OPEN-SOURCE SCRIPT

Up/Down Range

Measuring the difference between the highs and lows from the average, this measure can serve as a proxy for the volatility, just like the ATR.

However, it breaks the range into an upward and a downward moving component, so it also gives information about the current trend direction.

In fact, I turned it into a momentum indicator here:
Up/Down Range Momentum
ATRMomentum Indicator (MOM)rangetrend

Open-source script

In true TradingView spirit, the author of this script has published it open-source, so traders can understand and verify it. Cheers to the author! You may use it for free, but reuse of this code in publication is governed by House rules. You can favorite it to use it on a chart.

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