Composite High/Low Momentum Blau_HLM – indicator MetaTrader 5

Author: Andrey N. Bolkonsky

The Composite High-Low Momentum is described by William Blau in the book “Momentum, Direction, and Divergence: Applying the Latest Momentum Indicators for Technical Analysis”.

• WilliamBlau.mqh must be placed in terminal_data_folder\MQL5\Include\
• Blau_HLM.mq5 must be placed in terminal_data_folder\MQL5\Indicators\

Composite High-Low Momentum Indicator by William Blau

Calculation:

The Composite High/Low Momentum is calculated as follows:

where:

• q – number of bars, used in calculation of Up Trend Momentum and Down Trend Momentum;
• HMU(q) – Up Trend Momentum (q bars);
• LMD(q) – Down Trend Momentum (q bars).

The smoothed Composite High/Low Momentum is calculated as follows:

where:

• q – number of bars, used in the calculation of Up Trend Momentum and Down Trend Momentum;
• HMU(q) – Up Trend Momentum (q bars);
• LMD(q) – Down Trend Momentum (q bars);
• HLM(q)=HMU(q)-LMD(q) – Composite High/Low Momentum;
• EMA(HLM(q),r) – 1st smoothing – EMA(r), applied to the Composite High/Low Momentum;
• EMA(EMA(…,r),s) – 2nd smoothing – EMA(s), applied to result of the 1st smoothing;
• EMA(EMA(EMA(…,r),s),u) – 3rd smoothing – EMA(u), applied to result of the 2nd smoothing.

Input parameters:

• q – number of bars, used in calculation of HLM (by default q=2);
• r – period of the 1st EMA, applied to HLM (by default r=20);
• s – period of the 2nd EMA, applied to result of the 1st smoothing (by default s=5);
• u – period of the 3rd EMA, applied to result of the 2nd smoothing (by default u=3).

Note:

• q>0;
• r>0, s>0, u>0. If r, s or u are equal to 1, smoothing is not used;
• Min. rates = (q-1+r+s+u-3+1).