Moving Average Convergence Divergence – MACD The most popular indicator used in technical analysis, the moving average convergence divergence (MACD), created by Gerald Appel. MACD is a trend-following momentum indicator, designed to reveal changes in the strength, direction, momentum, and duration of a trend in a financial instrument’s price Historical...
I spiced the standard MACD indicator up a bit to make it more visible. When using the MACD: 1. Never go short when the MACD lines are in the negative. 2. Never go long when the MACD lines are in the positive. 3. Always wait for an uptick / downtick on the histogram before you start your trade. The MACD Histogram can also show you Divergence. When the price goes...
Simple but much needed visual improvements to the default MACD script. First, every time the MACD and signal cross, a white cross is placed on he chart, which lets you quickly identify the crosses. Second, whenever the histogram goes from increasing to decreasing or from increasing to decreasing, a color change occurs. Colors can be customized under "Style" tab...
Working MACD Histogram which colors bars based on the slope from the previous. The default colors will work for both Deuteranopia and Protonopia color-blind people but can be modified. There is a bug with 'MACD 4C' by vkno422 + signal line - squattter and 'MACD for colour blind people' by cfhrtd in that it draws the MACD line itself as a histogram, rather than...
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