Negative Volume Index

Technical Analysis Indicator: nvi

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Function Prototype

/* Negative Volume Index */
/* Type: indicator */
/* Input arrays: 2    Options: 0    Output arrays: 1 */
/* Inputs: close, volume */
/* Options: none */
/* Outputs: nvi */
int ti_nvi_start(TI_REAL const *options);
int ti_nvi(int size,
      TI_REAL const *const *inputs,
      TI_REAL const *options,
      TI_REAL *const *outputs);

Description

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Negative Volume Index tries to show what smart investors are doing by staying flat on up-volume days and only changing on down-volume days.

It is calculated for each bar as:

$$nvi_{t} = nvi_{t-1} + \begin{cases} nvi_{t-1} \frac{close_{t}-close_{t-1}}{close_{t-1}} & \text{if } \; volume_{t} \lt volume_{t-1} \\ 0 & \text{else} \end{cases} $$

Negative Volume Index is initialized so that the first value is 1,000.

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Example Usage

Calling From C

/* Example usage of Negative Volume Index */
/* Assuming that 'close' and 'volume' are pre-loaded arrays of size 'in_size'. */
TI_REAL *inputs[] = {close, volume};
TI_REAL options[] = {}; /* No options */
TI_REAL *outputs[1]; /* nvi */

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

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

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

Calling From Lua (with Tulip Chart bindings)

-- Example usage of Negative Volume Index
nvi = ti.nvi(close, volume)

Example Calculation

dateclosevolumenvi
2005-11-0181.595,653,100.001,000.00
2005-11-0281.066,447,400.001,000.00
2005-11-0382.877,690,900.001,000.00
2005-11-0483.003,831,400.001,001.57
2005-11-0783.614,455,100.001,001.57
2005-11-0883.153,798,000.00996.06
2005-11-0982.843,936,200.00996.06
2005-11-1083.994,732,000.00996.06
2005-11-1184.554,841,300.00996.06
2005-11-1484.363,915,300.00993.82
2005-11-1585.536,830,800.00993.82
2005-11-1686.546,694,100.001,005.56
2005-11-1786.895,293,600.001,009.62
2005-11-1887.777,985,800.001,009.62
2005-11-2187.294,807,900.001,004.10

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