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Vortex indicator calculator
Whether the up moves or the down moves have been reaching further, and when that last flipped.
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The bars
The vortex
VI+ is 1.29 and VI- is 0.70: the up moves lead, as they have since the lines crossed 14 bars ago.
- The gap
- 0.59 between the two lines, a wide gap: the moves have mostly gone one way.
- How it is read
- VI+ measures how far each high reached above the previous low; VI- how far each low reached below the previous high. VI+ above VI- is read as an up trend; a cross of the two is the signal.
- Read it with care
- In a range the two lines cross again and again; check whether there is a trend at all with the choppiness index or the ADX first.
VI+ and VI- on the last bars. The last bar is marked.
| Bar | Close price | VI+ | VI- |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 ago | 2,349.70 | 1.20 | 0.77 |
| 6 ago | 2,356.20 | 1.24 | 0.82 |
| 5 ago | 2,344.80 | 1.14 | 0.96 |
| 4 ago | 2,362.50 | 1.04 | 0.99 |
| 3 ago | 2,374.90 | 1.20 | 0.89 |
| 2 ago | 2,381.30 | 1.25 | 0.73 |
| 1 ago | 2,376.40 | 1.29 | 0.69 |
| Last | 2,395.20 | 1.29 | 0.70 |
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Two lines, one question: who reaches further?
Etienne Botes and Douglas Siepman published the vortex indicator in 2010. For each bar it measures the reach up, from the previous low to this high, and the reach down, from the previous high to this low. It adds each up over the last 14 bars and divides by the true range over the same bars, so the two lines compare like with like.
Check whether there is a trend at all with the choppiness index and its strength with the ADX 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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