Desc: The Schaff Trend Cycle (STC) is a charting indicator that is commonly used to identify market trends and provide buy and sell signals to traders. Developed in 1999 by noted currency trader Doug Schaff, STC is a type of oscillator and is based on the assumption that, regardless of time frame, currency trends accelerate and decelerate in cyclical patterns. This indicators source code is based on Releasing the Code to the Schaff Trend Cycle.pdf
Executive Summary
Schaff Trend Cycle is a charting indicator used to help spot buy and sell points in the markets.
Compared to the popular MACD indicator, STC will react faster to changing market conditions.
A drawback to STC is that it can stay in overbought or oversold territory for long stretches of time.
General Usage There are two lines indicating overbought and oversold conditions, default at 75 and 25 which is customizable of course. Signals are created on line crosses. They that can be used to enter LONG/SHORT or EXIT a trade. If the STC crosses the lower line upwards a LONG signal is triggered and if it crosses the upper line a SHORT signal is triggered. Line crosses in the other direction than the current trade also work as EXIT signal.
Alerts
Traders can easily use the reversal signal to trigger alerts from:
Cross Up
Cross Down
Those values are > zero if a condition is triggered. Alert condition example: "Cross Up" - "Greater Than" - "0"
Moving Averages
16 different Moving Averages are available:
ALMA (Arnaud Legoux Moving Average)
DEMA (Double Exponential Moving Average)
EMA (Exponential Moving Average)
FRAMA (Fractal Adaptive Moving Average)
HMA (Hull Moving Average)
JURIK (Jurik Moving Average)
KAMA (Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average)
Kijun (Kijun-sen / Tenkan-sen of Ichimoku)
LSMA (Least Square Moving Average)
RMA (Running Moving Average)
SMA (Simple Moving Average)
SuperSmoothed (Super Smoothed Moving Average)
TEMA (Triple Exponential Moving Average)
VWMA (Volume Weighted Moving Average)
WMA (Weighted Moving Average)
ZLEMA (Zero Lag Moving Average)
A freely determinable length allows for sensitivity adjustments that fits your own requirements.