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TTR (version 0.24.4)

DPO: De-Trended Price Oscillator

Description

The Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO) removes the trend in prices - or other series - by subtracting a moving average of the price from the price.

Usage

DPO(x, n = 10, maType, shift = n/2 + 1, percent = FALSE, ...)

Value

A object of the same class as x or a vector (if try.xts

fails) containing the DPO values.

Arguments

x

Price, volume, etc. series that is coercible to xts or matrix.

n

Number of periods for moving average.

maType

A function or a string naming the function to be called.

shift

The number of periods to shift the moving average.

percent

logical; if TRUE, the percentage difference between the slow and fast moving averages is returned, otherwise the difference between the respective averages is returned.

...

Other arguments to be passed to the maType function.

Warning

The detrended price oscillator removes the trend in the series by centering the moving average. Centering the moving average causes it to include future data. Therefore, even though this indicator looks like a classic oscillator, it should not be used for trading rule signals.

Author

Joshua Ulrich

Details

The Detrended Price shows cycles and overbought / oversold conditions.

References

The following site(s) were used to code/document this indicator:
https://school.stockcharts.com/doku.php?id=technical_indicators:detrended_price_osci

See Also

See EMA, SMA, etc. for moving average options; and note Warning section. See MACD for a general oscillator.

Examples

Run this code

 data(ttrc)
 priceDPO <- DPO(ttrc[,"Close"])
 volumeDPO <- DPO(ttrc[,"Volume"])

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