Relative vigor index calculator
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Qstick
Did the bars close above or below where they opened? Chande's average candle body, from your bars.
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The Qstick
The 8-bar Qstick is -0.62, 20% of the average bar range of 3.09: the bars leaned down, closing below their opens on average.
- The bodies
- Of the last 8 bars, 4 closed above the open and 4 below.
- The direction
- It was -0.21 on the bar before, so it is falling.
- The zero line
- It last crossed below zero 3 bars ago.
- The gaps
- Over the last 8 bars a close and the next open were 1.42 apart on average, 46% of the average bar range. The Qstick leaves those gaps out and counts only what happened inside each bar.
- Read it with care
- It is an average of past bodies, so it turns after the bars do. The opens depend on where your data cuts the day, so two brokers can give different readings.
The close, the body (close minus open) and the 8-bar Qstick on the last bars. The last bar is marked.
| Bar | Close price | Body | Qstick |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 ago | 465.84 | -0.77 | +0.49 |
| 4 ago | 464.54 | +0.45 | +0.20 |
| 3 ago | 461.99 | +0.22 | -0.15 |
| 2 ago | 458.63 | -2.01 | -0.44 |
| 1 ago | 458.56 | +1.16 | -0.21 |
| Last | 460.78 | +0.01 | -0.62 |
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The average candle body
Tushar Chande's Qstick is the simple average of close minus open over the last 8 bars. Above zero, the bars have mostly closed above where they opened; below zero, below it. Chande read a cross of zero as a turn in the buying or selling inside the bars. Because it uses the open, it leaves out the gaps between one close and the next open, which a plain change in price counts.
Weigh the body against the range with the relative vigor index and the balance of power, and see each candle's shape with the candlestick pattern finder.
Not advice. Arithmetic on the bars you type; past readings do not promise future ones.
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