Accumulation/Distribution Oscillator Technical Analysis Indicator: adosc

Function Prototype

/* Accumulation/Distribution Oscillator */
/* Type: indicator */
/* Input arrays: 4    Options: 2    Output arrays: 1 */
/* Inputs: high, low, close, volume */
/* Options: short period, long period */
/* Outputs: adosc */
int ti_adosc_start(TI_REAL const *options);
int ti_adosc(int size,
      TI_REAL const *const *inputs,
      TI_REAL const *options,
      TI_REAL *const *outputs);

Description

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The Accumulation/Distribution Oscillator is also known as the Chaikin Oscillator after its inventor.

It takes two parameters: a short period n and a long period m. The indicator calculated by taking a moving average of n periods of Accumulation/Distribution Line subtracted from a moving average of m periods of Accumulation/Distribution Line. The moving average used is Exponential Moving Average.

References

Example Usage

Calling From C

/* Example usage of Accumulation/Distribution Oscillator */
/* Assuming that 'high', 'low', 'close', and 'volume' are pre-loaded arrays of size 'in_size'. */
TI_REAL *inputs[] = {high, low, close, volume};
TI_REAL options[] = {2, 5}; /* short period, long period */
TI_REAL *outputs[1]; /* adosc */

/* Determine how large the output size is for our options. */
const int out_size = in_size - ti_adosc_start(options);

/* Allocate memory for output. */
outputs[0] = malloc(sizeof(TI_REAL) * out_size); assert(outputs[0] != 0); /* adosc */

/* Run the actual calculation. */
const int ret = ti_adosc(in_size, inputs, options, outputs);
assert(ret == TI_OKAY);

Calling From Lua (with Tulip Chart bindings)

-- Example usage of Accumulation/Distribution Oscillator
adosc = ti.adosc(high, low, close, volume, 2, 5)

Example Calculation

short period = 2, long period = 5

date	high	low	close	volume	adosc
2005-11-01	82.15	81.29	81.59	5,653,100.00
2005-11-02	81.89	80.64	81.06	6,447,400.00
2005-11-03	83.03	81.31	82.87	7,690,900.00
2005-11-04	83.30	82.65	83.00	3,831,400.00
2005-11-07	83.85	83.07	83.61	4,455,100.00	1,900,759.85
2005-11-08	83.90	83.11	83.15	3,798,000.00	399,262.04
2005-11-09	83.33	82.49	82.84	3,936,200.00	-241,806.82
2005-11-10	84.30	82.30	83.99	4,732,000.00	757,828.29
2005-11-11	84.84	84.15	84.55	4,841,300.00	1,068,830.29
2005-11-14	85.00	84.11	84.36	3,915,300.00	328,526.25
2005-11-15	85.90	84.03	85.53	6,830,800.00	1,466,909.30
2005-11-16	86.58	85.39	86.54	6,694,100.00	3,475,262.29
2005-11-17	86.98	85.76	86.89	5,293,600.00	4,653,474.79
2005-11-18	88.00	87.17	87.77	7,985,800.00	5,067,839.27
2005-11-21	87.87	87.01	87.29	4,807,900.00	3,474,675.62

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