ADX/ADXR Custom (Without Rounding) for Metastock

carla

over 13 years ago

Metastock

The Average Directional Index (ADX), Minus Directional Indicator (-DI) and Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) represent a group of directional movement indicators that form a trading system developed by Welles Wilder.

The ADX indicator measures the strength of a trend and can be useful to determine if a trend is strong or weak. High readings indicate a strong trend and low readings indicate a weak trend.

When this indicator is showing a low reading then a trading range is likely to develop. Avoid stocks with low readings! You want to be in stocks that have high readings.

The indicators built-in Metastock plot exactly as Welles Wilder plots them in his book, New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems. These custom indicators calculate the same way except they do not round as Wilder does.

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Periods:=Input("Time Periods",1,100,14);
PlusDM:=If(H>Ref(H,-1) AND L<=Ref(L,-1),H-Ref(H,-1),If(H>Ref(H,-1)
AND L<Ref(L,-1) AND H-Ref(H,-1)>Ref(L,-1)-L, H-Ref(H,-1),0));
PlusDI:=100*Wilders(PlusDM,Periods)/ATR(Periods);
MinusDM:=If(L<Ref(L,-1) AND H<=Ref(H,-1),Ref(L,-1)-L,If(H>Ref(H,-1)
AND L<Ref(L,-1) AND H-Ref(H,-1)<Ref(L,-1)-L, Ref(L,-1)-L,0));
MinusDI:=100*Wilders(MinusDM,Periods)/ATR(Periods);
DIDif:=Abs(PlusDI-MinusDI);
DISum:=PlusDI+MinusDI;
ADXFinal:=100*Wilders(DIDif/DISum,Periods);
ADXRCustom:= (ADXFinal+Ref(ADXFinal,LastValue(1-periods)))/2;
ADXRCustom

Periods:=Input("Time Periods",1,100,14);
PlusDM:=If(H>Ref(H,-1) AND L>=Ref(L,-1), H-Ref(H,-1),If(H>Ref(H,-1)
AND L<Ref(L,-1) AND H-Ref(H,-1) > Ref(L,-1)-L, H-Ref(H,-1),0));
PlusDI:=100*Wilders(PlusDM,Periods)/ATR(Periods);
MinusDM:=If(L<Ref(L,-1) AND H<=Ref(H,-1),Ref(L,-1)-L,If(H>Ref(H,-1)
AND L<Ref(L,-1) AND H-Ref(H,-1)<Ref(L,-1)-L, Ref(L,-1)-L,0));
MinusDI:=100*Wilders(MinusDM,Periods)/ATR(Periods);
DIDif:=Abs(PlusDI-MinusDI);
DISum:=PlusDI+MinusDI;
ADXFinal:=100*Wilders(DIDif/DISum,Periods);
ADXFinal

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