[blackcat] L2 Ehlers Two Pole Butterworth Filter

Level: 2

Background

John F. Ehlers introuced Two Pole Butterworth Filter in his "Cybernetic Analysis for Stocks and Futures" chapter 13 on 2004.


Function

Dr. Ehlers translated analog Butterworth filters to their digital approximations. The transfer response is characterized by a single variable—the cutoff frequency. The cutoff frequency is that frequency where the input is attenuated by 3 dB. Below the cutoff frequency, the input frequency components are passed to the output; above the cutoff frequency, the input frequency components are rejected to the extent possible by the filter characteristics. Since traders are more comfortable with period, which is the reciprocal of frequency, the equations for the Butterworth digital filters are characterized in terms of the cutoff period.

As opposed to the Regularized filter, the order of Butterworth filters can be increased indefinitely to increase the sharpness of the filter rejection. For traders, this quickly reaches the point of diminishing returns because increasing the number of poles in the filter means the lag of the filter is also increased. A three-pole filter gives just about the limit of tolerable lag for a selected cutoff period.


Key Signal

Butter ---> Two Pole Butterworth Filter fast line
Trigger ---> Two Pole Butterworth Filter slow line


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 29th script for Blackcat1402 John F. Ehlers Week publication.

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thanks to contribution of @sal157011, i corrected the wrong parameter in script, i will reference rocket book 2001:
rocket book page 155:

a = ExpValue(-1.414*3.14159/P);
b = 2*a*Cos (1.414*180/P);
y=b*y(1)-a*a*y(2)+((1-b+a*a)/4)*(x+2*x(1)+x(2));