Vervoort Volatility Bands [LazyBear]

lazybear custom indicators vervoort volatility bands

This is Mr. Vervoort's take on volatility bands. Sticking to his style, he uses highly smoothed data everywhere, also improves on the way the bands are calculated. Is this better than others? I will let you guys decide :)

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Want to use this script on a chart?

//
// @author LazyBear 
// List of all my indicators: 
// https://docs.google.com/document/d/15AGCufJZ8CIUvwFJ9W-IKns88gkWOKBCvByMEvm5MLo/edit?usp=sharing
//
study("Vervoort Volatility Bands [LazyBear]", shorttitle="VVB_LB", overlay=true)
src = hlc3
al = input(8, title="Average Length")
vl = input(13, title="Volatility Length")
df = input(3.55, "Deviation Multiplier")
lba = input(0.9, "Lower Band Adjustment Multiplier")

typical = src >= src[1] ? src - low[1] : src[1] - low
deviation = df * sma(typical, vl)
devHigh = ema(deviation, al)
devLow = lba * devHigh
medianAvg = ema(src, al)

MidLine = plot (sma(medianAvg, al), color=gray, title="MidLine")
UpperBand = plot (ema(medianAvg, al) + devHigh, color=red, linewidth=2, title="UpperBand")
LowerBand = plot (ema(medianAvg, al) - devLow, color=green, linewidth=2, title="LowerBand")

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