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Re: Trending vs. Consolidating Markets



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Dave and Jade,

I like to use rate of change (ROC) of a moving average to see if a stock is in a
trend and the strength of this trend.

Like, if I use a 30 periods simple moving average and I want to select only a
minimum upside trend of  0.8 % by day, I will have :

ROC(Mov(C,30,S),1,%) > 0.8

Pierre Tremblay



Dave Nadeau a écrit :

> Jade,
>
> As many people that there are with opinions on this, I believe that there
> are just as many solutions.
>
> Here are some of my ideas:
>
> Moving averages are another way to guage trend.  You can compare the ADX()
> with a Moving average of itself.  Do consider the lag in this sort of a
> system, and determine if it fits with the type of trading you are doing.  If
> a line remains above a moving average, it is trending up.  You could use
>
> ABOVE:=ADX(14)>Mov(ADX(14),5,S);
> Sum(ABOVE,20)=20;
>
> I'm using 5 periods and 20 bars for the test just as an arbitrary example.
>
> So these are just some of many ways to approach this problem.  I'm sure
> other listmembers will have additional ideas.
>
> Dave Nadeau
> Fort Collins, CO