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Schiff Lines for Amibroker (AFL)
kaiji
over 14 years ago
Amibroker (AFL)

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3 / 5 (Votes 2)
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amibroker, pattern

Variation on Andrew’s Pitchfork. Uses the midpoint between the left 2 peak/trough points instead of the leftmost peak/trough to determine the slope of the lines.

By Bob Johnson – bjohnson314 [at] kc.rr.com

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// Schiff Lines
// Modified from Andrews Pitchfork V3.3
// Use Peak() & Trough() to get peaks & troughs.
// This version deals with adjacent peaks and adjacent
// troughs, i.e. two peaks without an intervening trough or vice-versa.
// It goes backwards from the selected bar until it has a set of 
// peak,trough,peak or trough,peak,trough points to use for calulating
// the Schiff lines.  When 2 or more peaks or 2 or more troughs are adjacent
// it only uses the last one, i.e. the rightmost one, of the series.
//
// This plots the Schiff lines based on the last 3 identified peaks and troughs.
// Instead of a fixed look-back period it identifies the actual bars where the
// peaks AND troughs were revealed by the price action.  i.e. the price has to have
// moved off the high/low by the zigzag pct before the peak or trough will
// be used.
//
// Plots the trendlines as exponential curves that plot as
// straight lines on an semilog chart.
//

SetBarsRequired( 999999,999999);

bi=BarIndex();
sbi=SelectedValue(bi);
echng = 0;

// Pct threshhold for peak() & trough()
Zigpct=Param("Zigpct",4.6,1.0,30.0,0.1,0);

// Since the Zig function only works on a single array, to get a true
// High/Low peak/trough have to approximate it by an EMA choosing the 
// High/Low based on the direction the EMA is moving.  Very occasionally
// it misses the correct High/Low.  To just use value, for example the close,
// just change zpr=IIf(ROC(zema,1) > 0,H,L); to zpr=C;
zema=EMA(C,14);
zpr=IIf(ROC(zema,1) > 0,H,L);
zag=Zig(zpr,zigpct);
tr=Ref(zag,-1) > zag AND zag < Ref(zag,1);
pk=Ref(zag,-1) < zag AND zag > Ref(zag,1);
pkprice=ValueWhen(pk,zpr);
trprice=ValueWhen(tr,zpr);

// This bit is still valid at the right edge.  If price moves far enough in 1 Day to show
// a peak or trough on the last bar, the peak or trough won't go away later. The pk_id OR 
// tr_id (below) will appear on the same bar.  Normally peaks & troughs appear in 'the past',
// e.g. the high 10 days ago wasn't a peak yesterday but today it is because the price dropped
// enough to make it a peak. 
pklast=IIf(BarsSince(pk) < BarsSince(tr),1,0);
trlast=IIf(BarsSince(tr) < BarsSince(pk),1,0);

// A peak or trough is defined as the price moving X pct down or up from a high OR Low.
// The identification point is when the price has actually moved that far.  The Peak/Trough
// will appear 'in the past' on the same day as the pk_id or tr_id appears on the rightmost
// bar.
// Use 'OR tr/OR pk' because when the bar that reveals the pk/tr is also a pk/tr the pklast/
// trlast will have flipped.
// Can't use cross of H or L in the 2nd AND because the H or L may not get above OR below the
// trigger price when the pk/tr occurs.
// The NOT conditions eliminate same-day pk/tr pk_id/tr_id cases. i.e. when the Day's price 
// range was >= zpct on the pk/tr day.
pk_id=((pklast OR tr) AND pkprice*(1-(zigpct*0.01)) > L ) AND NOT ( pk AND (H - L)/L >= 0.01 * zigpct);
tr_id=((trlast OR pk) AND H > trprice*(1+(zigpct*0.01)) ) AND NOT ( tr AND (H - L)/L >= 0.01 * zigpct);

// The pk_id/tr_id conditions can recur before the next pk or tr
pk_id=ExRem(pk_id,tr_id);
tr_id=ExRem(tr_id,pk_id);

pk_idlast=IIf(BarsSince(pk_id) < BarsSince(tr_id),1,0);
tr_idlast=IIf(BarsSince(tr_id) < BarsSince(pk_id),1,0);

Lookbk=IIf(pk_idlast,BarsSince(pk),BarsSince(tr));

// How many bars to extend the pitchfork past the selected bar.
xtsn=Param("Extension",62,1,2500,1);

// Shift to move pitchfork up/down from original position one penny at time.
shift=Param("Shift",0,-2000,2000,0.01);

// Filter out cases when the angle of the median lines is too extreme,
// The loop will continue until it finds a set of lines whose slope falls 
// between +- the Angle Limit.  Setting the angle limit to 90 effectively
// turns it off.
alimit=Param("Angle Limit",40,1,180,1);

// bkgrndcolor should match your background color.  It's used to mask the 
// parts of the pitchfork arrays outside the calculated pitchfork from view.
bkgrndcolor=ParamColor("Background Color",colorLightGrey);
pitchforkcolor=ParamColor("Line Color",colorRed);

// The peak/trough lines will be used to determine the y coordinates
// of the pitchfork's 3 determining points.

//pline1=Peak(H,Zigpct,1);
//tline1=Trough(L,Zigpct,1);
pline1=pkprice;
tline1=trprice;
// Identify the pivots.

pzag1=pline1 != Ref(pline1,-1);
tzag1=tline1 != Ref(tline1,-1);

// Get the x,y coordinates of the pivots skipping adjacent
// peaks and troughs.  Go backwards from the current bar minus the lookback.

// These will hold the x,y coordinates of the pivot points in arrays at the
// sbi index.

zagx1=0;
zagx2=0;
zagx3=0;
zagy1=0;
zagy2=0;
zagy3=0;

for ( i = sbi - Lookbk[sbi], zagfnd = 0, pzagfnd = 0, tzagfnd = 0 ; i >= 0 && zagfnd < 3; i-- ) {
    if ( pzag1[i] || tzag1[i] ) {
        if ( pzag1[i] && NOT pzagfnd ) {
             zagfnd=zagfnd+1;
             pzagfnd=1;
             tzagfnd=0;
             if ( zagfnd == 1 ) {
                 zagx1[sbi]=i;
                 zagy1[sbi]=pline1[i];
             } else if (zagfnd == 2) {
                 zagx2[sbi]=i;
                 zagy2[sbi]=pline1[i];
             } else if (zagfnd == 3) {
                 zagx3[sbi]=i;
                 zagy3[sbi]=pline1[i];
             }
        } else if ( tzag1[i] && NOT tzagfnd ) {
             zagfnd=zagfnd+1;
             tzagfnd=1;
             pzagfnd=0;
             if ( zagfnd == 1 ) {
                 zagx1[sbi]=i;
                 zagy1[sbi]=tline1[i];
             } else if (zagfnd == 2) {
                 zagx2[sbi]=i;
                 zagy2[sbi]=tline1[i];
             } else if (zagfnd == 3) {
                 zagx3[sbi]=i;
                 zagy3[sbi]=tline1[i];
             }
        }
    }

    if ( zagfnd == 3 ) {  // Got 3 candidate peak/trough points

        echng=0;
        midx=0;
        midy=0;
        schiffx=0;
        schiffy=0;
        Handle=0;
        Top=0;
        Bot=0;

        // For Schiff lines instead of Andrew's Pitchfork, move the left pivot point
        // to the mid point of the left most pivots.

        schiffx[sbi]=zagx3[sbi] + (zagx2[sbi]-zagx3[sbi]) / 2;
        schiffy[sbi]=exp( log(zagy2[sbi]) - ( log(zagy2[sbi])-log(zagy3[sbi]) ) / 2);
        // to avoid changing all the instances of zagx3,zagy3 from the old Andrew's code
        // just reset x3 & y3 to the schiff values.

        zagx3[sbi] = schiffx[sbi];
        zagy3[sbi] = schiffy[sbi];

        echng=(log(midy[sbi])-log(zagy3[sbi]))/(midx[sbi]-zagx3[sbi]);

        // Determine Midpoint between the rightmost 2 pivots and the slope from the
        // Schiff point determined above to the midpoint.

        Midx[sbi]=zagx2[sbi] + (zagx1[sbi]-zagx2[sbi]) / 2;
        Midy[sbi]=exp( log(zagy1[sbi]) - ( log(zagy1[sbi])-log(zagy2[sbi]) ) / 2);
        echng=(log(midy[sbi])-log(zagy3[sbi]))/(midx[sbi]-zagx3[sbi]);

        // Apply the Angle Limit filter

        angle_rad = atan(echng);//radians
        angle_deg = 100 * angle_rad * 180/3.1416;//degrees

        if ( angle_deg < -alimit || angle_deg > alimit ) { // Too steep, reset the search
                                                           // to begin from the 2nd pivot found
            if ( tzagfnd == 1 ) {  // was tr,pk,tr so switch to pk,tr,pk
                tzagfnd = 0;
                pzagfnd = 1;
                zagfnd = 1;
                zagx1[sbi]=zagx2[sbi];
                zagy1[sbi]=zagy2[sbi];
                i = zagx1[sbi];
                zagx2=0;
                zagx3=0;
                zagy2=0;
                zagy3=0;
            } else {  // was pk,tr,pk so switch to tr,pk,tr
                tzagfnd = 1;
                pzagfnd = 0;
                zagfnd = 1;
                zagx1[sbi]=zagx2[sbi];
                zagy1[sbi]=zagy2[sbi];
                i = zagx1[sbi];
                zagx2=0;
                zagx3=0;
                zagy2=0;
                zagy3=0;
            } 
       }
    }
}

// Calculate the Schiff lines themselves

// Handle first

for ( j=zagx3[sbi],n=0 ; j < Min(sbi+xtsn,BarCount) ; j++,n++ ) {
   Handle[j]=exp(log(zagy3[sbi]) + n*echng) + shift;
}


// High & low median lines.
if ( (exp(log(zagy2[sbi]) + (sbi-zagx2[sbi])*echng)) 
     > (exp(log(zagy1[sbi]) + (sbi-zagx1[sbi])*echng)) ) {  // Which one is top?
   for ( j=zagx2[sbi],n=0 ; j < Min(sbi+xtsn,BarCount) ; j++,n++ ) {
      top[j]=exp(log(zagy2[sbi]) + n*echng) + shift;
   }
   for ( j=zagx1[sbi],n=0 ; j < Min(sbi+xtsn,BarCount) ; j++,n++ ) {
      bot[j]=exp(log(zagy1[sbi]) + n*echng) + shift;
   }
} else {
   for ( j=zagx2[sbi],n=0 ; j < Min(sbi+xtsn,BarCount) ; j++,n++ ) {
      bot[j]=exp(log(zagy2[sbi]) + n*echng) + shift;
   }
   for ( j=zagx1[sbi],n=0 ; j < Min(sbi+xtsn,BarCount) ; j++,n++ ) {
      top[j]=exp(log(zagy1[sbi]) + n*echng) + shift;
   }
}

Hcolor=IIf(Handle==0,bkgrndcolor,IIf(Ref(handle,-1)== 0 AND handle != 0, bkgrndcolor,pitchforkcolor));
Tcolor=IIf(Top==0,bkgrndcolor,IIf(Ref(top,-1)== 0 AND top != 0, bkgrndcolor,pitchforkcolor));
Bcolor=IIf(Bot==0,bkgrndcolor,IIf(Ref(bot,-1)== 0 AND bot != 0, bkgrndcolor,pitchforkcolor));
Htitle=EncodeColor(pitchforkcolor)
      + StrFormat("\nSchiff: pct=%g lkbk=%g shft=%g alimit=%g Angle=%3.2f Handle=",
        Zigpct, Lookbk, shift, alimit, angle_deg);
Plot(Handle,Htitle,Hcolor,styleLine+styleDashed+styleNoRescale);
Plot(Bot,EncodeColor(pitchforkcolor)+"Bot=",Bcolor,styleLine+styleDashed+styleNoRescale);
Plot(Top,EncodeColor(pitchforkcolor)+"Top=",Tcolor,styleLine+styleDashed+styleNoRescale);

6 comments

1. sudhir12192

PL CORRECT IT SAYS ECHNG NOT INITIALISED WHEN WE LOAD THE FORMULA PL HELP MY EMAIL sudhiranand@smartfundz.com

2. administrator

Works fine for me check that your doing everything correctly.

3. eevra

Hi sudhir12192,

Even, I too got the same error. But surprised how the administrator has expressed that it worked fine.

With the administrator’s permission, I would like to submit how it worked for me.

First of all, this indicator should be applied on a price chart.
Then, just add the following at the top of the code ie., in the 4th or 5th line to have these variables initialised.

echng=0;
angle_rad = atan(echng);
angle_deg = 100 * angle_rad * 180/3.1416;

Save & apply the indicator on a price chart.

Works beautifully.

Thanks to Bob Jhonson.

4. administrator

eevra does just adding echng = 0; at the top of the formula work for you? Also what version of amibroker are you using?

5. eevra

Yes. It works. My AMi version is 5.2 rc1

6. administrator

Okay as per eevra’s suggestion i have edited the formula it should work now.

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