ATR

Jun 9, 2015

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// Copyright by HPotter v2.0 13/10/2014
// Average True Range Trailing Stops Strategy, by Sylvain Vervoort
// The related article is copyrighted material from Stocks & Commodities Jun 2009
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study(title="Average True Range Trailing Stops Strategy, by Sylvain Vervoort", overlay = true)
nATRPeriod = input(5)
nATRMultip = input(3.5)
xATR = atr(nATRPeriod)
nLoss = nATRMultip * xATR
xATRTrailingStop = iff(close > nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0) and close[1] > nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0), max(nz(xATRTrailingStop[1]), close - nLoss),
iff(close nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0), close - nLoss, close + nLoss)))
pos = iff(close[1] nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0), 1,
iff(close[1] > nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0) and close < nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0), -1, nz(pos[1], 0)))
color = pos == -1 ? red: pos == 1 ? green : blue
plot(xATRTrailingStop, color=color, title="ATR Trailing Stop")