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Indicator for Market deviation of a range

Personal Finance & Money Asked by techtrm on June 4, 2021

Is there an indicator that would allow me to monitor surges or drops of an asset’s price compared to the usual range it has traded in over a period of time?

I’m building a script so i’m trying to find something i can automate and have triggers when a stock is deviation X over Z period. X and Z being parameters

2 Answers

I'll spare you all of the gobbledygook about how people analyze and use the Stochastic Oscillator. However, it does depict the position of the underlying in relation to the past "X" days and would clearly show deviation from the range.

If you have access to analytical software, you could also calculate the average daily price change and then screen for time periods where price change exceeds that amount by whatever number amuses you.

Or you could simply look at the WSJ intraday list of largest price and percent movers and then look at a chart.

Answered by Bob Baerker on June 4, 2021

I understand that you want to calculate things on your own, but it is better not to reinvent the wheel.

People have created technical analysis libraries based on the renowned https://ta-lib.org/, such as https://github.com/mrjbq7/ta-lib for Python that contains 150+ indicators.

The simplest indicator that serves your purpose is probably Bollinger Bands.

Answered by base64 on June 4, 2021

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