Stochastic Oscillator Blau_TS_Stochastic – indicator MetaTrader 5

Author: Andrey N. Bolkonsky

Stochastic Oscillator is based on Stochastic Index by William Blau (see Momentum, Direction, and Divergence: Applying the Latest Momentum Indicators for Technical Analysis).

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

Stochastic Oscillator by William Blau

Calculation:

Stochastic Oscillator is defined as follows:

Signal line is calculated using the smoothing:

where:

• TS_Stochastic() – Fast Stochastic, %k – Stochastic Index TStochI(price,q,r,s,u);
• SignalLine() – Slow Stochastic (Signal Line), %d exponentially smoothed moving average with period ul, applied to Fast Stochastic (%k);
• ul – EMA smoothing period of a Signal Line.

Input parameters:

• graphic plot #0 – Fast Stochastic (Stochastic Index), %k:
  
  • q – period of Stochastic (by default q=5);
  • r – period of the 1st EMA, applied to Stochastic (by default r=20);
  • s – period of the 2nd EMA smoothing, applied to result of the 1st smoothing (by default s=5);
  • u – period of the 3rd EMA smoothing, applied to result of the 2nd smoothing (by default u=3);
• graphic plot #1 – Slow Stochastic (Signal Line), %d:
  
  • ul – period of EMA smoothing (signal line), applied to Fast Stochastic (by default ul=3);
• AppliedPrice – price type (by default AppliedPrice=PRICE_CLOSE).

Note:

• q>0;
• r>0, s>0, u>0.If r, s or u =1, smoothing is not used;
• ul>0. If ul=1, the oscillator and signal lines are the same;
• Min. rates =(q-1+r+s+u-3+1).