About The Indicator
I want to start with a few short paragraphs of how this indicator came to be and why it's different than 80% of the indicators on this platform. If you are just interested in how the indicator works, you can skip the story, although I recommend at least skimming through it.
Originally, this indicator was developed to be part of a trend-trading strategy that analyzed the three main components - Price, Volume and Strength. It was broken down to 2 indicators - on-chart and off-chart, similarly to my first premium indicator "Trend Indicator for Directional Trading". Despite the similar concept, the current one is miles ahead in almost any regard.
As most of you know, strategies (especially the really good ones) are fairly more complex to use and navigate. You need to input the parameters for generating and tweaking the indicator, then you need to enter your risk management parameters like stop loss, position size, etc. and finally you need to set the exit criteria, like specified percent target, trial stop or an indicator condition. So, what was supposed to be a simple strategy that anyone can use and make money with, turned out to be a very complex one with over 20 parameters to tweak. I know from experience that when it comes to trading, less is more. This is especially true for the indicators.
As a result, I decided to split the project into two separate strategies - one for trend/directional trading and one for volume and strength (the one you are looking at right now). The problem was that as a standalone strategy it didn't perform all that well. And it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has been trading long enough - divergences are one of the biggest tricksters there are - easy to identify only in hindsight. They are the new-trader's doom. I lost a decent amount of money chasing tops and bottoms through divergences and for that reason it's always been somewhat a goal of mine to create an indicator that can assist in this conquest (call it a personal vendetta). This indicator comes as close as I've ever been to this goal.
Right, but I just said a few lines above that this indicator doesn't work that well for divergences? That's true, but only if you completely automate it and let it buy every bullish and sell every bearish divergence. I have extensively tested it on the securities I actively trade (SPX500, Crude Oil, Gas, Gold, Copper) and with the right settings it does generate positive return (what strategy wouldn't with enough optimization, right?), but I would have made so much more money if I didn't fight the trend.
So, I decided to do something else - convert the strategy back to an indicator and use it for discretional trading in which it assists (not explicitly tell) me in making the decisions. And oh boy, did I hit the sweet spot there! It has been notoriously difficult for most scripts and indicators to identify proper support and resistance levels or at least not nearly as good as the human eye can do. This is especially the case with ascending and descending channels. Seeing how well it worked in helping me open longs and shorts at key levels, I decided to strip it from all unnecessary features and simplify the interface for easier navigation (about 300 lines of code less). This brings me to my next point.
How Does It Work?
The indicator relies on two main components in order to identify reversals - RSI module and Effective Volume module, hence the name RSI Effective Volume Reversal Indicator (not very creative, I know). You select which one you want to display via the dropdown menu. Now let me outline how each one works.
RSI module (top) - similarly to the traditional RSI, it is bound between 0 and 100. Oversold area is marked in green (15-25) and overbought area is marked in red (75-85). You can change those as you please, but I found those to be the perfect spots for identifying potential opportunities. This is where the similarities end. As you've noticed, it's not nearly as choppy as the traditional RSI, just the opposite - it's rather smooth, resembling Heikin-Ashi candles. Further, the way the candle is formed can indicate if we are approaching a top or bottom and if you should be looking for an opportunity to open a trade against the trend. Believe it or not, I've been developing and using this indicator for the past 6 months, so there's a lot to be said about the formation of those candles with clear examples, but I will leave those for the guide book that comes along with each purchase/subscription.
Effective Volume (bottom) - As I already have developed quite an extensive indicator that utilizes the effective volume profile, I just grabbed certain elements from it, simplified it and smoothed it via a new custom-made moving average along with some other minor updates. The results from RSI and Effective Volume may seem quite similar, but they actually reveal slightly different information and can be used to complement each other. In terms of coloring - green gradient above 50 and red gradient below 50.
What To Expect
It's important to understand that technical analysis does not predict prices. I am not claiming this indicator to be the crystal ball that will tell you when to long or short with max leverage. All I am saying is that it's a pretty good tool to help you time your trades, show real exhaustion of trends and reveal when a new direction is forming.
This indicator has been, and most likely will continue to be, work in progress. I've been experimenting with tons of features to make it better for the past 6 months and I finally believe it is stable and beneficial enough in order for you to use it. There's always something more that I would like to add and/or change, but I know that if I continue digging and improving, the indicator would have never seen the light of day. That's why I want to add the critical component to it - you. Through your feedback and recommendations, I believe we can make this indicator truly a masterpiece.
With that being said, I do have some future improvements planned, which I will be releasing on the go. Some are major, like updating it to v.5 and adding new features that are only available to the newest version of PineScript, while others are minor, such as color variations and more one-click customizations.
I hope I managed to portray an objective picture (with reasonable amount of words) of something that I've put a lot of work into, so that you can successfully use and make even more money on the markets. Once again, each purchase/subscription of this indicator comes with a guide in which I go into great detail explaining how to use the indicator, so rest assured that you will be able to take full advantage of it.
I want to start with a few short paragraphs of how this indicator came to be and why it's different than 80% of the indicators on this platform. If you are just interested in how the indicator works, you can skip the story, although I recommend at least skimming through it.
Originally, this indicator was developed to be part of a trend-trading strategy that analyzed the three main components - Price, Volume and Strength. It was broken down to 2 indicators - on-chart and off-chart, similarly to my first premium indicator "Trend Indicator for Directional Trading". Despite the similar concept, the current one is miles ahead in almost any regard.
As most of you know, strategies (especially the really good ones) are fairly more complex to use and navigate. You need to input the parameters for generating and tweaking the indicator, then you need to enter your risk management parameters like stop loss, position size, etc. and finally you need to set the exit criteria, like specified percent target, trial stop or an indicator condition. So, what was supposed to be a simple strategy that anyone can use and make money with, turned out to be a very complex one with over 20 parameters to tweak. I know from experience that when it comes to trading, less is more. This is especially true for the indicators.
As a result, I decided to split the project into two separate strategies - one for trend/directional trading and one for volume and strength (the one you are looking at right now). The problem was that as a standalone strategy it didn't perform all that well. And it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has been trading long enough - divergences are one of the biggest tricksters there are - easy to identify only in hindsight. They are the new-trader's doom. I lost a decent amount of money chasing tops and bottoms through divergences and for that reason it's always been somewhat a goal of mine to create an indicator that can assist in this conquest (call it a personal vendetta). This indicator comes as close as I've ever been to this goal.
Right, but I just said a few lines above that this indicator doesn't work that well for divergences? That's true, but only if you completely automate it and let it buy every bullish and sell every bearish divergence. I have extensively tested it on the securities I actively trade (SPX500, Crude Oil, Gas, Gold, Copper) and with the right settings it does generate positive return (what strategy wouldn't with enough optimization, right?), but I would have made so much more money if I didn't fight the trend.
So, I decided to do something else - convert the strategy back to an indicator and use it for discretional trading in which it assists (not explicitly tell) me in making the decisions. And oh boy, did I hit the sweet spot there! It has been notoriously difficult for most scripts and indicators to identify proper support and resistance levels or at least not nearly as good as the human eye can do. This is especially the case with ascending and descending channels. Seeing how well it worked in helping me open longs and shorts at key levels, I decided to strip it from all unnecessary features and simplify the interface for easier navigation (about 300 lines of code less). This brings me to my next point.
How Does It Work?
The indicator relies on two main components in order to identify reversals - RSI module and Effective Volume module, hence the name RSI Effective Volume Reversal Indicator (not very creative, I know). You select which one you want to display via the dropdown menu. Now let me outline how each one works.
RSI module (top) - similarly to the traditional RSI, it is bound between 0 and 100. Oversold area is marked in green (15-25) and overbought area is marked in red (75-85). You can change those as you please, but I found those to be the perfect spots for identifying potential opportunities. This is where the similarities end. As you've noticed, it's not nearly as choppy as the traditional RSI, just the opposite - it's rather smooth, resembling Heikin-Ashi candles. Further, the way the candle is formed can indicate if we are approaching a top or bottom and if you should be looking for an opportunity to open a trade against the trend. Believe it or not, I've been developing and using this indicator for the past 6 months, so there's a lot to be said about the formation of those candles with clear examples, but I will leave those for the guide book that comes along with each purchase/subscription.
Effective Volume (bottom) - As I already have developed quite an extensive indicator that utilizes the effective volume profile, I just grabbed certain elements from it, simplified it and smoothed it via a new custom-made moving average along with some other minor updates. The results from RSI and Effective Volume may seem quite similar, but they actually reveal slightly different information and can be used to complement each other. In terms of coloring - green gradient above 50 and red gradient below 50.
What To Expect
It's important to understand that technical analysis does not predict prices. I am not claiming this indicator to be the crystal ball that will tell you when to long or short with max leverage. All I am saying is that it's a pretty good tool to help you time your trades, show real exhaustion of trends and reveal when a new direction is forming.
This indicator has been, and most likely will continue to be, work in progress. I've been experimenting with tons of features to make it better for the past 6 months and I finally believe it is stable and beneficial enough in order for you to use it. There's always something more that I would like to add and/or change, but I know that if I continue digging and improving, the indicator would have never seen the light of day. That's why I want to add the critical component to it - you. Through your feedback and recommendations, I believe we can make this indicator truly a masterpiece.
With that being said, I do have some future improvements planned, which I will be releasing on the go. Some are major, like updating it to v.5 and adding new features that are only available to the newest version of PineScript, while others are minor, such as color variations and more one-click customizations.
I hope I managed to portray an objective picture (with reasonable amount of words) of something that I've put a lot of work into, so that you can successfully use and make even more money on the markets. Once again, each purchase/subscription of this indicator comes with a guide in which I go into great detail explaining how to use the indicator, so rest assured that you will be able to take full advantage of it.
リリースノート:
✔️ Modified (improved) the Volume indicator by adding volume lookback and volume smoothing via the custom MA;
❌ Removed the volume resolution option, as it doesn't allow you to manually backtest your strategy using the Bar Replay feature;
✔️ Slight improvement in the RSI Candles formation;
✔️ Simplified code (mainly for my personal convenience)
✔️ Added two alerts with the intent to refine those and add some more. The current ones are:
- Strong Bullish Bar in Oversold Area - green bar, in which the high is equal to the close and its low is in the oversold area (25);
- Strong Bearish Bar in Overbought Area - red bar, in which the low is equal to the close and its high is in the overbought area (75);
Those signals are far from being perfect, but I am planning on tweaking them and backtesting them for best results. Strong bullish and bearish bars, which follow red or green candles respectively, are great indicators for a reversal.
❌ Removed the volume resolution option, as it doesn't allow you to manually backtest your strategy using the Bar Replay feature;
✔️ Slight improvement in the RSI Candles formation;
✔️ Simplified code (mainly for my personal convenience)
✔️ Added two alerts with the intent to refine those and add some more. The current ones are:
- Strong Bullish Bar in Oversold Area - green bar, in which the high is equal to the close and its low is in the oversold area (25);
- Strong Bearish Bar in Overbought Area - red bar, in which the low is equal to the close and its high is in the overbought area (75);
Those signals are far from being perfect, but I am planning on tweaking them and backtesting them for best results. Strong bullish and bearish bars, which follow red or green candles respectively, are great indicators for a reversal.
リリースノート:
✔️ Introducing a choice of Moving Averages - a significant upgrade, which allows you to choose the type of MA that will be used for the calculation of the custom smoothing MA.
I came up with this feature while developing another indicator of mine and thought it would be useful to implement it here as well. By having the choice of an MA, you can make the candles respond better to price, be it on a more volatile asset or one that is fairly stable. So far your only option to do that was through changing the period.
If you want to use both the Candles and the Volume indicator, my suggestion is to apply the indicator twice with different MAs and length. Some settings that work particularly well on the candles will fail on the volume part and vice versa.
I came up with this feature while developing another indicator of mine and thought it would be useful to implement it here as well. By having the choice of an MA, you can make the candles respond better to price, be it on a more volatile asset or one that is fairly stable. So far your only option to do that was through changing the period.
If you want to use both the Candles and the Volume indicator, my suggestion is to apply the indicator twice with different MAs and length. Some settings that work particularly well on the candles will fail on the volume part and vice versa.