Williams 19 by Larry Williams

Williams 19 by Bill Williams

Wagner 31 by Gary Wagner

Volume-Weighted Average

Volatility Reversals

True Range Breakout

TrueContrarian

The June 1997 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES discussed a tried-and-true technique known as TRIX in the article "Playing TRIX: The triple exponential smoothing oscillator." The TRIX indicator and system code below for TradeStation includes alerts and signals based on both the crossing of the zero line and the crossing of the linear regression average. The inputs, aside from the basic parameter adjustments, will also allow you to specify whether you want to generate alerts and signals on the crossing of the zero line, the linear regression average or both.

In "Trend Continuation Factor" in this issue, M.H. Pee includes the code for a spreadsheet implementation of the TCF indicator and trading strategy. Here, we present the TradeStation EasyLanguage code for the TCF trading strategy. The strategy can easily be converted into a TradeStation indicator by replacing the buy/sell statements with plot statements as follows:

In Traders' Tips this month, we take a look at the trend-following system and its accompanying indicators as presented in "How To Get In With The Trend And Out At The End" by Bryan Strain in this issue.
A set of three indicators are used, and each contributes a criterion for entering the market. For the record, when I implemented this trend-following strategy in EasyLanguage, not all of my entries and exits coincided with those presented in the article.