Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) is a statistical measure that tells you how spread out or variable a set of data points is. It calculates the average distance of each data point from the mean (average) of the data set. MAD helps you understand how much individual values differ from the average value. It's a way to measure the overall "average distance" of the data...
The other way to build bands around price that uses Mean Absolute Deviation instead of Standard Deviation. MAD is also a measure of variability, but less frequently used. MAD is better for use with distributions other than the Gaussian. MAD is always less than or equal to Standard Deviation and the resulting bands are more tighter for the same parameters if we...
I was checking the formula of built-in " cci " function and decided to publish a more customizable version of the Commodity Channel Index, so you can play with levels and a bunch of different sources. If someone doesn't know what is this: This indicator was originally developed by Donald R. Lambert ( "Commodities" magazine, 1980) to identify cyclical or...