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Overview The Detrended Price Oscillator (“DPO”) attempts to eliminate the trend in prices. Detrended prices allow you to more easily identify cycles and overbought/oversold levels. Interpretation Long-term cycles are made up of a series of short-term cycles. Analyzing these shorter term components of the long-term cycles can be helpful in […]
Overview Oscillators typically compare a security’s smoothed price with its price x-periods ago. Larry Williams noted that the value of this type of oscillator can vary greatly depending on the number of time periods used during the calculation. Thus, he developed the Ultimate Oscillator that uses weighted sums of three […]
Overview The Volume Oscillator displays the difference between two moving averages of a security’s volume. The difference between the moving averages can be expressed in either points or percentages. Interpretation You can use the difference between two moving averages of volume to determine if the overall volume trend is increasing […]
Overview Sto.chas.tic (sto kas’tik) adj. 2. Math. designating a process having an infinite progression of jointly distributed random variables. – Webster’s New World Dictionary The Stochastic Oscillator compares where a security’s price closed relative to its price range over a given time period. Interpretation The Stochastic Oscillator is displayed as two […]
Overview The Price Oscillator displays the difference between two moving averages of a security price. The difference between the moving averages can be expressed in either points or percentages. The Price Oscillator is almost identical to the MACD, except that the Price Oscillator can use any two user-specified moving averages. […]