As One More Average "OMA" indicators are a bit different than rest of Moving Average indicators not only code wise but types of displaying/forming differently in an attractive way,with so many sorts and variety,so this thread means to post all "OMA" indicators separately here for easiness and comfort of users
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Some Explanation from Mladen:
The usual story goes something like this : which is the best moving average? Everyone that ever started to do any kind of technical analysis was pulled into this "game". Comparing, testing, looking for new ones, testing ...
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The idea of this one is simple : it should not be itself, but it should be a kind of a chameleon - it should "imitate" as much other moving averages as it can. So the need for zillion different moving averages would diminish. And it should have some extra, of course :
The extras :
- it has to be smooth
- it has to be able to "change speed" without length change
- it has to be able to adapt or not (since it has to "imitate" the non-adaptive as well as the adaptive ones)
The steps :
- smoothing - compared are the simple moving average (that is the basis and the first step of this indicator - a smoothed simple moving average with as little lag added as it is possible and as close to the original as it is possible) Speed 1 and non-adaptive are the reference for this basic setup.
OMA Compared Speed settings
"speed changing" - same chart only added one more average with "speeds" 2 and 3 (for comparison purposes only here)
OMA vs Adaptive Moving Average
finally - adapting : same chart with SMA compared to one more average with speed 1 but adaptive (so this parameters would make it a "smoothed adaptive simple average") Adapting part is a modified Kaufman adapting way and this part (the adapting part) may be a subject for changes in the future (it is giving satisfactory results, but if or when I find a better way, it will be implemented here)
Speed settings and their matches to other Moving Averages
Some comparisons for different speed settings (all the comparisons are without adaptive turned on, and are approximate : approximation comes from a fact that it is impossible to get exactly the same values from only one way of calculation, and frankly, I even did not try to get those same values)
- speed 0.5 - T3 (0.618 Tilson)
- speed 2.5 - T3(0.618 Fulks/Matulich)
- speed 1 - SMA, harmonic mean
- speed 2 - LWMA
- speed 7 - very similar to Hull and TEMA
- speed 8 - very similar to LSMA and Linear regression value
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And, the last (it might be posted before the rest, but )
Parameters :
- Length- length (period) for averaging ]AppliedPrice- price to use for averaging (it uses the usual metatrader values :
- 0 - close
- 1 - open
- 2 - high
- 3 - low
- 4 - median (high+low)/2
- 5 - typical (high+low+close)/3
- 6 - weighted (high+low+close+close)/4
- Speed- desired speed (i limited to -1.5 on the lower side but it even does not need that limit - some interesting results with speeds that are less than 0 can be achieved)
- Adaptive- does it adapt or not
