Please download the new Supertrend U11 (Universal), which allows to calculate the stop line from median, mode and 27 other moving averages.
This is a new implementation of the TradeStation SuperTrend indicator for NinjaTrader 7. The SuperTrend indicator is an application of the concept of MAE (maximum adverse excursion), which was introduced by John Sweeney in the mid-nineties.
The SuperTrend M11 is particularly stable and has a few advantages over other SuperTrend indicators:
It uses a moving (statistical) median of the arithmetic mean (High + Low)/2 of the bars instead of a moving average. The (statistical) median is known to be more robust than any average.
It calculates both the Median and the ATR (average true range) 1 bar ago, whereas the original SuperTrend indicator takes the ATR and moving average of the current bar. If you use the current bar's ATR, the current bar's breakout is partly measured against its own range. This is particularly true, if the ATR period is short.
Accessing the trend: The indicator comes with a BoolSeries that holds the trend. This BoolSeries can be accessed by other indicators or automated strategies.
Reverse Intra-bar = false: This is the default setting of the indicator. A logical signal will be generated when the close of the signal bar has taken out the stop line. The position may be reversed at the open of the next bar. The paint bars will only change colors for the bar after the signal bar. The arrow will be also plotted for the entry bar.
Reverse Intra-bar = true: This is an unusual setting for the SuperTrend. The signal will be generated with the first tick that has plotted on the other side of the stop line. In this case the position may be reversed intra-bar for the signal bar. Paintbars and arrows will already plot for the signal bar.
Paintbars: The indicator has an option to display the current trend via paintbars. Downclose bars are filled, upclose bars are hollow. For the upclose bars an opacity can be selected for better visibility.
Arrows: The indicator has an option to display trend changes via an arrow.
Sound alerts: The indicator will alert to trend reversals and potential trend reversals. A potential trend reversal occurs when price touches the stop line intra-bar prior to the confirmation by a close on the other side of the stop line. The sound files are included with the indicator install file. Please unzip and copy them into the program files (x86)\ NinjaTrader 7\ sounds directory or whatever directory is used by NinjaTrader to store the sound files.
Comparison between SuperTrend M1 and SuperTrend M11:
The SuperTrend M11 calculates both the average true range and the median 1 bar ago. This results in a considerable saving in CPU load, if you use the indicators in CalculateOnBarClose = false mode. The SuperTrend M11 does the median calculation only once per bar, while the SuperTrend M1 recalculates it with every incoming tick. If you use the indicator with CalculateOnBarClose = true setting, you can also continue to use the SuperTrend M1. There will be no significant difference in performance.
Changed formula: The Supertrend M11 will give slightly different results, when compared with the Supertrend M1. If you want to reproduce the settings of your Supertrend M1, you should use the same value for the ATR period and the ATR multiplier, but reduce the value for the median period by 1. The result will still not be identical. Also for both indicators a minimum size for the ATR values has been imposed, the ATR may not be smaller than the ticksize. This is only important for lower timeframes during low volatility and prevents the SuperTrend from changing the trend too often.
SuperTrend M1: The indicator package contains an updated version of the SuperTrend M1. However, I recommend to switch to SuperTrend M11.
Update August 10, 2011 : Visual design improved. The new indicator version can also be called by other indicators and strategies.
Update May 23, 2012: Entirely recoded version, which uses Median and ATR 1 bar ago to avoid recalculation with every tick. Sound alerts added that trigger intra-bar and which can be used on replay. Smaller improvements added.
Update May 24, 2012: Bug removed, upclose candles were not plotting properly.
Update June 30, 2012: New SuperTrend U11 "Universal" released, this is a new indicator - see link for more information
Update October 2, 2012: Indicator simplified. Trend state can no longer change intra-bar.
Update October 3, 2012: Indicator now allows for displacement. BoolSeries modified for accessing the trend. Trend change intra-bar is possible with option reverse intra-bar and COBC = false.
Update March 5, 2013: Arrows now plotting one bar earlier for the option Reverse intra-bar = true.
The indicator displays the Volume Weighted Average Price of the selected session. It can be used on all types of charts.
You can apply the indicators to charts with several intraday sessions. You can then select via indicator panel, for which session the VWAP shall be shown.
ETH session: The VWAP will be calculated for the full session, if ETH is selected via indicator dialogue.
RTH session: It is possible to display the VWAP for the RTH session or the night session. Set indicator to RTH and select the number of the session, for example "First" for the night session and "Second" for the RTH session.
RTH multi: The VWAP will be displayed starting from the open of the RTH session as specified and then continue through the after session.
Volatility Bands: The indicators has three different modes to calculate volatility bands. For each of the modes multipliers can be selected.
Variance_Price: The variance is calculated from the selected input values of the price bars and the last known value for the VWAP within the current session. This way of calculating the bands is similar to calculating Bollinger Bands with a variable period starting with the first bar of the session.
Variance_Distance: The variance is calculated from the selected input values of the price bars and the value for the VWAP corresponding to price. It is a variance of the vertical distance of price from VWAP. This method corrects for a trend and produces slightly narrower bands on a trending day.
Session_Range: The quarter range of the current session is used as a measure of volatility instead of the standard deviation.
Public Holidays: For Globex instruments the indicator will display the ETH VWAP for the two-day-session including a public holiday. The indicator is preconfigured for the Globex holiday calendar.
Colors: Different colors can be selected for rising and falling VWAP. Also colors and opacities can be selected for the areas between the inner bands, middle bands and outer bands.
Update Jan 23, 2011: Globex holiday calendar for 2011 added. Holiday sessions will only be applied to Globex instruments. Indicators now also work on tick and volume charts.
Update May 17, 2011: New signature for GetNextBeginEnd() implemented.
Update June 15, 2011: VWAP can now be displayed for RTH and after-session, see option RTH-multi. Three different types of VWAP bands added.
Update July 26, 2011: SessionVWAP uses (high + low + open + close) / 4 for higher accuracy. Adapted to different plot styles.
Update January 25, 2012: Globex holiday calendar for 2012 added. Small bug removed, which had affected the plot colors.
Update February 23, 2013: Plot recoded & CPU efficiency improved, Globex holiday calendar for 2013 added.
Update March 30, 2013: Algorithm improved for both speed and accuracy. VWAP start time can be selected.
Update April 11, 2013: Plot modified for compatibility with charts built from multiple bar series.
Update May 10, 2013: Bug removed, which led to occasional false identification of the RTH session on charts built from ticks.
Update December 9, 2013: Holiday calendar added for 2014.
Update December 28, 2014: Holiday calendar added for 2015. Price markers improved for US interest rate futures.
SuperTrend uses ATR (average true range) to identify when the trend has changed direction. You can combine this with multiple moving average types to smooth the averages, and you are left with a super effective indicator that can be used to:
- Used to paint bars
- Used to show stop/reverse lines
This is a fast version of the MACD BB Lines indicator. The MACD settings and the band period, the multiplier for the standard deviation, the dotsize and all colors can be selected.
Different colors can be selected for a rising and falling MACD and for dots outside and inside the Bollinger Bands. The zeroline crosses are indicated by large dots. The zeroline itself can be used as a trend filter.
Paint Bars: The price bars can be painted in the same color as the dots. To allow for differentiating downcloses from upcloses, downcloses are filled while upcloses are hollow bars. The opacity for the upcloses can be selected.
Alerts: Breakouts from the Bollinger Band (violation dots) can be indicated with arrows or sound alerts. A sound alert for zeroline crosses has also been added.
This indicator can also be used on multiseries charts or charts with equidistant bar spacing set to "false".
The default colours are adapted to dark backgrounds. Please change them, if you use the MACDBBLines on a lighter background.
The sound files are included with the zip file. You have to unzip them manually and copy them to the NinjaTrader sounds directory.
Update April 5, 2011: You can now select different colors for
- rising MACD below upper Bollinger Band
- rising MACD above upper Bollinger Band (trending)
- falling MACD above lower Bollinger Band
- falling MACD below lower Bollinger Band (trending)
Update July 17, 2011: Indicator simplified.
Update September 6, 2011: Options for customizing plots added.
Update February 8, 2011: Paintbars added.
Update May 17, 2012: Arrows and sound alerts added. Opacity for upclose paint bars is selectable.
- Option to select between the original Heikin-Ashi bars created by Dan Valcu and the modified Heikin-Ashi bars suggested by Sylvain Vervoort.
- The Heikin-Ashi candles can be smoothed with median, mode and 27 different moving averages. Please select between the 2 types of Heikin-Ashi bars, smoothed Dan_Valcu candles and smoothed Sylvain_Vervoort candles.
- Indicator can be used on price panel or other panels.
- Candle color and candle outline color can each be selected.
- A paintbar indicator is included that allows to color bars according to the Heikin Ashi trend. The paintbar indicator allows to access the trend via a BoolSeries, which can be used by automated strategies or other indicators.
Update January 13, 2011: Indicator can be used on secondary panels.
Update July 3, 2012: Formula used by Sylvain Vervoort added. Second paintbar indicator added that can be used as a trendfilter.
Update August 16, 2012: Smoothing methods added. Plot modified. Indicators can now be displaced.
Update August 31, 2012: Ehlers Filter updated.
Update August 20, 2013: Tillson T3 added, Heikin-Ashi trend exposed as public BoolSeries, HA Open, High, Low and Close can be selected as input series or accessed by a strategy.
Update April 5, 2014: Small copy & paste bug removed, values were not correctly set to BoolSeries for the HA indicator.
Options for the Pivot indicators: Floor pivots, pivot range, midpivots, floor pivots wide, Jackson Zones, Fibonacci pivots, Camarilla pivots, VWAP of the prior session.
Chart settings: Please set the right side margin under chart properties to 200 to allow for correct display of the labels. The colors are better adapted to dark chart backgrounds.
Session templates: The indicators require the use of a correct session template for the instrument shown on the chart. With an ETH template only ETH pivots can be displayed. For displaying RTH pivots, it is recommend to use a multi-session template that divides the day into the night session, regular session and after-session.
Use of daily data on intraday charts: The 3 pivot indicators are designed to load daily data, if the option for Settlement/Close is set to “Daily Bars”. This the data used by the indicator:
"Calculate from session" = "DailyBars": Pivots are entirely calculated from daily data.
"Calculate from session" = "ETH" & "Settlement/Close" = "DailyBars": High and low are taken from the full intraday sessions. The close or settlement price is taken from daily data.
"Calculate from session" = "RTH" & "Settlement/Close" = "DailyBars": High and low are taken from the regular intraday sessions. The close or settlement price is taken from daily data.
"Calculate from session" = "ETH" & "Settlement/Close" = "Intraday Close": High and low are taken from the full intraday sessions. The close is the last price traded for the full session.
"Calculate from session" = "RTH" & "Settlement/Close" = "Intraday Close": High and low are taken from the regular intraday sessions. The close is the last price traded for the regular session.
Auto setting for the 3 pivot indicators: The Auto setting will preselect ETH for FOREX and all CME currency futures, but preselect RTH for all other instruments.
VWAP: The VWAP of the prior day is always calculated from intraday data. Depending on the chart resolution it can be a few ticks off the correct value.
GLOBEX holiday sessions with settlement next day: The indicator is preconfigured for Globex holiday sessions without settlement for trade date next day or later. These trade dates are President’s Day, Martin-Luther-King Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labour Day and Thanksgiving. The indicators will display double day sessions for these days for all GLOBEX and NYMEX traded instruments.
Update Jan 23 2011: Globex Holiday Calendar for 2011. Holiday sessions will only be applied to Globex instruments. Price markers - only available for zone width 0 - are now correctly formatted for US interest rate futures and FOREX.
Update June 5, 2011: New signature for GetNextBeginEnd() implemented.
Update June 21, 2011: The indicator now works with half-pip FOREX feeds. Indicator dialogue box improved.
Update July 20, 2011: Serialization of the plots changed.
Update September 13, 2011: Zones were not plotted correctly, when indicator was set to "UserDefinedValues".
Update December 12, 2011: Weekly and monthly pivots added. Levels R5, S5 added. Some labels changed. Label size is now adjustable. Globex Holiday Calendar for 2012 added.
Update July 26, 2012: Weekly and monthly pivot zones could be displayed for incomplete periods in DailyBars mode. Indicators now check whether the data for the prior week / prior month is complete.
Update December 13, 2013: Indicators entirely redesigned. Holiday calendar added for 2014.
Update December 28, 2014: Holiday calendar added for 2015. Price markers improved for US interest rate futures.
Detailed explanations how to use the indicator can be found here:
This is a new implementation of the TradeStation SuperTrend indicator for NinjaTrader 7. The SuperTrend indicator is an application of the concept of MAE (maximum adverse excursion), which was introduced by John Sweeney in the mid-nineties. The SuperTrend can be viewed as a trailing stop and changes direction, when the trailing stop is taken out.
The SuperTrend U11 calculates both the baseline and the offset 1 bar ago, as did the SuperTrend M11. This is to reduce CPU load and avoid feedback loops.
Accessing the trend: The indicator comes with a BoolSeries that holds the trend. This BoolSeries can be accessed by other indicators or automated strategies.
Reverse Intra-bar = false: This is the default setting of the indicator. A logical signal will be generated when the close of the signal bar has taken out the stop line. The position may be reversed at the open of the next bar. The paint bars will only change colors for the bar after the signal bar. The arrow will be also plotted for the entry bar.
Reverse Intra-bar = true: This is an unusual setting for the SuperTrend. The signal will be generated with the first tick that has plotted on the other side of the stop line. In this case the position may be reversed intra-bar for the signal bar. Paintbars and arrows will already plot for the signal bar.
Paintbars: The indicator has an option to display the current trend via paintbars. Downclose bars are filled, upclose bars are hollow. For the upclose bars an opacity can be selected for better visibility.
Arrows: The indicator has an option to display trend changes via an arrow.
Sound alerts: The indicator will alert to trend reversals and potential trend reversals. A potential trend reversal occurs when price touches the stop line intra-bar prior to the confirmation by a close on the other side of the stop line. The sound files are included with the indicator install file. Please unzip and copy them into the program files (x86)\ NinjaTrader 7\ sounds directory or whatever directory is used by NinjaTrader to store the sound files.
Comparing Supertrend U11 to Supertrend M11:
The SuperTrend U11 is a generalization of the SuperTrend M11.
-> The SuperTrend M11 uses the moving median of the arithmetic mean (High + Low)/2 one bar ago and adds/subtracts a multiple of the average true range one bar ago.
-> The SuperTrend U11 allows you to use the median as above , but instead you can also calculate the baseline from a selection of other indicators. These are the options available for the baseline
- a moving median
- a moving mode
- an ADXVMA
- a 2-pole Butterworth filter
- a 3-pole Butterworth filter
- a DEMA (double exponential MA)
- a DSMA (double simple MA)
- a DTMA (double triangular MA)
- a DWMA (double weighted MA)
- an Ehlers filter
- an EMA
- a 2-pole Gauss filter
- a 3-pole Gauss filter
- a 4-pole Gauss filter
- a HMA (Hull MA)
- a Holt EMA
- a Linear Regression indicator
- a LLMA (phase set to 0)
- a SMA
- a 2-pole Supersmoother
- a 3-pole Supersmoother
- a TEMA (triple exponential MA)
- a TMA (triangular MA)
- a TSMA (triple simple MA)
- a TWMA (triple weighted MA)
- a VWMA(volume weighted MA)
- a WMA (weighted MA)
- a ZeroLagHATEMA
- a ZeroLagTEMA
- a ZLEMA
While the SuperTrend M11 uses the average true range as an offset, the offset for the SuperTrend U11, can be selected as
- a moving average (or median, mode) of the simple range
- a moving average (or median, mode) of the true range
- the standard deviation
The added options will not slow down the indicator, as the selection becomes effective, when the indicator is added.
You can reproduce the SuperTrend M11 with the SuperTrend U11, if you apply it to the arithmetic mean (Median in NinjaSpeak) and select "Median" for the baseline, "EMA" for offset smoothing and "True Range" for offset type. However you need to take into account that the ATR uses Wilder's exponential smoothing (smoothing constant k = 1/n) which is different from the EMA (smoothing constant k = 2/(n+1)). For example an offset period of 8 for the SuperTrend M11 will produce a smoothing factor of 1/8 and translate to an offset period of 15 for the SuperTrend U11.
Update July 3, 2012: ADXVMA option for baseline added.
Update July 5, 2012: Bug removed - Butterworth, Gauss and Supersmoother Fillter did not use the specified baseline period.
Update August 17, 2012: Old version of ADXVMA replaced with new version.
Update August 31, 2012: Ehlers filter updated.
Update October 2, 2012: Indicator simplified. Trend state can no longer change intra-bar. Gaussian and Ehlers filters updated. Mode removed from options.
Update October 3, 2012: Indicator now allows for displacement. BoolSeries modified for accessing the trend. Trend change intra-bar is possible with option reverse intra-bar and COBC = false.
Update March 5, 2013: Arrows now plotting one bar earlier for the option Reverse intra-bar = true.
For the last three updates you also need to update Bollinger Universal & Keltner Universal, if you have them installed. Please remove old versions of those indicators first.
Indicator will only run on NT 7.0.1000.4 or later.
The VisualSMA is a MTF (multi-timeframe) version of the Simple Moving Average. It will plot on any chart and allows to calculate the moving average
- from minute bars
- from second bars
- from tick bars
- from range bars
- from volume bars
For example you can display an hourly SMA on a 235 tick chart, or display a 11-period SMA calculated from a 500 tick chart on a 7 range chart.
The indicator has three modes to display the moving average:
StrategicMode: The first bar series collects the values from the secondary series without any lag on historical data, but a 1-tick lag on real-time data. This mode does not repaint, but shows the values originally recovered from the secondary bar series. On the chart the indicator in Strategy Mode is plotted yellow.
FirstTickMode: To avoid the lag for similar bars with identical time stamps, the indicator repaints the indicator value for the prior bar, after the first tick of the current bar has been registered. The one-tick repainting reduces the lag. On the chart the FirstTick Mode is shown in red.
Visual Mode: To make it easier to use the indicator visually, the indicator interpolates the distance between two consecutive bars of the secondary bar series. The interpolation algorithm works in real-time and simulates the CalculateOnBarClose = false mode for the indicator relative to the secondary bar series. It repaints the current leg of the indicator back to the prior bar of the secondary series. The interpolation adapts itself to equidistant or non-equidistant charts. The Visual Mode is shown in aqua.
This indicator comes as a protected assembly, so you cannot directly access the code.
Update August 30, 2011: 1-Tick Repainting for VisualMode and FirstTickMode was only enabled for fixed period bars. It is now also available for other bar types.
Update September 6, 2011: Bug fixed. VisualMode interpolation could be a few ticks off on real-time data.
Update November 9, 2011: Indicator entirely recoded, robustness and speed improved, lag reduced.
Update November 23, 2011: Indicator was lagging with CalculateOnBarClose = true setting. Lag is eliminated.
Update January 5, 2012: Option added to select color according to the slope of the VisualSMA. Paintbars added as a trendfilter.
Update August 15, 2012: Code updated to allow for displacement of indicator.
Update September 29, 2012: Renko option removed. Indicator could not always be called from a strategy, bug removed.
Please remove prior versions of the indicator, before installing the new release:
(1) Remove old assembly via File -> Utilities -> Remove NinjaScript Assembly.
(2) Shut down NinjaTrader and restart it.
(3) Install new file via File -> Utilities -> Import NinjaScript.
Indicator will only run on NT 7.0.1000.4 or later.
The VisualEMA is a MTF (multi-timeframe) version of the Exponential Moving Average. It will plot on any chart and allows to calculate the moving average
- from minute bars
- from second bars
- from tick bars
- from range bars
- from volume bars
For example you can display an hourly EMA on a 277 tick chart, or display a 12-period EMA calculated from a 100 tick chart on a 5 range chart.
The indicator has three modes to display the moving average:
StrategicMode: The first bar series collects the values from the secondary series without any lag on historical data, but a 1-tick lag on real-time data. This mode does not repaint, but shows the values originally recovered from the secondary bar series. On the chart the indicator in Strategy Mode is plotted yellow.
FirstTickMode: To avoid the lag for similar bars with identical time stamps, the indicator repaints the indicator value for the prior bar, after the first tick of the current bar has been registered. The one-tick repainting reduces the lag. On the chart the FirstTick Mode is shown in red.
Visual Mode: To make it easier to use the indicator visually, the indicator interpolates the distance between two consecutive bars of the secondary bar series. The interpolation algorithm works in real-time and simulates the CalculateOnBarClose = false mode for the indicator relative to the secondary bar series. It repaints the current leg of the indicator back to the prior bar of the secondary series. The interpolation adapts itself to equidistant or non-equidistant charts. The Visual Mode is shown in aqua.
This indicator comes as a protected assembly, so you cannot directly access the code.
Update August 30, 2011: 1-Tick Repainting for VisualMode and FirstTickMode was only enabled for fixed period bars. It is now also available for other bar types.
Update September 6, 2011: Bug fixed. VisualMode interpolation could be a few ticks off on real-time data.
Update November 9, 2011: Indicator entirely recoded, robustness and speed improved, lag reduced.
Update November 23, 2011: Indicator was lagging with CalculateOnBarClose = true setting. Lag is eliminated.
Update January 5, 2012: Option added to select color according to the slope of the VisualEMA. Paintbars added as a trendfilter.
Update August 15, 2012: Code updated to allow for displacement of indicator.
Update September 29, 2012: Renko option removed. Indicator could not always be called from a strategy, bug removed.
Please remove prior versions of the indicator, before installing the new release:
(1) Remove old assembly via File -> Utilities -> Remove NinjaScript Assembly.
(2) Shut down NinjaTrader and restart it.
(3) Install new file via File -> Utilities -> Import NinjaScript.
June 28th, 2020 08:53 PM naphtalicapital Thanks for posting. You did a great job. Unfortunately when i tries importing into NT8 it said the file is for an older
version. Do you have NT8 version?
May 25th, 2020 12:46 PM OutATime This is great, thanks for your efforts!
January 1st, 2018 05:47 AM Trini Thanks.
July 13th, 2017 01:51 PM delta9100
November 21st, 2016 11:23 AM tapit69 Super with other MA's Thanks
March 9th, 2023 05:21 PM MONICAP hello, and thanks for your time developing and sharing this indicator. i want to ask if this could be available for NT8
also. thank you
September 16th, 2022 07:30 PM TomTownsend Very helpful, thank you, and for all you do!!!
February 19th, 2019 06:43 AM Anand Jagdeo good morning. I am fairly new to trading and would like to use this indicator. am i supposed to change the dates for the
se holidays to the current year. Please advise. Seems like a pretty good indicator if applied properly. Thanks
Anand
June 9th, 2017 11:10 AM mercyj does anyone know why I can't set the autoscale to FALSE? it's greyed out. and the pivots are all wacko on the chart