Fisher Transform Technical Analysis Indicator: fisher

Function Prototype

/* Fisher Transform */
/* Type: indicator */
/* Input arrays: 2    Options: 1    Output arrays: 2 */
/* Inputs: high, low */
/* Options: period */
/* Outputs: fisher, fisher_signal */
int ti_fisher_start(TI_REAL const *options);
int ti_fisher(int size,
      TI_REAL const *const *inputs,
      TI_REAL const *options,
      TI_REAL *const *outputs);

Description

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The Fisher Transform helps identify price reversals.

It takes one parameter, the period n.

It is calculated as follows:

$$hl_{t} = \frac{high_{t} + low_{t}}{2}$$

$$max_{t} = maximum(hl_{t}, hl_{t-1}, ..., hl_{t-n+1}) $$

$$min_{t} = minimum(hl_{t}, hl_{t-1}, ..., hl_{t-n+1}) $$

$$val_{t} = 0.33 \cdot 2 (\frac{hl_{t}-min_{t}}{max_{t}-min_{t}} - 0.5) + .67 \cdot val_{t-1}$$

$$\text{fisher}_{t} = 0.5 \cdot \log (\frac{1 + val_{t}}{1-val_{t}}) + 0.5 \cdot \text{fisher}_{t-1}$$

$$\text{fisher_signal}_{t} = \text{fisher}_{t-1}$$

References

Ehlers, John F. (2001) Rocket Science For Traders
Stocks & Commodities V. 20:11 (40-42): Using the Fisher Transform by John F. Ehlers

Example Usage

Calling From C

/* Example usage of Fisher Transform */
/* Assuming that 'high' and 'low' are pre-loaded arrays of size 'in_size'. */
TI_REAL *inputs[] = {high, low};
TI_REAL options[] = {5}; /* period */
TI_REAL *outputs[2]; /* fisher, fisher_signal */

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

/* Allocate memory for each output. */
outputs[0] = malloc(sizeof(TI_REAL) * out_size); assert(outputs[0] != 0); /* fisher */
outputs[1] = malloc(sizeof(TI_REAL) * out_size); assert(outputs[1] != 0); /* fisher_signal */

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

Calling From Lua (with Tulip Chart bindings)

-- Example usage of Fisher Transform
fisher, fisher_signal = ti.fisher(high, low, 5)

Example Calculation

period = 5

date	high	low	fisher	fisher_signal
2005-11-01	82.15	81.29
2005-11-02	81.89	80.64
2005-11-03	83.03	81.31
2005-11-04	83.30	82.65
2005-11-07	83.85	83.07	0.34	0.00
2005-11-08	83.90	83.11	0.79	0.34
2005-11-09	83.33	82.49	0.83	0.79
2005-11-10	84.30	82.30	0.81	0.83
2005-11-11	84.84	84.15	1.07	0.81
2005-11-14	85.00	84.11	1.44	1.07
2005-11-15	85.90	84.03	1.85	1.44
2005-11-16	86.58	85.39	2.28	1.85
2005-11-17	86.98	85.76	2.70	2.28
2005-11-18	88.00	87.17	3.12	2.70
2005-11-21	87.87	87.01	3.19	3.12

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