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Thread: Alligator indicator

#Alligator #Indicators #Definedge

 Alligator indicator is created by Bill Williams. He was a popular trader and author.

Before we discuss the indicator, let us understand an important concept.
Here is a chart showing 10 day moving average at bar A. Price of the stock is 100, Moving average price is 90.
What if we shift this moving average to 5 bars further? See the chart below.

Moving average at bar B is moving average price of bar A (5 candles behind). This is shifting of moving average price. What does it mean?
Simple explanation is – shifting the moving average can help one compare current price with past period moving average easily. It results in smoothening instead of increasing the moving average parameter. This is also known as Forward Displaced moving average.
Displacing the average could be an interesting experiment. This concept is also used in many other indicators including Ichimoku cloud. Here is the link that explains Ichimoku indicator.

https://t.co/WkNxKU9n8u

Let us discuss the Alligator indicator.
First step is to plot three simple moving averages or the Triple moving average.

Williams suggested Fib numbers 13, 8 and 5 period averages.

The averages are calculated on median price.

Median price = (High + low) / 2.

So, there are three lines plotted on the chart.
Next step is to shift all these moving averages to future bars.

13-period MA is shifted by 8 bars
8-period MA is shifted by 5 bars
5-period MA is shifted by 3 bars

So, default parameters of Alligator indicator are 13,8,5 and 8,5,3.
Williams called it Alligator. He used the following terminology to describe these averages:

The 13-period MA to 8 (13,8) is called as Alligator’s Jaws.
8-period MA to 5, the Teeth and
5-period MA to 3, the Lips.
Behavior of the indicator:

When three lines are close to each other, the Alligator is sleeping.

If the Lips crosses the Teeth and Jaws upward or downward, the Alligator is waking up.

If Price crosses above or below the three lines, the Alligator is eating.
Basically it means:

When three lines are close to each other, there is no clear trend.

When short-term average crosses other two upward or downward, the trend might emerge.

When three lines are trending, and price is above them, then it indicates strong uptrend.
When the three lines are trending, and price is below them then it indicates strong downtrend.

Over a period, market trends roughly 20% – 30% times, it remains in a range rest of the time.
We should not be trading markets when Alligator is sleeping, monitor when it is waking up and trade when it is eating.

If Alligator sleeps more (long consolidation), it will become hungrier and eat more (Strong trend).
So, basically Alligator indicator is forward displaced triple-moving average. It smoothens the averages, but it also increases the lag in the indicator.

There are two important observations on this indicator which I found useful:
1 – Three averages close to each other: there is a possibility of strong trend to emerge. Trade breakouts.

2 – Price low is above three averages and all averages are rising = Strong up trend. Price high is below averages and all averages are falling = strong downtrend.
Ignore other bars. With this approach, you will trade mostly clear trends.

These readings are also possible using other indicators and charts. Idea was to talk about the concept.
It can be compared with triple moving average, Alligator shifts the moving averages.

My best take from the indicator is concept of shifting the moving average to explore further, and that we can divide price in to bullish, bearish, and neutral phase using averages.
Understanding of the concept and principles behind the techniques helps a lot in the long run. We cannot use all the indicators, but we can learn the logic behind those methods that can give us more ideas or improving on what we are doing currently.

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Trading based on Pivot levels is one of the popular approaches. Both short-term and intraday traders track Pivot levels to identify support and resistance levels in any instrument.

Let’s discuss how these levels are calculated.


The pivot calculation method considers the previous day prices to calculate the support and resistance levels.

There are seven levels marked on the chart when we plot Pivot as a tool.

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We have four prices for any trading session - Open, High, Low, Close.

They give us the important information about what happened during that session. Levels is calculated using the High, Low & Closing price of the previous day. Let’s understand Pivot calculation with an example


The difference between high and low is a range of the day.

High – Low = Range
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105 – 95 = 10

Mid-price of the session is average of high and low price.

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Mid-price is average of range of the session. How about including the closing price to this calculation?

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Thread: Parabolic SAR Indicator

Parabolic SAR (PSAR) indicator was developed by J. Welles Wilder.

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The calculation of this indicator is a bit complex, but the concept is extremely useful. I will try to simplify it and explain the logic. I will briefly explain the concept, calculation and reading.

Let us think about creating an indicator that shows the trend.

Using the indicator, we can identify & ride the trend using the trailing stop-loss method.

For trailing the stop in uptrend, indicator needs to be placed below the candle. Similarly, it should be placed above the candle for trailing in a downtrend. We will plot it using ‘dots’.


So, the indicator & stop-loss will be rising in uptrend & falling in downtrend.

Let us define the trend as:

If Low of the candle > Stop-loss level in bull market = Trend remains bullish.

If High of the candle < Stop-loss level in bear market = Trend is bearish

Imagine you are driving a car on highway; you would like to accelerate if the road is clear. You will slow down if the road is bumpy.
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Back-testing of some candlestick patterns 🧵

I hv back-tested patterns shown below on 500 stocks (Nifty 500 stock group as on today) since inception on daily timeframe charts.

Below is some interesting information.


I was doing to design multi-chart setups. But the information in the thread can be useful for people practicing candlestick chart patterns. There are many patterns & we keep coming across more. The data can give you a rough idea about the past performance of patterns.

Patterns are defined based on the popular rules of identifying them. I have also tested bearish patterns for bullish trades and vice versa (Contra approach).

Criteria: Hit ratio & returns of pattern giving 1:1 risk-reward if the entry is at the closing price of the pattern.

Some top bullish patterns have below hit ratio:

Inverted Hammer or Shooting Star – 74.72%
Multi-Harami breakout - 65.23%
Bullish Harami cross – 64.6%
Bullish Kicker – 63.53% (Got better returns)
Bullish separating line – 61.69% (It has got better returns)


Doji breakout hit ratio is decent (63.71%) but occurrences are v high so need more confirmation.

Engulfing and Harami patterns have got better returns when traded at next candle of confirmation.
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Thread: 5 Important bullish & bearish chart patterns in technical analysis.

Triangles, Broadenings and Rectangles.

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Many traders analyse and practice western chart patterns. There are many such patterns and enough is talked about them in various books and resources.
Long back, I read a book “Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns” by Thomas N. Bukowski. It’s a brilliant work (Must read).

He backtested many patterns & ranked them based on their performance. Most imp is that he separated the patterns based on their performance in uptrend & downtrend.
I read about those patterns at many other places & in different theories and I realised that most of them are-

-variations of broad category of patterns. I have bifurcated these patterns in various categories.

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just discipline and risk mgmnt
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2/n: System as explained before:
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2. Look for RSI Divergence in 15 minutes
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Trade in the direction of break.
4. Trail for at least 1:3 RR or SL.

3/n: Had posted last week about weak EOD chart of MnM. See what happened this week despite the fact that the overall market was bullish.
It is a zero loss trade now.
Invest in yourself. No guru can make you a successful trader. #hardwork #discipline


4/n: there are many more examples of this if you see my timeline. it works across markets even in bitcoin lol!
Keep it simple. Trick is always in the risk reward and position sizing.
Must only take trades which have minimum 1:3 RR.
Do not use excessive #leverage.

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see stocks where open = high/low .. and see how the candle is progressing.. if going strong then the trend can continue for the day :)
also keep lookout for the OI or volume change from yesterday if big enough, then major action is on the cards
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I personally don't buy any breakout! It must fulfill some criteria:

– Volatility contraction closely to the breakout line
– Volume dry up
– Sound chart pattern
– Story stock or great fundamentals

Pay attention to the details!
Don't blindly buy every outbreak.
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This PA concept is not avlb in any textbooks:
In an uptrending market if the candle size decreases
a) but in an upward trajectory, the chances of price falling is high.
b) but in an horizontal / downward trajectory, the chances of continuing trend high
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