[blackcat] L2 Ehlers Adaptive CCI 2013

7. Nov. 2020

Level: 2

Background

John F. Ehlers introduced Adaptive CCI 2013 in his "Cycle Analytics for Traders" chapter 11 on 2013.


Function

The time length to be used for the channel in the calculations is widely varied in the literature. In all cases, the length is rather arbitrarily established to fit the indicator to some preconceived event. It seems to me that it would be better to use one full period of the dominant cycle as the length of data to be used.

The adaptive CCI indicator starts with the computation of the dominant cycle using the autocorrelation periodogram approach. The identification of the indicator itself is noted by the comment near the end following the dominant cycle calculation. Since the objective is to use only those frequency components passed by the roofing filter, the variable Filt is used as a data input rather than the average of the high, low, and close as was done by Donald Lambert (Inventor of CCI).

Key Signal


DominantCycle --> Dominant Cycle signal
MyCCI --> Adaptive CCI signal
Trigger --> lag version of Adaptive CCI signal


Pros and Cons

100% John F. Ehlers definition translation of original work, even variable names are the same. This help readers who would like to use pine to read his book. If you had read his works, then you will be quite familiar with my code style.


Remarks

The 53th script for Blackcat1402 John F. Ehlers Week publication.


Readme

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