Welcome to the Traders Laboratory Forums.
Technical Analysis The technical discussion forum for traders.

Reply
Old 08-17-2010, 04:09 PM   #1

Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 4
Ignore this user

Thanks: 0
Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post

Does Anyone Know How to Get Indicator ADX W/ Smoothing Please?

On my Esignal, Ameritrade Strategydesk, stockcharts.com, among others, you can input 2 variables for ADX. The length period, and smoothing (for example, 14,10).
In multicharts, and/or tradestation, they only let you put the length period, no place to put a smoothing #. Does anyone know how to do this for Multicharts and/or tradestation? It seems something so simple yet, I've been searching hours and nobody seems to have an idea.

thank you, any help appreciated
whirl is offline  
Reply With Quote
Old 08-18-2010, 08:09 AM   #2

zapisy's Avatar

Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: New York
Posts: 81
Ignore this user

Thanks: 6
Thanked 26 Times in 17 Posts

Re: Does Anyone Know How to Get Indicator ADX W/ Smoothing Please?

Can you post the code you have now?

Lukas
zapisy is offline  
Reply With Quote
Old 08-18-2010, 08:22 AM   #3

UrmaBlume's Avatar

Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Las Vegas
Posts: 670
Ignore this user

Thanks: 87
Thanked 618 Times in 251 Posts

Re: Does Anyone Know How to Get Indicator ADX W/ Smoothing Please?

Quote:
Originally Posted by whirl »
On my Esignal, Ameritrade Strategydesk, stockcharts.com, among others, you can input 2 variables for ADX. The length period, and smoothing (for example, 14,10).
In multicharts, and/or tradestation, they only let you put the length period, no place to put a smoothing #. Does anyone know how to do this for Multicharts and/or tradestation? It seems something so simple yet, I've been searching hours and nobody seems to have an idea.

thank you, any help appreciated
I am not sure but I belive Mark Jurik at Jurik Research offers such a product that will work in either TS or multicharts.

cheers

UB
UrmaBlume is offline  
Reply With Quote
Old 08-19-2010, 02:26 PM   #4

Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 4
Ignore this user

Thanks: 0
Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post

Re: Does Anyone Know How to Get Indicator ADX W/ Smoothing Please?

I found the formula for the ADX here: Investor/RT Tour - ADX (Average Directional Movement)

The formula for ADX is:
ADXi = [(ADX(i-1) * (n - 1)) + DXi] / n
where n = Smoothing Period
DX = [ 100 * ABS( (+DI) - (-DI) ) ] / ( (+DI) + (-DI) )

where i= the length
and n= the smoothing

TS and MultiCharts have the ADX formula, but they only allow inputing the i (length). They don't give you an option to change the n (smoothing). Does anyone know how to create the code, so you can input the n (smoothing)?
whirl is offline  
Reply With Quote

Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes Help Others By Rating This Thread
Help Others By Rating This Thread:


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Smoothing out price feb2865 Technical Analysis 34 08-07-2010 09:21 PM
The Chimp`s "Forex Trades" walterw Forex Trading Laboratory 266 07-24-2009 01:53 PM

All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:08 AM.
Copyright ©2000 - 2012, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
CS to VB integration by DeskLancer
©2006-2011 Traders Laboratory, All Rights Reserved.