Klinger Volume Oscillator

Technical Analysis Indicator: kvo

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Function Prototype

/* Klinger Volume Oscillator */
/* Type: indicator */
/* Input arrays: 4    Options: 2    Output arrays: 1 */
/* Inputs: high, low, close, volume */
/* Options: short period, long period */
/* Outputs: kvo */
int ti_kvo_start(TI_REAL const *options);
int ti_kvo(int size,
      TI_REAL const *const *inputs,
      TI_REAL const *options,
      TI_REAL *const *outputs);

Description

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The Klinger Volume Oscillator is a volume based oscillator for measuring trends.

It takes two parameter: a short period n and a long period m.

It is calculated as follows:

$$hlc_{t} = high_{t} + low_{t} + close_{t}$$
$$dm_{t} = high_{t} - low_{t}$$
$$trend_{t} = \begin{cases} 1 & \mathrm{if} \; hlc_{t} > hlc_{t-1} \\ -1 & \mathrm{if} \; hlc_{t} \lt hlc_{t-1} \\ trend_{t-1} & \mathrm{else} \end{cases} $$
$$cm_{t} = \begin{cases} dm_{t-1} + dm_{t} & \mathrm{if} \; trend_{t} \ne trend_{t-1} \\ cm_{t-1} + dm_{t} & \mathrm{else} \end{cases} $$
$$vf_{t} = 100 \cdot volume_{t} \cdot trend_{t} \cdot \left| 2\frac{dm_{t}}{cm_{t}}-1 \right|$$
$$shortvf_{t} = (1-\frac{2}{n+1})shortvf_{t-1} + (\frac{2}{n+1})vf_{t}$$
$$longvf_{t} = (1-\frac{2}{m+1})longvf_{t-1} + (\frac{2}{m+1})vf_{t}$$
$$kvo_{t} = shortvf_{t} - longvf_{t}$$

See Also

References

Example Usage

Calling From C

/* Example usage of Klinger Volume 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]; /* kvo */

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

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

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

Calling From Lua (with Tulip Chart bindings)

-- Example usage of Klinger Volume Oscillator
kvo = ti.kvo(high, low, close, volume, 2, 5)

Example Calculation

short period = 2, long period = 5

datehighlowclosevolumekvo
2005-11-0182.1581.2981.595,653,100.00
2005-11-0281.8980.6481.066,447,400.000.00
2005-11-0383.0381.3182.877,690,900.0080,292,599.24
2005-11-0483.3082.6583.003,831,400.00121,572,746.63
2005-11-0783.8583.0783.614,455,100.00117,732,669.22
2005-11-0883.9083.1183.153,798,000.00-5,942,017.64
2005-11-0983.3382.4982.843,936,200.00-71,041,561.80
2005-11-1084.3082.3083.994,732,000.0034,448,275.85
2005-11-1184.8484.1584.554,841,300.0084,097,903.13
2005-11-1485.0084.1184.363,915,300.00-38,366,427.07
2005-11-1585.9084.0385.536,830,800.0040,313,036.02
2005-11-1686.5885.3986.546,694,100.0056,681,039.57
2005-11-1786.9885.7686.895,293,600.0052,208,374.66
2005-11-1888.0087.1787.777,985,800.00138,983,547.95
2005-11-2187.8787.0187.294,807,900.00-68,009,735.44

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