Designed with a purpose, this script was intended for use by bots automating trading of XLM using a 6hr timeframe. It's now being shaped into fantastic indicator on its own with very actionable signals and essentially zero lag. Much of the power behind it is derived from standard deviation/mean reversion strategies, and John Ehlers' incredible CG oscillator.
John Ehlers was an electrical engineer and Raytheon employee who began trading in the 1970's. He is best known for his work creating super-smoothing algorithms and methods of analysing cycle length and behaviour, and his work in the field of zero-lag indicators - indicators that don't follow the price action but are in fact capable of leading it actionably and responding with essentially zero lag. By approaching the price action as a sine wave with a demonstrably fractal nature and thus subject to the phenomena of spectral dilation, Ehler's makes a number of important advancements. His CG indicator is derived from calculations typically used to derive the centre of gravity in a physical object. It effectively works as a band-pass filter, and is possibly one of the very best leading indicators available.
This script catches breakouts, tops and bottoms, leads reversals and the start/end of cycles. It functions as an excellent way to secure entries/exits around support and resistance. There are some methods of charting support and resistance built into the script currently, and lots more to add. One of the next major adjustments will be to hide or reduce the strength of buy/sell signals when price might be overextended (seen by the larger triangles, and + x symbols - these signal that a reversion back to the mean may be imminent). The early version of this script had a 65% winrate and fantastic profit factor. Stay tuned!
Support/Resistance:
The Ichimoku cloud, in this case has been custom tuned to the XLM 6 hour chart.
The 42 period EMA is a moving average that gets notable reactions from the price. The 200 period EMA is the same.
The automatic Pitchfork almost always provides relevant Fibonacci based levels, but can sometimes require manually flicking through a few different presets to find a combination that fits the current price action. This will be automated in future.