TASC's March 2008 edition Traders' Tips includes an article by John Ehlers titled "Measuring Cycle Periods," and describes the use of bandpass filters to estimate the length, in bars, of the currently dominant price cycle.
What are Dominant Cycles and Why should we use them?
Even the most casual chart reader will be able to spot times when the market is...
The Schaff Trend Cycle is a method, developed by Doug Schaff and based on the concept that trends also have repeating high and low patterns, or cycles. This is a modified MACD line, run through a modified stochastic algorithm and smoothed with Wilders’ smoothing in order to estimate the final Schaff Trend Cycle (STC) indicator. Its purpose is to identify the...
This is a modified Schaff Trend Cycle (STC), which is designed to provide quicker entries and exits.
I've been a huge fan of the STC for a long time, but being based on the MACD means its signals often lag by a bar or two (especially in fast moving markets). All I've done here is take the base STC script (all credit to user @LazyBear), and change the source to a...
![EURUSD: Adaptive, Zero lag Schaff Trend Cycle [Loxx]](https://s3.tradingview.com/d/DU0J5PHe_mid.png "Adaptive, Zero lag Schaff Trend Cycle [Loxx]")
![BTCUSD: Schaff Trend Cycle [ChuckBanger]](https://s3.tradingview.com/a/AbclV6eG_mid.png "Schaff Trend Cycle [ChuckBanger]")
