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The MACD sped up by two stochastic passes: a 0 to 100 line with buy and sell levels at 25 and 75.
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The Schaff trend cycle
The Schaff trend cycle is 100.0 and flat.
- The cycle
- It is above 75: the cycle is at its top, where the up phase is mature. It was 100.0 on the bar before; the MACD under it is +33.77.
- How it is read
- Schaff's signals are the line rising through 25 (buy) and falling through 75 (sell). Because it runs the MACD through a stochastic twice, it turns earlier than the MACD and often sits flat at 0 or 100 in a steady trend.
- Read it with care
- Its speed has a cost: it whipsaws in choppy markets, and a flat line at 100 or 0 says the trend is steady, not that it is about to end. It gives no timing for the next bar.
The close, the MACD (23 and 50 bars) and the Schaff trend cycle (10-bar cycle) on the last bars. The last bar is marked.
| Bar | Close price | MACD | STC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 ago | 2,391.50 | +17.55 | 100.0 |
| 6 ago | 2,380.50 | +19.24 | 100.0 |
| 5 ago | 2,399.10 | +21.49 | 100.0 |
| 4 ago | 2,412.50 | +23.99 | 100.0 |
| 3 ago | 2,430.80 | +26.92 | 100.0 |
| 2 ago | 2,427.40 | +29.26 | 100.0 |
| 1 ago | 2,432.40 | +31.45 | 100.0 |
| Last | 2,443.60 | +33.77 | 100.0 |
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A faster MACD
Doug Schaff built the trend cycle in the 1990s for currency markets. It takes the MACD of the 23-bar and 50-bar exponential averages, finds where it sits in its last 10 values on a 0 to 100 scale, smooths that by half, and repeats the same step once more. The result swings between 0 and 100 and turns ahead of the MACD it is built on.
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Not advice. Arithmetic on the closes you type; an indicator describes the past bars, not the next one.
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