Indicators: Adaptive Moving Average (AMA)
CAN I USE IT WITH MT4 TRADER?
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newdigital, 2014.07.13 12:00
Adaptive moving average (AMA), as the name suggests is an adaptation of moving average. It is designed to adapt according to the dynamic market as needed.
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Simple moving average (SMA) and its cousins weighted moving averages (WMA) and exponential moving averages (EMA) all work fantastic when the market is trending. However when the market is range bound they pick up a lot of market noise generating a lot of premature signals. Moreover, they are all inherently lagging in nature.
In a quest to remedy shortcomings of moving averages, Perry J. Kaufmann,
first introduced adaptive moving average in his book The Smarter
Trading: Improving Performance in Changing Markets.
20-Day-SMA & AMA In Action:
Prior to Mr. Kaufmann's introduction of AMA, traders employed combination of more than a single moving average such as The Double Crossover Method and The Triple Crossover Method.
The reasons behind employing multiple combination of moving averages are based on the following facts:
- Fast moving averages, which often consists of shorter time period such as 5-day period performed best when the market is rapidly trending.
- Slow moving averages, which often consists of longer time period such as 50-day period performed best when the market is range bound thereby filtering most of the noise in the market.
So the genius in Kaufmann's AMA was a system smart enough to vary its speed according to a combination of market direction and speed.
In another words, when the market is trending, AMA speeds up along with the trend. When the market is range bound and does nothing AMA slows down.
Thus it righteously earns the name "adaptive" as it self adjusts to market direction and speed.
Kaufmann's AMA achieves sense of market direction and speed by incoporating the efficiency ratio.
Following are the trading rules for the Adaptive Moving Average:
- Buy when the AMA turns up
- Sell when the AMA turns down
I wrote an EA based on the default AMA in MT5 and it works exactly like it is supposed to.
If I were to use yours, it would give a different reading.
Oh, sorry, I just realised your indicator applies to the Open Price, not Close Price.
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Adaptive Moving Average (AMA):
Adaptive Moving Average (AMA) is used for constructing a moving average with low sensitivity to price series noises and is characterized by the minimal lag for trend detection.
This indicator was developed and described by Perry Kaufman in his book "Smarter Trading".
One of disadvantages of different smoothing algorithms for price series is that accidental price leaps can result in the appearance of false trend signals. On the other hand, smoothing leads to the unavoidable lag in predicting the trends. This indicator was developed to overcome these two disadvantages.
Author: MetaQuotes Software Corp.