Traders' Tips from TASC Magazine
Hilbert Indicators Tell You When to Trade
The indicators introduced in the article "Hilbert Indicators Tell You When To Trade", by John Ehlers, can be created in MetaStock 7.0 or higher with the use the new MetaStock External Function (MSX) DLL Interface.
Click here to download the formulas. After downloading the exe file double-click it and the formulas will automatically be imported into MetaStock. After the import has finished the two indicators, HilbertPeriod and HilbertSNR, will appear in the Indicator QuickList. Note you must have MetaStock 7 or higher.
Sample source code for the MSX DLL is available in three languages: C++, PowerBASIC, and Delphi Pascal.
Click here to download the sample source code
All of MetaStock's formula tools can be used to create formulas that access the functions contained in the DLL. In the Tools formula editor click the Functions button. In the Function Category select the name of the DLL and all available functions and their associated parameters will be listed.
Contents
- Affine transformation
- Anticipating Moving Average Crossovers
- At Last! A Trend-Friendly Oscillator
- Average True Range or Standard Deviation
- Balance of Market Power
- Between Price and Volume
- Bollinger Band Targets
- BONUS ISSUE: Mutual Fund Screen
- Boosting Profitability - the AIM Indicator
- Breakout_Range2
- Bridging the Gap, Linking Point & Figure and Bar Charts
- Buff Up Your Moving Averages
- Bull and Bear Balance Indicator
- Candlestick Filtering
- Coding Candlesticks (II)
- Confirming the Price Trend
- Creating Multi-Colored Indicators in MetaStock
- Darvas-Style Trading and Something Darvas
- Deviation Oscillator
- Directional Breakout
- Ehlers Filters
- Elastic Volume Weighted Moving Average
- Finding Key Reversals
- Fisher Transform
- FVE - %b
- FVE - lin reg slope
- FVE - Storz's divergence
- FVE w/ linear regression slope
- High Low Strategy
- High Tech Mesa Adaptive Moving Averages
- Hilbert Indicators Tell You When to Trade
- Holding Overnight Positions
- Hot Zones
- How Smooth is Your Data Smoother
- Ichimoku Charts
- Index of Chart Sentiment
- Laguerre Filter
- Laguerre RSI
- MACD of Relative Strength
- Moving Average Crossovers
- Moving Average: Long on Talk, Sort on Action
- Normalization
- Now's The Time To Trade Crude
- Pivot point Strategy
- Profit with ETFs
- Quicken Your Averages
- Red-Green Strategy
- Refining the Hilbert Indicator
- Regularization
- Relative Performance Charting
- RSI Bands
- Squelch Those Whipsaws
- sRSI - Original
- sRSI - Using Wilders
- Stochastics
- Tandem Studies on Market Movement
- Targeting Your Pattern
- TC 2000 Scans
- The Average Peak Excursion
- The Cocked Gun Revisited
- The Inverse Fisher Transform
- The Self-Adjusting RSI
- The Truth about Volatility
- The Wilson Relative Price Channel
- Thrust Oscillator
- Trade Against the Gap
- Trade Into the Gap
- Trade the Swing Price
- Trend Continuation Factor
- Trend Quality Indicator
- Trend Trigger Factor
- TrendIV & Volume - Buy Signal
- TrendIV & Volume - Sell Signal
- Triggering Your Trading System
- Using Money Flow to Stay with the Trend
- Using Volume to Detect Shifts In Power
- Volatility System
- VWAP for Support and Resistance
- When and When not to Trade