Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average

The Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average was created, not surprisingly, by Perry Kaufman. The KAMA takes into consideration the noise of the market. This version of KAMA uses smoothing constants of 2 and 30 for the periods of the shortest and longest moving averages respectively. The user may change the input (close), period length and shift number. This indicator’s definition is further expressed in the condensed code given in the calculation below.

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How To Trade Using the Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average

The Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average is a lagging trend indicator and may be used in conjuction with other studies. No trading signals are calculated.

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Calculation

//input = price, user defined, default is close
//period = user defined, default is 20
//shift = user defined, default is 0
//kama = kaufman adaptive moving average
//index = current bar number

kama = kama(index+shift,period,input);