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TRIX calculator
Momentum from an average smoothed three times, with its signal line and both crosses.
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TRIX
The 15-bar TRIX is +0.190% a bar, so the triple-smoothed average is rising.
- The signal line
- The 9-bar signal line is +0.147%, and TRIX is above it. TRIX is gaining pace: it was +0.179% a bar before.
- How it is read
- Many traders read TRIX above zero as an uptrend and below zero as a downtrend, and a cross of the signal line as an early turn. Smoothing three times strips out most small swings.
- Read it with care
- The heavy smoothing makes it slow: a zero cross comes well after the turn in price. The numbers are small because they are a % change per bar.
TRIX and its signal line on the last bars, in % per bar. The last bar is marked.
| Bar | TRIX | Signal |
|---|---|---|
| 7 ago | +0.113% | +0.074% |
| 6 ago | +0.123% | +0.084% |
| 5 ago | +0.134% | +0.094% |
| 4 ago | +0.145% | +0.104% |
| 3 ago | +0.157% | +0.115% |
| 2 ago | +0.168% | +0.125% |
| 1 ago | +0.179% | +0.136% |
| Last | +0.190% | +0.147% |
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Three passes of smoothing
Jack Hutson introduced TRIX in the early 1980s. It takes an exponential average of the closes, averages that, and averages it once more, then measures the % change of the result from one bar to the next. Each pass removes more of the small swings, so what remains is the slope of the underlying trend.
Compare it with the MACD calculator, which uses two averages, check the plain % move with the rate of change calculator, 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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