No Nonsense Forex - Indicators (2024)

Market Phase Indicator

My little adaptation of Welles Wilder's ADX, Version 2.

Version 1 used ADX - ADX[1] effectively rate of change to determine the positive or negative slope of the ADX line. Positive being trending, and negative or zero being ranging. The rate of change introduced a 1 bar lag, creating late entries for trend trading strategies.

Version 2 uses a trigger line of the ADX, trigger_line = ADX[1]. This regains the previously lost 1 bar. The indicator reacts quickly to short-term trend fluctuations, so not perfect in any sense.

Any ideas of filters I can introduce to limit the number of entries will be great.

For the NNFX traders, I reckon this will make a nice secondary confirmation indicator, C2.

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Volume Price Confirmation Indicator (VPCI)

Developed by Buff Dormeier. The VPCI reveals the proportional imbalances between price trends and volume-adjusted price trends. An uptrend with increasing volume is a market characterized by greed supported by the fuel needed to grow. An uptrend without volume is complacent and reveals greed deprived of the fuel needed to sustain itself. Investors without the influx of other investors ( volume ) will eventually lose interest and the uptrend should eventually breakdown.

A falling price trend reveals a market driven by fear. A falling price trend without volume reveals apathy, fear without increasing energy. Unlike greed, fear is self-sustaining, and may endure for long time periods without increasing fuel or energy. Adding energy to fear can be likened to adding fuel to a fire and is generally bearish until the VPCI reverses. In such cases, weak-minded investor's, overcome by fear, are becoming irrationally fearful until the selling climax reaches a state of maximum hom*ogeneity. At this point, ownership held by weak investor’s has been purged, producing a type of heat death capitulation. These occurrences may be visualized by the VPCI falling below the lower standard deviation of a Bollinger Band of the VPCI, and then rising above the lower band, and forming a 'V' bottom.

For NNFX traders I think this falls under VOLUME or EXIT, take your pick.

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Hello, may I suggest using some of the Top 10 indicators:
-Itrend Averages
- Waddah Attar Explosion Averages with ATR DeadZone
- Trend Direction & Force index
- Jurik "Volty" Volatility Bands
-Adaptive Jurik Filter

I think these 5 indicators are good for the nononsense strategy.

Anyway, thanks for the contribution.

William Blau's Ergodic True Strength Index (Ergodic TSI)

The Ergodic TSI is a double smoothed true strength index with a signal line. It is intended to act like a stochastic indicator without the 'compression' often seen with stochastics at extremes. As a result, it helps to register long trends.

The only change made to the indicator is the signal line, Blau said to use another EMA of the Ergodic TSI to generate a signal line, but this entry is late so I've changed it to the Ergodic TSI one period back.

For NNFX traders this is a PRIMARY CONFIRMATION indicator.

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