Detrended Price Oscillator

Function Prototype

/* Detrended Price Oscillator */
/* Type: indicator */
/* Input arrays: 1    Options: 1    Output arrays: 1 */
/* Inputs: real */
/* Options: period */
/* Outputs: dpo */
int ti_dpo_start(TI_REAL const *options);
int ti_dpo(int size,
      TI_REAL const *const *inputs,
      TI_REAL const *options,
      TI_REAL *const *outputs);

Description

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The Detrended Price Oscillator helps identify cycles.

It takes one option, the period n.

It is calculated as follows:

Some recommend plotting the Detrended Price Oscillator shifted to the left by n amount. This does make a nice chart, but I find it to be nonsense since you're incorporating data from the future into the past.

See Also

• Simple Moving Average

References

• Achelis, S. (2000) Technical Analysis from A to Z, 2nd Edition
• Wikipedia: Detrended Price Oscillator

Example Usage

Calling From C

/* Example usage of Detrended Price Oscillator */
/* Assuming that 'input' is a pre-loaded array of size 'in_size'. */
TI_REAL *inputs[] = {input};
TI_REAL options[] = {5}; /* period */
TI_REAL *outputs[1]; /* dpo */

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

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

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

Calling From Lua (with Tulip Chart bindings)

-- Example usage of Detrended Price Oscillator
dpo = ti.dpo(input, 5)

Example Calculation

period = 5

Chart

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