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Adaptive moving average calculator
An average that speeds up when price trends and slows down when it chops, with the efficiency ratio that tells the two apart.
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The adaptive average
The adaptive average is 2,348.61 and rising. The 10-bar efficiency ratio is 0.70.
- The efficiency
- Mostly direction: price has travelled close to a straight line, so the average follows it quickly. Over the last 10 bars price went 75.80 net for every 108.40 it travelled.
- The average
- It moved up 14.38 on the last bar. The last close, 2,395.20, is above it.
- How it is read
- Many traders use a flat line as a sign to stand aside and a line that starts to slope as the start of a move. It speeds up in a clean trend and slows down in a choppy range.
- Read it with care
- It still lags: it turns after price does. A single big bar can lift the ratio for 10 bars.
The ratio and the adaptive average on the last bars. The last bar is marked.
| Bar | Close | Ratio | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 ago | 2,349.70 | 0.37 | 2,302.02 |
| 6 ago | 2,356.20 | 0.49 | 2,308.96 |
| 5 ago | 2,344.80 | 0.41 | 2,312.47 |
| 4 ago | 2,362.50 | 0.43 | 2,317.73 |
| 3 ago | 2,374.90 | 0.43 | 2,323.60 |
| 2 ago | 2,381.30 | 0.41 | 2,329.24 |
| 1 ago | 2,376.40 | 0.43 | 2,334.23 |
| Last | 2,395.20 | 0.70 | 2,348.61 |
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Trend or noise, in one number
Perry Kaufman published this average in 1995. The efficiency ratio divides how far price got over the period by how far it travelled bar by bar. A ratio of 1 means every bar went the same way; a ratio near 0 means the moves cancelled out. The ratio sets the speed: near 1 the average acts like a 2-bar average, near 0 like a 30-bar one.
Compare it with fixed averages in the moving average calculator, check whether the market is ranging with the choppiness index, and size the trade with the position size calculator.
Not advice. Arithmetic on the closes you type; an indicator describes the past bars, not the next one.
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