Ultimate Oscillator Technical Analysis Indicator: ultosc

Function Prototype

/* Ultimate Oscillator */
/* Type: indicator */
/* Input arrays: 3    Options: 3    Output arrays: 1 */
/* Inputs: high, low, close */
/* Options: short period, medium period, long period */
/* Outputs: ultosc */
int ti_ultosc_start(TI_REAL const *options);
int ti_ultosc(int size,
      TI_REAL const *const *inputs,
      TI_REAL const *options,
      TI_REAL *const *outputs);

Description

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The Ultimate Oscillator is really a combination of three separate oscillators, each using a different smoothing period.

It takes three parameter: a short period n, a medium period m, and a long period p.

It is calculated as follows:

$$tl_{t} = minimun(low_{t}, close_{t-1})$$

$$th_{t} = maximum(high_{t}, close_{t-1})$$

$$bp_{t} = close_{t} - tl_{t}$$

$$r_{t} = th_{t} - tl_{t}$$

$$ultosc_{t} = \frac{100}{7} \left( 4 \frac{\sum_{i=0}^{n-1} bp_{t-i}}{\sum_{i=0}^{n-1} r_{t-i}} + 2 \frac{\sum_{i=0}^{m-1} bp_{t-i}}{\sum_{i=0}^{m-1} r_{t-i}} + \frac{\sum_{i=0}^{p-1} bp_{t-i}}{\sum_{i=0}^{p-1} r_{t-i}} \right) $$

References

Example Usage

Calling From C

/* Example usage of Ultimate Oscillator */
/* Assuming that 'high', 'low', and 'close' are pre-loaded arrays of size 'in_size'. */
TI_REAL *inputs[] = {high, low, close};
TI_REAL options[] = {2, 3, 5}; /* short period, medium period, long period */
TI_REAL *outputs[1]; /* ultosc */

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

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

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

Calling From Lua (with Tulip Chart bindings)

-- Example usage of Ultimate Oscillator
ultosc = ti.ultosc(high, low, close, 2, 3, 5)

Example Calculation

short period = 2, medium period = 3, long period = 5

date	high	low	close	ultosc
2005-11-01	82.15	81.29	81.59
2005-11-02	81.89	80.64	81.06
2005-11-03	83.03	81.31	82.87
2005-11-04	83.30	82.65	83.00
2005-11-07	83.85	83.07	83.61
2005-11-08	83.90	83.11	83.15	43.50
2005-11-09	83.33	82.49	82.84	34.04
2005-11-10	84.30	82.30	83.99	65.88
2005-11-11	84.84	84.15	84.55	73.96
2005-11-14	85.00	84.11	84.36	53.39
2005-11-15	85.90	84.03	85.53	64.15
2005-11-16	86.58	85.39	86.54	81.28
2005-11-17	86.98	85.76	86.89	90.19
2005-11-18	88.00	87.17	87.77	86.11
2005-11-21	87.87	87.01	87.29	65.45

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