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Awesome oscillator calculator
Bill Williams' momentum bars: which side of zero, which colour, and the latest cross.
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The bars
The awesome oscillator
The awesome oscillator is +95.89 and rising. It last crossed above zero 23 bars ago.
- The side
- It is above zero: the short average of the midpoints is over the long one.
- The colour
- A bar higher than the one before is drawn green, a lower one red. The last 10 bars have been green, up 4.31 on the last bar.
- How it is read
- Many traders read a cross of zero as momentum changing side. A saucer is a one-bar dip above zero that turns back up, or a one-bar bounce below zero that turns back down; it is read as the move picking up again.
- Read it with care
- It uses simple averages of 5 and 34 bars, so it lags, and around zero it can flip side several times in a range.
The bar midpoint and the oscillator on the last bars. The last bar is marked.
| Bar | Midpoint | Oscillator |
|---|---|---|
| 7 ago | 2,384.70 | +63.43 |
| 6 ago | 2,384.80 | +69.50 |
| 5 ago | 2,387.85 | +74.33 |
| 4 ago | 2,405.75 | +79.78 |
| 3 ago | 2,414.50 | +82.93 |
| 2 ago | 2,432.75 | +87.33 |
| 1 ago | 2,432.00 | +91.58 |
| Last | 2,433.65 | +95.89 |
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Momentum from the middle of the bar
Bill Williams built the awesome oscillator from the middle of each bar, halfway between its high and its low, rather than the close. It takes the 5-bar simple average of those midpoints and subtracts the 34-bar one. Above zero, the last few bars sit higher than the longer stretch; below zero, lower.
Compare it with the close-based MACD calculator, check the trend with the Ichimoku cloud calculator, and size the trade with the position size calculator.
Not advice. Arithmetic on the bars you type; an indicator describes the past bars, not the next one.
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