Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average

Function Prototype

/* Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average */
/* Type: overlay */
/* Input arrays: 1    Options: 1    Output arrays: 1 */
/* Inputs: real */
/* Options: period */
/* Outputs: kama */
int ti_kama_start(TI_REAL const *options);
int ti_kama(int size,
      TI_REAL const *const *inputs,
      TI_REAL const *options,
      TI_REAL *const *outputs);

Description

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The Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average tries to adjust it's smoothing to match the current market condition. It adapts to a fast moving average when prices are moving steadily in one direction and a slow moving average when the market exhibits a lot of noise.

It takes one parameter, the efficiency ratio period n.

Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average first calculates the efficiency ratio over the period n as:

The efficiency ratio e is a low value when the market contains a lot of noise, and it is a larger value when the market is moving consistently in one direction.

A scalar, a is then calculated as:

Finally Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average can be calculated as:

See Also

• Exponential Moving Average

References

• Kaufman, Perry J. (2013) Trading Systems and Methods
• Ehlers, John F. (2001) Rocket Science For Traders

Example Usage

Calling From C

/* Example usage of Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average */
/* 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]; /* kama */

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

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

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

Calling From Lua (with Tulip Chart bindings)

-- Example usage of Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average
kama = ti.kama(input, 5)

Example Calculation

period = 5

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