Institutional Strength & Flow (Expo)

█ Overview
The Institutional Strength & Flow (Expo) Indicator is a tool that's designed to help traders identify institutional activity in the market. Institutional investors, such as hedge funds and investment banks, have a major impact on the market. By tracking their activity, traders can gain insights into the direction of the market and make more informed trading decisions.


█ How is Institutional Strength & Flow calculated?
Institutional strength and flow refer to the large trades made by institutional investors, such as pension funds, hedge funds, and mutual funds. These investors manage large amounts of money and can make significant trades that move the market. As a result, it is essential to understand and interpret the impact of these trades on the price of an asset.

To calculate institutional strength and flow, you would need access to information on the amount of money institutional investors have to invest in the market and the volume of their trades. Unfortunately, this information is not readily available to retail traders.

There are, however, some proxies for institutional strength and flow that can be used to approximate these values by looking at other factors correlated with institutional activity. Three factors are:

• The average trading volume over a given period.
  
• The strength of the price changes.
  
• The given volatility.
  

This indicator uses these approximate values to calculate the institutional strength and flow.


█ How to use
Market trends
One of the key benefits of the indicator is that it can help traders identify market trends. By tracking institutional activity, we can get a sense of which way the market is headed.

Market sentiment
Institutional strength and flow can also provide insight into market sentiment. Positive institutional flow indicates that institutional investors are buying a particular market or security. This could be a sign of bullish sentiment and may indicate that prices are likely to rise. Negative institutional flow indicates that institutional investors are selling a particular market or security. This could be a sign of bearish sentiment and may indicate that prices are likely to fall.

Divergences
Another way to use the indicator is to look for divergences between the indicator and the price of a particular stock or market. For example, if the price of a stock is trending upwards, but the indicator is trending downwards, this could be an indication that the market is weakening and a good time to sell. Conversely, if the price of a stock is trending downwards, but the indicator is trending upwards, this could be a sign that the market is strengthening and a good time to buy.

Overbought and Oversold
Use the divergences to look for overbought or oversold conditions. If the indicator is above its scaling factor of 1, this could indicate that the market is overbought and due for a correction. Conversely, if the indicator is below 0, this could indicate that the market is oversold and due for a rebound.

█ Indicator Features

The main features are:

• Institutional Strength
  
• Institutional Flow
  

Additional features:

• Volatility Bands
  

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