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Constructing paired percent-b and stochastic swing oscillators

The archive specifies a modified percent-b together with a smoothed-stochastic, including a slow %K form, as the fifth installment of a seven-part sequence of indicator rules for a swing-trading strategy. Fast and slow variants are decision-support outputs inside a trading-system procedure, with coded series, a spreadsheet of parameter-controls, and several chart overlays used to inspect the pair.

  • A modified percent-b is specified together with a smoothed-stochastic, including a slow %K form.
  • The pair is the fifth installment of a seven-part sequence of indicator rules for a swing-trading strategy, with fast and slow variants as decision-support outputs.
  • One coded construction takes four input parameters, stores intermediate results in 24 series-type instrument variables, and fills those series through a bar-by-bar-update.
  • A spreadsheet places the two oscillator calculations across 32 columns and isolates parameter-controls from derived results so the same columns can be re-run under alternative parameters.
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The specified oscillator pair

A modified percent-b oscillator is specified together with a smoothed-stochastic, including a slow %K form. Percent-b is a Bollinger-based oscillator that places the latest price inside an envelope built from a moving average and a multiple of dispersion. A smoothed-stochastic is a stochastic calculation whose %K is lengthened or averaged so the output moves more slowly than a raw fast stochastic.

The oscillator pair is presented as the fifth installment of a seven-part sequence of indicator rules for a swing-trading strategy. Fast and slow oscillator variants are specified as decision-support outputs inside a trading-system procedure. Those variants form a fast-and-slow-pair: two related oscillator calculations that share a construction family but use different smoothing or lookback settings.

Coded series and a bar-by-bar update

One coded construction takes four input parameters and stores intermediate results in 24 series-type instrument variables. Those four inputs act as parameter-controls: user-editable lookback and averaging inputs that rebuild the same oscillator series without changing the formula layout.

Series used as plotted indicators must have plotting enabled, with a chosen color, line style, and a separate pane label when they are not overlaid on price. Indicator values are computed in an update pass that runs once on each bar of a test and accumulates each series bar by bar. That pass is a bar-by-bar-update: each indicator series is recalculated once per completed bar so historical values accumulate in sampling order.

Spreadsheet columns and chart inspections

A spreadsheet construction places the two oscillator calculations across 32 columns and isolates editable control values from the derived results so the same columns can be re-run under alternative parameters.

The same pair is shown on a Ford daily overlay of percent-b and slow %K, an intraday German DAX rainbow-series with a Percent-Bollinger preview, a EUR/USD daily oscillator pane, and a US Steel chart of both oscillators. A rainbow-series is a stacked set of successive smooths shown together so an oscillator path can be compared across layers.

A later workbook in the same cumulative series adds a direct historical-data pull that requires a symbol, a from date, a to date, and a data type, while still allowing import from a previously saved file.

Ford daily ZLRB percent-b and slow %K, summer 2010

On Ford Motor daily bars the smoother zero-lag rainbow percent-b and the slow %K stochastic trough together near 20 as the stock bottoms in late August 2010, then both stretch through 80 at the early-August and October highs. Last readings printed on the AmiBroker pane for 19 October 2010 are percent-b 70.06 and slow %K 93.19; earlier points were read off that same plotted pair.
On Ford Motor daily bars the smoother zero-lag rainbow percent-b and the slow %K stochastic trough together near 20 as the stock bottoms in late August 2010, then both stretch through 80 at the early-August and October highs. Last readings printed on the AmiBroker pane for 19 October 2010 are percent-b 70.06 and slow %K 93.19; earlier points were read off that same plotted pair.Ford Motor Company (F) · Daily · 2010-06-21T00:00:00.000Z to 2010-10-19T00:00:00.000Z

The AmiBroker legend on the last bar reports ZLRBPercB = 70.0586 and SlowK = 93.1946. Intermediate points are digitized from the daily screenshot, so turning levels are only good to a few oscillator units. Averaging length follows the sample chart, not a re-tuned parameter set.

Educational research material, not investment advice. Historical source context does not establish present-day performance.
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