The original problem: The choppiness index is great at finding ranging markets, but it is sometimes very slow, which means most of the time it only catches the end of a trend.
This indicator tries to solve this. It uses the choppiness index and filters it using a factor that is based on the standard deviation of the ATR.
The ATR based filter is calculated by first calculating the running standard deviation of the ATR, and then looking at that in relation to its recent low to find a filtering factor to use on the choppiness index. This makes the choppiness index more reactive to trends, but also slightly more likely to missidentify ranges.
This is the bar color version of the indicator. It changes the color of the bars when it it thinks the market is ranging and when it thinks it is trending.
Yellow = Trending Transparent gray = Ranging
Notes de version
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- Version 1.1 -
Added option to use normalized true range in the ATR filter. This is now the default.
Changed color for exhausted trends from transparent gray to solid orange.
Changed color for weakening exhausted trend from transparent yellow to red.
Great Work. Personally, i use chop top breakouts as exit strategy and z score top breakouts as entry strategy. Z score is like a price a action indicator which measures abrupt changes of the market. Maybe you wanna compare my variant to your variant and post the a backtesting result of both. This woukd be very cool. I think this could be one of the mighties strategies I ever found.
racer8
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I always knew the choppiness index had potential...
blackcat1402
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thanks for sharing this choppiness index indicator