On each bar it creates a channel by highest/lowest point of a MA. highest point is upper line and lowest point is lower line of the MA channel,
It gets highest and lowest point of last 300 bars, (say Price Channel )
If the width of MA channel is greater than certain rate of price channel then it decides there is trend
After it decided there is trend, it calculates the rate between channel and MA. Bigger result means stronger trend.
According to rate of MA channel and the price channel , MA Line becomes lighter/darker. so when you look at the MA Line’s color you can see the trend strength.
You can choose each of the available default MA type of the platform as source.
“Period to Check Trend” is the period to create MA channel. Bigger period cause more sensitivity.
“Trend Channel Rate %” is rate of price channel . Price channel created by using highest/lowest of last 300 bars. I did this to make the script works on all time frames correctly.
“Use Linear Regression” is used to get rid of noise. it may cause 1-2 bars latency.
(description from the original author LonesomeTheBlue, all credits go to him). Indicator converted from pinescript with some adaptation to make it works with ProRealTime.
This indicator only works on PRTv11 onwards.
//PRC_TrendFollowingMvingAverage | indicator
//20.04.2020
//Nicolas @ www.prorealcode.com
//Sharing ProRealTime knowledge
//converted from Pinescript version
// --- settings
prd = 20 //Period to Check Trend
rateinp = 1 //Trend Channel Rate % minval = 0.1, step = 0.1
ulinreg = 1 // 1=true, Use Linear Regression
linprd = 10 //Linear Regression Period, minval = 2
matype = 1 //ma type 0=sma, 1-ema, etc.
// --- end of settings
rate = rateinp / 100
pricerange = highest[300](close) - lowest[300](close)
chan = pricerange * rate
p = 5
while p<=100 do
//trend
masrc = average[p,matype](close)
if ulinreg then
ma = LinearRegression[linprd](masrc)
else
ma = masrc
endif
hh = highest[prd](ma)
ll = lowest[prd](ma)
diff = abs(hh-ll)
if diff>chan then
if ma>ll+chan then
trend=1
elsif ma<hh-chan then
trend=-1
else
trend=0
endif
else
trend=0
endif
ret = trend*diff/chan
alpha = min(255,(80+abs(ret*10)))
if ret<0 then
r=255
g=0
else
r=0
g=255
endif
iprev=$prev[p]
drawsegment(barindex,ma,max(0,barindex-1),iprev) coloured(r,g,0,alpha)
$prev[p] = ma
p=p+5
wend
return