Laguerre RSI

Laguerre RSI (LRSI) was authored by John Ehlers in his article Time Warp – Without Space Travel. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) itself, was authored by Wells Wilder. The LRSI uses the current price, a user defined gamma factor and plenty of feedback to calculate its final value. The user may change the input (close) and the gamma factor. 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 Laguerre RSI

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Calculation

//input = price, user defined, default is close
//gamma = user defined factor, default is 0.5
//prev = previous, index = current bar number

prevL0 = ifNull(price, lo[index-1]);  //feedback ingredent
prevL1 = ifNull(price, l1[index-1]);  //feedback ingredent
prevL2 = ifNull(price, l2[index-1]);  //feedback ingredent
prevL3 = ifNull(price, l3[index-1]);  //feedback ingredent

l0 = (1 - gamma) * price + gamma * prevL0;
l1 = -gamma *l0 + prevL0 + gamma * prevL1;
l2 = -gamma * l1 + prevL1 + gamma * prevL2;
l3 = -gamma * l2 + prevL2 + gamma * prevL3;

if(l0 moreOrEqual l1) cu = l0 - l1;
else cd = l1 - l0;

if(l1 moreOrEqual l2) cu = cu + l1 - l2;
else cd = cd + rl2 - l1;

if(l2 moreOrEqual l3) cu = cu + l2 - l3;
else cd = cd + l3 - l2;

if ( cu + cd notEqual 0.0) rsi = cu / (cu + cd);
plot rsi;