candles over the last week.
Let's say the indicator shows that the 1.618 Fibonacci level is 3 standard deviations away.
This being the case this statistically indicates that within the next 4 hours, you have a very low probability of achieving your target (>2%). This doesn't invalidate your target, but it does indicate a low probability of achieving it in the next 4hrs. With this information, you can infer that you are either going to be (a) really lucky (b) in this trade for a lot longer than 4hrs or (c) your target is unrealistic given your intended hold period.
You can develop a more probabilistically favorable hold period calculation by looking at the standard deviation on a higher time frame (e.g. 1d-1w).
Bonus feature: You'll find that the 2 and 3 standard deviations will often "cluster" and these clusters often provide future S/R levels. That's a pretty sweet feature no one things to look for. But, try it. Find a cluster of 2nd and 3rd stdevs that are in somewhat of a horizontal pattern (usually the result of a range) and you'll find that to be a good s/r area. Even better if you use the 3.2 standard deviation, you'll find that is a fantastic breakout signal!
Summary
So, you can use it for target setting, a confluence test, a reasonableness test, or just a measurement tool.
This was the first TV script I ever wrong.. Got taken down. But, I've re-released it because there are other TV scripts that attempt to do this but are completely wrong.
Please be careful about using other people's scripts. Always validate the math of the script before you use it if possible.
Stay safe out there and I hope all your dreams come true.
Deviation
Mean Deviation IndexThe Mean Deviation Index (MDX) is used to see how much price is deviating from the mean. This indicator takes both volatility and mean deviation in consideration.
It uses the standard deviation of the ATR to filter an EMA, and uses this as the mean. It then only plots > or < 0 if price is more than one x ATR away from the mean. If index is positive, the background turns green, meaning price is more than 1 x ATR above the mean. If the index is negative, the background turns red, meaning price is more than 1 x ATR below the mean. This setting can be changed by changing the setting "ATR Multiplier", but the default is 1 x ATR.
There are two main ways to use this index.
1. Use it aggressively to find trends (by combining it with other indicators) by entereding each time the background changes color to green for longs or red for shorts.
2. Use it spot breakouts, waiting for a pullback, and then entering on the next move in the same direction. In this context for a short, you wait for the background color to turn green, then wait for the index to pull back, and then enter once it starts moving up again.
Exponential Deviation Bands [ChuckBanger]This is Exponential Deviation Bands. It is a price band indicator based on exponential deviation rather than the more traditional standard deviation, as you find in the well-known Bollinger Bands calculation. As compared to standard deviation bands, exponential deviation bands apply more weight to recent data and generate fewer breakouts. There fore it is a much better tool to identifying trends.
One strategy on the daily can be
Buy next bar if closing price crosses below the lower bands
Sell if price is equal to the current value of the upper bands
Variable Index Dynamic Average (VIDYA) BandsThis adds volatility bands to the Variable Index Dynamic Average (VIDYA). The bands are calculated using the exponential moving average of the standard deviation of the VIDYA.
Thanks to everget for programming the VIDYA for tradingview.
Standard Deviation - Sum Of The Squares Minus Square Of The SumsIntroduction
The standard deviation measure the dispersion of a data set, in short this metric will tell you if your data is on average closer or farther away from the mean. Its one of the most important tools in statistics and living without it is pretty much impossible, without it you can forget about Bollinger-bands, CCI, and even the LSMA (ouch this hurt) .
Now i don't want to extend myself about the standard deviation since that would require a huge post but i want to show you how to calculate the standard deviation from the stdev pinescript function.
Sum Of The Squares Minus Square Of The Sums
Any metric calculated from a moving average can be classified as "running", this mean that the metric constantly update itself and is not constant, this is why it is better to say "running standard deviation" but its okay. If we use the standard calculation for the standard deviation which would be sqrt(sma(pow(close - sma,2))) we might get something totally different from the stdev function :
In white the pine stdev function and in red the standard calculation of both period 4, its clear that both are not the same, one might try to use the Bessel's correction but that won't do either, this is because most technical analysis tools will calculate the square root of the "Sum Of The Squares Minus Square Of The Sums" method to estimate the standard deviation
Another way is to use :
a = sqrt(sma(pow(close,2),length) - pow(sma(close,length),2))
By returning the difference we might still see some errors :
Nothing relevant of course.
Conclusion
Some of you might already be aware of this but a reminder is always good since it can be confusing to make what can be considered the good standard deviation formula and then have something totally different from the pine function, i hope this post will be useful and that you learned something from it.
Thanks for reading :)
bitFlyer DeviationbitFlyer price deviation percent between FXBTCJPY and BTCJPY.
bitFlyerのBTCFXとBTC現物の価格乖離(%)を表示します。
TBCRI - Trend Bar Color Reversal IndicatorAn idea I had today morning so I had to write. It seems to detect trends well. It has three phases like a semaphor, painting the chart bars of green, yellow or red.
=== Bar Color Meaning ===
Green: uptrend
Yellow: don't care
Red: downtrend
I think it can be useful!
Thanks!
[RESEARCH] Mean Absolute DeviationHello traders and developers!
I was wondering how built-in "dev" function in Pine is calculated so I made a little research.
I examined 7 samples:
0) "dev" function itself
1) "dev" according to its description: series - sma(series)
2) Mean Absolute Deviation
3) ratio of the absolute difference from 1) divided by period
4) ratio of the difference from 1) divided by period
5) Median Absolute Deviation
6) tricky for-loop to calculate Mean Absolute Deviation
The results of the null and sixth samples are identical.
So, TV built-in "dev" function represents Mean Absolute Deviation and it's description is incorrect.
Where it is used? For example: Commodity Channel Index. You can check its original formula and if you used simple standard deviation instead of MAD in your CCIs - well guys, you were wrong.
Good luck!
Phase Change IndexPhase Change Index script.
This indicator was developed and described by M. H. Pee (Stocks & Commodities V.22:5 (28-37): Phase Change Index).
Other indicators of M. H. Pee:
Hampel FilterHampel Filter script.
This indicator was originally developed by Frank Rudolf Hampel (Journal of the American Statistical Association, 69, 382–393, 1974: The influence curve and its role in robust estimation).
The Hampel filter is a simple but effective filter to find outliers and to remove them from data. It performs better than a median filter.
Ehlers Fisherized Deviation-Scaled OscillatorEhlers Fisherized Deviation-Scaled Oscillator script.
This indicator was originally developed by John F. Ehlers (Stocks & Commodities V. 36:11: Probability - Probably A Good Thing To Know).
Ehlers Deviation-Scaled Moving Average (DSMA)Ehlers Deviation-Scaled Moving Average indicator script.
This indicator was originally developed by John F. Ehlers (Stocks & Commodities V. 36:8: The Deviation-Scaled Moving Average).
VWAP Alerts V2Alerts added to "VWAP Stdev Bands v2" by SandroTurriate
Changes
-Adjusted trigger conditions for higher signal sensitivity
-Color change on bands and signals for better readability and ease on the eyes
-Alerts added for up to 4 deviations up and down
-Re-enabled deviations 4 and 5
-Re-enabled previous close
Relative Volatility IndexCorrected Relative Volatility Index. This indicator was originally developed by Donald Dorsey (Stocks & Commodities V.11:6 (253-256): The Relative Volatility Index).
The indicator was revised by Dorsey in 1995 (Stocks & Commodities V.13:09 (388-391): Refining the Relative Volatility Index).
I suggest the refined RVI with optional settings. If you disabled Wilder's Smoothing and Refined RVI you will get the original version of RVI (1993, as built-in).
Also, you can choose an algorithm for calculating Standard Deviation.
[PW] Volume Standard DeviationHere is a nice little script that highlights areas of volume using standard deviation, you can choose the look back periods.
This script is based on the excellent script by: @SteynTrade -
I have simplified it a bit and made it readable to my taste using alpha to highlight high volume areas.
Enjoy.
Moving average deviation rateMoving average deviation rate
Simple moving average deviation rate and standard deviation.
The bollinger band is momentum value standard devition.
Bat the bollinger band is not normal distribution to close price.
Moving average deviation rate is normal distribution.
This indicator is draw Moving average deviation rate and fill area 2σ standard devition.
If it exceeds 2σ, it is a trading opportunity.
移動平均かい離率と、2σのバンドです。
ボリンジャーバンドは移動量の標準偏差を描画しますが、終値はボリンジャーバンドに対して正規分布を描きません。
移動平均かい離率は、標準偏差に対して正規分布を示します。
かい離率2σを超えた場合、トレードチャンスです。
B3 ALMA PendulumB3 Pendulums, quick little indicators that do change print inside the current bar, so beware. It is good for anticipation, but it is important to make sure the current and next bars follow through.
Ever wanted an indicator that really points out the micro term action in the form of a pendulum swing? This my attempt to show the market ups and downs in the smallest amount of lag possible. This indicator is designed to bounce back and forth from 100 to -100 as it shows you the price's relationship to ALMA. Really its just a simple deviance from mean study made to amplify the quick ups and downs, and kind of the neatest on Heikin Ashi setups. It looks like Arabic language at first glance, lol.
This should be easy to template out to your own MA's. ~I hope you are enjoying the B3 scripts, that is now 9 open source shares and a couple protected ones. I still plan on a few more give-a-ways, as I prepare some of the algorithmic things I do for subscription. Feel free to comment about things you would like to see! ~B3
VWAP Stdev Bands v2 Modoriginal script by /u/SandroTurriate/ - I just made some small changes.
Vwap + standard deviation bands. Good for reversal trading among other things. Used intraday.
Very useful when price is ranging.
I added the option to fill the spaces between the deviation lines with color and also the option to add some extra bands. That's about it. Color/length/style etc is customizable.
GEOMETRIC STANDARD DEVIATION BANDS v1 by @XeL_ArjonaGEOMETRIC STANDARD DEVIATION BANDS
Ver.1 By Ricardo M Arjona @XeL_Arjona
DISCLAIMER:
The Following indicator/code IS NOT intended to be a formal investment advice or recommendation by the author, nor should be construed as such. Users will be fully responsible by their use regarding their own trading vehicles/assets.
The embedded code and ideas within this work are FREELY AND PUBLICLY available on the Web for NON LUCRATIVE ACTIVITIES and must remain as is.
WHAT'S THIS?
This IS NOT the wheel "Re-Invention"... This is exactly what the name says: A pair of Envelope Bands to measure "volatility", constructed at statistical relation from within price series and their Rolling back MEAN (Simple Moving Average). YES, What Mr. Bollinger did and put it's name to this simple, cleaver and popular formula.
This time, I took the time to make another simple mod, but seems to me to be quite functional in REAL VOLATILE assets like in the example chart: TO USE THEIR GEOMETRIC MODE!!
Cheers!
Any feedback or public modification(s) are quite welcome to the community....!
@XeL_Arjona
Apr 28 2016
Triple Bollinger BandsI found myself using multiple bollinger bands a lot so I decided to add them all to one script and add the ability to adjust them by 0.2. It has helped me by not taking up as much space in the upper left corner as well as improving my in's and outs of trend continuation trades. If you manage to find a double top at +2 or greater deviation, and with a bearish divergence on the RSI as shown in this picture, GO SHORT SON! This was a fast and easy 35 - 40 pips and if you used your fibonacci for an exit you had little doubt of the final result and could have even been prepared for an immediate reversal knowing you were then at an oversold -2.8 deviation. I could go on and on........